AMD introduces $599 Radeon RX 9070 XT and $549 RX 9070 RDNA4 GPUs

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#318886 1-Mar-2025 15:45

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-introduces-599-radeon-rx-9070-xt-and-549-rx-9070-rdna4-gpus

What do people think of these? Given that the 5070ti is going for about $1800+ and the 5080 $2500+ (mostly up near 3k tbh) here in NZ, if these can hit the claimed performance at USD $599, these might be a decent buys. Should be in the $1200-$1500 ish region?

The $50 price diff is weird though.

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#3349038 1-Mar-2025 16:38

demand high supply low -> Nvidia price $$$$$

let's hope the demand is not so high and the supply is not low for these.

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#3349410 3-Mar-2025 09:41

I might finally retire my R9 290x

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#3349541 3-Mar-2025 11:28

Batman:

demand high supply low -> Nvidia price $$$$$

let's hope the demand is not so high and the supply is not low for these.

Hopeful. I heard Steve @GN say retailers have had stock slowly sidle in since late last year.

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#3349684 3-Mar-2025 16:59

AMD are not doing themselves any favours with their feature set. It’s really tempting to just wait for Intel to release B770.

Despite what people feel about frame generation, DLSS4 upscaling with the transformer model is incredibly worthwhile for all users of RTX cards.

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#3349690 3-Mar-2025 17:31

Any local PC retailers selling these? I tried the usual suspects but no one seems to have any promo pages or listings for sale on the 7th(nz).

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#3349723 3-Mar-2025 19:10

MyFriendAutism:

Any local PC retailers selling these? I tried the usual suspects but no one seems to have any promo pages or listings for sale on the 7th(nz).

PB have pages set up for them (unlinked), but no listings yet - 9070XT & 9070

I imagine they'll go up soon, given that the launch date isn't far away and they've probably had them for months now.

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#3350523 5-Mar-2025 18:53

I went into PBtech Westgate Alk on Tuesday afternoon to ask if they would be onsale on Thursday and if they had stock.
He looked up the stock and said they would have plenty. (we will see I guess), And told me to come back in around lunch time on Thursday,
Thursday doesn't match with "goes on sale at 3am Friday" from their website.
https://www.pbtech.co.nz/promotions/amd-radeon-rx-9070-rx-9700-xt

https://hardwired.pbtech.co.nz/article/2573/new-amd-radeon-rx-9070--rx-9070-xt-graphics-cards-release-on-march-7th-at-3am-in-new-zealand

Guess I'll find out tomorrow.

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#3350555 5-Mar-2025 20:15

tehgerbil:

Hopeful. I heard Steve @GN say retailers have had stock slowly sidle in since late last year.

wow crazy. have stock since last year and not releasing for sale when nobody has anything to sell. are they waiting for Nvidia to have stock before they sell theirs?

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#3350559 5-Mar-2025 20:42

Not sure about release time but ltt reviewed the 5070 and suggested maybe waiting 24 hours for the amd embargo lift before attempting to buy one.

Considering the delay it's hopefully a better stock situation than all the other recent launches. Bold move from AMD to push it back at a time when nvidia and intel have no availability and people would have purchased it to have something. If it means the software is in a better place to improve performance and an abundance of available cards it will hopefully be a good look all round instead of a poor performing paper launch it might have been had they rushed it out.

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#3350560 5-Mar-2025 20:44

Maybe the drivers weren't ready... wouldn't be the first time!

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#3350561 5-Mar-2025 20:57

I'm mainly after a better card for running Ollama, I've currently using 6700xt on another box, and it's 6-7x times the speed of my 5950x cpu.

There was very long article from Jarred Walton on Toms hardware, in it it references an AMD AI demo which has the 9070 XT delivering very close to twice the compute performance vs the RX 7900 XT.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-rdna4-rx-9000-series-gpus-specifications-pricing-release-date.

I'm hoping the ROCM support it a little better than the 6700xt, as Phoronix had reported there would be no day 1 support, to which got this tweet reply.
https://x.com/AnushElangovan/status/1895563646572642689/photo/1
Anush is AMD's Vice President of AI Software, so probably knows what working software support wise.

I might even try some gaming, my main dev machine has a 1030gt... so this will be a big upgrade.

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#3350566 5-Mar-2025 21:34

everettpsycho:

Considering the delay it's hopefully a better stock situation than all the other recent launches.

After the Pbtech guy told me they had plenty, he also added that he doubted they would sell out very quickly. Because gamers will still just Nvidia ,as they want DLSS.

This tweet from HUB gives me hope, but that doesn't mean huge amounts of stock in NZ.

https://x.com/HardwareUnboxed/status/1896424499400307150

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#3350602 6-Mar-2025 08:37

dustysmurf:

I'm mainly after a better card for running Ollama, I've currently using 6700xt on another box, and it's 6-7x times the speed of my 5950x cpu.

For local LLMs you would also be looking for more VRAM to run larger models. One option to consider would be the new AMD APUs, e.g. Max+ 395. With 128 GB system RAM you can allocate up to 110 GB to the GPU which will allow you to run models almost seven times as large as the 16 GB in these dGPUs...

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#3350609 6-Mar-2025 09:29

5070 price is over 1399$ here in nz, will the 9070 have the same price? They both have the same msrp of usd549

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#3350613 6-Mar-2025 10:39

Yeah, I think once you do the math of conversion + tax + cost of being in NZ, you'll be looking around the $1300-$1400 range for the basic 9070s or if we're REALLY lucky we'll see the 9070 XT around that mark and the 9070 around the $1200 mark.

The 9070 XT is a super interesting proposition, currently and likely the card I'll be recommending to most people.

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