AMD Unleashes the Radeon RX 9070 GPUs, With 9070 XT at $600

AMD’s newly revealed Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT mid-range GPUS are set to compete against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti, respectively. At least, we won’t have to wait long before we see how well these new cards stack up, as the cards are set to launch on March 6 through a range of OEMs. 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, same price as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070. The RX 9070 XT starts at $600, $150 less than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti. Both are set to launch March 6. Skipping any mention of a RX 8000 series (to better align with the GPU nomenclature with the latest Ryzen 9 series CPUs) doesn’t mean it’s fully two generations ahead, though it is built with 4K and 1440p gaming in mind for more recent games. The lower-level GPU, the RX 9070, comes in at 56 of the company’s RDNA 4 compute units with 16 GB of VRAM (GDDR6 running at 20 Gbps) on a 256-bit memory bus and ... Read full article.