One thing to stay up for: AMD has but to launch full technical specs for its upcoming Radeon RX 9000-series graphics playing cards. Nonetheless, the corporate not too long ago revealed extra concerning the lineup’s meant efficiency profile and market phase. If the value is correct, the brand new GPUs would possibly evaluate favorably to Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5070 Ti, 5070, and 5060 early subsequent month.
AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed that the corporate’s new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs will launch in early March. She indicated that the 2 merchandise goal to make high-quality 4K gaming doable at mainstream costs.
Throughout a latest fourth-quarter earnings name, Su reiterated AMD’s promise that its new RDNA 4 structure considerably improves ray tracing efficiency – the place Radeon playing cards lag far behind Nvidia. AI-accelerated upscaling by FSR 4 is the lineup’s different lynchpin.
Though RDNA 4’s ray tracing capabilities stay untested, a CES demonstration established FSR 4’s superior picture high quality in comparison with FSR 3.1. The brand new protocol intently resembles Nvidia DLSS and can doubtless be a vital part in AMD’s promise to carry high-end 4K gaming to the plenty.
Mid-range merchandise like RTX xx60 or xx70 GPUs and Radeon x700 playing cards sometimes wrestle in 4K until customers considerably cut back graphics settings. They’re normally promoted for 1080p and 1440p gaming. Positioning the RX 9070 and 9070 XT – intentionally named for comparability with Nvidia’s xx70 GPUs – as 4K merchandise marks a big perspective shift.
{Hardware} specs stay unclear, however the 9070 XT ought to be primarily based on the Navi 48 GPU, that includes 4,096 cores, a 2.97GHz increase clock, 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256-bit bus, and 640 GB/s of reminiscence bandwidth. Rumors point out that the 9070 will embody 16 GB of VRAM, doubtlessly giving it a big benefit over the upcoming RTX 5070, which options solely 12 GB of GDDR7 reminiscence.
The 9070 got here inside spitting distance of the RTX 4080 Tremendous in a Name of Responsibility Black Ops 6 benchmark at CES final month. Extra complete testing would require a broader vary of titles, significantly video games that extensively make the most of hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
AMD will worth the RX 9070 and 9070 XT competitively towards the $549 RTX 5070 and $749 5070 Ti. The 5070 Ti might launch on February 20, whereas the 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 ought to emerge later, presumably in March, just like the RDNA 4 GPUs. The lower-priced RX 9060 and 9050 are additionally coming later this yr.
Su justified Group Pink’s retreat from the high-end and flagship segments by describing mainstream graphics playing cards because the highest-volume portion of the market. Steam {hardware} surveys assist this assertion, displaying that Nvidia xx60 GPUs dominate utilization statistics. AMD is anticipated to comply with RDNA 4 with UDNA, the doubtless alternative for the PlayStation 6, which might see the corporate return to the fanatic GPU market like RDNA 2 did after the mainstream-focused RDNA 1.
