AMD to unveil RX 9000 series February 28, leaked specs and prices emerge

Highly anticipated: Following a brief introduction at CES and weeks of anticipation, AMD has confirmed when it will reveal technical specifications and launch details for the first Radeon RX 9000 graphics cards. The announcement came on the same day that Nvidia set the final launch dates for its competing mid-range RTX 50 series GPUs, setting up a face-off.

David McAfee, the vice president and general manager of AMD's graphics division, has confirmed that the company will stream a full unveiling of its upcoming Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards on February 28 at 8 AM Eastern. Recent leaks indicate that the 9070 XT likely utilizes the full Navi 48 die but might cost around $700.

AMD previously confirmed that it plans to release the first RX 9000 GPUs, likely the 9070 and 9070 XT, in early March. The company aims to provide 4K gaming at mainstream prices. Applying current exchange rates to leaked prices from a Canadian retailer suggests that the former might start at $599 and the latter at $699.

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If the numbers aren't placeholders, the RX 9070 XT will significantly undercut Nvidia's $749 RTX 5070 Ti, which launches on February 20. However, the standard 9070 would land slightly above Team Green's 5070, set for a May 5 launch.

What consumers get for that price difference remains unclear. IT magazine HKEPC recently acquired a CPU-Z snapshot of the RX 9070 XT that suggests it utilizes the Navi 48 GPU's full specifications: 4,096 cores, a 3.1GHz boost clock, 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, a 256-bit memory bus, and 644 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

RX 9070 XT (Navi 48) pic.twitter.com/EjZSfSi1T5

An early Call of Duty benchmark at CES suggests that AMD's cards might trade blows with the 5070 family in rasterization performance. Additionally, AMD's FSR 4 upscaling tech looks poised to bring the image quality of all FSR 3.1-compatible games in line with Nvidia DLSS. However, Team Red must still prove it can catch up in ray tracing performance.

Users worried that 16GB of VRAM might be insufficient placed hope in recent information suggesting that AMD was preparing a 32GB version of the 9070 XT. Unfortunately, AMD's Frank Azor shot down the rumor.

9070xt and 9070 prices in Canada (canada dolars)
0.7x exchange rate
Looks like 699$usd msrp for 9070xt and 599$usd for 9070 (non-xt)
EDIT: (canada does not show prices with vat my bad)
EDIT2: May be placeholder so worst possible scenario don't go for forks and torches yet. pic.twitter.com/SgFoW5IsEI

Mainstream GPUs like Nvidia's RTX 5060 series and AMD's 9060 family are also on the horizon. Little is known about them, but the 5060 Ti will likely have 8GB and 16GB variants, while the standard 5060 will only include 8GB.

Additionally, AMD confirmed that it has no plans for discrete RX 9000 laptop graphics cards. If the company's RDNA 4 architecture appears in future laptops, it may be limited to integrated GPUs.