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AMD has launched the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070, the first maps in its Radeon RX 9000 series Consumers GPUs, based on the following GPU architecture GPU architecture.
The 16 GB cards, which have recommended the prices of $ 599 and $ 549, hit online stores to strong reviews in the gaming press yesterday.
Below we have summarized their most important specifications and we have completed what we know so far about how those gaming performance will translate into CG software such as Blender, Davinci Resolve and Premiere Pro.
New RDNA 4 -architecture promises better AI, Ray Tracing and Video Coding Performance
The Radeon RX 9000 -Series cards are the first GPUs to use AMD’s new RDNA 4 GPU architecture.
It has improvements in all core types of the cards, including for general GPU accounts, but in particular for AI operations and Ray Tracing, where AMD claims that RDNA 4 “2x the Ray Tracing through -wand unit offers” compared to RDNA 3.
For video operation, a new double media -engine promises to improve the quality of AV1 coding and the quality of AV1, H.264 and H.265 coding and decoding with “up to 25%”.
Just as with Nvidia’s Current-Gen GeForce RTX 50-Series GPUs, the Radeon RX 9000-Series cards PCIE 5.0 support.
The new maps are currently also the only GPUs that support FSR 4 (FidelityFX Super Resolution 4), the latest version of AMD’s AI-based viewport upscaling technology.
For more information, Tom’s Hardware has a deeper dive in the RDNA 4 architecture.
| AMD Radeon RX 9000 and 7000 series GPUs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radeon RX 7900 XT | Radeon RX 9070 XT | Radeon RX 9070 | Radeon RX 7900 GRE | |
| Architecture | RDNA 3 | RDNA 4 | RDNA 4 | RDNA 3 |
| Shadow units | 5,376 | 4,096 | 3,584 | 5,120 |
| Ai -rapiders | 168 | 128 | 112 | 160 |
| Ray Accelerators | 84 | 64 | 56 | 80 |
| Base Klok (GHZ)* | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| Boost Clock (GHZ) | 2.4 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| FP32 Calculation performance (TFLOPS)* | 51.5 | 48.7 | 36.1 | 46.0 |
| GPU memory | 20 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s)* | 800 | 645 | 645 | 576 |
| TBP | 300W | 304W | 220W | 260W |
| Display* | 2 x DisplayPort 2.1 1 x HDMI 2.1A 1 x USB-C |
3 x DisplayPort 2.1a 1 x HDMI 2.1B |
3 x DisplayPort 2.1a 1 x HDMI 2.1B |
2 x DisplayPort 2.1 1 x HDMI 2.1A 1 x USB-C |
| Release date | 2022 | 2025 | 2025 | 2023 |
| MSRP at the launch | $ 899 | $ 599 | $ 549 | $ 549 |
*Figure taken from third -party website.
Important specifications
AMD has changed its name schedule since the previous Radeon RX 7000 series, but the launch materials position the new GPUs between the Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 GRE.
The new numbering convention suggests that the cards are being thrown against Nvidia’s Mid-Range Consumers GPUs: the current-gene GeForce RTX 5070 and previous-gene GeForce RTX 4070.
Above we have completed the most important specifications of the new Radeon RX 9000-Series cards and their previous generation previous generation based on AMD’s own figures and the TechPowerUp database.
All Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 GPUs are manufactured by partner companies – There are no AMD reference cards – so clock speeds and power consumption will vary between models.
However, their core specifications are largely comparable to the Radeon RX 7900 GRE – all are 16 GB maps and remain in GDDR6 memory – just like their recommended launch prices.
Processor core core felling are actually on the previous generation, although AMD promises general performance improvements because of the progress in the GPU architecture.
Strong early reviews in the gaming press
Early reviews of the Radeon RX 9000 -Series -cards in the gaming press were positive, with many contrasting launch problems and lukewarm reviews for Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070.
TechRadar’s review of the Radeon RX 9070 XT is fairly typical and describes it as a “stunning release … deliver [GeForce] RTX 4080 levels of gaming performance in half the launch of that map MSRP ”.
Benchmark results in CG software
But how will those gaming performance translate into professional graphic activities?
As you would expect, most of the own published performance comparisons of AMD are for games, although the launch material does contain a few benchmarks for AI.
This includes both generative AI models and the AI tools in CG applications.
The DIA above shows the Radeon RX 9070 XT that performs better than the previous generation Radeon RX 7900 GRE with 12-17% in AI-based tools in Adobe’s Lightroom Classic Photo Editor and with 20-34% in Davinci Resolve, Blackmagic. Processing.
The figures are based on the standard Pugetbench tests from Puget Systems.
Independent assessments include scores for Blender and Premiere Pro
Some early reviews also contain benchmarks for CG apps, although their conclusions are mixed.
Tom’s Hardware shows the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 better than Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 and 4070 in the synthetic Specworkstation 4.0 Benchmark, both in the Handbrake video transcode test, and for average viewport performance, including blender.
For rendering, however, the GeForce RTX 5070 and 4070 defeated both the Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs in the Blender -Benchmark itself.
PC World’s Review also notes that the GeForce RTX 5070 the Radeon RX 9000 -Series cards in the Pugetbench Premiere Pro Benchmark “absolutely stamped”.
For DCC work, it is also important to note that some GPU renderer engines, including Arnold GPU, Octaner and V-ray GPU, use NVIDIA APIs and are not accelerated on AMD-graphic maps.
Price and availability
AMD’s Radeon RX 9000 series GPUS became available on March 6, 2025 via partner companies, including Acer, ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, Powercolor, Sapphire, Utrarmeror, XFX and Yeston.
The Radeon RX 9070 XT has an MSRP of $ 599, and the Radeon RX 9070 has an MSRP of $ 549, but street prices are currently considerably higher for what remains of the initial shares.
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