AMD claims gamers prefer GPUs at mid-range prices, but they want to play their games at 4K anyway.
The big news is the price.
The RX 9070 costs $550, the same price as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070.
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The RX 9070 XT starts at $600, $150 less than Nvidias RTX 5070 Ti.
Both are set to launch on March 6.
The higher-end GPU also maintains 16 GB VRAM, equivalent to Nvidias RTX 5070 Ti.
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Moreover, AMD claims it can hit native framerates at or above the RTX 5070 Ti at 4K.
Of course, thats all before unpacking the difference between AMDs and Nvidias upscaling software.
Whats Going On Under the Hood with RX 9000 Series GPUs?
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The RX 9070has 53.9 billion transistors versus 55.8 billion on the RX 7900 XT.
Each RDNA 4 CU is supposed to support higher clock speeds than RDNA 3.
The RX 9070 demands 220W of board power compared to 250W on the RTX 5070.
AIB partners are the usual stock, including Acer, Yeston, Gigabyte, Sapphire, and more. © Image: AMD
RDNA 4 sports a new structure with an extra computing unit designed with ray tracing in mind.
The new architecture supports PCIe Gen 5 along with HDMI 2.1b and DisplayPort 2.1a.
Team Red also promoted its second-gen AI accelerators.
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How Much Will the Radeon RX 9000 GPUs Cost?
Instead, its focusing on the mid-range GPUs that, perhaps, a few more gamers can afford.
That doesnt mean these cards are cheap.
However, AMD is still promoting how its next generation of FSR provides better framerates than the last generation.
AMD said FSR-4 can create near-native results for its supported games on the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT.
Increased frames are slightly lower on games like Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.
Thats all before frame gen, as well.
As for multi-frame gen, thats still off the table.
The question will be how it compares to DLSS 4.
AMD also has a new AMF 2.1 model to make generated frames look smoother than before.
Nvidia made a big deal about the transformer model of DLSS.
But when comparing mid-range GPUs, those extra frames may be worth the drawbacks to some budget-conscious gamers.
The chipmaker said it planned to have over 75 games support the technology going into 2025.
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