AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs: Specifications, release date, pricing, and more revealed

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AMD's RDNA 4 architecture and RX 9000-series GPUs launch March 6, beginning with the mainstream to high-end 9070 and 9070 XT. The new chips come with significantly improved ray tracing and AI hardware and should provide Nvidia's RTX 50-series some much-needed competition.

AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs: Specifications, release date, pricing, and more revealed : Read more

 

[joartrak]

I see lots of celebrating for this and sure. Did they mention stock and availability? Pricing on a PowerPoint only means so much if you can't find it and AiBs uncharge it. Still should wait and see the actual rollout.

 

[Gururu]

If they come in with this MSRP pricing, it is a strong move towards buying "sentiment" as GN says. If it ends up being a paper launch or AIBs go way overboard, I wouldn't justify casting judgment on AMD since they are doing the right thing here on price.

 

[thestryker]

While I see a lot of people in general dismissing MSRP it's an important number whether you're buying at that or not when it comes to anything below halo tier. It's a promise of what one should expect to pay if they're willing to either wait or use stock trackers to acquire a card.

All of the price reporting I've seen is saying $599 for the 9070 XT which seems like a good price if they're delivering approximately 5070 Ti performance. A 20% discount from the 5070 Ti MSRP should be enough to sway people since FSR4 is a good upgrade over prior (broad implementation or simplicity of swaps will matter here) and the RT performance should finally be where it needs to be.

Assuming the $599 price is accurate the 9070 only being $50 cheaper is a misstep.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

What should the 9070XT compare with the Nvidia 5 Series cards? I'm still looking at the 5080 but I will consider AMD as well. I'm just waiting for the release of the 9900X3D CPU's.

 

[usertests]

I see lots of celebrating for this and sure. Did they mention stock and availability? Pricing on a PowerPoint only means so much if you can't find it and AiBs uncharge it. Still should wait and see the actual rollout.

Cards have been in the hands of retailers since January before they jebaited the launch weeks into the future, so it should be better than expected.

Assuming the $599 price is accurate the 9070 only being $50 cheaper is a misstep.

Classic upsell tactic that they've done before with the 7700/7900 XT. They will eat the Day 1 bad reviews for 9070 non-XT, and the prices will drop to $450-500 later.

What should the 9070XT compare with the Nvidia 5 Series cards?

Probably: 9070 XT has similar raster performance to the 5070 Ti, but the raytracing performance of a 5070 or 4070 Super/4070 Ti.

 

[chrsphr]

I'm keen to see an emphasis on power consumption - a 220W TBP is really nice for the 9070, if you're chasing a cool, quiet and compact PC rather than chasing down maximum performance all the time

 

[palladin9479]

So it looks like people got their wish with the 9070XT MSRP being $600 USD. Of course some AIB's will release models with that price, others might tack on another $50~100 for some sort of "OC Extreme" model. As long as it's under $700 and available in large amounts, it'll beat out the $1000+ 5070 TI models. AMD doesn't have a massive datacenter AI GPU department eating up all their silicon allotment from TSMC, so they should be able to provide plenty of them on launch.

 

[Notton]

I see lots of celebrating for this and sure. Did they mention stock and availability? Pricing on a PowerPoint only means so much if you can't find it and AiBs uncharge it. Still should wait and see the actual rollout.

The cards have been sitting in retail store warehouses since around CES.
Apparently they have a bunch.

Also wow, AMD finally ditched nvidia -$50 pricing.
$600 for 9070XTis pretty good, although why only $50 pricing difference between the 9070?

 

[A Stoner]

Sad that $599 is looking like a win for a consumer mid tier graphics card.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I think the vanilla 9070 should have been 500, maybe 475. I'm good with the price of the XT card. That seems reasonable. But if I'm spending 550, why wouldn't I spend another 50 for the step up? The other thing is the vanilla 9070 launching at the same price as the 5070 non ti might be a no go which is why I said they should have that at least 50 bucks lower. But overall, I would say based on the nvidia launches, if AMD has a lot of stock of these things and can keep the AIBs in line on prices, these should sell like hotcakes. If those 2 things are true, they have potential for another RX 480 moment.

That said, the way the performance on ray tracing and raster is landing, I think I'll be keeping my 7900xtx until the next generation. Though this part isn't as big now, but I'd like to see them launch FSR 4 on the 7000 series at least.

 

[DS426]

I see lots of celebrating for this and sure. Did they mention stock and availability? Pricing on a PowerPoint only means so much if you can't find it and AiBs uncharge it. Still should wait and see the actual rollout.

Yep, the actual commercial availability launch will be what really counts. In any case, it looks like AMD was going for the jugular on this one.

I'm thinking XT will sell out first since 50 series availability is unheard of and even RDNA3 GPUs have gone up, then non-XT will sell out later. Just hoping production is ramping as -- similar to 9800X3D -- it certainly doesn't help AMD when their most in-demand products are throttling sales.

 

[palladin9479]

Sad that $599 is looking like a win for a consumer mid tier graphics card.

It is when the competition is $1000+

Gone are the days of "mid tier" being $250 at a local shop. I know we all grew up with that but between the crypto mining craze and the new AI craze, complexity and demand has exploded so much that those old price floors are no longer relevant.

Of course people can usually find cheaper if they shop around for products a few generations old.

 

[usertests]

although why only $50 pricing difference between the 9070?

Same upsell trick they tried with the 7700 XT (-$50) and 7900 XT (-$100). Intel also tried that with the B570 (-$30). Ignore non-XT until the price drops.

 

[DS426]

Same upsell trick they tried with the 7700 XT (-$50) and 7900 XT (-$100). Intel also tried that with the B570 (-$30). Ignore non-XT until the price drops.

Non-XT isn't that much cheaper to produce, i.e. margins are slimmer than on XT, so AMD and everyone else don't have a lot of incentive to necessarily discount them proportional to their relative reduction in performance. However, supply and demand and some time results in street pricing being adjusted based on said market conditions, so in the example of AMD, non-XT's start seeing some nice price drops a few months after launch as product needs to move off of shelves.

Also, believe it or not, a lot of buyers still have to purchase GPU's based on a strict budget, getting the most of what that budget allows for; a $50 cheaper option is going to be accessible to a lot more buyers of these new-gen GPUs.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

What should the 9070XT compare with the Nvidia 5 Series cards? I'm still looking at the 5080 but I will consider AMD as well. I'm just waiting for the release of the 9900X3D CPU's.

In theory, the RX 9070 XT goes up against RTX 5070 Ti and the RX 9070 takes on the vanilla RTX 5070. In practice? We'll have to see where they land. I'm guessing, based on specs, that the 5070 Ti will end up being a bit faster overall, while the 9070 will likely beat the 5070. Memory capacity and bandwidth as a proxy for overall performance potential, combined with TFLOPS, usually gives a pretty decent estimate. So...

5070 Ti: 44 TFLOPS, 16GB, 896 GB/s
5070: 31 TFLOPS, 12GB, 672 GB/s
9070 XT: 49 TFLOPS, 16GB, 640 GB/s
9070: 36 TFLOPS, 16GB, 640 GB/s

Nvidia usually gets higher real-world performance relative to TFLOPS than AMD, so having more bandwidth means it should come out ahead as well. The reduction in VRAM on the 5070 is probably going to hurt a lot in quite a few games.

 

[DS426]

Sad that $599 is looking like a win for a consumer mid tier graphics card.

Upper mid tier really; talking about a strong 1440p, sometimes 4K GPU here (especially with FSR4), including the RT gains relative to RDNA3. Call it whatever tier or range you want, but it's really all about what you get for what you pay. Speaking of which, still need more tech reviewer data to come in to paint an accurate picture on performance.

 

[usertests]

Non-XT isn't that much cheaper to produce, i.e. margins are slimmer than on XT, so AMD and everyone else don't have a lot of incentive to necessarily discount them proportional to their relative reduction in performance.

The performance drop is more than the price drop. Nobody should buy it, even if they want to save a few bucks or want the lower power envelope. Just Wait™.

Budget gamers should probably look to whatever the 9060/9050 end up being.

 

[A Stoner]

Upper mid tier really; talking about a strong 1440p, sometimes 4K GPU here (especially with FSR4), including the RT gains relative to RDNA3. Call it whatever tier or range you want, but it's really all about what you get for what you pay. Speaking of which, still need more tech reviewer data to come in to paint an accurate picture on performance.

I guess upper mid tier.

My basic view up until 2020 at least was that the 80 cards were top tier with titans/90s being halo, 70s being mid tier, and 60s being mainstream and 50s being entry level. But then again, as you said, upper mid is not covered in my list, and I really ignored the super and ti's and since this is really going against the 70 ti you seem more correct than I was.

No days there are many more levels with some of them seemingly abandoned, like the 50 series level. 50, 60, 60 super/ti, 70, 70 super/ti, 80, 80 super/ti, 90, 90 super/ti?

Before, the Super and the Ti levels used to be add ons after the fact benefiting from evolutionary benefits of yield and usually came in with the same pricing as the originals. Now they have become part of the normal. Almost like they need to ditch the superlatives and just put numbers between the 10s digits, 50, 55, 60, 63, 66, 70, 73, 76, 80, 83, 86, 90, 93, 96, 99.

 

[jeremyj_83]

Gone are the days of "mid tier" being $250 at a local shop

I miss the days when $300 got you a high end card.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

I miss the days when $300 got you a high end card.

I miss the days when $2 got me a dozen eggs! And two pounds of cheese was $5. And 12-packs of soda could be found on sale regularly for $2. And... well, you get the point. I'd say prices on groceries in general have easily doubled since the time when high-end GPUs were $300.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

Good pricing, I have no complaints, AFAIK all the recent shortages were mostly due GDDR6X/7 availability and Nvidia dedicating almost all their capacity to AI Data centre production line. None of it should affect AMD, therefore I expect these cards to be available from the get go.

 

[Elusive Ruse]

I miss the days when $2 got me a dozen eggs! And two pounds of cheese was $5. And 12-packs of soda could be found on sale regularly for $2. And... well, you get the point. I'd say prices on groceries in general have easily doubled since the time when high-end GPUs were $300.

Almost spat out my tea 😂

 

[Gururu]

I miss the days when $2 got me a dozen eggs! And two pounds of cheese was $5. And 12-packs of soda could be found on sale regularly for $2. And... well, you get the point. I'd say prices on groceries in general have easily doubled since the time when high-end GPUs were $300.

But in general I think electronics have come down a lot. I can get a microwave for $50 and a 55" tv for like $300 at Walmart.

 

[alceryes]

So, they got the price mostly correct. Although, the $50 difference between the two models is weird. Generally, the lower tier cards should be at the same or better price-for-performance mark, but the 9070 appears to be slightly worse than the 9070 XT. Maybe, internally, there was a last-minute price drop on just the XT model...?

Many believe that availablility will be much better than NVIDIA's 5000-series cards. Stores have had decent stock on these cards for over a month now. If AMD can keep shipping large quantities after March 6th, consumers have a much better chance of getting the cards at actual MSRP, or just a bit more. (standard $50-150 AiB partner tax)