- AMD has confirmed its full RDNA 4 launch occasion for February 28
- These preliminary RX 9070 fashions will go on sale in early March
- That units up the RX 9070 for a showdown towards Nvidia’s RTX 5070 which hits cabinets on March 6
AMD has revealed that its RDNA 4 graphics playing cards will get a full launch occasion – versus the fleeting bulletins made at CES 2025 – in two weeks, forward of the March launch for these GPUs.
David McAfee, who’s AMD’s VP and GM of Ryzen and Radeon, tell us the date and time to mark in our calendars is February 28 at 8am EST (5am PST, 1pm UK time) through a publish on X.
The wait is nearly over. Be a part of us on February 28 at 8 AM EST for the reveal of the next-gen @AMD Radeon RX 9000 Sequence. Get able to make it yours when it hits cabinets in early March. RSVP by subscribing to the AMD YouTube channel: https://t.co/4rkVxeoDIaFebruary 13, 2025
The AMD exec additionally mentioned that the long-awaited RX 9070 fashions will hit cabinets in early March.
When the RX 9070 XT and plain RX 9070 had been introduced again at CES 2025 final month, the broad expectation was that they’d arrive earlier within the first quarter, moderately than later.
That hope had chilly water poured over it when AMD confirmed these RDNA 4 graphics playing cards had been delayed to March, and McAfee took to X with a view to clarify why. Specifically to make sure that AMD’s Adrenalin graphics drivers are totally tuned and able to go to make sure the perfect efficiency for RX 9070 GPUs out of the gate, and in addition to herald extra assist for FSR 4 in PC video games (attaining the identical finish, successfully).
Evaluation: One closing fear…
Crucially, McAfee additionally talked about that one more reason for laying aside the discharge of RDNA 4 GPUs to March was to construct up inventory ranges of the graphics playing cards at retail.
Now, I’m studying the discharge date being set at “early March” to imply the primary week of subsequent month, and that is sensible if we flip our consideration to Nvidia’s plans. We simply heard from AMD’s essential GPU rival that its GeForce RTX 5070 goes to be on sale come March 5.
So, it appears to be like to me very very similar to there’s going to be a head-to-head conflict of the mid-range GPUs, more-or-less, simply after March rolls round, with AMD aiming to take Nvidia on instantly right here.
Group Purple could be buoyed by the overall shakiness of inventory ranges for Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs up to now, and (plausible sufficient) rumors that the RTX 5070 will not be that a lot totally different from the RTX 5080 and 5090 on this respect. In spite of everything, Nvidia did announce that the RTX 5070 fashions would each launch in February – the Ti model, and vanilla spin – and has then pushed again the non-Ti graphics card to March. That damaged promise doesn’t really feel like a very good signal, stock-wise, to me.
In distinction, AMD appears extra assured about comparatively strong ranges of provide for RDNA 4, and certainly we all know that these GPUs have been at retailers since January. That’s because of leaked photographs from these retailers, and furthermore, Group Purple’s personal affirmation that board-making companions had “began constructing preliminary stock at retailers” again in January.
On high of that, there are some compellingly optimistic rumors concerning the potential efficiency ranges we’ll see from RX 9070 fashions in addition, and sources elsewhere point out AMD actually is taking its time over this next-gen GPU launch to get it proper.
The one fear that continues to be is pricing, and whether or not AMD’s obvious confidence with this mid-range showdown towards Nvidia’s RTX 5070 fashions would possibly imply the corporate pushes a bit greater with asking costs for the RX 9070 variants.
For those who scan by means of the replies to McAfee’s publish on X, that’s the constant thread of fear all through from the respondents who’ve much less optimistic ideas on RDNA 4. Briefly, the worry is that Nvidia’s stumbling Blackwell launch would possibly imply AMD decides to cost extra for RX 9070 GPUs – though having arrange its stall as these being mid-range graphics playing cards, there’s absolutely a restrict to how far Group Purple would possibly be capable to push right here, if this was a temptation?
Time will inform, and I stay hopeful that AMD gained’t drive to any excesses right here – this can be a nice alternative to take the battle to Nvidia, in spite of everything. On the similar time, I’m not anticipating a shock with decrease pricing both, as given how the market stands proper now, that doesn’t make a number of sense. Nonetheless, no matter occurs, we have to see precisely how RX 9070 efficiency pans out earlier than we are able to actually get a perspective on pricing, anyway.
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