AMD’s next foray into the desktop gaming graphics card market was announced at CES today with the reveal of the Radeon RX 9070 XT And RX 9070. Using its new RDNA 4 architecture, the new graphics cards are aimed at performance levels up to its own Radeon RX 7900 XT and Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti according to slides shown at is CES event keynote.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT And RX 9070 Branding To Compare With Nvidia
Interestingly, AMD says it has simplified its naming scheme to directly compare against Nvidia’s similar-performing models. For example, the RX 9070 XT would compete with RTX x070 cards such as the RTX 4070 Ti and 4070 Ti Super, while the RX 9070 squares up to the and RTX 4070 and 4070 Super.
However, the slide in question clearly shows a box for the RTX 5000-series too, suggesting the cards will also compete with these models such as the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti. This chart also confirms that the new models from AMD will not offer faster performance than its previous models. In fact, the RX 7900 XTX will outperform the Radeon RX 9070 XT and remain AMD’s flagship in terms of raw performance.
This is a slight climb-down from previous expectations that it would be competing at RTX 4080 levels with its new Radeon cards, whereas actually it’s one step below that or thereabouts. The cards will be available in Q1 2025 through partner card manufacturers such ASUS.
AMD’s RDNA 4 Architecture
The RDNA 4 architecture uses a 4nm manufacturing process and will sit alongside the new AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 upscaling technology. Similar to Nvidia’s DLSS, it will require the use of Radeon 9000-series RDNA4 graphics cards. There’s no word on this being backwards compatible with previous generations.
Nvidia meanwhile is just hours away from announcing its RTX 5000-series cards, with the RTX 5080 and 5090 expected to take center stage. I’ll be covering all the hardware launches from CES this week so follow me here on Forbes using the blue button below, Facebook or YouTube to get the latest news and reviews and don’t forget to comment below about your views on AMD’s announcement.
