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AMD Debuts Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 Powered by RDNA 4, and FSR 4

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AMD at the 2025 International CES announced the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 desktop performance-segment graphics cards. These will be the face of AMD's next generation of gaming graphics products, and will be powered by the new RDNA 4 graphics architecture. AMD hopes to launch both cards within Q1 2025. AMD changed the nomenclature of its gaming GPUs mainly because it has made a tactical retreat from the enthusiast graphics segment, its fastest products will compete in the performance segment. From the way AMD arranged the Radeon RX 9070 series and 9060 series product stack against the backdrop of the Radeon RX 7000 series, the GeForce RTX 4000 series, and the anticipated GeForce RTX 5000 series, the RX 9070 XT will offer performance roughly similar to the Radeon RX 7900 XT in raster, with the RX 9070 being slightly faster than the RX 7800 XT. The RX 9060 XT will beat the RX 7700 XT, while the RX 9060 beats the RX 7600 XT.

With RDNA 4, AMD claims generational SIMD performance increase on the RDNA 4 compute units. The 2nd Gen AI accelerators will boast of generational performance increase, and AMD will debut a locally-accelerated generative AI application down the line, called the AMD Adrenalin AI, which can generate images, summarize documents, and perform some linguistic/grammar tasks (rewriting), and serve as a chatbot for answering AMD-related queries. This is basically AMD's answer to NVIDIA Chat RTX. AMD's 3rd Gen Ray accelerator is expected to reduce the performance cost of ray tracing, by putting more of the ray tracing workload through dedicated hardware, offloading the SIMD engine. Lastly, AMD is expected to significantly upgrade the media acceleration and display I/O of its GPUs.



AMD also announced FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), which has been developed for RDNA 4 (not sure if it will work on older generations of Radeon). It introduces a new machine learning (ML) based upscaling component to handle Super Resolution. This will be paired with Frame Generation, and an updated Anti-Lag 2, to make up the FSR 4 feature-set. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is confirmed to be one of the first titles to utilize FSR 4.



Nearly all AMD add-in board partners (AIBs) are ready with Radeon 9070 series graphics cards, including Acer, ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, Sapphire, PowerColor, XFX, Vastarmor, and Yeston. MSI seems to have discontinued being an AMD AIB.

We also got our first peek at what the "Navi 48" GPU powering the Radeon RX 9070 series looks like—it features an unusual rectangular die with a 2:1 aspect ratio, which seems to lend plausibility to the popular theory that the "Navi 48" is two "Navi 44" dies joined at the hip with full cache-coherency. The GPU is rumored to feature a 256-bit GDDR6 memory interface, and 64 compute units (4,096 stream processors). The "Navi 44," on the other hand, is exactly half of this (128-bit GDDR6, 32 CU). AMD is building the "Navi 48" and "Navi 44" on the TSMC N4P (4 nm EUV) foundry node, on which it is building pretty much its entire current-generation, from mobile processors, to CPU chiplets.



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This was not in the presentation lol
 
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Well, not much info here (or anywhere). RX 9060 might be interesting
 
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Probably waiting to see what the leather jacket man will do. Either way, I don't like it, seems like they both want to screw us over but good.
 
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No firm details on price or availability is a real bad look at this point. My WAG is something is wrong but I have no clue as to what. Better hope its software side since that is the easiest thing to fix in a single quarter!

Performance wise it does seem to be a 7900xt in pure raster given that 4th slide in the top row.

Does the change in naming to match NVidia's mean that they're ready now to really compete with NVidia in all tiers?
To be fair to AMD they've been pretty clear that RDNA4 won't compete on the high end even if their marketing name scheme is stupid.

That is the least of their issues at this point.
 
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Does the change in naming to match NVidia's mean that they're ready now to really compete with NVidia in all tiers?

Has to be a joke :laugh:

AMD dropped the ball hard this gen. Fact that they didn't even present RDNA4 and FSR4 during the CES is a testament to the fact they have capitulated !
 
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No Lisa, no on stage presentation of RDNA4 at CES? RIP dGPU Radeon division and prepare to get robbed by Jensen. Prices of Blackwell just rose.

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This is such an uninteresting, uninspiring product stack, not even surpassing the previous generation 7900XTX according to their slide. It was so terrible that they didn't even bother to showcase it at their CES event.

Not looking forward to seeing the prices of higher end 5070Ti and up Nvidia's product stack with no competition. I hope AMD made ~30% improvement to raytracing(to catch up with Intel & Nvidia), that FSR 4 is roughly the equivalent of DLSS and that they price these extremely competitively.

As someone that skips every other generation(at least) and upgrades when they can get roughly 2x the performance, and with my 6800XT being long in the tooth for 5120x1440, it looks like my only real option this year will be the 5070ti/5080.
 

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Aww, so it really is 7900XT-level and not the same rasterization performance as the 7900 XTX. I guess this is fine since it does mean it would be priced appropriately (hopefully less than $900 since the 7900XT debuted horribly at that price).
 
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Aww, so it really is 7900XT-level and not the same rasterization performance as the 7900 XTX. I guess this is fine since it does mean it would be priced appropriately (hopefully less than $900 since the 7900XT debuted horribly at that price).
I you serious, less than 900 bucks? Anything above $500 for 9070XT would be DOA. I don't expect 5070 to cost more than 600 bucks. Well, maybe MSRP just rose to $700 now that AMD dropped the ball at CES.
 
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Probably waiting to see what the leather jacket man will do. Either way, I don't like it, seems like they both want to screw us over but good.

It's in fact the Moore's law that screws us, and TSMC which jumps over itself with the ridiculously high wafers prices (I look at you 2nm and 3nm :D ) which stops AMD from innovating.

RX 9070 will be more of the same, released more than 4 years ago in the form of RX 6800 XT.
 

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I you serious, less than 900 bucks? Anything above $500 for 9070XT would be DOA. I don't expect 5070 to cost more than 600 bucks. Well, maybe MSRP just rose to $700 now that AMD dropped the ball at CES.
The 7900XT debuted at $899 dude. I can only reasonably extrapolate that would be the worst-case scenario for this thing to launch at.

If they pull a RX 5700 XT (without the initial driver problems, please AMD) and launch it an "appropriate" $599 or such, then that would be impressive, but that's being really optimistic at this point.
 
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The 7900XT debuted at $899 dude. I can only reasonably extrapolate that would be the worst-case scenario for this thing to launch at.

If Navi 48 is indeed as small as 250 mm^2, there is no reason to charge more than $399 for it, and even that will stop many people from buying it.
 
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The 7900XT debuted at $899 dude. I can only reasonably extrapolate that would be the worst-case scenario for this thing to launch at.

We know what AMD is going to do.... Wait for 5070 performance/pricing and then drop 50-100 usd off...... When they should go straight 4870 on their asses...


If Navi 48 is indeed as small as 250 mm^2, there is no reason to charge more than $399 for it, and even that will stop many people from buying it.

That would be awesome I just don't see it they are clearly going for the margins over numbers games.
 
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Aww, so it really is 7900XT-level and not the same rasterization performance as the 7900 XTX.
There was basically 0 chance it'd have performed like a 7900xtx for pure raster.

The memory bus being too narrow (256 vs 384 bit) alone would've guaranteed that. The biggest performance improvements that were leaked had nothing to do with pure raster performance too. They were focused on RT performance being a good bit higher and to a minor extent the video en/decoder (which was bugged in RDNA3).

Its good to see that the rumors of it performing like a 7900GRE are incorrect for the 9070XT though. Especially given the rumored price range of $500-600 at the top end. Sales would be dire for that performance and for that price in 2025 vs a 5070 or 5060.
I guess this is fine since it does mean it would be priced appropriately (hopefully less than $900 since the 7900XT debuted horribly at that price).
I don't think the price has been announced yet. The rumors were varying from $450-600 a few weeks back though.
 
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The 7900XT debuted at $899 dude. I can only reasonably extrapolate that would be the worst-case scenario for this thing to launch at.

If they pull a RX 5700 XT (without the initial driver problems, please AMD) and launch it an "appropriate" $599 or such, then that would be impressive, but that's being really optimistic at this point.
It's 2025 and 7900XT is selling for 670€ atm and it has more vram. Priced at $599 MSRP, 9070XT would be DOA. AMD is sadly not Nvidia.
 
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If Navi 48 is indeed as small as 250 mm^2, there is no reason to charge more than $399 for it, and even that will stop many people from buying it.
Yeah if it really is that small, while using cheaper and slower GDDR6, then $400-450 is what it should launch at if they want to get market share.

That would be the smart thing to do anyways IMO. They'll still make plenty of money if they sell a heap of them. Which they would for that price. Given this launch data so far I'm not optimistic of them being smart right now.
 
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