AMD previews their RDNA 4 RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs at CES

AMD reveals their Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 at CES 2025

AMD officially revealed its RDNA 4 graphics architecture at CES 2025, highlighting its core improvements. Additionally, AMD has officially named its Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards, which will be released in Q1 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.

AMD’s new AI accelerators arrive with RDNA 4, and they will power AMD’s FSR 4 AI upscaling technology. Unfortunately, since FSR 4 was designed with RDNA 4 in mind, it won’t be supported on AMD’s older graphics cards. Users of older AMD GPUs will have to stick with FSR 3.1.

In Q1 2025, AMD will release their Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs. AMD has not released any performance data about these graphics cards, or any pricing information. We expect to learn more about these GPUs over the coming weeks. Note that AMD’s reveal comes before Nvidia’s CES keynote.

So far, AMD has confirmed that nine board partners will be creating Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs. Note that MSI is absent from this list. MSI confirmed last year that they have shifted their focus to Nvidia GPUs. This is why MSI isn’t on this list. Don’t expect to ever see an MSI-branded Radeon RX 9700 XT.

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