The world awaits the arrival of next-generation graphics playing cards, and all eyes at the moment are turning in direction of CES 2025 the place it is hoped that Nvidia and AMD will exhibit some shiny new GPUs. Until now the latter’s choices have been assumed to be the RX 8000-series, however a number of leakers at the moment are saying they will fly in beneath the RX 9000-series moniker. And maintain your fork, as a result of there’s extra—we could have already had a sneak peek of what a brand new Radeon GPU may appear to be.
X person momomo_us posted a screenshot of what seems to be retailer GPU listings, and sitting nearly on the tippy high are two GPUs referred to as the RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT (through Tom’s Hardware). Both new GPUs sit above AMD’s present quickest graphics card within the itemizing, the RX 7900 XTX.
This new X0X0 naming conference appears to be confirmed by fellow leaker All The Watts!, who’s posted an inventory of card groupings from the RX 9070-series all the way down to the RX 8040-series.
And would not it, there is a third. According to X person and recognized leaker HXL, the 8000-series nomenclature refers to RDNA 3.5 GPUs like Strix Halo, whereas the 9000-series naming scheme is supposedly for fully-fledged RDNA 4 GPUs.
All three leakers posted this new data inside an hour of one another, so that might imply it is all an enormous sport of phone—or that they are all counting on the identical leaked data directly.
The previous three generations of desktop AMD playing cards have been often known as the RX 5000, RX 6000, and RX 7000-series respectively, with the second digit used as the first mannequin differentiator. So this new skip-a-digit system could be a break from current custom, though it’d make a whole lot of sense.
AMD’s newest Zen 5 CPUs are additionally referred to as the 9000-series, though they use second digit identifiers just like the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Lining up the newest AMD GPUs and CPUs with a 9000 quantity every makes issues comparatively neat and tidy at the very least, with the change in identifier quantity hopefully that means we do not have to interrupt out a decoder wheel, as has been supplied by AMD prior to now.
Not solely that, but it surely seems like an eagle-eyed redditor could have noticed pictures of at the very least one in all these new playing cards displayed prominently in a current promoting banner:
Are these reference 8000 sequence card? from r/Amd
Reddit person SubtleSerenity noticed a black and silver cooler design in a number of AMD advertisements on the platform, which seems distinctly totally different from AMD reference card designs earlier. Hoang Anh Phu, one other trusted AMD leaker, has since acknowledged that they consider the cardboard to be the RX 9070 XT—though as with all leak confirmations, pinches of salt all spherical are in all probability nonetheless a good suggestion.
Not that there is something significantly thrilling or revolutionary about what seems like a typical three-fan cooler design, but it surely nonetheless appears that AMD’s advertising and marketing division could have let an advert unfastened too early. The card is proven at the side of a Ryzen 9 CPU, so the picture has probably been made to be used with bundle offers but to return.
With rumours abound that the highest RDNA 4 card could also be 45% sooner in ray tracing than the RX 7900 XTX (and ship raster efficiency equal to an RTX 4080), what we’re now assuming is the RX 9070 XT is likely to be a little bit of a killer card. It’s nonetheless not prone to compete with something on the high of Nvidia’s next-generation graphics playing cards, as AMD’s Jack Huyhn has already acknowledged it is not aiming for the high-end market with the brand new era of GPUs.
Still, on the proper worth? It may nonetheless be an ideal card if these numbers show out, and maybe FSR 4 may even the enjoying area a bit extra now it is rumoured to be getting a dose of AI, like Nvidia’s DLSS. Still, it is all hypothesis for now, so we’ll have to attend till CES 2025 to formally discover out.
