AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Launch Allegedly Set for March 6

[Shou Miko]

True. I was thinking more so the scope for improvement as the lifecycle progresses, with more efficient algorithms etc, like that RTX raytracing DF video I liked somewhere.

We will see efficiency improvements before performance I am still interested in 3DMark and gaming tests of the AMD Ryzen 9 Ai Max+ 395 chip with it's igpu even the 128GB sounds really a bit too much but it's made for compute not gaming.

But talking about efficiency I would still love to see AMD find their power moment where we could have a 200-250W card that performance like a RX 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 Super but the RX 9070 should be around 250-330W give or take with some AIB models having 3x8pins for a heavy oc.

This was seen at CES even I sadly wasn't there since I am not in the US and I cannot even get into the "CES" in Germany when it's around I was one year but that's like 3 years ago and it was awesome.
I would love to go again but sadly I doubt someone from any of the tech companies would send me a invite even it would make me really happy to take the day/days off from work to be for the whole event.

 

[Jtuck9]

We will see efficiency improvements before performance I am still interested in 3DMark and gaming tests of the AMD Ryzen 9 Ai Max+ 395 chip with it's igpu even the 128GB sounds really a bit too much but it's made for compute not gaming.

Yea. I think they've said that it seems to be in a bit of a "grey zone" at the moment. I'd wait for the next iteration.

But talking about efficiency I would still love to see AMD find their power moment where we could have a 200-250W card that performance like a RX 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 Super but the RX 9070 should be around 250-330W give or take with some AIB models having 3x8pins for a heavy oc.

I think gaming might start having their "natty or fake" moment

This was seen at CES even I sadly wasn't there since I am not in the US and I cannot even get into the "CES" in Germany when it's around I was one year but that's like 3 years ago and it was awesome.
I would love to go again but sadly I doubt someone from any of the tech companies would send me a invite even it would make me really happy to take the day/days off from work to be for the whole event.

Maybe some outlet like TPU could do some sort of competition for tickets for events / press access for god measure. Not sure if they do?!

 

[AusWolf]

64 or 96 CUs I am not 100% on this it could even be 75 not sure what AMD has been cooking since sources says different things, so no matter I am excited to see how it goes because there should be a couple of games where RT is mandatory and cannot be turned off and I do not want to suffer from this just because devs do not realize that not all of us really want RT with the performance drop it comes with.

If RDNA 4 is still RDNA in its heart (why wouldn't it be), then 64 shaders per CU * 64 CUs = 4096 shaders in total.

RT is becoming mandatory in a few games, but whether that's something you consider a deciding factor is up to you. Personally, I'm not planning to upgrade for the next 2-3 generations at least, so I'll pay attention to the RT performance, even though I do not consider it crucial at the moment. I do not care about the majority of games, but if The Witcher 4 or The Witcher 1 remake comes with mandatory RT, I'm screwed.

On the other hand, if you don't mind upgrading a bit more frequently (I wouldn't normally, but recent prices changed my mind), then going for the 7900 XTX and selling it whenever shouldn't be a problem.