• The look ahead to AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 collection is over, because it totally reveals the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070
• The Radeon RX 9070 XT will begin at $599 and the RX 9070 will launch at $549
• Each GPUs will probably be accessible on March 6, with the RX 9060 collection unveiling set for a later date

Lastly, after months of ready for AMD’s full reveal of the Radeon RX 9000 collection GPU lineup, we have now bought a correct have a look at the next-gen playing cards by way of Crew Pink’s efficiency showcase and pricing for the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 – spoiler alert: followers could also be in for an reasonably priced deal with.

AMD introduced that the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 will launch on March 6, beginning at $599 / round £570 / round AU$960 and $549 / round £520 / round AU$880, respectively. Each GPUs will include 16GB of VRAM utilizing PCIe 5.0 connectivity (the identical as Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs). There will probably be no reference playing cards direct from AMD, solely associate playing cards that can make the most of Crew Pink’s new RDNA 4 structure, which was constructed to offer a lot better ray tracing and uncooked efficiency in video games.

As beforehand prompt, AMD claims the Radeon RX 9070 XT variant will probably be 42% sooner than the RX 7900 GRE at native 4K graphics settings – it supposedly matches Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti throughout a number of titles, however extra importantly, AMD’s new GPU is claimed to outperform the Blackwell card in titles like Name of Responsibility Black Ops 6, which exhibits it is 24% sooner at native 4K. Ray tracing can be a spotlight within the graph (pictured beneath), with a prompt lead over the RTX 5070 Ti by 8%.

In fact, these stats ought to be taken with a pinch of salt since they arrive straight from AMD and do not think about options like Nvidia’s new Multi-Body Era, nevertheless it’s nonetheless spectacular stuff. The 9070 XT will probably sit round 5-10% behind the 5070 Ti in real-world testing, however for 20% much less money at retail worth.

We’ll await real-world benchmarks and stats as soon as the RX 9070 collection launches on March 6. For now, AMD’s efficiency claims set its XT variant in pole place to turn into the funds GPU king at an reasonably priced $599 worth in comparison with the RTX 5070 Ti’s $749 / £729 / AU$1,509 (in the event you may even discover it at MSRP amid present inventory shortages, that’s).

Now, I can gladly eat my phrases… Nvidia, you’ve got bought bother

MicroCenter’s listed costs earlier than AMD’s full reveal prompt the Radeon RX 9070 XT would launch at $699 – which I feared would ring true – however luckily, it seems as if these had been certainly placeholders (until on-line retailers determine to inflate costs, that’s).

I am glad to say that Crew Pink has left me delighted with this reveal, as I’ve beforehand acknowledged the GPU market desperately wants competitors proper now – Nvidia should lead the high-end due to the powerhouse RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs, however what good is a premium GPU if you cannot even discover one on the market?

If the Radeon RX 9070 XT at $599 finally ends up outperforming – and even simply coming near matching – Crew Inexperienced’s RTX 5070 Ti as AMD claims, and manages to topple the earlier gen’s RX 7900 XTX, then in my eyes it is this technology’s GPU king. RDNA 4 guarantees vital enhancements throughout the board, notably with ray tracing and FSR 4 (unique to RDNA 4 GPUs) – based mostly on what Crew Pink offered, FSR 4’s efficiency mode jogged my memory of what I noticed over at Nvidia with its new transformer mannequin in DLSS 4.