AMD finally gives the Radeon RX 9070 XT a release date and it's (roughly) March
Not a moment too soon, AMD has finally put a release date on the much anticipated Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs. They go on sale in March. Yeah, just March, no specific day in March has yet been indentified by AMD.
Still, cue much rejoicing from gamers after a high-value graphics card, right? We'll certainly be celebrating if the boards are as cheap and performant as the rumours suggest.
Radeon 9000 series hardware and software are looking great and we are planning to have a wide assortment of cards available globally. Can’t wait for gamers to get their hands on the cards when they go on sale in March!January 20, 2025
The news comes from the X account of AMD's consumer CPU and GPU boss, David McAfee, who said, «Radeon 9000 series hardware and software are looking great.»
As we reported last week, these news RDNA 4-based GPUs didn't seem imminent following the launch that wasn't a launch at CES. What's more AMD's promise at the show that we'd see the 9070 and 9070 XT some time in Q1 allows for a launch right up to the end of March. So, it all makes sense.
Of course, it does all still beg the question of why not sooner? After all, AMD's previous generation of GPUs, the Radeon RX 7000 cards, were out right at the end of 2022. The company has already missed its usual two-year cadence for new GPU families.
There's no official answer to that question. But a number of factors are likely at play. First, there's a good chance that the GPUs that are about to launch weren't AMD's original plan for this generation.
AMD went for a chiplet design for RDNA 3 and the Radeon RX 7000 family and the expectation for RDNA 4 was a refinement of that approach. As we no know, AMD didn't go with chiplets for RDNA 4 and if that wasn't what was initially intended, then no doubt that put the whole proces behind schedule.
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