AMD to unveil RX 9000 series February 28, leaked specs and prices emerge

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Highly anticipated: Following a brief introduction at CES and weeks of anticipation, AMD has confirmed when it will reveal technical specifications and launch details for the first Radeon RX 9000 graphics cards. The announcement came on the same day that Nvidia set the final launch dates for its competing mid-range RTX 50 series GPUs, setting up a face-off.

David McAfee, the vice president and general manager of AMD's graphics division, has confirmed that the company will stream a full unveiling of its upcoming Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards on February 28 at 8 AM Eastern. Recent leaks indicate that the 9070 XT likely utilizes the full Navi 48 die but might cost around $700.

AMD previously confirmed that it plans to release the first RX 9000 GPUs, likely the 9070 and 9070 XT, in early March. The company aims to provide 4K gaming at mainstream prices. Applying current exchange rates to leaked prices from a Canadian retailer suggests that the former might start at $599 and the latter at $699.

If the numbers aren't placeholders, the RX 9070 XT will significantly undercut Nvidia's $749 RTX 5070 Ti, which launches on February 20. However, the standard 9070 would land slightly above Team Green's 5070, set for a May 5 launch.

What consumers get for that price difference remains unclear. IT magazine HKEPC recently acquired a CPU-Z snapshot of the RX 9070 XT that suggests it utilizes the Navi 48 GPU's full specifications: 4,096 cores, a 3.1GHz boost clock, 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a 256-bit memory bus, and 644 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

An early Call of Duty benchmark at CES suggests that AMD's cards might trade blows with the 5070 family in rasterization performance. Additionally, AMD's FSR 4 upscaling tech looks poised to bring the image quality of all FSR 3.1-compatible games in line with Nvidia DLSS. However, Team Red must still prove it can catch up in ray tracing performance.

Users worried that 16GB of VRAM might be insufficient placed hope in recent information suggesting that AMD was preparing a 32GB version of the 9070 XT. Unfortunately, AMD's Frank Azor shot down the rumor.

Mainstream GPUs like Nvidia's RTX 5060 series and AMD's 9060 family are also on the horizon. Little is known about them, but the 5060 Ti will likely have 8GB and 16GB variants, while the standard 5060 will only include 8GB.

Additionally, AMD confirmed that it has no plans for discrete RX 9000 laptop graphics cards. If the company's RDNA 4 architecture appears in future laptops, it may be limited to integrated GPUs.

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AMD to unveil RX 9000 series February 28, leaked specs and prices emerge

 
Frank Azor said the pricing will PLEASE and they are doing a 70 Class GPU...

There is no way the MSRP is 700$.

This is a place holder from Canada Computers.

AMD didn't disclose pricing to anyone yet.
 
Daniel Sims said:
If the numbers aren't placeholders, the RX 9070 XT will significantly undercut Nvidia's $749 RTX 5070 Ti.
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In what world is a 6.6% discount significant?!?

The 9070 XT would have to match the 5080 in RT and exceed it raster to not be DOA at $700.

I hope this is a retailer guess (which -$50 is a good one historically) because I doubt the 9070 XT will be performant enough to support higher than $600 max.
 
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I hope those prices are wrong, because they are way too high. Even at $600, the 9070 XT is going to have to be significantly (at least 20%) faster than the 5070 to get much attention. I think $500 is where they should be if they are serious about getting back market share, but that's probably just wishful thinking.
 
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I am guessing AMD is going to play the same pricing game Nvidia is doing right now; have a relatively low MSRP on the base model cards (that way it looks better in early reviews and marketing) but only have a handful of cards actually available at that price, with most of the product being the higher end, higher margin AIB versions. With how insane the street prices on competing Nvidia cards have gotten AMD can probably add an extra $100 to $200 per card this way and still come out looking good.
 
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The fillrates look kinda.....meh. I mean it's not looking like it'll be any faster than a 7900XT in raster. I guess the ray tracing side is where the improvements needed to be anyway. Ultimately there is no bad GPU, just bad pricing.

If it's 7900XT with better RT, plus FSR4 getting image quality much closer to DLSS then anything under $700 is probably going to be ok for team red fans. Closer to $600 looks far more attractive for everyone else.
 
Good luck getting those new cards at MSRP. I’m not sure why AMD and Nvidia are even bothering to tell us these highly illusory prices.

At $699, the 9070xt will have to be closer to 5080 in terms of overall performance, RT included in order to effectively compete. Somehow I’m not expecting anything than slightly better than 4070 Ti Super raster and, if we’re really, really lucky, slightly better than 4070 Super ray tracing performance. A $50-100 discount down the road which the resellers will ignore for at least half a year, is also something my crystal ball is insisting on showing.

Lo and behold people, a 7000 series launch redux.
 
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What a shame... I was hoping they'd make some form of progress with VRAM capacities.
These cards are useless to me.
 
At this point, MSRP of any kind has become meaningless with card manufacturers wilfully ignoring them....
 
$700 Canadian = $500 USD. So may be the place-holders have doubled the conversion to put out a bit of false info. At $500 USD a 9070XT with 5070Ti performance would be great (totally ruins my RX7800XT price/performance) but I'd take the hit if AMD comes out fighting at that price point).
 
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So users supposedly were worried that the 9070 xt with 16GB of vram wouldnt be enough even though the RTX 5070 tier has 16Gb or less???
 
ScottSoapbox said:
In what world is a 6.6% discount significant?!?

The 9070 XT would have to match the 5080 in RT and exceed it raster to not be DOA at $700.

I hope this is a retailer guess (which -$50 is a good one historically) because I doubt the 9070 XT will be performant enough to support higher than $600 max.
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Currently Nvidia cards are selling for like 300-400 Euros more than the MSRP in Europe. RTX 5080 starts at 1400 Euros, with low stock. Nvidia's artificial stock bottleneck causes higher than MSRP prices in EU. I don't know about US. If AMD can offer enough supply with a good enough product, they may get some sales even at these prices.
 
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$700 Canadian = $500 USD. So may be the place-holders have doubled the conversion to put out a bit of false info. At $500 USD a 9070XT with 5070Ti performance would be great (totally ruins my RX7800XT price/performance) but I'd take the hit if AMD comes out fighting at that price point).
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The cheapest 9070xt on those screenshots is 1099 Canadian which at today’s rate is 775.12 US$.
So…no, not really. If the 9070xt launches at this price it should be significantly better than the 5070Ti, and close to 5080 levels of performance in order to be competitive.
God knows… perhaps AMD’s new cards will indeed be that good in performance, but I’m not holding my breath.
 
meric said:
Currently Nvidia cards are selling for like 300-400 Euros more than the MSRP in Europe. RTX 5080 starts at 1400 Euros, with low stock. Nvidia's artificial stock bottleneck causes higher than MSRP prices in EU. I don't know about US. If AMD can offer enough supply with a good enough product, they may get some sales even at these prices.
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You are right, of course. And instead of feeling good about their purchase the consumer will retain his right to grumble.

Not a great thing… if I’m honest. Also not particularly great for grabbing market share from the green team.
 
Those are not the MSRP prices, those are the prices some Vendors might be charging for their 3 slot OP cards.

Both Consumer and Vendors are going to like the prices of these cards.
 
BogdanR said:
The cheapest 9070xt on those screenshots is 1099 Canadian which at today’s rate is 775.12 US$.
So…no, not really. If the 9070xt launches at this price it should be significantly better than the 5070Ti, and close to 5080 levels of performance in order to be competitive.
God knows… perhaps AMD’s new cards will indeed be that good in performance, but I’m not holding my breath.
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A lot of it depends on what the street prices of 5070 TI end up at; the 5080 which is supposed to start at $999 MSRP is actually selling for more like $1300 to $1400 if you can find one. Its not hard to imagine the 5070 TI ending up at like $1100 to $1200 when available, in which case $775 for the 9070 XT starts looking more appealing (assuming similar raster, modestly slower RT).
 
The company aims to provide 4K gaming at mainstream prices.
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4k native (no upscaling), ultra settings, 60 FPS. Do that for $700 or less, then AMD has a real chance against Nvidia. I am so tired of all the Ray Tracing and DLSS BS. You don't need all that AI hardware to experience top level gaming, it just adds cost and complexity. I sure hope that AMD gets there stuff together on this release.
 
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Dreadcthulhu said:
A lot of it depends on what the street prices of 5070 TI end up at; the 5080 which is supposed to start at $999 MSRP is actually selling for more like $1300 to $1400 if you can find one. Its not hard to imagine the 5070 TI ending up at like $1100 to $1200 when available, in which case $775 for the 9070 XT starts looking more appealing (assuming similar raster, modestly slower RT).
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You are strangely believing you will find the AMD cards anywhere close to the MRSP, are you? Do you feel like betting the card manufacturers/ retailers will tack at least $150-200 to that? I’ll say they will. What say you?
 
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Good luck getting those new cards at MSRP. I’m not sure why AMD and Nvidia are even bothering to tell us these highly illusory prices.

At $699, the 9070xt will have to be closer to 5080 in terms of overall performance, RT included in order to effectively compete. Somehow I’m not expecting anything than slightly better than 4070 Ti Super raster and, if we’re really, really lucky, slightly better than 4070 Super ray tracing performance. A $50-100 discount down the road which the resellers will ignore for at least half a year, is also something my crystal ball is insisting on showing.

Lo and behold people, a 7000 series launch redux.
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Why does a $700 AMD card have to match a $1200+ Nvidia card in performance? No way I'd accept that if I were AMD. There are some benchmarks of it reaching the 4080 in some scenarios. If it's a 4080 at $700, that's excellent. I was excited when I thought it was "only" a more efficient 7900 XT at $600.

Where it's being marketed as a cheaper alternative to a 5070 Ti, I'd like to see AMD get $650 for it. Last week I just picked up a 7900 XT for $650 as "insurance". That's my price they have to beat (either in price or performance), and of course, be attainable.
 
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Those are not the MSRP prices, those are the prices some Vendors might be charging for their 3 slot OP cards.

Both Consumer and Vendors are going to like the prices of these cards.
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This coming from where? Your "insider" knowledge? Aren't you the same person who said that this series of GPUs was going to smoke Nvidia in the high end GPU market?

AMD's GPU side has become little more than an afterthought as they continue to profit from their CPU side...
 
PaladinNH said:
Why does a $700 AMD card have to match a $1200+ Nvidia card in performance? No way I'd accept that if I were AMD. There are some benchmarks of it reaching the 4080 in some scenarios. If it's a 4080 at $700, that's excellent. I was excited when I thought it was "only" a more efficient 7900 XT at $600.

Where it's being marketed as a cheaper alternative to a 5070 Ti, I'd like to see AMD get $650 for it. Last week I just picked up a 7900 XT for $650 as "insurance". That's my price they have to beat (either in price or performance), and of course, be attainable.
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It looks more like a $775 AMD which slots it between the $750 5070Ti and the $1000 5080 by the looks of those screenshots.

If we’re talking strictly MSRP, then we’re talking about $700 5070xt vs the $750 5070Ti. If that’s the case and the AMD is around the same performance level overall, then there’s not much incentive for AMD cardsto fly off the shelves other than a lack of Nvidia cards in the next shelf in the store. Plus, the average Moe will gladly pay even $100-150 more for Nvidia’s “advanced” features, because they are supposed to be “the best” no?

So, even at $700 MSRP the 5070xt will have to be closer to 4080 Super/ 5080 in terms of performance to make it a really good deal. And AMD should aim for that unparalleled price/ performance ratio if they want to gain any market share.

As for myself, I spot a 6800 which I got for a pretty good price in 2023. I really like it and serves my gaming and photography pretty well so I would love to pick up a 9070xt and relegate that 6800 to Media Center use (itself replacing an old 1080 which served me with distinction).
 
meric said:
Currently Nvidia cards are selling for like 300-400 Euros more than the MSRP in Europe. RTX 5080 starts at 1400 Euros, with low stock. Nvidia's artificial stock bottleneck causes higher than MSRP prices in EU. I don't know about US. If AMD can offer enough supply with a good enough product, they may get some sales even at these prices.
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It's a fair point that Nvidia's MSRP are a fantasy at this point, but unless reviewers start factoring that into the performance/price graphs they could easily get bad (or at least tepid) reviews for being too closely priced to the competition.
 
Squid Surprise said:
This coming from where? Your "insider" knowledge? Aren't you the same person who said that this series of GPUs was going to smoke Nvidia in the high end GPU market?

AMD's GPU side has become little more than an afterthought as they continue to profit from their CPU side...
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AMD didn't disclosed their prices with anyone yet!

Stop acting like an emotional train wreck...

In the meantime, the pricing of the 5070TI is at 900$ at Microcenter.
 
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