After a little bit of a clumsy silence second throughout CES 2025 when AMD refused to divvy over RX 9070 / 9070 XT deetz, issues may now lastly be hotting up on the RDNA 4 entrance, as we’re seeing loads of stirrings concerning the upcoming GPUs. None of those stirrings are official, thoughts, however when there are sufficient leaks and rumours in the identical neighborhood, I have a tendency to concentrate.
So, buckle up for a round-up of rumours, of us. Here we go: The RX 9070 has seemingly been shipped out and pictured by a Reddit consumer (through Wccftech) and the RX 9070 XT was apparently listed at a Danish retailer website (noticed by {hardware} leaker momomo_us) and at UK retailer website Overclockers (as noticed by Reddit consumer EmeraldPerson). These retailer listings have since been taken down.
You can even see some specs listed on Geizhals (through VideoCardz), a German tech comparability web site.
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What’s notably fascinating about these sightings is that among the listed specs match one another and likewise match these of one other current leak by momomo. In different phrases, there’s sufficient corroboration throughout numerous leaks and retailer listings to take at the very least a few of these specs critically.
The ones that appear to have a number of sources of corroboration are the 9070 XT’s CU depend and and the GPU clock speeds. For the RX 9070 XT, it appears like we may very well be seeing a GPU with 64 CUs (Compute Units). For reference, the Radeon RX 7800 XT has 60 CUs and the RX 7900 XT has 84 CUs, so if these leaks are appropriate then the 9070 XT ought to sit someplace between the 2 simply by way of the variety of shader cores.
Where it’d shoot forward of each, although, is within the clock velocity division. On this entrance, whereas they disagree over the RX 9070’s increase clock, the Overclockers itemizing and momomo’s familiarly unlabelled specification leak each level in direction of a equally excessive RX 9070 XT increase clock of two,970 MHz. That’s just a few hundred MHz increased than each the RX 7800 XT and RX 7900 XT.
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There are another specs blended into all this hearsay slop, however these are the principle issues which have cross-corroboration. Which is not to say that they’re going to find yourself being appropriate—we cannot know for certain till we hear official phrase from AMD.
We do even have numerous cross-corroborated reviews that the playing cards ought to characteristic 16 GB of VRAM. This is supported each from these new listings and likewise from a earlier Asus TUF and TUF OC announcement that these playing cards ought to have “a supersized 16GB serving of VRAM”. This announcement has since been eliminated, nevertheless.
You may discover that I’ve not spoken about any launch date rumours, regardless of many of those listings and leaks pointing in direction of a January 22 reveal and January 24 launch. That’s as a result of, primarily based on what we all know right here at PC Gamer, this launch window could be very unlikely.
Which does suck, as a result of I’d like to see what we’re working with ASAP. If the extra affordable specification rumours are appropriate, then we might certainly be playing cards that compete with the RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 Ti, which is the place AMD appears to be positioning them.
Don’t overlook that these playing cards must also characteristic AMD’s new and improved body technology, plus improved ray tracing over previous-gen RDNA playing cards, too. 64 CUs on the RX 9070 XT, assuming architectural enhancements, plus a a lot increased increase clock and 16 GB of VRAM, all appears very attractive if the value is true.
And that is the important thing, actually. Pricing will seemingly make or break the RDNA 4 proposition.
