AMD has lastly unveiled its much-anticipated new flagship graphics playing cards, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070. Based mostly on a brand new AMD RDNA 4 graphics structure, they embody much-improved ray tracing efficiency and arrive alongside FSR 4, a brand new model of the corporate’s upscaling tech. As lengthy rumored, although, they gained’t have the facility to compete with the RTX 5090 however are as an alternative pitched at competing with Nvidia’s upcoming mid-range RTX 5000 GPUs.
Unveiled throughout its press convention on the CES 2025 commerce present, AMD‘s new finest graphics card contenders have been additionally proven alongside a tease for its upcoming RX 9060 GPUs that will likely be coming later to compete for the funds finish of the GPU market.
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the top-tier card that AMD’s saying at this time and whereas the reveal confirms a number of particulars from earlier AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT leaks, many particulars of the brand new card and its GPU have but to be launched. As such, we nonetheless don’t have affirmation that the cardboard will use the rumored Navi 48 GPU or precisely what number of compute items the GPU accommodates.
What we do know, although, is that the brand new card will use the corporate’s new RDNA 4 structure, which the corporate claims has been “constructed from the bottom up […] for efficiency and immersion with a major increase in AI.” To this finish, the corporate has overhauled the 2nd-gen AI accelerators on the GPU, including “loads of capabilities to drive extra AI experiences,” although AMD hasn’t offered any stats to again up these claims.
The corporate has additionally confirmed it has considerably improved this structure’s ray tracing potential, although once more offers no particular numbers. Earlier leaks have pointed to the ray tracing energy of this card being a rival to that of the RTX 4080, which might make for a major step up from the corporate’s RDNA 3 structure, however leaves the door open for Nvidia to as soon as once more take the lead on this entrance with its new RTX 5000 collection playing cards.
AMD additionally claims the brand new structure has optimized compute items together with will increase to clock velocity and directions per clock in comparison with its earlier structure. It has additionally confirmed that the brand new playing cards will likely be constructed on a 4nm course of.
The corporate confirmed that playing cards could be manufactured by a bunch of add-in board (AIB) companions, equivalent to Acer, Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, Powercolor, Sapphire, and Yeston, and its photographs counsel the corporate will even launch its personal variations of the playing cards, as they did with the RX 7900 XTX, as an example. You may see AMD’s playing cards within the middle and center-right of the above picture.
One element that AMD did talk about is the brand new naming scheme for these playing cards. Together with skipping previous RX 8000 and straight onto RX 9000 – to align with its CPU quantity scheme – AMD is switching two of the digits of its mannequin numbers round in comparison with earlier era playing cards, so as an alternative of the RX 7700 XT, as an example, the brand new card would be the RX 9070 XT. Have been AMD to have an equal of the RX 7900 XTX on this era, it will be known as one thing just like the RX 9090 XTX on this new scheme.
Curiously, AMD verified that this digit swap was to make for simpler direct comparability to Nvidia’s competing playing cards. So, sure, the RX 9070 XT ought to line up when it comes to efficiency with the RTX 5070.
In the meantime, whereas speaking about its new naming scheme, AMD additionally revealed that the second tier vary of playing cards within the 9000 collection would be the RX 9060, with these playing cards set to compete with upcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 playing cards.
Barely disappointingly, AMD is concentrating on a broad Q1 2025 AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT launch date, which might imply these playing cards gained’t arrive as quickly as some earlier rumors advised. We additionally gained’t hear extra concerning the particulars of the playing cards till “later within the quarter.” That stated, AMD does point out that will probably be previewing its new GPUs at CES 2025, and we’re hoping to quickly see them in motion on the present ground.
