News AMD CEO confirms the RX 9070 series will arrive in early March — Promises 4K mainstream gaming

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AMD CEO Lisa Su promises to bring high-quality 4K gaming to the masses, with the RX 9070 series, launching in early March.

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[joartrak]

Graphs and charts are all well and good but the real question for me will be supply. Readily available at MSRP would be pretty big

 

[DS426]

Graphs and charts are all well and good but the real question for me will be supply. Readily available at MSRP would be pretty big

Agreed, and graphs and charts by tech reviewers rather than 1st party.

9060 out by Computex would be great, hopefully no later if red wants to fend off green.

 

[ezst036]

AMD seems more interested in gaming where Nvidia seems more interested in AI.

 

[GenericUser2001]

Graphs and charts are all well and good but the real question for me will be supply. Readily available at MSRP would be pretty big

Apparently some of the cards have been shipping to retailers for the last couple of weeks now; if we are lucky that means AMD is building a proper stockpile of MSRP cards for launch.

 

[jwilby82]

AMD seems more interested in gaming where Nvidia seems more interested in AI.

We all need AMD and heck Intel to push nvidia back.
Nvidia has lost the plot with the pricing, heat, power usage, spinning fake nonsense each new generation I.e. deceitful graphs of performance of new hardware and have no problem saying a $579- rtx 5070 had 4090 performance. Then don't bother to release them as per their date while letting scalpers run wild with the little stock that was released and heck 3rd party companies charging over $1k more for reasonably cooled versions. $5800- AUD is dogshite.
Oh and Nvidia saying AI so dang often during any speaking forum it has reduced people's overall vocabulary and their own by making their AI software make these speeches.
Shame they got rid of SLI/nvlink as 2x 5080s would have been a decent solution if wanting an upgrade over 1x 5080 down the line. And don't want to pay 50%+ more than rrp for 5090s

 

[Marnad]

This has the potential to be the first time in my 20+ years of PC gaming where I may jump ship to AMD.

I currently have an RTX 4070 Super, but really want to make the jump to 16 GB of video RAM (or greater).

Some 3rd party RTX 5080s are going for $2,000+ CAD, which is really getting ridiculous. Based on previous GPU generations, it's plain as day that the RTX 5080 should be a 70 tier card; the generational improvements are diminishing. Nvidia is really treating their GPU consumers poorly...

 

[oofdragon]

I bet with you the RX 9070 will be priced $550 and will perform the same as a 4070 super in ray tracing but raster like a 4070 ti, 16gb and fsr on par with dlss. The XT version will go for $750 ray tracing like a 4070 Ti super and raster like a 4080

 

[Jagar123]

I bet with you the RX 9070 will be priced $550 and will perform the same as a 4070 super in ray tracing but raster like a 4070 ti, 16gb and fsr on par with dlss. The XT version will go for $750 ray tracing like a 4070 Ti super and raster like a 4080

I hope they aren't priced that high but we'll see!

 

[artk2219]

I bet with you the RX 9070 will be priced $550 and will perform the same as a 4070 super in ray tracing but raster like a 4070 ti, 16gb and fsr on par with dlss. The XT version will go for $750 ray tracing like a 4070 Ti super and raster like a 4080

That wouldnt be enough of a ray tracing improvement, an RX 7900 XTX already performs similarly to an RTX 4070 TI in raytracing, it would at least need to meet an RTX 4080 in raster and RT for it to match its current expectations.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-radeon-rx-7900-gre-tuf/33.html

 

[tamalero]

Honestly, I think AMD needs to crack the coconut of chiplets in the GPU segment properly.
This way they could stack chips to build a bigger gpu.
Hence why their strategy to go "small" can be stacked and built like lego just like their EPYCs.

 

[JTWrenn]

If I was AMD I would release the cards from any review blocks and get cards to reviewers as soon as possible. If these cards are better on raster and close to power numbers at all they have a huge opening right now. The AI side from nvidia is just too complicated and getting it to play fast and feel good with all the "fake frames" stuff floating around is just turning people off.

Combine that with some promises of more cards, and how annoying getting a card is right now and I think you can easily tap into the market for the Nvidia cards right now. Pay twice the price, or hit refresh constantly...or just wait a month for a card with equal or better fps without ai......that's a damn good message right now. They should get out ahead of it as soon as they can.

 

[JTWrenn]

Honestly, I think AMD needs to crack the coconut of chiplets in the GPU segment properly.
This way they could stack chips to build a bigger gpu.
Hence why their strategy to go "small" can be stacked and built like lego just like their EPYCs.

Oh yeah what happened to the supposed chiplet revolution? Wasn't that supposed to be for this gen? Is it next gen? Is it vaporware?

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

But is it true 4k gaming with full details, even if it's just 60fps, or "4k gaming" with "performance" FSR that is neither 4K nor full details? My guess is firmly the latter, and probably only $50, maybe $100, less than Nvidia charges, nothing to get excited about, just like the last cycle from both camps, sadly.

 

[palladin9479]

Oh yeah what happened to the supposed chiplet revolution? Wasn't that supposed to be for this gen? Is it next gen? Is it vaporware?

Ehh ... AMD has been using chiplets awhile now, it's how we got the x3d line of cpus. AMD just hasn't put them on GPUs... yet. It's possible, they just need to create the method and protocol.

 

[spongiemaster]

AMD seems more interested in gaming where Nvidia seems more interested in AI.

Interesting take when all AMD has done for the last decade is copy what Nvidia has been doing. Name a gaming innovation AMD has brought to the market in recent years that the market cares about. Variable refresh rate, ray tracing, ai up scaling, frame generation, DLAA, Reflex (system latency reduction), video upscaling, gpu direct storage. All things Nvidia developed and released first, and AMD later copied with their poor man version.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

Graphs and charts are all well and good but the real question for me will be supply. Readily available at MSRP would be pretty big

Given the warehouses were full of the cards in January as was the original launch date, before they choked, with an extra 6 weeks to further increase stock, this won't be anything like Nvidia's disgusting paper launch, that was just a setup to hype the cards.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

Oh yeah what happened to the supposed chiplet revolution? Wasn't that supposed to be for this gen? Is it next gen? Is it vaporware?

Chiplets for RDNA/UDNA5. It was cancelled because originally RDNA4 flagship had 20 chiplets, 13 more than 7900XTX and they were struggling to get it to work. Chiplets aren't cancelled and in Nvidia will also have to move to chiplets when we get to EUV high NA nodes as max chip size is ~ 400mm^2, half of what we have now and 5090 is ~700mm^2.

 

[blppt]

AMD seems more interested in gaming where Nvidia seems more interested in AI.

Makes sense. AMD has a big stake in consoles.

 

[spongiemaster]

If you want to go AMD, you better do it at launch. MSI has just raised prices significantly on their Blackwell GPU's and it looks like Asus is seeing a similar increase. Probably tariff related which went into effect on the 1st. The early shipments of RDNA4 that are already in the US aren't going to be subject to those tariffs, but we're going to see the same increases in pricing for anything going forward.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle...n&cvid=162ccda67e31436f943135dac793c4f4&ei=31

 

[Mcnoobler]

I bet with you the RX 9070 will be priced $550 and will perform the same as a 4070 super in ray tracing but raster like a 4070 ti, 16gb and fsr on par with dlss. The XT version will go for $750 ray tracing like a 4070 Ti super and raster like a 4080

FSR on par with DLSS... you know I've never seen a version of FSR that wasn't the new "DLSS killer". The fans held too, until credible reviewers were like eh no, not this one either.

Since 9070s have been stocked up and waiting on Nvidia, and so many are assuming that AMD with 1 year of ML is going to be on par with Nvidias new transformer DLSS... its always highest hopes and dreams. AMD does a great job with its fans (mindshare) to where it may as well be a religion as they always believe no matter what.