AMD have today pulled back the curtain on the Radeon RX 9000 series powered by RDNA 4 along with FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4).
Today they've announced the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT which will be available starting March 6th. This comes along with FSR 4 which features Machine Learning, which they say has been made especially for RDNA 4. FSR 4 can be enabled on all FSR 3.1 titles enabling developers to get it in quickly.
Some of the slides from the press pack:
| Model | Compute Units | GDDR6 | Game Clock (GHz) | Boost Clock6 (GHz) | Memory Interface | Infinity Cache | TBP | Price (USD SEP) |
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| AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT | 64 | 16 GB | 2.4 | Up to 3.0 | 256-bit | 64 MB | 304W | $599 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 | 56 | 16 GB | 2.1 | Up to 2.5 | 256-bit | 64 MB | 220W | $549 | |
Feature Highlight:
- Unified AMD RDNA™ 4 Compute Units – Features up to 64 advanced AMD RDNA™ 4 compute units delivering up to 40% higher gaming performance than the previous-generation AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture.
- High-Performance Raytracing – With 3rd generation Raytracing Accelerators, AMD RDNA 4 is able to deliver over 2x the Raytracing throughput per compute unit when compared to our previous generation. Gamers with the latest AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series are ready for immersive gaming experiences with high-quality graphics, including realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections.
- Supercharged AI Acceleration – 2nd Generation AI Accelerators received several enhancements, allowing AMD RDNA™ 4 to efficiently process advanced AI models much faster than what was possible with RDNA 3,4 through a combination of additional math pipelines for AI calculations, expanding the capabilities of the AI Accelerator to support new emerging data types such as FP8, and support for inference optimization techniques such as structured sparsity. These changes deliver up to 8x INT8 throughput per AI accelerator (for sparse matrices) per compute unit vs the previous generation.
- AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution Technology 4 (FSR 4) – AMD’s new cutting-edge ML-powered upscaling technology delivers high-quality boosted frames under even the most demanding workloads, such as 4K gaming with maximum raytracing settings and will be supported in over 30 games at launch.
- Innovative suite of features through HYPR-RX (Windows only) – Gamers can instantly improve their experience by activating AMD HYPR-RX and the suite of features within AMD Software, including AMD Radeon™ Super Resolution, AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1, AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag, and AMD Radeon™ Boost. These features can all be tailored to gamers’ hardware and preferences within AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ to drive increased FPS, responsiveness and efficiency.
- AI-Enhanced AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ Application (Windows only) – A new suite of software and resources designed to deliver an industry-leading AI user experience with AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards. Keep your drivers and AI software up to date with the new Software Manager. Find the answers to your questions about all things AMD or create free and private text and images with AMD Chat. Discover, download and install new and exciting AMD-partnered AI applications with the App Portal, and leverage AI to improve software quality with the AMD Image Inspector.
- Ready for Next-Generation Displays – AMD Radiance Display™ Engine supports the latest DisplayPort™ 2.1a and HDMI® 2.1b connections, enabling ultra-high resolutions and refresh rates up to 8K 144Hz, with 12-bit HDR and full REC2020 Color Space for incredible color accuracy. Paired with AMD FreeSync™ technology, gamers can enjoy tear-free, stutter-free gaming experiences on over 4000 compatible displays, including upcoming 4K 240Hz and 8K 144Hz DisplayPort™ 2.1 monitors.
As for what performance to expect these below are from AMD's own slides in comparison to the RX 7900 GRE:
For FSR 4, AMD said to expect 30+ games supported immediately at launch including: Marvel Rivals, Smite 2, Space Marine 2, Spider-Man Remastered, Spider-Man Miles Morales and Spider-Man 2, Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnorok, The Last of Us Part 1 and more. AMD said to expect over 75 titles to add FSR 4 support during 2025.
It's a shame you have to upgrade your whole GPU for the full benefit of FSR 4 though, as the quality of it does look pretty impressive based on the bits they've shown. AMD have made seriously great progress on FSR since it was first released, and this does look like quite a big overall enhancement to their tech on both quality and performance.
AMD FSR 4 Feature Highlight:
- Available exclusively on AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 Series graphics cards, AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition™ adds a new easy-to-use AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4) Upgrade feature that helps maximize performance at maximum quality in over 30 games at launch, with 75 coming later this year. AMD FSR 4 delivers a substantial image quality improvement over AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling, with the new ML-based algorithm helping to improve temporal stability, better preserve detail, and reduce ghosting.
- Utilizing features already built into the AMD FidelityFX™ API added when game developers integrate AMD FSR 3.1 into their games, AMD FSR 4 enables an easy upgrade for supported FSR 3.1 games and can be combined with existing in-game AMD FSR 3.1 advanced frame-generation and AMD Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2 for ultra-smooth, ultra-responsive gaming at incredible frame rates on AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
- The new ML-accelerated AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm is trained using high-quality ground truth game data on AMD Instinct™ Accelerators and uses the hardware-accelerated FP8 Wave Matrix Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) feature of the AMD RDNA™ 4 architecture to ensure maximum upscaling quality while still providing a substantial game performance boost.
And of course during the event there was plenty of AI this AI that talk.
You can see the full video announcement from AMD below:
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R Daneel Olivaw 4 hours ago
I find it interesting there's just a $50 gap between the two. Which means .... why does the regular 9070 even exist? If you're spending that kind of money, the difference is negligible and you get a much better card.
I was thinking of building a new machine this summer, but man these prices. And this means the other vendor cards will just be even more right?
I was thinking of building a new machine this summer, but man these prices. And this means the other vendor cards will just be even more right?
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Mohandevir 4 hours ago
Who knows. Maybe I'll buy one, if the Steam Deck 2 support External GPUs. Anyway, I'll wait for the lower end cards of this series, like 9060.
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Will have to see how these turn out, but at the price point seems pretty good. Would really like a slightly beefier XTX version, but that may not happen. Unfortunate that they make FSR4 such a big focus point. I consider all upscaling worthless, so no points for me. Awaiting some real world results!
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Unfortunate that they make FSR4 such a big focus point. I consider all upscaling worthless, so no points for me. Awaiting some real world results!
They're not included in this article but GamersNexus new video has some first party slides comparing these new cards to 7900's with no upscaling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe50byQGG0
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I've added some more slides from AMD on the 7900 GRE comparisons.
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ContainerRunner 4 hours ago
The improved media encoding performance is definitely needed for years now. So far I had to rely on CPU encoding for video stream on Twitch, because the encoding quality was so bad. If Twitch would finally enable HEVC or AV1 streaming, we would have a workaround until this card will get affordable.
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I find it interesting there's just a $50 gap between the two. Which means .... why does the regular 9070 even exist?
Likely to be chips that didn't make the cut for the xt.
Yields are said (by amd) to be excellent this gen, so the xt is the primary product, with the non-xt's msrp at release a bit higher than they really expect to sell it at, just in case some people get em at that price.
Last edited by emphy on 28 Feb 2025 at 2:17 pm UTC
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BladePupper 3 hours ago
I find it interesting there's just a $50 gap between the two. Which means .... why does the regular 9070 even exist? If you're spending that kind of money, the difference is negligible and you get a much better card.This is one of those weird things about AMD's pricing that is easy to miss. They initially do something like this in terms of pricing kind of like the 6000-series cards and then they change pricing after a couple weeks or couple months. When that change happens the stack will probably look more like a 100usd difference between those two cards which would make more sense.
That likely price change would make far more sense to have both of these cards flank nvidia's 5070 pricing. Which I think they may wait on that before saying anything about a 9060xt to see if they change the pricing a bit to better place that card and additional RDNA 4 cards. AMD's gpu side of things can be pretty odd sometimes and this is one of those ways, at least its a better move than price == nvidia - 50usd
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We still have to see independent benchmarks to see the frames per buck numbers, but I suspect they will not be a high improvement over what NVIDIA offers (at least if we consider the MSRP of their cards and not the crazy numbers the scalpers are requesting). They had a huge opportunity to gain some much needed market share by taking advantage of all the problems and bad press with the NVIDIA RTX 5000 launch. But that would have also required an aggressive pricing, and that is not happening, unfortunately.
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Linux_Rocks 2 hours ago
Should've just axed the non-XT variant and worked on making a beefier XTX version instead.
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I consider all upscaling worthless, so no points for me. Awaiting some real world results!
Yeah, I'm not using upscaling either. It would be interesting to see the comparison of 7900 XTX and 9070 XT in non ray tracing scenarios.
Should've just axed the non-XT variant and worked on making a beefier XTX version instead.
I think they need the unified UDNA architecture for that which will happen in the next generation. I.e. they deliberately skipped XTX for this one from what I've heard for architectural reasons.
Some details here:
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announces-unified-udna-gpu-architecture-bringing-rdna-and-cdna-together-to-take-on-nvidias-cuda-ecosystem
Last edited by Shmerl on 28 Feb 2025 at 4:28 pm UTC
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The RX 9070 would've been real good for $500 but unfortunately AMD decided to turn it into an upsell for RX 9070 XT and charge $550 instead.
The RX 9070 XT's price is good. No need to change.
The RX 9070 XT's price is good. No need to change.
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Looks great even though I was hoping for a model with 24GB or even 32GB of vRAM.
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walther von stolzing 2 minutes ago
The price difference is kind of odd indeed.
From GamersNexus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe50byQGG0
It's nice for the folks who can afford it, I guess.
From GamersNexus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe50byQGG0
It's nice for the folks who can afford it, I guess.
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