- AMD is supposedly launching RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 subsequent-gen GPUs
- Earlier rumors urged these might maybe be the RX 8000 series
- Performance is rumored to be a small bit slower than previous chatter from the grapevine
Rumors round AMD’s subsequent-gen GPUs maintain gone into overdrive this previous weekend, and we’ve realized that these RDNA 4 graphics playing cards might maybe well no longer be the RX 8000 series as beforehand thought – and we’ve been handled to further speculation on mark and performance, too.
So, the speculation now is that AMD is going to originate an RX 9070 XT, as first flagged up by an editor on Chiphell, which became as soon as pointed out by HXL on X. This might maybe well maybe well supposedly be the discontinue RDNA 4 GPU, beforehand rumored to be the RX 8800 XT.
It’ll attain alongside a vanilla RX 9070 as a lower-tier offering, if another presence on X – All The Watts, a title we’re no longer accustomed to in the rumor scene – is appropriate. They maintain about that the RX 9070 XT shall be rather slower than the hot 7900 XT, and that the undeniable RX 9070 shall be about identical to the performance of the 7800 XT.
All The Watts spilled some purported mark ranges, too, and it looks AMD is having a watch at round $449 to $649 (in the US) for the Navi Forty eight graphics playing cards, which will keep the RX 9070 XT at that $650 or so level, and the undeniable RX 9070 likely at $550 to $600. All of it feels very imprecise, though – we’re additionally instructed that losing down a chip, Navi 44 GPUs will differ in mark from $179 to $349 (RX 9060 devices and downwards, presumably).
One other regular rumor peddler on X, Hoang Anh Phu, additionally shared that the RX 9070 XT is coming at CES 2025, the build AMD is rumored to be revealing RDNA 4 – and that FSR 4 will debut alongside it (plus a total bunch of different stuff, too, in opinion).
At closing, Hoang Anh Phu additionally claimed that a render of a GPU that cropped up in an legit AMD advert is supposedly a reference do for even handed one of the crucial following-gen graphics playing cards from AMD. Season that, and all of this chatter, liberally, for sure.
It’s price further noting that All The Watts reckons there’ll be cell 9070 variants too, which might maybe well be no shock, but that shall we also get some original GPUs for the hot RDNA 3 differ, namely the RX 7750 and 7650. The latter notably is more likely to be a spell binding addition for more cheap GPUs (optimistically).
(VideoCardz spotted all these various posts, by the methodology, so a hefty four hat pointers goes their methodology – 1, 2, 3, 4).
Prognosis: Turning it as much as 9070?
There’s been a form of spillage in a in actuality fast time round AMD’s subsequent-gen GPUs, and it looks the RX 9070 XT and 9070 also can in actuality be taking place. The tale is that this became as soon as a late swap from AMD by methodology of subsequent-gen naming, as unless currently, Team Crimson became as soon as going to toddle with RX 8000 as had been claimed via the rumor mill.
Why swap the title? Smartly, in rather a lot of how, the commerce to RX 9070 performs that trick of making it appear ‘better’ than Nvidia’s xx70 class graphics card, which this time round shall be the RTX 5070 (and 5070 Ti, interestingly). So, your mid-differ selections early subsequent year is more likely to be the RTX 5070 (Ti) or RX 9070 (XT), so the bigger quantity ought to be better, appropriate?
It’s that more or much less Spinal Tap (turning it as much as 11) marketing and marketing thinking, we think (if it occurs) – and it’s arresting to conceal that in build of the 9700 XT, it’s the 9070 XT. (Even supposing that’ll support steer definite of bewilderment with AMD’s Ryzen CPU names, to be beautiful, and the Ryzen 9700X – but it does appear angling very extraordinary in the direction of ‘outplaying’ Nvidia too).
The different motive is more likely to be that – over again, in step with rumors – AMD is having a watch to swap away from the RDNA brand fully after this subsequent technology of graphics playing cards. We won’t maintain RDNA 5, in other words, but UDNA, the ‘U’ which plan unified as this architecture will supposedly elevate collectively CDNA (facts heart) and RDNA (gaming) below one umbrella.
If that occurs, then AMD’s more likely to pass off the RX x000 naming path fully, which might maybe well maybe well create sense in build of gallop with RX 10000 – which doesn’t work after RX 9000, for sure. In other words, the pass to UDNA successfully frees up the RX 9000 title for this technology – so why no longer exhaust it now? We’re simply finishing up pure speculation here, mind, but this makes us mediate it’s likely a small bit more likely that UDNA, no longer RDNA 5, comes subsequent on AMD’s GPU roadmap.
As for the performance stages mentioned above for the RX 9070 XT and 9070, they’ll potentially attain as a small little bit of a disappointment. The previous hope became as soon as that the RDNA 4 top canine GPU in overall is a small bit faster than the 7900 XT, and it’s apparently rather slower in step with All The Watts – but be notably skeptical there.
Furthermore, we think that here is talking about rasterization (non-ray tracing performance), and for ray-traced graphics, AMD supposedly has a extraordinary bigger jump in frame charges prepared for us, or so other rumors maintain urged.
