AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT listed as a PCIe 5.0 GPU by multiple sources
Microcenter lists PowerColor’s RX 9070 XT Red Devil GPU as a PCIe 5.0 graphics card
It now looks increasingly likely that AMD’s Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs will support PCIe 5.0 connectivity. @momomo_us has uncovered a retail listing that calls PowerColor’s Radeon RX 9070 XT a PCIe 5.0 compatible graphics card. This would make AMD’s RX 9000 series the first Radeon GPUs to support the standard.
This move makes a lot of sense for AMD, as PCIe 5.0 support is available on all of AMD’s new AM5 processors. While the extra bandwidth isn’t very useful for gamers, it will be seen as a nice checkmark feature for gamers. After all, matching a PCIe 5.0 CPU and motherboard with a PCIe 5.0 graphics card just makes sense.
— 188å· (@momomo_us) February 16, 2025
A quick Google search found the Microcenter listing in question, confirming that @momomo_us’ findings were legitimate. If you want to see more of PowerColor’s RX 9070 XT Red Devil, we managed to get a look at it at CES 2025.
Note that this retail listing also reconfirms that AMD’s RX 9070 XT is a 16GB graphics card with GDDR6 memory.
This isn’t the only source that claims the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is a PCIe 5.0 GPU
Last week, specifications for AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT leaked through a GPU-Z screenshot. This screenshot listed AMD’s RX 9070 XT as a PCIe 5.0 graphics card. To our knowledge, this is the first time a leak has revealed PCIe 5.0 support for AMD’s Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs.
RX 9070 XT (Navi 48) pic.twitter.com/EjZSfSi1T5
— HKEPC (@hkepcmedia) February 13, 2025
Does having PCIe 5.0 support on RDNA 4 matter? Not really. Recent testing has revealed that even Nvidia’s RTX 5090 barely benefits from the extra bandwidth that PCIe 5.0 provides. Unless future gaming workloads become more PCIe bandwidth-intensive, using PCIe 5.0 with AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs is unlikely to deliver major performance benefits, at least in gaming workloads.
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