In case you’re an AMD GPU fan, then the vacations have come early. The GPU maker’s model new AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT flagship graphics card has been outed in a flurry of recent leaks over the weekend, ditching the sooner rumored Radeon RX 8800 XT branding fully because it plans a model new Radeon 9000 sequence lineup for players.
Whereas Nvidia has dominated with the perfect graphics playing cards in recent times, AMD is seeking to combat again with its newest RDNA 4 GPUs. Latest RX 8000 XT rumors advised that it’d even match the ray tracing efficiency of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, regardless of earlier options that AMD was abandoning high-end Radeon GPUs fully.
Whereas AMD hasn’t made an official announcement simply but, we’ve already obtained a brand new title for this top-spec GPU, if leaks are to be believed. This specific info was leaked in a considerably obtuse submit by Apoleon, a Chiphell discussion board editor and reviewer, and shared since in a submit by Videocardz, suggesting that the brand new AMD Radeon card will obtain the 9070 XT moniker.
An additional submit on X (beforehand Twitter) by All_The_Watts, a leaker who we’ve seen present earlier RDNA 4 rumors, added additional credibility to the rumor with a sequence of tweets itemizing your complete vary of recent Radeon card names, with the Radeon RX 9070 XT on the high of the checklist.
Due to AMD, we even know what the cardboard would possibly appear to be. A since-locked Reddit submit shared an AMD social media commercial that, seemingly, confirmed off a render from an unannounced Radeon graphics card.
In an extra X submit by famend AMD leaker Hoang Anh Phu, the leaker confirmed that the render was, actually, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT.
Whereas a brand new title and a leaked render don’t inform us a lot, there have been loads of rumors to contemplate to this point. Most significantly, regardless of that current hypothesis pointing to efficiency matching the RTX 4080, leaked specs for this new card seemingly put it near the present Radeon RX 7800 XT, regardless of enhancements to ray tracing within the new RDNA 4 structure.
We might not have too lengthy to attend till we discover out for sure, nonetheless. AMD has already confirmed that the RDNA 4 launch date is ready for early 2025, with rumors suggesting it might occur in simply two weeks time, going down on the CES 2025 commerce present in January. That might imply each AMD and Nvidia asserting next-gen graphics playing cards on the similar time, with RTX 5000 sequence playing cards anticipated to be introduced at CES, too.
Take a look at our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 information to learn up on the whole lot we find out about Nvidia’s flagship card which, if these preliminary spec rumors are true, already outmatches this new Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU.
