After omitting all its RDNA 4 content from its CES 2025 keynote, it sounds as if AMD is preparing to unveil its Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards later this month. The event should shine a light on the specifications and, most importantly, price of Team Red’s stack and help us understand how well the pixel pushers will stack up against GeForce RTX 50 Series.
According to Benchlife, AMD will hold a press conference to present Radeon RX 9000 Series at the end of February, though details are still under wraps. This timing could narrow down the brand’s prior announcement of a March release window to the first half of the month.
If true, this conference would follow the February 20 launch of GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and 5070, the closest competitors to Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070. There’s no word on when RX 9060 Series cards will emerge, but I’d put money on them following RTX 5060 Series which should hit the scene in March.
As a reminder, rumours claim Radeon RX 9070 XT will boast a Navi 48 GPU complete with 4,096 stream processors, clock speeds up to 2.97GHz, alongside 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM riding on a 256-bit bus totalling in 640GB/s of bandwidth. Meanwhile, RX 9070 will feature a cutdown configuration of 3,584 stream processors but higher clock speeds of 2.52GHz.
When push comes to shove, Radeon RX 9070 XT could be within spitting distance of GeForce RTX 5080 in terms of raster performance. It’s unclear how much AMD has improved ray tracing performance with RDNA 4, but here’s hoping for a sizeable leap.
In addition to Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards, I’m hoping AMD will have something truly special to showcase with its FSR 4 upscaling. The brand is long overdue in catching up to both Nvidia and Intel, whose DLSS and XeSS upscalers are superior in image quality with the former receiving a recent boost via a new Transformer model.
