AMD announced its new RDNA graphics cards at CES 2025 this week, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070, both the mid-range graphics card segment, as widely expected.
There is still much that we know in the two new letters, apart from the new numbering scheme, it is intended to facilitate the comparison of AMD Radeon cards opposed to competition, namely Nvidia.
As a component of this new numbering scheme, the RADEON RX XX70 cards are now destined to compete with the NVIDIA XX70 cards, with the RX 9070 XX opposite to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI and the RX 9070 opposite to RTX 5070. It also has the case . Teath a Los Angeles Losal for Radeon RX 9060 cards, which would later face the NVIDIA RTX 5060 TI and RTX 5060.
The things a little more confusing when comparing these new cards with their predecessors, AMD indicating that the RX 9070 series replaces everything, from the AMD RX 7900 XT to RX 7800 XT, while the RX 9060 series replaces more or less the RX 7700 XT XT and RX 7600 XT (RX 7600 would probably be replaced through a point of decrease that both).
It hasn’t said whether or not there will be any RX 9080 or RX 9090 cards, but given all of the talk about AMD conceding the premium enthusiast segment to Nvidia this generation, the 9070 and 9060 series cards are likely to be the only cards we get this go around.
No value or launch date has been given for the company, only that we will have to wait for the new Radeon cards in the first quarter of 2025.
AMD’s obvious resolution to sell the lover segment to the mid-range and higher-end budget segments has been telegraphed for some time now, and it turns out that’s what AMD has envisioned.
Personally, I think it’s a great move on AMD’s part. If you’ve got a grand to spend on a graphics card, you’re all but certain to go for an Nvidia GPU. But the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE currently sits atop our best graphics card list for a reason. The RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are ideal for 4K gaming, but according to Valve’s Steam Hardware Survey, the vast, vast majority of gamers out there are gaming at 1080p, with 1440p gaming being the area with the most growth. 4K gamers, meanwhile, make up less than 5% of gamers out there.
That makes sense. 4K gaming is incredibly beloved for an increasingly marginal advantage. As Techradar’s component editor, I, tested all the most productive 4K graphics cards again, and I can slightly make the difference between 1440p and 4K in terms of visual acuity, however, I can certainly make a difference in terms of the frame, and unless you have a 120Hz or better gaming instructor, you’ll never see the much faster 1440p frame than a 4K graphics card like the RTX 4080 (or AMD RX 7900 XTX, on the way) can give you.
The only other people who can really get advantages of a 4K graphics card on this level are other people with a lot of effective to spend to build the most productive imaginable game PC with a best range game instructor. It is a very narrow market, and if you are this type of player, you will simply do crazy things on a premium Nvidia card.
AMD’s apparent acknowledgment of this gives it a great opportunity to market its otherwise fantastic graphics cards to the vast majority of gamers, especially those whose goodwill has been burned by Nvidia’s increasingly high prices.
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