- AMD is reportedly launching next-gen RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs
- Previous rumors suggested this would be the RX 8000 series
- Performance is rumored to be a bit slower than previous rumors.
Rumors about AMD’s next-gen GPUs intensified last weekend and we learned that these RDNA 4 graphics cards may not be the RX 8000 series as previously thought, and we’ve received more speculation about the price and the performance. , also.
So the theory now is that AMD is going to release an RX 9070 XT, as first noted by an editor at Chiphell, which HXL at X pointed out. This will supposedly be the top RDNA 4 GPU, which was previously rumored to be. the RX 8800 XT.
It will come alongside a base RX 9070 as a lower-tier offering, if another presence in X (All The Watts, a name we’re not familiar with in the rumor scene) is correct. They believe the RX 9070 XT will be slightly slower than the current 7900
All The Watts also revealed some alleged price ranges, and it looks like AMD is looking at between $449 and $649 (in the US) for the Navi 48 graphics cards, which will put the RX 9070 XT in that price range. $650 or so, and the simple RX 9070 maybe between $550 and $600. However, it all seems very vague: they also tell us that, by including a chip, Navi 44 GPUs will be priced between $179 and $349 (RX 9060 models and below, presumably).
Another regular X rumormonger, Hoang Anh Phu, also shared that the RX 9070 . , also in theory).
Finally, Hoang Anh Phu also claimed that a rendering of a GPU that appeared in an official AMD advertisement is supposedly a reference design for one of AMD’s next-generation graphics cards. Season that and all this talk, generously, of course.
It’s also worth noting that All The Watts believes there will also be mobile variants of the 9070, which wouldn’t be a surprise, but we may also get some new GPUs for the current RDNA 3 range, namely the RX 7750 and 7650. This one Last in particular, it could be an interesting addition for more affordable GPUs (hopefully).
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Analysis: Raise it to 9070?
There have been a lot of rumors in a very short time about AMD’s next-generation GPUs, and it looks like the RX 9070 XT and 9070 could really be happening. The story is that this was a late change from AMD in terms of next-gen names, as until recently, Team Red was going to run with the RX 8000 as had been claimed through rumors.
Why change the name? Well, in some ways, the move to the RX 9070 does the trick of making it look “better” than Nvidia’s xx70-class graphics card, which this time will be the RTX 5070 (and apparently 5070 Ti). So your mid-range options early next year could be the RTX 5070 (Ti) or the RX 9070 (XT), so the higher number must be better, right?
It’s that kind of lumbar puncture (turning it up to 11) marketing thinking, we assume (if it happens), and it’s interesting to note that instead of the 9700 XT, it’s the 9070 XT. (Although that will help avoid confusion with the names of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, to be fair, and the Ryzen 9700X, but it also seems very much aimed at “overtaking” Nvidia.)
The other reason could be that, again, according to rumors, AMD is looking to move away from the RDNA brand completely after this next generation of graphics cards. In other words, we won’t have RDNA 5, but rather UDNA, the ‘U’ meaning unified, as this architecture will supposedly bring together CDNA (data center) and RDNA (gaming) under one umbrella.
If that happens, then AMD will likely abandon the RX x000 name route altogether, which would make sense instead of going with the RX 10000, which doesn’t work after the RX 9000, of course. In other words, the move to UDNA effectively frees up the RX 9000 name for this generation, so why not use it now? We’re just engaging in pure speculation, but this makes us think that perhaps it’s a little more likely that UDNA, not RDNA 5, is next on AMD’s GPU roadmap.
As for the performance levels mentioned above for the RX 9070 XT and 9070, they are probably a bit disappointing. The previous hope was that the leading RDNA 4 GPU might be a little faster than the 7900 XT, and apparently it is a little slower according to All The Watts, but be particularly skeptical about that.
Additionally, we’re assuming this is rasterization (non-ray-traced performance), and for ray-traced graphics, AMD supposedly has a much bigger jump in frame rates in store for us, or so other rumors have suggested.
