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- AMD is supposedly launching the next generation RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPU
- Previous rumors suggested that these would be the RX 8000 series
- The yield is said to be slightly slower than the previous chatter from the vine
Noises around AMDNext-gen GPUs went into overdrive this past weekend, and we learned that these RDNA 4 graphics cards it may not be the RX 8000 series as previously thought – and we’ve been treated to even more speculation about price and performance.
Therefore, the theory now is that AMD will launch an RX 9070 XT, as first marked by an editor at Chiphell, which was pointed out by HXL on X. This will presumably be the top RDNA 4 GPU, previously rumored to be the RX 8800 XT.
It will come alongside a vanilla RX 9070 as a lower-level offering, if another presence in X – All Wattsa name we are not familiar with in the noise scene – that’s right. I believe that the RX 9070 XT will be slightly slower than the current 7900 XT, and that the RX 9070 plan will be almost equivalent to the performance of the 7800 XT.
All Watts has also spilled some alleged price ranges, and it seems that AMD is around $449 to $649 (in the US) for Navi 48 graphics cards, which will put the RX 9070 XT at that level of $650 or more, and plan RX 9070 maybe at $ 550 to $ 600. Everything feels very vague, however – we are also told that by dropping a chip, the Navi GPUs 44 will range in price from $179 to $349 (RX 9060 models and under, presumably).
Another regular X rumormonger, Hoang Anh Phu, also shared that the RX 9070 XT is coming to CES 2025, where AMD is said to have revealed RDNA 4 – and that FSR 4 will debut alongside him (plus a lot of other stuff, tooin theory).
Finally, Hoang Anh Phu too claimed that a rendering of a GPU that appeared in an official AMD announcement is supposedly a reference design for one of AMD’s next-generation graphics cards. Season that, and all this chatter, freely, of course.
It is also worth noting that All The Watts reports that there will also be mobile 9070 variants, which would not be a surprise, but that we may still get some new GPUs for the current RDNA 3 range, namely the RX 7750 and 7650. In particular it could be an interesting addition for more affordable GPUs (hopefully).
(VideoCardz spotted all these different places, by the way, so four hat tips go way – 1, 2, 3, 4).
Analysis: Turning it up to 9070?
There’s been a lot of spillage recently around AMD’s next-gen GPUs, and it looks like the RX 9070 XT and 9070 might actually happen. The story is that this was a late change from AMD regarding the naming of the new generation, since until recently, Team Red was going to run with RX 8000 as it had been stated via the rumor.
Why change the name? Well, in some ways, the switch to RX 9070 does that trick of making it look “better” than Nvidiathe graphics card of the xx70 class, which this time will be the RTX 5070 (and 5070 You, apparently). So, your mid-range choices early next year could be the RTX 5070 (Ti) or RX 9070 (XT), so the bigger number must be better, right?
It is this type Spinal tap (returning to 11) marketing thinking, we assume (if it happens) – and it is interesting to note that instead of the 9700 XT, it is the 9070 XT. (Although this will help avoid confusion with AMD’s Ryzen CPU names, to be fair, and the Ryzen 9700X – but it still seems a lot to “outdo” Nvidia).
The other reason could be that – again, according to the rumors – AMD is looking to switch from the RDNA brand entirely after this next generation of graphics cards. We will not have RDNA 5, in other words, but UDNA, the “U” which means unified since this architecture is supposed to bring together CDNA (data center) and RDNA (gaming) under one umbrella.
If that happens, then AMD is likely to move away from the RX x000 naming route entirely, which would make sense rather than going with RX 10000 – which won’t work after RX 9000, of course. In other words, the move to UDNA effectively frees up the RX 9000 name for this generation – so why aren’t they using it now? We’re just engaging in pure speculation here, mind you, but this makes us think it’s perhaps a bit more likely that UDNA, not RDNA 5, will come next on AMD’s GPU path.
As for the performance levels mentioned above for the RX 9070 XT and 9070, they will probably come as a bit of a disappointment. The previous hope was that the RDNA 4 top dog GPU might be a bit faster than the 7900 XT, and it is apparently a bit slower according to All The Watts – but be particularly skeptical here.
Also, we’re assuming it’s rasterization (non-ray-tracing performance), and for ray-tracing graphics, AMD supposedly has a much bigger jump in frame rates ready for us, or so other rumors have suggested.
