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For the first time in years, AMD’s new GPU pricing might actually get people to buy it
Even though I use Nvidia, I do not like Nvidia, and It's been a good long while since I last bought an AMD GPU. I was hoping to splurge on RDNA4 even before Nvidia RTX 5000 GPUs started burning down, and the newly announced pricing scheme gives me hope. Indeed, after a prolonged and deeply annoying game of cat and mouse with Nvidia's ray-traced jacket-man, AMD has finally decided enough was enough. We now have an official MSRP for the new RX 9000 series graphics cards, and it's substantially more promising than I thought it would be. The baseline RX 9070 will set you back a relatively humble $549, while its chunkier brother, the RX 9070XT, should clock in at $599. Compared to Nvidia's RTX XX70 GPUs, which these AMD offerings compete with, this is a lovely change of pace. If they end up being available at MSRP, that is. Image via AMD AMD RDNA4 RX 9070 and RX 9070XT available at $549 and $599, respectively Even though we've known for a while now that AMD wasn't going to compete with Nvidia as far as halo products go, aiming instead for the mid-to-high range RTX XX70 graphics cards, hard performance figures have been out of reach. That's all changing, because AMD has some very promising performance claims for us: AMD Radeon RX 9070: 38% faster than AMD RX 6800XT, 26% faster than Nvidia RTX 3080 AMD Radeon RX 9070XT: 51% faster than AMD RX 6900XT, 26% faster than Nvidia RTX 3090 These are averages taken from a grand total of 30+ games tested at maximum settings, rendered at a native 4K resolution. Impressive stuff, honestly, though you do need to keep your expectations in check. An RTX 5090 competitor this very well ain't. Though AMD hasn't provided any concrete comparisons with the newer RTX 4000 and 5000 GPUs, testing done by Digital Foundry suggests that the RTX 3080 delivers about 65-70% of the performance of an RTX 5070Ti. In other words, RX 9070XT may well come close to the 5070Ti, which would be a lovely thing to see. As is usually the case with AMD, there are some caveats to keep in mind about RNDA4. For starters, AMD is offering less interesting features and ray-tracing performance across the board. They also may well cannibalize each other's sales, considering the low performance delta between the two. Then again, if AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards don't end up burning, I'll be quite happy with what's on offer. Remember: Nvidia's top-tier GPUs are extremely hard to get nowadays. AMD's offerings may well suffer the same fate, naturally, but one can hope. Besides, if AMD manages to claw back some market share from Nvidia and position itself for an even better next generation of hardware, we should all be thrilled. On a related note, I recommend looking into AMD's fancy new Ryzen AI Max APUs as well. They'll be prominently featured in the delightful new Framework Desktop PCs, and I've got really high hopes for that product line. Lots to look forward to from AMD, then. Fingers crossed that the company finally delivers on all its promises. RDNA4 graphics cards should be available from March 6 onwards! The post For the first time in years, AMD’s new GPU pricing might actually get people to buy it appeared first on Destructoid.
Even though I use Nvidia, I do not like Nvidia, and It's been a good long while since I last bought an AMD GPU. I was hoping to splurge on RDNA4 even before Nvidia RTX 5000 GPUs started burning down, and the newly announced pricing scheme gives me hope.
Indeed, after a prolonged and deeply annoying game of cat and mouse with Nvidia's ray-traced jacket-man, AMD has finally decided enough was enough. We now have an official MSRP for the new RX 9000 series graphics cards, and it's substantially more promising than I thought it would be. The baseline RX 9070 will set you back a relatively humble $549, while its chunkier brother, the RX 9070XT, should clock in at $599. Compared to Nvidia's RTX XX70 GPUs, which these AMD offerings compete with, this is a lovely change of pace. If they end up being available at MSRP, that is.
AMD RDNA4 RX 9070 and RX 9070XT available at $549 and $599, respectively
Even though we've known for a while now that AMD wasn't going to compete with Nvidia as far as halo products go, aiming instead for the mid-to-high range RTX XX70 graphics cards, hard performance figures have been out of reach. That's all changing, because AMD has some very promising performance claims for us:
- AMD Radeon RX 9070: 38% faster than AMD RX 6800XT, 26% faster than Nvidia RTX 3080
- AMD Radeon RX 9070XT: 51% faster than AMD RX 6900XT, 26% faster than Nvidia RTX 3090
These are averages taken from a grand total of 30+ games tested at maximum settings, rendered at a native 4K resolution. Impressive stuff, honestly, though you do need to keep your expectations in check. An RTX 5090 competitor this very well ain't.
Though AMD hasn't provided any concrete comparisons with the newer RTX 4000 and 5000 GPUs, testing done by Digital Foundry suggests that the RTX 3080 delivers about 65-70% of the performance of an RTX 5070Ti. In other words, RX 9070XT may well come close to the 5070Ti, which would be a lovely thing to see.
As is usually the case with AMD, there are some caveats to keep in mind about RNDA4. For starters, AMD is offering less interesting features and ray-tracing performance across the board. They also may well cannibalize each other's sales, considering the low performance delta between the two. Then again, if AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards don't end up burning, I'll be quite happy with what's on offer. Remember: Nvidia's top-tier GPUs are extremely hard to get nowadays. AMD's offerings may well suffer the same fate, naturally, but one can hope. Besides, if AMD manages to claw back some market share from Nvidia and position itself for an even better next generation of hardware, we should all be thrilled.
On a related note, I recommend looking into AMD's fancy new Ryzen AI Max APUs as well. They'll be prominently featured in the delightful new Framework Desktop PCs, and I've got really high hopes for that product line. Lots to look forward to from AMD, then. Fingers crossed that the company finally delivers on all its promises. RDNA4 graphics cards should be available from March 6 onwards!
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