AMD refutes leaked RDNA 4 performance claims – “Nobody has the final driver”
Don’t believe the leaks – AMD has officially refuted leaked Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 performance claims
At CES 2025, AMD previewed their RDNA 4 architecture and revealed their Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards. AMD has also refuted all leaks and performance claims for their upcoming graphics cards.
At CES, AMD has been tight-lipped about their upcoming Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards. AMD plans to reveal more about their next-generation GPUs and architecture at another event. AMD knows that accurate performance claims cannot be made for their new GPUs yet as “nobody has the final driver.”
Nobody has the final driver, not even the board manufacturers, so don’t believe performance claims on the Internet.
– AMD Representative – CES 2025
With RDNA 4, AMD has moved to TSMC’s 4nm lithography node and promised improvements in all aspects of GPU performance. For starters, AMD has promised “Supercharged AI compute” thanks to its new second-generation AI accelerators. Next, we have “improved ray tracing compute per CU” with its third-generation RT accelerators. Furthermore, we have “optimised compute units” that should deliver an increase in raw computational power.
Even productivity users will benefit from RDNA 4, as AMD promises “better media encoding quality” with its new AMD Radiance Display Engine. Clearly, AMD wants their GPUs to be used more for AI and productivity applications. However, gaming remains AMD’s core focus.
At CES, IGN managed to benchmark a Radeon RX 9070 GPU on one of AMD’s test systems. While this benchmark result was impressive, even this system uses non-final RDNA 4 GPU drivers. This means that AMD could improve the performance of their upcoming GPUs with new driver changes. If this is the case, AMD’s RDNA 4 series GPUs may be a lot more powerful than expected. While that sounds like good news for gamers, AMD needs to back up this performance with strong pricing if they want to gain GPU market share.
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