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.
Discussion (19 replies)
Join Discussion →$600 enough said.
Vs 5070 ti
It is at times like this that I miss Anand's in depth tech coverage.
BTW AMD claiming FSR 4 performance mode is better than FRS3.1 is not saying much but at least is a step in the right direction.
Interesting read... I found it... odd they did comparisons to cards 2 gens old today... made me uncomfortable with what they are delivering.
I can only hope that thanks to the 9070 series prices, 5070Ti prices will como more down to earth and be closer to MSRP (once stock settles).
I don't really see nvidia cutting the 5070Ti price but at least getting them for closer to $750 would still be good news.
Well I think the argument could be that people tend to skip a generation to upgrade, so people upgrading from say a RTX 3070Ti/3080Super can see the benefits of going with a 9000 series.
That used to be true in my house, but that was also when there was a sub-$200 market and top-end was $700. But the last few, it's been more like every 3 or 4 generations...
So much information, it hurts your head. Nice complete article.
The real deal here is can these cards compete with what is out right now, not a 3090 or a 7900GRE or whatever.
I would hope a brand new GPU could stomp a card from 2 generations ago. Next, what can these things do in real-life gaming.
Finally, is there actually a MSRP card to be had? Like anything else, the upper tiers are going to be two or three hundred dollars more, now you're in the realm of $1000 for a GPU ...........I hope AMD does well, we'll see.
Think of the 9070 as a 7900gre replacement & 9070xt as a 7900xt replacement
They will continue to sell the 7800xt & 7700xt until stocks last
7900xtx is sold out everywhere
I currently have a RTX3070Ti and skipped RTX40, not sure if I'll go RTX50, might end up skipping it as well.
Pretty good prices: if I can find a halfway decent 9070 XT late next week @ MSRP in MicroCenter, I'll go for it. It'll be a very nice upgrade over my (aging) RX 6700XT ...
I hope that AMD can keep the supply coming for these because they are very competitively priced (I'll be doing a post on that later).
I went from a 980 to a 3080. Not looking to upgrade this generation either, from either team.
My son though, he has a RX 5600, I think - maybe even an older RX560. He's probably due, but he doesn't care if his games run at 27 FPS, apparently... so I'm not buying him a new GPU. He's old enough he can earn money to get a new one if he wants to.