Friday, February 28th 2025
AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9070 Series Unveiled: $549 & $599
AMD today unveiled the highly-anticipated AMD RDNA 4 graphics architecture with the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards as a part of the Radeon RX 9000 Series. The new graphics cards feature 16 GB of memory and extensive improvements designed for high-quality gaming graphics, including re-vamped raytracing accelerators and powerful AI accelerators for ultra-fast, cutting-edge performance, and breakthrough gaming experiences.
In a YouTube livestream, David McAfee, CVP and GM, Ryzen CPU and Radeon Graphics AMD, was joined by Andrej Zdravkovic, SVP of GPU Technologies and Engineering and Chief Software Officer, AMD, as well as Andy Pomianowski, CVP of Silicon Design Engineering, AMD, to discuss the outstanding performance and value proposition of the Radeon RX 9000 Series. In a related event in Zhuhai, China, Jack Huynh, SVP of the Client and Graphics Group, AMD, led a regional event for the new products. Huynh was joined by David Wang, SVP of GPU Technology and Engineering, AMD, and Lanzhi Wang, Senior Director of Product Management, AMD. The celebration was also marked by a customer celebration with Darren Grasby, EVP and Chief Sales Officer, AMD; Spencer Pan, President of AMD China, and partners including Asrock, ASUS, Gigabyte, Sapphire, Tul, Vastarmor, Veston, and XFX.
"Today, we're thrilled to unveil the AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series, a significant leap forward in graphics performance powered by our next-generation AMD RDNA 4 architecture," said McAfee. "These GPUs are designed to meet the demands of today's games, delivering enthusiast-class gaming experiences to gamers everywhere, while ready to support tomorrow's innovations. Through the power of advanced AI and Raytracing accelerators, we're not just improving frame rates - we're fundamentally enhancing the gaming experience. Offering incredible performance, AI-powered features, and next-gen display support at competitive price points, the Radeon RX 9000 Series delivers exceptional value for gamers looking to upgrade their systems."
The RX 9000 Series, powered by the new AMD RDNA 4 architecture, offers gamers and creators a powerful blend of performance, visuals, and value. These advanced graphics cards redefine incredibly fast, high-resolution gaming with third-generation ray tracing technology enabling realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections to deliver immersive gaming experiences while integrating a suite of AMD features to maximize hardware utilization. Beyond gaming, the RX 9000 Series GPUs leverage new second-generation AI accelerators with up to 8x INT8 throughput per AI accelerator (for sparse matrices) to enhance creative applications and effectively run generative AI applications (vs. RDNA 3). The RX 9000 Series GPUs also implement the newly redesigned AMD Radiance Display Engine & Enhanced Media Engine for broad display support and elevated quality in both recording and streaming.
Gaming For Today and Tomorrow
The Radeon RX 9000 Series unlocks new levels of performance while delivering a suite of new and enhanced features that improve the gaming experience. The Radeon RX 9070 Series offers 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, allowing gamers to render the most exciting games of today and tomorrow at max settings. Compared to the previous generation RX 7900 GRE, the latest AMD Radeon RX 9070 is able to deliver over 20% more performance on average when gaming at 1440, with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT extending that lead to over 40% on average.
Both graphics cards make smart upgrades for gamers looking to future-proof their systems with a suite of next-gen features that will keep their experiences feeling fresh for years to come. Key features include:
AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards are expected to be available from leading board partners including Acer, ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston beginning March 6th, 2025. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has an SEP of $599 USD, while the AMD Radeon RX 9070 has an SEP of $549 USD.
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In a YouTube livestream, David McAfee, CVP and GM, Ryzen CPU and Radeon Graphics AMD, was joined by Andrej Zdravkovic, SVP of GPU Technologies and Engineering and Chief Software Officer, AMD, as well as Andy Pomianowski, CVP of Silicon Design Engineering, AMD, to discuss the outstanding performance and value proposition of the Radeon RX 9000 Series. In a related event in Zhuhai, China, Jack Huynh, SVP of the Client and Graphics Group, AMD, led a regional event for the new products. Huynh was joined by David Wang, SVP of GPU Technology and Engineering, AMD, and Lanzhi Wang, Senior Director of Product Management, AMD. The celebration was also marked by a customer celebration with Darren Grasby, EVP and Chief Sales Officer, AMD; Spencer Pan, President of AMD China, and partners including Asrock, ASUS, Gigabyte, Sapphire, Tul, Vastarmor, Veston, and XFX.
The RX 9000 Series, powered by the new AMD RDNA 4 architecture, offers gamers and creators a powerful blend of performance, visuals, and value. These advanced graphics cards redefine incredibly fast, high-resolution gaming with third-generation ray tracing technology enabling realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections to deliver immersive gaming experiences while integrating a suite of AMD features to maximize hardware utilization. Beyond gaming, the RX 9000 Series GPUs leverage new second-generation AI accelerators with up to 8x INT8 throughput per AI accelerator (for sparse matrices) to enhance creative applications and effectively run generative AI applications (vs. RDNA 3). The RX 9000 Series GPUs also implement the newly redesigned AMD Radiance Display Engine & Enhanced Media Engine for broad display support and elevated quality in both recording and streaming.
Gaming For Today and Tomorrow
The Radeon RX 9000 Series unlocks new levels of performance while delivering a suite of new and enhanced features that improve the gaming experience. The Radeon RX 9070 Series offers 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, allowing gamers to render the most exciting games of today and tomorrow at max settings. Compared to the previous generation RX 7900 GRE, the latest AMD Radeon RX 9070 is able to deliver over 20% more performance on average when gaming at 1440, with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT extending that lead to over 40% on average.
- Unified AMD RDNA 4 Compute Units - Features up to 64 advanced AMD RDNA 4 compute units delivering up to 40% higher gaming performance than the previous-generation AMD RDNA 3 architecture.
- High-Performance Raytracing - With 3rd generation Raytracing Accelerators, AMD RDNA 4 is able to deliver over 2x the Raytracing throughput per compute unit when compared to our previous generation. Gamers with the latest AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series are ready for immersive gaming experiences with high-quality graphics, including realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections.
- Supercharged AI Acceleration - 2nd Generation AI Accelerators received several enhancements, allowing AMD RDNA 4 to efficiently process advanced AI models much faster than what was possible with RDNA 3,4 through a combination of additional math pipelines for AI calculations, expanding the capabilities of the AI
- Accelerator to support new emerging data types such as FP8, and support for inference optimization techniques such as structured sparsity. These changes deliver up to 8x INT8 throughput per AI accelerator (for sparse matrices) per compute unit vs the previous generation.
- AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Technology 4 (FSR 4) - AMD's new cutting-edge ML-powered upscaling technology delivers high-quality boosted frames under even the most demanding workloads, such as 4K gaming with maximum ray tracing settings and will be supported in over 30 games at launch.
- Innovative suite of features through HYPR-RX - Gamers can instantly improve their experience by activating AMD HYPR-RX and the suite of features within AMD Software, including AMD Radeon Super Resolution, AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1, AMD Radeon Anti-Lag, and AMD Radeon Boost. These features can all be tailored to gamers' hardware and preferences within AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition to drive increased FPS, responsiveness and efficiency.
- AI-Enhanced AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Application - A new suite of software and resources designed to deliver an industry-leading AI user experience with AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards. Keep your drivers and AI software up to date with the new Software Manager. Find the answers to your questions about all things AMD or create free and private text and images with AMD Chat. Discover, download and install new and exciting AMD-partnered AI applications with the App Portal, and leverage AI to improve software quality with the AMD Image Inspector.
- Ready for Next-Generation Displays - AMD Radiance Display Engine supports the latest DisplayPort 2.1a and HDMI 2.1b connections, enabling ultra-high resolutions and refresh rates up to 8K 144 Hz, with 12-bit HDR and full REC2020 Color Space for incredible color accuracy. Paired with AMD FreeSync technology, gamers can enjoy tear-free, stutter-free gaming experiences on over 4000 compatible displays, including upcoming 4K 240 Hz and 8K 144 Hz DisplayPort 2.1 monitors.
- Available exclusively on AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards, AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition adds a new easy-to-use AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4) Upgrade feature that helps maximize performance at maximum quality in over 30 games at launch, with 75 coming later this year. AMD FSR 4 delivers a substantial image quality improvement over AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling, with the new ML-based algorithm helping to improve temporal stability, better preserve detail, and reduce ghosting.
- Utilizing features already built into the AMD FidelityFX API added when game developers integrate AMD FSR 3.1 into their games, AMD FSR 4 enables an easy upgrade for supported FSR 3.1 games and can be combined with existing in-game AMD FSR 3.1 advanced frame-generation and AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 for ultra-smooth, ultra-responsive gaming at incredible frame rates on AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
- The new ML-accelerated AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm is trained using high-quality ground truth game data on AMD Instinct Accelerators and uses the hardware-accelerated FP8 Wave Matrix Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) feature of the AMD RDNA 4 architecture to ensure maximum upscaling quality while still providing a substantial game performance boost.
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
- 64 Compute Units
- 16 GB GDDR6
- 2.4 Game Clock (GHz)
- Up to 3.0 Boost Clock (GHz)
- 256-bit Memory Interface
- 64 MB Infinity Cache
- 304 W TBP
- $599 Price (USD SEP)
- AMD Radeon RX 9070
- 56 Compute Units
- 16 GB GDDR6
- 2.1 Game Clock (GHz)
- Up to 2.5 Boost Clock (GHz)
- 256-bit Memory Interface
- 64 MB Infinity Cache
- 220 W TBP
- $549 Price (USD SEP)
AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards are expected to be available from leading board partners including Acer, ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston beginning March 6th, 2025. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has an SEP of $599 USD, while the AMD Radeon RX 9070 has an SEP of $549 USD.
188 Comments on AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9070 Series Unveiled: $549 & $599
Take your Ls and move on, Mkay? :slap:
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FP8 is the plausible reason.
You should really drop the "nvidia defense force" thing. Middle schoolers would think that's really cool and epic, but everyone else thinks its just plain silly. Especially when you level it at people who own AMD cards.
I'm afraid not.
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Were you banned by the OP? :D
I know you and the rest of the geforce buyers want AMD to hand out 9070XT's for free though.You say that yet post things like this. I expect the hyperbolic childish BS from reddit, not here.
As for 9070xt, I'm glad people appear to be mostly content. I think they're again over-priced by a good 10%, but this is on the highest-end of acceptable. I could write a whole spiel on why, but would prefer to wait for reviews to truly explain it. These are mid-range cards; they're not high-end cards. To me, $600 is a bit excessive for mid-range, and I do not think these cards will be able to do a lot of things people are hoping (which would require a 5080, give or take extra ram). Had a card for this price had faster ram and/or high power-level/clock potential, I would think it is fair, but it does not. AMD apparently wants to charge even MORE for that, give or take extra ram it *may* not need, and I think that's a little greedy.
It's possible they wait and the cards launching now drop to more where I think they should be by the time something like that launches.
In that case it would make sense, but I still think they're 'optimizing revenue' on this chip.
I think AMD needs to optimize more people using their cards, but that's JMO.
It's possible this will happen anyway, given nVIDIA's 12GB cards have very severe and apparent limitations (some of which shared by 6800xt/7800xt/7900gre/9070).
I would have preferred they fought them head-on to accentuate these differences, but I guess they figure they can get away with a small premium, which may be true.
$599 is a fine price for the XT if AIBs can stay close to that price, stock remains steady, and there the performance presented is still there for 3rd party reviewers.
If you want a non-XT for $499 or less, you already know the drill: pretend it hasn't launched yet and will actually be launched 6 months from now.
N48 is a small die on a mature node, likely very low defect rate, and AMD doesn't even have that many 9070 cards produced and ready to go... so why make it an attractive price if its going to sell out right away and stay out of stock for long period of time. Better to price it too high to slow down its sales, and then drop price when there is enough volume there that you can absorb the sales (Same as 7700XT, GCD there was 200mm^2, so absurdly low defect rate so why make it a good price when you won't be able to make enough to satisfy demand at that price anyway).
I've been looking to replace the 980Ti in my steambox for a while and the 9070XT, if done right, might displace my 6800XT in my main rig, which will then flow down and displace the 980Ti in my Steambox. Not likely, but the best chance of that happening in a long time.
And almost no games actually had a problem with 12GB of VRAM at 1440p. The extra bandwidth of the wider bus was usually what helped AMD cards at 1440p and 4k, and that's addressed with GDDR7. The 5070 has more bandwidth than either RX 9070 card. Plus, DLSS 4 and the Transformer model are more VRAM friendly, and neural rendering/neural compression save VRAM space as well. I reckon we'll see a 5070 Super with 3GB chips for 16GB of VRAM next year, but I don't think 12GB will hurt it the base model in any game for the target resolution.
It is partly semantics, but important semantics. Every gen on every card nVIDIA holds it back a small amount in [x] way so the next iteration (cheaper for them) looks better. People need to learn the difference.
Sometimes compute limitations, sometimes ram, sometime features (software) that could run and/or run fine on older products but can't given the artificial limitations put on older products.
This is literally their business model; to up-sell and for people to desire a constant upgrade as they are chasing the dragon caused by this practice. You can disagree, but you are provably wrong.
AMD does not *typically* do this, and it has hurt them financially (as often-times it appears like they are re-releasing similar-performing products), but also caused people whom notice it to appreciate it.
You can't make a product more 'well-matched', you can only sell it cheaper. You can do what nVIDIA does, and they do sell it the way you interpret it by literal design, but I think it's scummy.
Again, this is because some people do not understand how the actual products work. They believe the marketing rather than understanding the logistics, which to me is very unfortunate.
That's the same as Nvidia saying that the new DLSS MFG might come to Ada/4000 series, so pretty meaningless.
FP8 might be an reason, but the actual lack of dedicated GEMM units makes more sense. Doing stuff with their WMMA delivers way less performance and may not deliver good results.
Hell we still see AMD=terribad drivers all the time here.
AMD will have to not only catch up to NV in RT and FSR4, but stay caught up for 2-3 generations before the dull is shined on their rep on that front.
Just cause the 9070 matches 5070 across the board on everything, people will still buy 5070 5:1 or 10:1 just cause the reputation.
Gotta applaud this pricing. Well placed! Might consider a sidegrade here.The trajectory is there, with RDNA though. We have to be realistic. AMD isn't far off from Nvidia in any way shape or form.
- They have an effective architecture
- They have now optimized that and are building a small die on it with high efficiency
- There is a framework for a good upscaler now
- RT performance is in the usable range, as far as Nvidia is 'considered usable' for similar perf
- The VRAM/perf/$ offering relatively is a lot better than Nvidia, which keeps this card relevant at a reasonable price point longer
- RDNA2-3 were excellent overall, in terms of stability and driver quality. I would dare say, drivers have shown to be more stable than Nvidia's clusterfuck of hotfixes and new-gen early woes.
I have to say I was impressed with the tech deep dive on TPU and especially the CU efficiency improvements. This is a big move forward, even if the high end isn't covered.
rarely evernever use FSR), even if the performance gains aren't as noticeable against native in comparison to RDNA4. If it doesn't, why would I care?At least this time there's a feasible enough technical reason for the older gens not to support the tech. 7900XT and XTX may be actually able to brute force it, but would it be worth it?
It comes down to, when people sell me progress, it better be actual progress, and not some bandaid for graphics that needs constant TLC to be even available everywhere. Fuck that. You haven't improved jack shit, you're just wasting ungodly resources to get something reasonably playable. It reminds me of just one thing: the Chinese and their supposed node shrinks that are on DUV and thus economically not viable at all, but hey, they can sell you the lie now that they moved forward. The proof is in the pudding, with all those devs 'relying' on upscalers to get somewhat playable frames on an engine that sucks monkey balls. I'm not paying a single goddamn dime for that clusterfuck. Ever. Devs better take note, too, because this group won't be getting smaller as upscalers get ever more fragmented (what version, what games? etc.). A unification effort is on the horizon sooner rather than later, and ironically, the more this gets pushed, the faster it'll happen. That's when I become a believer.
The trajectory of FSR is fast becoming a trajectory similar to DLSS, which makes me an instant non-supporter. If you can deploy this tech GPU agnostic (to a reasonable degree, say, all DX12 feature enabled cards for example), by all means. If not? GTFO - I don't need it, don't want it, won't use it. End of. History only repeats, we've been here before, we know how it ends.