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AMD prices its new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs at $549 and $599 and we're very excited

If ever a new GPU family has been all about the money, it's AMD's RDNA 4. Otherwise known as the new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. At last we have official pricing from today's live stream, so here goes. The Radeon RX 9070 will be $549 and the Radeon RX 9070 XT is yours for $599. Hurrah!

That is both superior and very much in line with our worst fears, which were based on a leaked slide from AMD pointing out that 85% of graphics cards sell for under $700 and which lined up with some Microcenter listings showing the XT model slotting in at $699 with the non-XT at $649.

The superior bit is obviously the $100 discount versus those $699 and. $649 rumours. In our heart of hearts, we were hoping the XT might come in at $499 and really blow a massive hole in Nvidia's RTX 50 line up. Undercutting the RTX 5070 at the same time as massively out performing it.

That was probably never realistic. As it is and going on AMD's data for both raster and ray-tracing performance, the XT probably lines up either side of the RTX 5070 Ti for those two performance metrics while coming in fully $150 lower.

$599 isn't exactly chump change. But it's still something of a hallelujah moment for gamers starved for anything even remotely resembling good value in the graphics card market.

On the other hand, the small price gap between the two GPUs is as expected and. That makes the XT just 9% more expensive. However, for that 9% more money, the XT gives you 4,096 shader cores versus 3,548 for the non-XT. That's a 15% uplift. But wait, the XT also has a boost clock of GHz versus GHz for the non-XT, that's another 18% advantage.

All told. AMD puts the 9070 XT's raw single-precision shader throughput at TFLOPS, with the non-XT at TFLOPS. That works out to a computational advantage of 35% for the XT for just 8% more cash.

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Of course. The real-world frame rate gap will likely be a bit smaller than the TFLOPS performance. But the non-XT still looks like a bum deal. There was a time when you got more frames per dollar on lower-end GPU, but. Sadly those days seem to be behind us.

At least they do . Unfortunately, of late graphics card MSRPs are proving about as relevant to real-world prices as fusion reactor is to cost-effective home heating. So, it's hard to say how much more the XT will actually cost when it hits store shelves, presumably for about three picoseconds before selling out.

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For the record, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and. 9070 XT go on sale on March 6, just one day after Nvidia's RTX 5070 is released on March 5. It'll be interesting to see if any of them are available at MSRP and if so for how long.

There are tentative reasons to be hopeful about GPU supply, at least from Nvidia following its most recent earnings call where the organization stated it expects revenues from gaming graphics to improve "as supply inceases."

On a closing note, it says something about how bananas the GPU market has become that a $599 graphics card might be seen as an unambiguous value proposition and. Something of a saviour for mainstream gaming. But, apparently, that's where we are.

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Launch Day Character Anby Gets a Makeover in Mega Zenless Zone Zero PS5 Update

It’s hard to find a hook for the latest Zenless Zone Zero upgrade, because in reality this is just more of a very. Very fun gacha game. But we suppose the biggest story is that Anby, the burger loving launch day character who appears on the game’s PS5 game tile, is getting a makeover.

The character will be upgraded to a 5-Star in her Soldier 0 guise. And you’ll be uncovering her past as part of the new storyline. She’ll be flanked by sniper wielding ODOL Squad member Trigger, as well as newcomer Pulchra Fellini, a 4-Star who’ll be earnable for free through one of the many new events.

Throughout the duration of the upgrade, there’ll be various other activities to keep you entertained. Including one storyline involving a Bangboo who’s convinced he’s a knight. And then there’s even an isometric combat mode that will make the gameplay feel a little more Diablo than Devil May Cry.

While there is a lot to do in this particular patch. It does feel like the game’s spinning its wheels a little bit. That’s fine, though, because there have been some seismic changes over the past six months, so a slower paced upgrade makes sense.

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Helldivers 2 dev Arrowhead is in the "very early stages of something new" crossover-wise, and given how the battle in the Gloom is going, players might need it

Helldivers 2 studio is seemingly working on a mysterious fresh crossover, and judging by how the latest major order to battle some spooky foes in the space fog looks to be going, players could probably do with extra firepower for their fights in the Gloom.

To be fair, here's hoping this next bit of cross-promo goes down superior price-wise than the game's Killzone gear did late last year. Or it could bring exactly the kind of distraction that pesky black hole needs to facilitate it gobbling up Super Earth.

The coming crossover was teased by someone different to the usual suspects from the studio who pop in to chat to players on Helldivers 2's Discord server. "We're in the very early stages of something new," an Arrowhead developer with the handle Sephez replied to someone asking if any future events had been planned.

Deep Rock Galactic was the one this player mentioned in their question, which makes sense, but it could also be worth noting that one of the things been shared earlier this month as part of leaks by Helldivers 2 dataminer IronS1ghts was the outline of what looked very much like a Warhammer 40K-style chainsword.

We'll have to see. It but it sure looks like the divers might have use for a chainsword in the mission into the predator bug and bile titan-infested Gloom that Arrowhead's got them deployed on at the moment. The latest order has just over three days left on it, so we're not at panic stations yet, but while over a billion Terminids have been slain as part of it, the planet of Fori Prime that the divers have been tasked with capturing is currently still sitting at a big fat 0% liberation.

It looks like there's some damn beefy resistance parked on it that'll be a battle to shift, especially without a sword that's also a chainsaw and. - I stress - a chainsaw that's also a sword.

Are you looking forward to heading into the Gloom, or are you keenm to get back to black hole battling ASAP? Let us know below!

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