AMD through David McAfee (VP & GM of Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics) on X announced that the Radeon 9000 series GPUs will go on sale in March of this year. Even though there were many rumours of the 9000 series launching in January they have been shut down by AMD, there is no update on the when the launch event will be for the 9000 series of GPUs. Many retailers already received the stock of 9070 and 9070XT GPUs in early January and it has also been confirmed that some reviewers received them as early as late December which might explain the Chiphell performance leaks. If the rumours are to be believe the cause of the bumpy launch is the price pressure on AMD caused by Nvidia lowering the launch prices of their 70 and 80 series cards from the last generation. It can be assumed that AMD were surprised by the “competitive” prices offered by Nvidia and need a to revise their own pricing. A blessing in disguise is that once officially released the series should have large stock available. So hopefully AMD won’t disappoint with pricing and FSR4 will be ready as well.
This has been sort of refuted by David McAfee in a tweet where he said that the $899 price was never a part of the plan.
In other news, it has pretty much been confirmed that FSR4 probably won’t be coming to the 7000 series GPUs as it is based on FP8 according to a DLL file and the performance of the 7000 series in FP8 tasks is not the best to say the least.
Also Nvidia’s DLSS4 in cyberpunk and other games with quality upscaling looks better than native resolution. So it is safe to say that FSR4 will most probably not be able to compete, but still might be at the level of DLSS3
) an “early March” launch for the new graphics card series.
The media outlet, which is also under embargo with AMD releases, claims to have learned the launch date through a reliable source. The new cards are expected to be released on March 6, aligning with Su’s statement.
It’s worth noting that Su referred specifically to the 9070 series, not the 9060 series. While there is a chance AMD may discuss other models, it seems the launch is focused solely on the higher-end models for now.
Going by past releases, will it launch insanely over priced in India yet again? 9070xt seems like a killer card if its cheaper than a 5070, however knowing AMD pricing it will turn out 10k more expensive than a 5070 even if its cheaper everywhere else early on. Sad state.
it won’t be, the 9070 non-xt will be as that is what is competing with it. the 9070 xt will be somewhere around $600
no because this time around it seems like AMD actually has a decent amount of stock and as we have seen with the 5090 and the 5080 stock is a big issue for Nvidia and also the AIBs probably won’t make as many msrp models as their own margins have been cut down by Nvidia hence the 5070 and the 5070Ti will likely sell for a lot more than the announced MSRP too.
[HEADING=2]AMD reportedly working on gaming Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU with 32GB memory[/HEADING]
A new rumour from Chiphell mentions an AMD GPU with 32 GB of VRAM. Apparently, it is slated to launch sometime in H1, 2025 and will be made for enterprise applications more than gaming.
So far, AMD’s promotional material suggests the [Radeon RX 9070 XT](’
) will be top-spec RDNA 4 GPU this generation with 16 GB of VRAM. A higher-end card with a Navi 4c GPU was scrapped for a myriad of reasons. But, Team Red still has yet another trick up its sleeve, if a rumour from [Chiphell ](’
Apparently, the company plans to launch another high-end RDNA 4 GPU sometime in H1, 2025. While the VRAM capacity hasn’t been decided, it could be as high as 32 GB. Essentially, this will act as AMD’s [RTX 5090](’
) counter this generation. But there is some doubt if this is a gaming GPU or one for data centres, which could legitimately benefit from the extra video memory. And, it will probably cost a pretty penny unlike the [RX 9070 XT](’
32 GB of VRAM implies the GPU memory bus will be either 256-bit or 512-bit. There has been no information about AMD working on a GPU with latter. Hence, there’s a good chance it could be a higher binned Navi 48 GPU with some AI chops thrown on top. But, if it launches under the Radeon branding, you might be able to play some games on it. Not very well, but still.
The reference model for the Radeon RX 9070 XT is confirmed to have a 2970 MHz boost clock and 304W TBP (Total Board Power), whereas the RX 9070 non-XT will launch with a 2520 MHz boost and 220W TBP. The PCIe 5.0 x16 specs are correct. AMD has also confirmed 56 and 64 Compute Unit configurations for the RX 9070 and 9070 XT, respectively, which should provide 3584 and 4096 Stream Processors, respectively.
AMD Navi 48 RDNA 4 (9070XT) GPU reportedly has more transistors than Nvidia GB203 (RTX 5080/5070Ti). According to a leak from Tieba Baidu, the AMD Navi 48 GPU is said to be 350 mm², smaller than the previously rumored 390 mm². AMD confirmed that Navi 48 will compete with RTX 4080/4070 and by looking at the GPU sizes and transistor density, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. What is sort of worrying is the price that it might cost, it could be higher than what everyone is expecting.
UPDATE: AMD Radeon RX 9070 series gaming performance leaked: RX 9070XT is 42% faster on average than 7900 GRE at 4K
AMD confirmed that their RX 9070 series should be competitive against the RTX 4070/4080 series, and they should also be competitive against the RTX 50 series without going into details.
UPDATE:
AMD is now developing AFMF 2.1, which is expected to arrive alongside the Radeon RX 9070 series as part of a HYPR-RX update. The company has confirmed to the press that AFMF 2.1 will improve the quality of generated frames. According to available information, AMD has confirmed that AFMF 2.1 does not require tensor or AI cores and will be supported on the same hardware as AFMF 2.0. This means it will also be compatible with Ryzen AI 300 series processors.
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UPDATE:
Gigabyte RX 9070 XT Gaming OC reportedly boost up to 3.24 GHz during Linux benchmark. The first leak is from an alleged Unigine Heaven benchmark where the card is said to boost up to 3244 MHz, even higher than the boost clock of 3.1 GHz we saw on some high-end models. The reason Linux is used is that it is the only platform with drivers available for RDNA 4 (AMD shipped them early), whereas Windows drivers are not yet available unless one is a member of the press already testing the card.
It is still too early to confirm whether this frequency is achievable in normal circumstances, such as gaming on Windows. AMD hasn’t said much about clock speeds yet, but since reviewers are already looking into this architecture, it is probably just a matter of time before we see these leaks with similar or different frequencies. AMD has only officially confirmed a 2.97 GHz boost for the 9070 XT and 2.54 GHz for the 9070 non-XT. Both cards are also using 304W and 220W Total Board Power by default, respectively. However, models like the Gaming OC from Gigabyte are said to be unlockable up to 329W.
So that would translate to about 65-70k here. Considering that the 4070Ti super is going for over 75k this is looking pretty promising, especially since it seems to offer equal performance to the 4080 in raster.
