• AMD is supposedly launching RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 next-gen GPUs
• Earlier rumors prompt these can be the RX 8000 sequence
• Efficiency is rumored to be a bit slower than earlier chatter from the grapevine

Rumors round AMD’s next-gen GPUs have gone into overdrive this previous weekend, and we’ve discovered that these RDNA 4 graphics playing cards might not be the RX 8000 sequence as beforehand thought – and we’ve been handled to additional hypothesis on worth and efficiency, too.

So, the speculation now could be that AMD goes to launch an RX 9070 XT, as first flagged up by an editor on Chiphell, which was identified by HXL on X. This can supposedly be the highest RDNA 4 GPU, beforehand rumored to be the RX 8800 XT.

It’ll come alongside a vanilla RX 9070 as a lower-tier providing, if one other presence on X – All The Watts, a reputation we’re not accustomed to within the rumor scene – is right. They imagine that the RX 9070 XT will likely be barely slower than the present 7900 XT, and that the plain RX 9070 will likely be about equal to the efficiency of the 7800 XT.

All The Watts spilled some purported worth ranges, too, and it appears AMD is taking a look at round $449 to $649 (within the US) for the Navi 48 graphics playing cards, which can put the RX 9070 XT at that $650 or so degree, and the plain RX 9070 maybe at $550 to $600. All of it feels very obscure, although – we’re additionally instructed that dropping down a chip, Navi 44 GPUs will vary in worth from $179 to $349 (RX 9060 fashions and downwards, presumably).

One other common rumor peddler on X, Hoang Anh Phu, additionally shared that the RX 9070 XT is coming at CES 2025, the place AMD is rumored to be revealing RDNA 4 – and that FSR 4 will debut alongside it (plus a complete bunch of different stuff, too, in idea).

Lastly, Hoang Anh Phu additionally claimed {that a} render of a GPU that cropped up in an official AMD advert is supposedly a reference design for one of many next-gen graphics playing cards from AMD. Season that, and all of this chatter, liberally, after all.

It’s price additional noting that All The Watts reckons there’ll be cellular 9070 variants too, which might be no shock, however that we may additionally get some new GPUs for the present RDNA 3 vary, specifically the RX 7750 and 7650. The latter particularly is perhaps an fascinating addition for extra reasonably priced GPUs (hopefully).

(VideoCardz noticed all these varied posts, by the best way, so a hefty 4 hat suggestions goes their approach – 1, 2, 3, 4).

Evaluation: Turning it as much as 9070?

There’s been a variety of spillage in a really brief time round AMD’s next-gen GPUs, and plainly the RX 9070 XT and 9070 would possibly actually be occurring. The story is that this was a late change from AMD when it comes to next-gen naming, as till just lately, Crew Crimson was going to run with RX 8000 as had been claimed through the rumor mill.

Why change the title? Effectively, in some methods, the change to RX 9070 performs that trick of creating it appear ‘higher’ than Nvidia’s xx70 class graphics card, which this time spherical would be the RTX 5070 (and 5070 Ti, apparently). So, your mid-range decisions early subsequent 12 months could possibly be the RTX 5070 (Ti) or RX 9070 (XT), so the larger quantity have to be higher, proper?

It’s that sort of Spinal Faucet (turning it as much as 11) advertising and marketing pondering, we assume (if it occurs) – and it’s fascinating to notice that fairly than the 9700 XT, it’s the 9070 XT. (Though that’ll assist keep away from confusion with AMD’s Ryzen CPU names, to be honest, and the Ryzen 9700X – nevertheless it does appear angling very a lot in direction of ‘outplaying’ Nvidia too).

The opposite cause could possibly be that – once more, based on rumors – AMD is trying to change away from the RDNA model solely after this subsequent technology of graphics playing cards. We received’t have RDNA 5, in different phrases, however UDNA, the ‘U’ that means unified as this structure will supposedly convey collectively CDNA (knowledge heart) and RDNA (gaming) underneath one umbrella.

If that occurs, then AMD’s more likely to head off the RX x000 naming path solely, which might make sense fairly than go along with RX 10000 – which doesn’t work after RX 9000, after all. In different phrases, the transfer to UDNA successfully frees up the RX 9000 title for this technology – so why not use it now? We’re simply participating in pure hypothesis right here, thoughts, however this makes us suppose it’s maybe a bit extra probably that UDNA, not RDNA 5, comes subsequent on AMD’s GPU roadmap.

As for the efficiency ranges talked about above for the RX 9070 XT and 9070, they’ll in all probability come as a little bit of a disappointment. The earlier hope was that the RDNA 4 prime canine GPU could possibly be a bit quicker than the 7900 XT, and it’s seemingly barely slower based on All The Watts – however be significantly skeptical there.

Moreover, we assume that that is speaking about rasterization (non-ray tracing efficiency), and for ray-traced graphics, AMD supposedly has a a lot larger leap in body charges prepared for us, or so different rumors have prompt.

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