AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT: On February 28, 2025, AMD will reveal their newest graphics card, the Radeon RX 9070 XT. Recent leaks have given the tech community great expectations by offering a thorough look at the card’s specs (price of $549/ Rs 47,589).
Leaked Specifications
According to a GPU-Z screenshot shared by HKEPC, the RX 9070 XT is expected to feature:
- GPU Architecture: Navi 48 RDNA 4
- Stream Processors: 4,096
- Base Clock Speed: 2.4 GHz
- Boost Clock Speed: Up to 3.1 GHz
- Memory: 16 GB GDDR6
- Memory Bus Width: 256-bit
- Memory Bandwidth: 644 GB/s
- Ray Tracing Cores: 64
- Power Consumption: 260W
- Display Outputs: 1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1
Based on these specs, the RX 9070 XT seems like it’s going to be a serious threat to other high-performance GPUs on the market.
RDNA 4: FSR 4: Architecture
Built on AMD’s next-generation RDNA 4 architecture, which stresses increased ray tracing capabilities and powerful artificial intelligence features, the RX 9070 XT This architecture presents ideal Compute Units meant to provide exceptional performance in both professional and gaming contexts.
Furthermore supported by the card will be FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), AMD’s first machine-learning-based upscaling technique. Using AI accelerator cores from the second generation, FSR 4 claims to improve visual quality and frame rate, making for a far better gaming experience overall. Especially, FSR 4 will premiere under the most awaited Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Market Positioning and Competition
Regarding availability, AMD has stated that early March 2025 will make the RX 9070, along with its brother, accessible. With the RTX 50-series from NVIDIA also expected to hit the market around the same time, AMD will be in a strong position to compete. Particularly, AMD was able to introduce its Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT cards on February 28 without competition since NVIDIA postponed the release of its RTX 5070 graphics card until March 5.
Although the RTX 5070 is delayed, NVIDIA will unveil the RTX 5070 Ti for $749 on February 20. With a much cheaper price of $549/ Rs 47,589, NVIDIA promises the RTX 5070 can equal the performance of their premium RTX 4090.
The new AMD cards aim for performance levels comparable to the 4070 Ti and 4070 Super from NVIDIA, but NVIDIA may change its approach whenever it needs to thanks to its vast profitability. Rumour has it that AMD is working on a 32GB RAM card, which would be much more powerful than the current offering.
Conclusion
The tech world is excitedly awaiting comprehensive knowledge on the performance parameters, price, and availability of the RX 9070 XT as the February 28 announcement gets ready.
The RX 9070 XT has all the makings of a formidable rival for the next generation of graphics cards, thanks to its impressive set of features and technological improvements.