AMD is seemingly planning a late March release for its upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs according to a store’s listings. This is in accordance with the brand’s latest announcement, leaving more time to stock up on cards.
Radeon 9000 series was expected in January – likely the 23rd going by the recent Reddit ads – before getting rescheduled to an unknown later date. Following users’ disappointment, AMD’s David McAfee ended up giving a vague March time frame, explaining the reason is to improve its software stack while bringing FSR 4 to more games.
Regardless, this fluid release date has been clarified by B&H, which listed a bunch of custom Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards. According to the American retailer, models should become available to pre-order on March 23, i.e. two months after the reported initial date.
That said, this could be a placeholder since the 23rd falls on a Sunday. Also, note that none of these models seem to be a reference AMD design, as they come from Asus Prime and TUF Gaming series.
This means that an official announcement with specs and pricing should come sometime in early March. For the time being, rumours talk about 16GB of 20Gb/s GDDR6 memory on both RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, with the only difference residing in the core configuration. The former is expected to carry 3,584 cores clocked at 2.52GHz boost, with the latter rocking 4,096 cores at 2.97GHz.
With that in mind, the performance delta between the two could be around 16%, which is roughly the same gap from RX 7900 XT to RX 7900 XTX. Funnily enough, looking at AMD’s product segmentation slide, RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT should both slot below RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX, respectively. But as usual, we must wait for reviews to be sure. What is official is that AMD isn’t targeting the high-end this generation, leaving Nvidia as the only option for enthusiasts.
