Final Points
That wraps up the AMD Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs, RDNA 4, and FSR 4 announcements. We now officially know what is coming in terms of hardware, specifications, and features. All we need now is the performance, and oh right, the Price!
Well, at the time of this writing, we do not know the price; in fact, AMD should be announcing the pricing at its livestream event on the morning of February 28th, when this article will also be published. We will be learning the price with you, and therefore, we can’t publish that bit of information until it is announced. It is, of course, the foremost thought on everyone’s mind when it comes to the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070.
*UPDATE* – 2/28/8AM – AMD has revealed official pricing: The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has an SEP of $599 USD, while the AMD Radeon RX 9070 has an SEP of $549.
The two video cards we will be getting initially are the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070. A naming change has occurred, and the model name is now the Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs, with the “xx70” class representing the mid-range line, which just so happens to be the only line AMD will be having this generation. The Radeon RX 9070 XT will be AMD’s flagship video card, and representing AMD’s best foot forward for the RDNA 4 architecture-based GPUs for 2025. There will also only be add-in-board partner video cards this generation, no reference or made-by-AMD video cards.
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has 64 CUs, 64 RT Accelerators, and 128 AI Accelerators, and it will be clocked at 2.97GHz. It will come with 16GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit memory bus with a TBP of 304W. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 has 56 CUs, 56 RT Accelerators, and 112 AI Accelerators, and it will be clocked at 2.52GHz. It will also come with 16GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit memory bus with a TBP of 220W. Both cards support PCIe 5.0 x16, DisplayPort 2.1a, and HDMI 2.1b.
The RDNA 4 architecture itself seems to be beefed up in Ray Tracing improvements and AI Accelerator improvements. With these AI Accelerator improvements comes support for a new ML-Powered FSR 4 Upscaler, which is poised to provide much better image quality in games and also supports Frame Gen in supported games.
Typical to previous generations of FSR, game support is needed, and that will be key to FSR 4’s success. If not enough popular games have it that people are playing, it won’t matter. It needs to be in the games that people play, so we will have to see how that turns out. AMD is saying 30+ games at launch, and 75+ in 2025, but if AMD really wants to succeed with FSR 4, then FSR 4 needs to be implemented in hundreds of games, it needs to be in the hundreds, full-stop, to make an impact in comparison to the competition, in our opinion. The competition has a big leg up in the number of games with DLSS Upscaling, and for FSR 4 to succeed, it must match it and be in those same games, not FSR 3 or 3.1, FSR 4, it just has to be.
Overall, we look forward to testing the AMD Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs, it should be very interesting once all the performance comes to light. At the end of the day, pricing will make or break this generation from AMD, I hope they are aggressive; now, let’s wait and see how it all pans out.
*UPDATE* – 2/28/8AM – AMD has revealed official pricing: The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has an SEP of $599 USD, while the AMD Radeon RX 9070 has an SEP of $549.