Well, all of us knew Q1 2025 was going to be spicy. I’m unsure we knew that might imply fairly the variety of delays and out-of-stock indicators that we have seen thus far, however we knew there was going to be a slew of latest GPU shenanigans to be careful for. AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT is actually certainly one of these, and it now appears like we’re getting one thing barely greater than phrase of mouth relating to its specs and efficiency.
It’s nonetheless very a lot borne of the ever-churning hearsay mill, after all, however from X consumer HKEPC (by way of VideoCardz) now we have a screenshot of GPU-Z displaying a ‘Navi 48’ GPU, this being codename for the upcoming RX 9070 XT. And the specs? Well, they’re in-line with what we anticipated—4,096 shader cores, 16 GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, and a 256-memory bus—but it surely’s good to truly see these specs on paper– err, I imply, on-screen.
HKEPC additionally shared a screenshot of a supposed RX 9070 XT reaching a whopping 211.7 fps within the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, albeit at 1080p and with body gene enabled. But hey, as I found in my very own testing of this benchmark for our Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark round-up, the sport is fairly brutal on the ol’ GPU.
For reference on the core entrance, by the way in which, the RX 7800 XT has 3,840 and the RX 7900 XT has 5,376. Just as earlier believable leaks had it, then: the 9070 XT sitting between the 2 in core/CU rely. Again corroborating these earlier leaks, we’re (supposedly) the next increase clock for the RX 9070 XT—on this case, even increased than beforehand thought at 3,100 MHz, presumably on account of a very aggressive manufacturing facility overclock.
All very thrilling stuff, and we should not have too lengthy to attend for it, both, given Dr. Lisa Su has confirmed the GPU is formally arriving in early March. It would possibly even beat the RTX 5070 to market on condition that it is rumoured to be delayed till March now, too. Maybe this can make up for AMD’s botched CES look whereby they confirmed our keen eyes virtually nada of the GPUs.
Then once more, Nvidia’s simply introduced a February 20 launch date for the RTX 5070 Ti, so the RX 9070 XT may have that card to go up in opposition to. But even then-again-er, Nvidia’s latest RTX 50-series launches have not precisely given us a lot hope for, y’know, precise inventory on cabinets.
Maybe that is the place AMD can discover a bonus: by truly having GPUs in the stores. If it may possibly pull that off whereas pumping out this type of Monster Hunter Wilds efficiency with 16 GB of high-bandwidth reminiscence, ideally for affordable, I’ll be one joyful chappy. We’ll see.
