News RDNA 4 Emerges! AMD Unveils Red-Hot Radeon RX 9000 GPUs With Big AI Focus

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RDNA 4 Emerges! AMD Unveils Red-Hot Radeon RX 9000 GPUs With Big AI Focus​

At CES 2025, AMD has taken the wraps off its next-gen graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9000 series, replete with a revamped performance architecture.

AMD’s highly anticipated RDNA 4 graphics cards will launch soon, headed by Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT GPUs, the company announced at CES 2025. The new RDNA 4 graphics architecture has several improvements, according to the chip maker, including faster graphics performance, more powerful AI processing, and AMD’s third-generation ray-tracing accelerators.

It isn’t yet clear how these GPUs will stack up against Nvidia's inevitable GeForce RTX competition when these new Radeons drop during AMD's vague timeline of "Q1 2025," but you can be sure the next few months will be exciting as we discover more about them, and what they're up against.

AMD is not coy about the reason for this: The company clearly stated this was to better match up with its competitors, i.e., Nvidia. I have no complaints here! While I liked the older way AMD numbered its graphics cards, this new system will better indicate which of AMD's latest graphics cards compare with which models from Nvidia or Intel for consumers who don’t spend all day keeping score in the GPU world.

AMD's information tipped off that a Radeon RX 9060 series is in the offing, too, but it gave no other details on these products.

Source: https://www.pcmag.com/news/ces-2025-rdna-4-emerges-amd-unveils-red-hot-radeon-rx-9000-gpus

I Benchmarked the AMD Radeon RX 9070​

Black Ops 6 soars on RDNA 4.​

AMD just teased the Radeon RX 9070 yesterday at CES 2025 with very little in the way of specs or even a release date. However, because Team Red was demoing the Radeon RX 9070 at its booth with Call of Duty Black Ops 6 – which has a built-in Benchmark tool – I was able to get a quick peek how this next-gen GPU performs.

All told, at 4K Extreme settings without upscaling or frame generation, the Radeon RX 9070 was capable of an impressive 99fps average, even if it had the same visual bug as the Intel Arc B580 when I benchmarked it. Now, to be clear, this graphics card is running on very early alpha drivers, and that bug will more than likely be resolved by the time the card comes to market. But even on those early drivers, a solid 99fps is incredibly impressive.

Because I ran the benchmark without upscaling, rather than the vendor appropriate upscaling method that I use when I usually benchmark this game for graphics card reviews, I don't have a direct comparison I can make. However, even with DLSS on the 'Quality' setting, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super gets around 129fps on the same graphics preset at 4K. Given that DLSS adds about a 30% performance jump at the Quality setting, that may place the Radeon RX 9070 on equal footing with the 4080 Super – though I'd need to test the 4080 Super without DLSS to know for sure.

Some of the amazing performance of this benchmark is likely due to the CPU as well – the rig was running on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a high-end gaming CPU that was also announced yesterday. But if this is the level of performance we can expect when the Radeon RX 9070 launches later this year, it's going to be an awesome card for anyone looking for a mid-range solution.

The benchmark also gives a bit of insight to the specs of the graphics card, though it is limited. The Radeon RX 9070 has 16GB of VRAM, though we still don't know how many graphics cores or at what clock speed the card is running at.

This is just one test, though, and I won't have a clear picture of how this graphics card will perform across a variety of games until I get it in the lab to put it through the full testing suite. But the sneak peek is definitely exciting.

Source: https://in.ign.com/news/222333/i-benchmarked-the-amd-radeon-rx-9070

 

[nanogenesis]

We had rumors of the 9070xt sitting between the 7800xt and the 7900xt (essentially a 7900GRE).
With the new black ops 6 claim, it seems that amd underestimated their own improvement in rasterization. If it really does hit 4080 in terms of raw power then priced accurately it might finally be a win.

Sadly the die appears to be even bigger than AD-103 which means its costing them more silicon per mm to sell it to you, and I'm sure they're not going to eat the loss.

Also off topic, but a 7900XTX at 464W pushed to the limit (3150mhz) can reach within 92% of a 4090, so maybe AIB 9070XTs might have a surprise for us keen tweakers. Just hope the price is good.

 

[crytt]

I don't get the AI focus like I don't get ray tracing. What's the point? Can we get a card cheaper without it?

 

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[Kaching999]

IGN Leaks​

The IGN reporter is confusing people and the benchmark leak seems to be flawed as the Call of duty game needs to be restarted after applying any new graphics settings to get the correct results from the built in benchmark so the performance from that can't be taken as absolute as the person who ran the benchmark first of all wasn't allowed to by AMD otherwise we would have seen more such benchmarks, they just somehow got lucky with the staff not paying attention, also those setups are meant to run only a single application and not close out of them which is another indication of the benchmarks not being correct.

Chiphell Leaks​

There also have been some leaks and claims on the Chiphell made by the person who reviews the samples sent in by the companies on the forum which suggest that the 9070 XT will have similar performance to the 4080 in terms of rasterization and the 4070 Ti in terms of ray tracing which seems to corroborate the leaks and claims made by Youtuber Moore's Law is Dead in August they had some screen shots to support their leaks but no proof that it is the new 9070 XT. Here an article explaining it all:
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rad...080-super-in-timespy-and-4070-ti-in-speed-way

FSR 4 Leaks​

One thing that can be sort of confirmed is that new and upcoming FSR 4 which is looking much better than FSR 3.1, at least in the example shown by AMD at the CES floor in the first level of the Ratchet and Clank game which is know to have notoriously bad FSR implementation. Hardware Unboxed and Digital Foundry did a short analysis look for all the pain points of upscaling and both in their videos said that newer ML based upscaler looks much improved and close to DLSS like performance, Digital Foundry also pointed out that it was a completely different implementation than PSSR available on the PS5 Pro and seems to be better than it. But one weird thing is that AMD wasn't calling it FSR 4 but instead they were calling it the "AMD Graphics Research AI-based Upscaling" which is weird because they already announced FSR 4 in their keynote and media briefing. Also one thing which was missing from the AMD showcase was frame rate counters so there is no information available on that. One thing that is for sure is that AMD is being weird as hell about the new RDNA 4 launch seems like there are being very cautious and aren't willing to give out any confirmed information until Nvidia reviews are available.

Launch Date and Pricing Leaks​

There also seem to be some leaks about the launch date being January 22 and confirmation that pre-orders starting on January 23 with leaks on review embargo lifting on the same day as pre-orders. There have also been leaks about the reference model being priced at $479 and the AIB models between $479-549 in their attempt to undercut Nvidia.
https://videocardz.com/newz/radeon-...on-january-22-review-samples-shipping-already
https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-rx-9070-rdna-4-gpu-pre-orders-23rd-january/