AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Announced

AMD is announcing two new GPUs as part of the new AMD Radeon RX 9000 family that will be available on March 6, 2025. The new GPUs bring with them AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture and are set to be a cost-competitive GPU option. We wish there was a bit more than 16GB of memory as an option, however.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Announced

Here are the specs on the new GPUs. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the higher-end part while the RX 9070 is the lower spec part of the two.

AMD has the new RDNA 4 architecture with its new generation compute unit.

RGNA also has the company’s 3rd generation raytracing accelerators.

It also has the company’s 2nd Gen AI accelerators with features like FP8 formats and faster performance.

AMD says the new GPUs are faster than the RX 7900 series. The Creator AI performance may not seem like a big deal, but those features are being released at a very quick pace.

AMD is pushing Generative AI even on its consumer gaming GPUs because it is becoming a bigger part of the computing paradigm.

AMD is also working on optimizing models for its GPUs.

Another feature beyond the AI performance, generational gaming performance gains, and such is an enhanced media engine.

AMD did not give pricing, but it seems to be launching between the RX 7900 GRE and the RX 7900 XT. Edit: The AMD Radeon RX 7090 has a $549 MSRP while the Radeon RX 7090 XT has a $599 MSRP. For our money, we are strongly looking at the RX 9070 XT.

That should make it a neatly priced set of GPUs.

Final Words

We are still about a week or so away from the availability of the Radeon RX 9070 GPUs. We should get an update on performance around the launch. Still, it is important that AMD is a strong competitor to NVIDIA across GPU segments to keep driving competition in the market.