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AMD has just taken the fight to Nvidia with its pricing for the RX 9070-series and I'm here for it

Competition is significant. Nvidia has been the dominant force in GPUs for some time now, and. AMD has felt like it's been on the backfoot, struggling to keep up. And while I'm not saying that AMD has now miraculously gained the upper hand, it just showcased a pair of mid-range graphics cards with impressive claimed performance figures in the middle of an Nvidia RTX 50-series supply shortage—for much more reasonable money than we might have expected.

$599 for the RX 9070 XT and. $549 for the RX 9070. Not insignificant sums, no doubt, but significantly lower than we were otherwise fearing. And price matters, especially when it comes to the mid-range market.

That comes with a promise of "wide availability". Which really is key if AMD wants to make a dent in Nvidia's enviable GPU market share. It's extremely difficult to get hold of an RTX 50-series GPU right now for reasonable money, or indeed, at all.

And while the performance we've seen so far from the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti has been relatively impressive (primarily due to the benefits of DLSS 4's Multi Frame Generation), a set of performant. Mid-range, reasonably priced cards from its biggest competition could shake things up in the GPU market in all the right ways.

Of course, that DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation benefit is not an easy thing to sweep away. While the new AMD cards were presented alongside FSR 4 (now enhanced with machine learning) and AFMF for frame rate enhancing bolt-ons, it doesn't look like it's going to be able to bump up the smoothness of your games to quite the same extent.

Nor is it likely to achieve the same image quality as DLSS 4 in one bite of the machine learning cherry.

But the raw specifications for the new AMD cards make all the right noises. While we're technically looking at a small number of CUs compared to some of the previous generation RDNA 3 cards (64 for the RX 9070 XT and 56 for the RX 9070), AMD is making a big deal of the claimed improvements to the RDNA 4 versions, alongside some beefed up RT accelerators for much-improved ray tracing performance and some very healthy-looking boost clocks.

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AMD's performance implies are significant. Too. While we've only got the RX 7900 GRE to compare the standard-edition cards to for now (and the usual percentage-based bar graph, not raw frame rate numbers), it's not like AMD's RDNA 3-based upper mid-range card is slow, and the RX 9070 XT looks to give it a bit of a thrashing in a variety of games at both 4K and. 1440p.

AMD also showed off an extra slide comparing an overclocked RX 9070 XT to a standard RTX 5070 Ti, in which it indicates a 2% performance lead on average over the $749 card in 30+ games. It's not exactly an apples to apples comparison, but an impressive claim nonetheless.

In relation to this, these are AMD's own figures. So take them with the appropriate handful of salt. Still, while the RTX 50-series cards have decent raw rasterisation performance on average compared to the RTX 40-series cards, it looks like—on a rough interpretation of AMD's own figures—that the RX 9000-series cards might give Nvidia's offerings a run for their money, especially once you factor in performance per dollar.

We haven't tested the RTX 5070 yet. However. That's potentially Nvidia's ace up its sleeve, as not only will it launch for $549 (providing you can get hold of one at MSRP, of course) but. Nvidia proposes it'll deliver a ~20% performance bump over the RTX 4070. Add Multi Frame Generation into the mix, and it may cruise ahead of the RX 9000-series cards thanks to all those AI-generated frames.

On that note: Not everyone is happy with the idea of their future frame rate being largely dependent on AI-based insertions. If raw rasterisation performance matters more to you, then AMD may be in a position to deliver the best raw raster bang for your buck.

That's still speculation at this point. However. We won't know for sure until we strap both AMD and Nvidia's mid-range offerings into our test rigs.

Ultimately though, it's about competition. One enterprise dominating any market is never a good thing for the end consumer, as it lets prices run wild and cuts down on the freedom of choice for the people who matter, in this case, gamers parting with their hard-earned cash.

AMD has just presented a pair of GPUs that may deliver exactly what's needed to shake things up—a set of compelling alternatives for a price that's hard to ignore.

In relation to this, the game is afoot. And I can't wait to see how it all plays out. While AMD is very unlikely to take a massive chunk out of Nvidia's market share in a single generation, it's this exact sort of one-two punch that might give it a bloody nose and. Help move things towards a more even footing in years to come. We'll see, but the early signs are promising, at the very least.

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'Infused with AMD DNA': FSR 4 has been announced with a healthy dose of machine learning and support for 30+ games at launch

After months of speculation we've finally had our first look at AMD's next generation RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs. But the fun doesn't stop there, as AMD has also taken this opportunity to tell us more about FSR 4, the latest version of its previously compute-based upscaler.

The headline news here is that it's finally getting a much needed machine learning infusion that AMD proposes will boost image quality significantly—but, as we found out back in January, much like Nvidia's RTX 50-series-dependent DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation you'll need a brand new card to use it.

Both the RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT come with fully-fledged. Matrix operation-supported AI accelerators, and it's these that are required to power FSR 4. AMD says the machine learning upscaling models have been trained on AMD Instinct data center GPUs, and are accelerated by RDNA 4's architecture to deliver much improved image quality.

DLSS has long been admired for its machine learning-based approach, and. Previous versions of FSR have paled in comparison to its remarkable image quality, particularly at Performance settings. Taking a look at the screenshots provided by AMD, however, it appears that machine learning may have given a similar boost to FSR.

Fine details that FSR often ignores in Performance mode, like the spires in the Space Marine 2 screenshot below. Look much crisper. I'm particularly impressed by the improvements to fine details like the foliage highlighted in the bottom right of the second screenshot, as traditionally FSR has struggled with similar details.

The performance gains look impressive when combined with frame generation. Too. Space Marine 2 running at 4K with FSR set to Performance is noted to gain a massive frame rate uplift—and if the pretty screenshots translate to smooth visuals in motion, well. It looks like many of my previous critiques of FSR may finally be solved.

That's a fairly big 'if', though. I've had a fair bit of experience playing with previous versions of FSR, and all of them have a tendency to introduce a lot of unwanted noise to images in Performance mode that doesn't translate well to screenshots, but. Is fairly obvious when introduced to some fast-paced motion. The proof is in the playing here, so I'll be anxious to see it running for myself when I get a chance to mess around with the new GPUs.

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All of this is somewhat elementary if FSR 4 support isn't included in a large number of games. As we've all got grim memories of FSR 3's two supported releases at launch. This time, however, AMD says that not only are there 30+ games ready for FSR 4 inclusion at launch (including Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, God of War: Ragnarok and Marvel's Spider-Man 2) but over 75 more coming this year.

AMD also says that FSR 4 utilises the upgradeable FSR API, which should help smooth over the transition.

The HYPR-RX suite also includes AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2, which is designed to significantly reduce latency in supported games like Apex Legends. Counter Strike 2, DOTA 2 and Ghost of Tsushima. AMD will even include a latency measuring tool as part of the AMD Adrenaline drive suite. So you can see exactly how much quicker your responses are being registered—although it won't explain why you still keep getting killed so often in-game.

Probably. Anyway, AMD says that with all the HYPR-RX goodies enabled (including AFMF . You'll be getting average performance gains of in 2025 compared to in 2023. Big number goes up, etc, but it's nice to see these useful elements getting upgrades alongside FSR 4.

I mean, it's not quite as big a leap as Multi Frame Generation can provide, but. At least progress seems to be being made on the opposing team.

The real question here is whether FSR 4's alleged improvements translate into increased sales of the RX 9070-series when it becomes available to purchase on March 6. The obvious benefits of Multi Frame Generation have been a huge part of Nvidia's push for gamers to upgrade to the RTX 50-series GPUs, and while AMD still looks a step behind, some much improved upscaling and frame generation tools might help to swing the needle a little further in AMD's direction.

It still feels somewhat behind the pace at this point when compared to the monumental achievements of DLSS, but. As someone that's put up with the, let's say quirks of AMD's previous upscalers, I genuinely can't wait to see whether FSR 4's machine learning upgrades have finally made it a comparable solution. It's not long until I find out, but here's hoping it provides some serious competition, at the very least.

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AMD has officially revealed its RDNA 4-based RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs and they look a lot like RDNA 3, only turbocharged

AMD has finally taken the wraps off of its long-awaited RDNA 4 graphics cards, the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. And, to be honest, it feels like a long time coming. Details have been thin on the ground after a somewhat chaotic half-reveal during CES 2025, but now we've finally received hard details as to what these cards are made of—and a closer look at the shiny new architecture inside.

Well, sort of shiny and. New, at least. It's probably easier to think of RDNA 4 as an evolution of RDNA 3 rather than a quantum leap forward in AMD's GPU architecture, and. That's perhaps not a bad thing. AMD has confirmed once more that the launch is set for March 6, and that the RX 9070 will be priced at $549, and the RX 9070 XT will be $599.

While AMD has been keen to point out that these cards are not designed to compete at the upper end of the market, the pricing here is actually surprisingly competitive for modern mid-range cards. Particularly if they're as performant as AMD says. Anyway, on with the show.

Both the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT are built on TSMC's 4nm process node, resulting in a 357 mm² die roughly the same size as the version used in the RX 7800 XT. But with almost double the transistors: billion in total. However, even with the massively increased transistor count, there's nothing that looks particularly out of the ordinary in the overall architectural view of the die itself—but it's when you dive into the details of the Compute Units that things become interesting.

RDNA 4's CUs initially look much the same as the RDNA 3 versions. With a few key efficiencies thrown into the pot. However, sitting next to each batch of ALUs and TLUs is now a second generation AI accelerator with support for FP8 calculations and enhanced matrix operations, alongside a faster memory subsystem, improved scalar units and dynamic register allocation. Which AMD says all leads to increased efficiency per CU and much higher clock speeds compared to RDNA 3.

RDNA 4 also supports the reordering of shader instructions requesting memory, which should keep those new CUs busy.

Keep an eye on those AI accelerators. They'll come into play later for the latest version of AMD's upscaler, FSR 4, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Back to the down and dirty stuff.

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The CUs are still paired into Dual Compute Units. As per RDNA 3. The RX 9070 XT gets eight per shader engine, with a grand total of 256 ALUs, 32 TLUs, four AI accelerators and. 16 KB scalar cache across them, alongside 32 KB of shader instruction cache and 128 KB of shared memory per compute engine. Sitting at the tail end of our pretty little CU stack we get two ray accelerators a piece, and it's the changes here that AMD seems particularly proud of.

RDNA 3 cards were not known for their ray tracing performance, and. AMD looks to have zeroed in on this deficit to bring a claimed 2x ray traversal performance uplift to RDNA 4. The third generation ray tracing accelerators use "Oriented Bounding Boxes" to reduce the size and complexity of Bounding Volume Hierarchy data, which it says delivers much more efficient ray traversal through geometry with a lower memory cost, making advanced use of the VRAM in the process.

The new RT accelerators now have a second intersection engine, which AMD says doubles the performance for both Ray/Box and Ray/Triangle testing, alongside a dedicated ray transform block, which is also stated to increase the performance as rays are traversed.

While AMD is still performing the traversal of the BVH data via the CUs rather than a dedicated ASIC. Each RT accelerator is beefier than the previous versions, which hopefully translates into ray tracing performance that stands a chance of competing with Nvidia's efforts.

As a result of all this CU reinforcement, the new GPUs are claimed to deliver performance figures comparable to the high-end RX 7900-series cards, despite having a lower total CU count overall. The RX 9070 XT has 64 refreshed CUs total and the RX 9070 makes do with 56—compared to the 84 compute units you'd find in the RX 7900 XT, for example.

That means the RX 9070 XT ends up with 64 ray accelerators, 128 AI accelerators and 4096 stream processors. Compared to the 56 ray accelerators, 112 AI accelerators and 3584 stream processors of the RX 9070 standard. Clock speeds are also much lower for the RX 9070 compared to its bigger brother, with the standard card hitting a boost clock of up to 2,520 MHz compared to the RX 9070 XT's 2,970 MHz top whack.

Swipe to scroll horizontally RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 specifications Header Cell - Column 0 RX 9070 XT RX 9070 Architecture RDNA 4 RDNA 4 Transistor count billion billion Die size 357 mm² 357 mm² Compute units 64 56 Ray accelerators 64 56 AI accelerators 128 112 Stream processors 4096 3584 Boost clock 2,970 MHz 2,520 MHz ROPS 64 64 VRAM 16 GB GDDR6 16 GB GDDR6 Memory speed 20 Gbps 20 Gbps Memory bus 256-bit 256-bit PCIe interface PCIe x16 PCIe x16 TGP 304 W 220 W.

Part of me thinks the 70 MHz on the end of the XT's boost clock is purely for branding reasons (it is the RX 9070-series, after all). But I'd be curious to see what sort of overclocking potential is left on the table here. Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs have been reliable overclockers so far, and given all the moves towards CU efficiency with RDNA 4, part of me wonders whether there might be more left to give in the AMD cards. Too. We'll find out in due course, I guess.

Looking at the architecture overall. It's otherwise a reasonably similar picture to what you'd find in RDNA 3. AMD says it has "optimised and balanced" the cache system, with 64 MB of third gen Infinity Cache, 8 MB of L2 cache (a 2 MB improvement over the 6 MB in RDNA 3) and 2 MB of aggregate CU cache on tap. Governed by an improved command processor.

Both of the new cards will make use of 16 GB of GDDR6 20 Gbps VRAM a piece, over a 256-bit bus with an effective memory bandwidth of 640 GB/s. They also feature an enhanced media engine for improved encoding quality supporting up to 8K/60 fps streaming and recording via AV1.

When it comes to power usage, AMD says the RX 9070 XT has a TBP of 304 W with a recommended PSU wattage of 750 W. While the RX 9070 has a mere 220 W TBP with a 650 W power supply recommendation. Those are some impressively low power figures, particularly given the performance asserts.

Speaking of which. AMD's performance charts pit the RX 9070 XT against the RX 7900 GRE. That's an upper mid-range card of the RDNA 3 generation, which gives some clues as to where AMD thinks the RX 9070 XT sits in the stack compared to its previous models.

It's claimed that the RX 9070 XT delivers between 23% and 48% more performance than the RX 7900 GRE at 4K native Ultra settings in a variety of games. With Cyberpunk 2077 gaining the most frames. The 4K Ultra ray tracing performance comparison, however, demonstrates F1 24 gaining 66% more performance in F1 24 alongside Cyberpunk compared to the older card, suggesting that those ray tracing architectural improvements really might translate into significant real world gains.

Still. It's always best to treat figures like this as indicators, rather than cold hard data. It's no surprise that the RX 9070 XT would show significant ray tracing improvements over the RX 7900 GRE as, to be honest, that card was never much cop with the ray tracing goodies enabled.

And AMD. Like any manufacturer, is always going to present the data that reveals off its GPUs at their very best. We'll be putting both the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT through their paces soon in our own independent testing, and. That's where we'll get a enhanced idea of the exact performance of the new cards.

And I haven't even mentioned FSR 4. Nvidia's RTX 50-series cards lean heavily on DLSS 4 for massive performance gains, and. AMD has often felt way behind the curve with its competing upscaling solution, FSR. Previously, FSR was a compute-based upscaler, but the new version finally throws machine learning into the mix thanks to those new AI accelerators on the RDNA 4 cards.

Matrix calculations on the RDNA 3 generation cards were handled by non-dedicated architecture on the CUs, whereas the dedicated AI accelerator matrix units fitted to the RX 9070-series have finally brought FSR into the machine learning realm.

So yes, that means FSR 4 is RX 9070-series dependent. And older AMD card clients (like myself) don't get to play. Still, the machine learning models have been trained on AMD's EPYC and Instinct AI hardware, and the claimed image quality and performance boosts gained as a result look impressive in the screenshots so far.

Looking at the first image above. It's clear as to where FSR fails in the image-quality stakes. The tops of the spires in the distance show considerable artifacting and missing pixels, whereas FSR 4 appears to do a much superior job at preserving image data from native, even at Performance settings.

AMD is also claiming a uplift in performance in Space Marine 2 at 4K with FSR 4 and frame generation enabled, with significant frame rate gains reported in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Ratchet and Clank. And Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, among others.

AMD says that there'll be 30+ games supported at launch, with 75+ coming in 2025 from a variety of developers. Fingers crossed this won't be like FSR which still suffers from limited support in many modern releases, although FSR 4 will apparently be a drop in upgrade for games using the FSR API.

There's also a new version of AMD Fluid Motion Frames on the block, AFMF It's claimed to deliver improved frame generation image quality with reduced ghosting and more effective temporal tracking, and will be supported by AMD RX 6000. 7000 and 9070-series cards alongside the iGPU in Ryzen AI 300 series processors.

So, plenty to get excited about here, especially that pricing. Many had assumed that AMD would aim for a $699 price point for the RX 9070 XT, but $599? That seems downright reasonable if the performance asserts prove out.

AMD also hints at "wide availability" come March 6, from AIBs such as Acer, ASRock, Asus. Gigabyte, Sapphire and more providing bountiful numbers of the new cards. Whether that proves out in practice remains to be seen, but given that it's extremely difficult to get hold of an RTX 50-series card right now at anywhere close to its MSRP, that potentially bodes well for sales if stocks really are as plentiful as AMD says.

So. After months of speculation, we finally have some AMD GPU competition on the way. While RDNA 4 doesn't look like a sea change when compared to RDNA 3, key improvements in ray tracing acceleration and AI improvements might just be what the doctor ordered, and. I'll be keen to see what those improvements translate to in real world performance when we test them for ourselves.

Roll on March 6, that's what I say. The battle of the graphics cards begins once more.

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