Right now at CES 2025, AMD introduced its new 9070-series graphics playing cards, the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070. Whereas the corporate didn’t reveal costs or availability for these new elements, it did provide a preview of the brand new GPUs’ options and efficiency.
Particular specs weren’t disclosed throughout the firm’s presentation, each the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are constructed on AMD’s RDNA 4 structure, that includes AMD’s second-gen AI accelerators, second-gen radiance show engine, and third-gen ray-tracing accelerators. AMD claims the efficiency benchmarks will likely be roughly within the vary of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Tremendous. That will put the RX 9070 collection inside a mid-range line of GPUs, slightly high-end models–though we’re curious to see how they will stack up towards Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5000-series GPUs, that are additionally anticipated to be unveiled at CES this week.
What was confirmed, nevertheless, is that the GPUs’ RNA 4 structure will help the brand new FidelityFX Tremendous Decision 4 (FSR 4) AI-powered decision upscaling, which AMD additionally previewed at CES. FSR is just like Nvidia’s DLSS and PS5 Professional’s PSSR upscaling tech (which was primarily based on FSR), however FSR 4 is constructed particularly for the RX 9070 collection’ new AI accelerators. FSR 4 will launch alongside the brand new Radeon 9070 GPUs and can help any video games that already use FSR 3.1 and above, together with Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6, as confirmed by Microsoft’s Matt Booty throughout AMD’s presentation. The corporate didn’t specify how FSR 4 upscaling will examine to its present FSR 3.5 or Nvidia’s DLSS.
AMD didn’t reveal costs or particular launch dates for the Radeon RX 9070 GPUs, however the first wave is anticipated to launch in Q1 2025, with fashions deliberate from a number of producers, together with Acer, Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, and extra.
New Ryzen 9 Flagship CPUs
Alongside these new GPUs, AMD additionally unveiled its new flagship desktop CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D, throughout its CES 2025 presentation. Pricing and particular launch date had been as soon as once more not confirmed, however we did get a extra concrete launch window of March 2025, and a clearer overview of its specs and efficiency.
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D options 16 Zen 5 CPU cores (32 threads), a most enhance frequency of 5.7GHz, 144MB of complete cache, and 170 watt TDP. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D options 12 cores (24 threads), a 5.5GHz most enhance, 140MB of cache, and a 120-watt TDP. AMD says the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is 10% quicker on common than Intel’s present Core Extremely 9 285K flagship CPU, and as much as 20% quicker for gaming. Its gaming efficiency benchmarks are additionally inside 1% of AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which is broadly thought of the perfect gaming CPU at the moment on the market–and one that’s notoriously troublesome to search out in inventory.
The Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D are each set to launch in March, however no costs have been revealed but.
When you’re out there for an AMD processor however do not need to wait, Amazon has restocked the popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU for $479. The 8-core, 16-thread processor launched in November and may attain clock speeds as much as 5.2GHz. Amazon additionally has offers on a number of older Ryzen 7 processors that also provide nice speeds and dependable efficiency, together with the Ryzen 7 7700X for $325 (was $399) and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D for $359 (was $449). For a finances CPU, try the Ryzen 5 7600X for $219 (was $299).