AMD is releasing the primary detailed specs of its next-generation Radeon RX 9070 sequence GPUs and the RDNA4 graphics structure immediately, nearly two months after teasing them at CES.
The brief model is that these are each upper-midrange graphics playing cards concentrating on resolutions of 1440p and 4K and meant to compete primarily with Nvidia’s incoming and outgoing 4070- and 5070-series GeForce GPUs, together with the RTX 4070, RTX 5070, RTX 4070 Ti and Ti Tremendous, and the RTX 5070 Ti.
AMD says the RX 9070 will begin at $549, the identical value as Nvidia’s RTX 5070. The marginally sooner 9070 XT begins at $599, $149 lower than the RTX 5070 Ti. The playing cards go on sale March 6, a day after Nvidia’s RTX 5070.
Neither Nvidia nor Intel has managed to maintain its GPUs in shops at their introduced beginning costs up to now, although, so how nicely AMD’s pricing stacks as much as Nvidia in the true world might take a number of weeks or months to settle out. For its half, AMD says it is assured that it has sufficient provide to satisfy demand, however that is as particular as the corporate’s reassurances received.
Specs and speeds: Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT
| RX 9070 XT | RX 9070 | RX 7900 XTX | RX 7900 XT | RX 7900 GRE | RX 7800 XT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute items (Stream processors) | 64 RDNA4 (4,096) | 56 RDNA4 (3,584) | 96 RDNA3 (6,144) | 84 RDNA3 (5,376) | 80 RDNA3 (5,120) | 60 RDNA3 (3,840) |
| Enhance Clock | 2,970 MHz | 2,520 MHz | 2,498 MHz | 2,400 MHz | 2,245 MHz | 2,430 MHz |
| Reminiscence Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Reminiscence Bandwidth | 650 GB/s | 650 GB/s | 960 GB/s | 800 GB/s | 576 GB/s | 624 GB/s |
| Reminiscence measurement | 16GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | 24GB GDDR6 | 20GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 |
| Whole board energy (TBP) | 304 W | 220 W | 355 W | 315 W | 260 W | 263 W |
As is implied by their comparable value tags, the 9070 and 9070 XT have extra in frequent than not. Each are primarily based on the identical GPU die—the 9070 has 56 of the chip’s compute items enabled, whereas the 9070 XT has 64. Each playing cards include 16GB of RAM (4GB greater than the 5070, the identical quantity because the 5070 Ti) on a 256-bit reminiscence bus, and each use two 8-pin energy connectors by default, although the 9070 XT can use considerably extra energy than the 9070 (304 W, in comparison with 220 W).
AMD says that its companions are free to make Radeon playing cards with the 12VHPWR or 12V-2×6 energy connectors on them, although given the apparently ongoing issues with the connector, we would count on most Radeon GPUs to stay with the identified amount that’s the 8-pin connector.
AMD says that the 9070 sequence is made utilizing a 4 nm TSMC manufacturing course of and that the chips are monolithic reasonably than being cut up up into chiplets as some RX 7000-series playing cards had been. AMD’s dedication to its reminiscence controller chiplets was all the time hit and miss with the 7000-series—the high-end playing cards tended to make use of them, whereas the lower-end GPUs had been normally monolithic—so it isn’t clear by hook or by crook whether or not this implies AMD is giving up on chiplet-based GPUs altogether or if it is simply not utilizing them this time round.