If ever a brand new GPU household has been all in regards to the cash, it is AMD’s RDNA 4, in any other case referred to as the brand new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. At final we’ve got official pricing from immediately’s dwell stream, so right here goes. The Radeon RX 9070 can be $549 and the Radeon RX 9070 XT is yours for $599. Hurrah!
That is each higher and really a lot according to our worst fears, which had been primarily based on a leaked slide from AMD stating that 85% of graphics playing cards promote for below $700 and which lined up with some Microcenter listings displaying the XT mannequin slotting in at $699 with the non-XT at $649.
The higher bit is clearly the $100 low cost versus these $699 and $649 rumours. In our coronary heart of hearts, we had been hoping the XT may are available in at $499 and actually blow an enormous gap in Nvidia’s RTX 50 line up, undercutting the RTX 5070 concurrently massively out performing it.
That was most likely by no means reasonable. As it’s and occurring AMD’s knowledge for each raster and ray-tracing efficiency, the XT most likely strains up both aspect of the RTX 5070 Ti for these two efficiency metrics whereas coming in totally $150 decrease.
$599 is not precisely chump change. But it is nonetheless one thing of a hallelujah second for players starved for something even remotely resembling good worth within the graphics card market.
On the opposite hand, the small value hole between the 2 GPUs is as anticipated and that makes the XT simply 9% dearer. However, for that 9% more cash, the XT provides you 4,096 shader cores versus 3,548 for the non-XT. That’s a 15% uplift. But wait, the XT additionally has a lift clock of two.97 GHz versus 2.52 GHz for the non-XT, that is one other 18% benefit.
All advised, AMD places the 9070 XT’s uncooked single-precision shader throughput at 48.7 TFLOPS, with the non-XT at 36.1 TFLOPS. That works out to a computational benefit of 35% for the XT for simply 8% additional cash.
Of course, the real-world body charge hole will possible be a bit smaller than the TFLOPS efficiency. But the non-XT nonetheless seems to be like a bum deal. There was a time whenever you received extra frames per greenback on lower-end GPU, however sadly these days appear to be behind us.
At least they do in response to the official MSRPs. Unfortunately, of late graphics card MSRPs are proving about as related to real-world costs as fusion reactor is to cost-effective residence heating. So, it is onerous to say how rather more the XT will truly value when it hits retailer cabinets, presumably for about three picoseconds earlier than promoting out.
For the document, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT go on sale on March 6, simply sooner or later after Nvidia’s RTX 5070 is launched on March 5. It’ll be fascinating to see if any of them can be found at MSRP and if that’s the case for a way lengthy.
There are tentative causes to be hopeful about GPU provide, not less than from Nvidia following its most up-to-date earnings name the place the corporate stated it expects revenues from gaming graphics to enhance “as provide inceases.”
On a closing notice, it says one thing about how bananas the GPU market has turn out to be {that a} $599 graphics card may be seen as an unambiguous worth proposition and one thing of a saviour for mainstream gaming. But, apparently, that is the place we’re.
