• AMD RX 9070 GPUs are rumored to hit cabinets on March 6
• One other rumor suggests 9070 XT may need a 900W energy provide
• That’s for a top-end overclocked model of the 9070 XT, although, and there are quite a few caveats to think about right here

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 graphics playing cards will get a full launch occasion on February 28, which has been confirmed by Staff Purple, and now chatter on the rumor mill is indicating these GPUs shall be available for purchase on March 6.

That purported on-sale date comes courtesy of VideoCardz’s sources, an assertion additionally backed up by Chinese language tech web site Benchlife. Although these two rumors align, we should always nonetheless take this with quite a lot of warning.

That mentioned, AMD has instructed us that its RX 9070 fashions will go on sale in early March, which I take to imply the primary week, and March 6 matches that image. Nonetheless, we’ll want affirmation formally, and presumably that’ll come on the talked about press occasion for RDNA 4 GPUs in late February.

On the identical time, extra hypothesis is floating round relating to the facility consumption of the RX 9070 XT, suggesting that one third-party variant has an enormous ask by way of your PC’s energy provide.

Tom’s {Hardware} seen a submit on X from Tomasz Gawroński displaying a purportedly leaked picture of the PowerColor RX 9070 XT Purple Satan, with the packaging apparently indicating that you just’ll want a 900W PSU to have this graphics card in your gaming PC.

This has raised loads of eyebrows, because it’s 100W greater than the present advice for the RX 7900 XTX flagship, although even the poster admitted that they weren’t positive if the picture is faked.

Curiously, Frank Azor, who’s head of client and gaming advertising and marketing at AMD, really replied to Gawroński, observing that there shall be different RX 9070 XT fashions that’ll “require decrease minimal energy provide wattages as will there be lots with 8 pin energy connectors for worry-free upgrading.”

Word that Azor didn’t affirm that the picture was actual, although the AMD government didn’t name it a pretend, both (however in fact, he doesn’t work for PowerColor).

Evaluation: Prepared for the AMD vs Nvidia mid-range GPU shootout?

The launch date of March 6 for the RX 9070 fashions, if it seems to be right, is definitely an fascinating alternative – primarily as a result of Nvidia solely simply introduced March 5 is when the RTX 5070 arrives on cabinets. So, as we theorized earlier this week, that is wanting very very similar to a mid-range head-to-head between the RX 9070 and RTX 5070 within the first week of March.

As for the PSU requirement, I wouldn’t panic concerning the potential situation of RX 9070 fashions someway requiring huge reservoirs of energy. A few of the beefiest fashions might, however we should keep in mind, the Purple Satan board talked about within the leak is a top-end graphics card, and as Azor noticed, different fashions would require much less wattage. Certainly, the rumor is that the reference 9070 XT from AMD will ask for a 750W PSU, with the RX 9070 vanilla needing 650W, way more modest necessities (add seasoning with that also).

It is also value noting that 900W is an odd specification right here, on condition that there aren’t any PSUs delivering that precise determine, so far as I’m conscious. There are 850W fashions after which we leap to 1000W, so why PowerColor is (theoretically) putting the requirement simply above 850W, in a non-existent PSU bracket (because it had been), I’m unsure. This might maybe be one other suggestion that the picture is faked.

That mentioned, I don’t doubt {that a} closely overclocked RX 9070 XT mannequin will drink much more juice than a regular board. It clearly will, and so it wouldn’t be a shock if the highest canine of the RDNA 4 graphics card world are significantly extra demanding on the PC’s energy provide. These GPUs can even price much more than the entry-level 9070 XT merchandise, too, and the way aggressive AMD’s graphics playing cards shall be in pricing phrases is the opposite key query we’re dying to have answered.

We’ll have these solutions quickly sufficient, fortunately. Roll on the top of February.

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