AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: RDNA 4 fixes a lot of AMD’s problems
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Summary
AMD is looking to undercut Nvidia’s dominant position in the GPU market with its new Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards, aimed at the high-sales volume segment of the market.
The new cards promise improved power efficiency and performance, including ray-tracing, with fixes for previous shortcomings in these areas.
Specific features of the cards include 64 RDNA4 compute units, a boost clock speed of 2,970 MHz for the XT version, a 256-bit memory bus, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory, providing 650GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The total board power for the XT version is 304W, with a TBP of 220W for the standard 9070.
Performance-wise, AMD claims its new RDNA 4 architecture is nearly twice as fast as its previous RDNA 2 offering in rasterised performance, and 2.5 times faster with ray-tracing effects enabled.
It is also twice as fast for machine learning workloads compared to RDNA 3, and four times faster than RDNA 2.
Pricing and availability for these cards have not yet been released.
