• Pre-orders ought to go reside for AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs on March 23, in response to one US retailer
• There are a few the explanation why that is possible incorrect, although
• We’ve additionally seen extra strangeness across the beforehand rumored January 23 launch for RDNA 4, as an advert marketing campaign seems to have misfired

As if sufficient weirdness hasn’t already surrounded AMD’s RDNA 4 GPU launch – it’s been an odd affair certainly – one thing at Workforce Purple seems to have misfired on the advertising and marketing aspect once more, and we’ve additionally caught a point out of a attainable new launch date for the RX 9070 graphics playing cards.

Nevertheless, I believe the date shared by a US retailer is off the mark, and only a placeholder, so let’s take care of that first.

The story right here is that B&H Photograph beforehand posted what it believed to be the date that avid gamers would be capable to pre-order RX 9070 fashions, particularly January 23 – however in fact that didn’t occur.

As an alternative, AMD made an announcement to tell us that the RX 9070 graphics playing cards received’t arrive till March (nonetheless inside the official Q1 2025 timeframe that was beforehand promised, it’s price noting).

Following that, VideoCardz noticed that B&H Photograph now has a date of March 23 for pre-orders on RDNA 4 graphics playing cards – and the retailer nonetheless has this date on its website (it hasn’t been taken down but).

What’s unusual about that is that March 23 is a Sunday, so it appears extremely unlikely {that a} gross sales milestone (pre-orders, or certainly the precise on-sale date) could be on a weekend. Certainly, AMD would wait till the Monday (March 24) if this was the plan.

Additionally, taking into account that the earlier date B&H posted was January 23, it seems like what might need occurred right here is {that a} employees member engaged on the product listings simply changed the title of the month within the date, and left the day the identical (although why an replace was posted in any respect to the RDNA 4 listings, when nothing’s official, is an effective query).

Therefore my conclusion that this appears very very like a placeholder date, given the way in which this has occurred, and the extra indisputable fact that it’s a Sunday.

Reddit marketing campaign wasn’t canceled?

The second oddity that backs up some earlier rumors – and the preliminary January date B&H connected to RX 9070 pre-orders – is that some AMD adverts have popped up, going by experiences, claiming you could ‘play now’ with the brand new RDNA 4 GPUs.

This was once more observed by VideoCardz, and it occurred yesterday, on January 23, so one idea is that this was a date AMD had certainly deliberate for one thing massive to occur, both a launch or reveal. (When you can ‘play now’ although, then the GPUs would absolutely be on sale). Workforce Purple had a bunch of selling stuff scheduled for Reddit (as flagged up right here) round this, which unintentionally nonetheless went forward by some means (with these adverts showing in a couple of completely different international locations in Europe, seemingly being printed in German, Italian, and Polish).

The not-unreasonable conclusion people are reaching is that AMD did have one thing deliberate for January 23, particularly as there have been loads of rumors this was the case (albeit some talked about January 24, although it was all in the identical ballpark of the week we discover ourselves in now). However all this has now been postpone to March, though formally, as talked about, AMD has by no means mentioned something concrete for the RX 9070 launch exterior of it being Q1 2025.

The rumors round RDNA 4 have taken some very unusual turns certainly, then, however the excellent news is that it appears these next-gen graphics playing cards can be price ready for. Even when we do have to hold on till later in March, quite than seeing the RX 9070 GPUs emerge earlier within the month – and actually, I wouldn’t be swayed in any respect by the brand new B&H pre-order date for all the explanations talked about.

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