AMD RADEON RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 FINAL SPECS

pricing and availability

Laurent

Today (28th of February), AMD unveiled the specs, MSRP and actual launch date of their highly awaited RX 9000 series gaming centric graphics cards.

AMD official RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT launch event ( CHINA, 28th of February 2025)

FULL CONFIRMED SPECS

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series
Laurent’s CHOICE AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT AMD Radeon™ RX 9070
Reference design render
(will not go on sale)
Architecture RDNA™ 4 RDNA™ 4
Manufacturing Process 4nm 4nm
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 53.9 billion
Die Size 357 mm² 357 mm²
Compute Units 64 56
Ray Accelerators 64 56
AI Accelerators 128 112
Stream Processors 4096 3584
Game GPU Clock 2400 MHz 2070 MHz
Boost GPU Clock Up to 2970 MHz Up to 2520 MHz
Peak Single Precision Throughput Up to 48.7 TFLOPS Up to 36.1 TFLOPS
Peak Half Precision Throughput Up to 97.3 TFLOPS Up to 72.3 TFLOPS
Peak INT8 AI TOPS Throughput Up to 779 TOPS w/ Sparsity Up to 578 TOPS w/ Sparsity
Peak INT4 AI TOPS Throughput Up to 1557 TOPS w/ Sparsity Up to 1156 TOPS w/ Sparsity
Peak Texture Fill-Rate Up to 730.3 GT/s Up to 564.5 GT/s
Peak Pixel Fill-Rate Up to 190.1 GP/s Up to 161.3 GP/s
ROPS 128 128
AMD Infinity Cache™ 64 MB (3rd. Gen.) 64 MB (3rd. Gen.)
Memory 16GB GDDR6 16GB GDDR6
Memory Speed 20 Gbps 20 Gbps
Memory Bus Interface 256-bit 256-bit
PCIe® Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Total Board Power 304 W 220 W
Recommended Power Supply 750W 650W
Display Connectors HDMI 2.1b
DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR13.5		 HDMI 2.1b
DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR13.5

PERFORMANCE UPDATE

As previously thought, AMD has confirmed the RX 9070 XT 42% performance increase when compared to its predecessor, the RX 7900 GRE.

EARLY PRICING & AVAILIBILITY

Despite a reassuring official MSRP set at 549 USD and 599 USD (exc. VAT) for the RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT respectively, early leaks show an all different reality.

MicroCenter, the US physical PC component leader in the US, will be listing the  RX 5070 at 649 USD and the RX 9070 XT at 699 USD. A hundred dollar immediate price inflation upon launch.

The retail price increase of AMD’s RX 9070 (XT) new cards is a direct consequence of NVIDIA’s shortage and systemic stock failing. Retailers will try to capitalize on the shortage of NVIDIA’s new generation PCIe 5.0 graphics cards, and try to replace them with AMD’s incoming cards, which despite not being as performant, have a better availability.

The cards will be available for online order and physical pick-up in the US on the 6th of March and are already available for pre-order on the Chinese market.

IS IT WORTH IT?

The RX 9070 XT performances are no where near NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 Ti. In general and as covered a couple days ago, the RX 9070 XT shows 22% less FPS than its NVIDIA’s natural competition. But it will be available and despite the inflated price, remains well below the RTX 5070 Ti real-life pricing which is anywhere between 900 to the-sky-is-the-limit USD.

RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 as seen at the CES 2025

In short AMD, despite a subpar product, is positioned to heavily benefit from NVIDIA’s inability to control its pricing, card availability and manufacturing process (several specs inconsistency have been plaguing the RTX 5000 launch).

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