With the launch of the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, AMD presents its alternative to the RTX 50 that Nvidia presented at the beginning of the year; In fact, it is a delayed launch on purpose against the Nvidia product, and everything indicates that it has been the correct choice. Because players are desperate for a fair product like the one that AMD has just presented.
As the technical requirements of the new games are increasing, demand for powerful graphics cards has shot. Unfortunately, players have been ignored for several years in favor of other more profitable investments for manufacturers; If it was impossible to buy a card because of cryptocurrencies, Now it’s the AI turn to remove cards from players and raise prices to madness levels.
The launch of the NVIDIA RTX 50 was disappointing for that reason: it was noted that they were not intended for players, but for AI; The performance jump is not as remarkable as in other generations, and Nvidia leaned too much on technologies such as DLSS to present impressive performance figures. Nor does it help to find these new cards at prices close to PVP.
The presentation of RX 9070 could not have been more different. AMD has focused mainly on the pure performance in video games to appeal to the players first of all; And to top it off, it has achieved it with very competitive prices that are clearly lower even to the PVP of the new Nvidia cards.
Basic RX 9070 is priced at $ 549, and RX 9070 XT costs 599 dollars; Of course, those will not be the prices that we will see in stores, and everything will depend on the demand and the different versions released by the manufacturers. But it is still the blow to the table that many were wishing.
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AMD RADEON RX 9070 TX and RX 9070
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Although AMD has also announced new versions of its image expansion and acceleration technologies of AI, the prominence has been in the real performance of its new cards to native resolutions; Nothing of ‘false frames’ or technologies based on AI as Nvidia did. That honesty reaches the point of confessing that the new RX 9070 XT is actually 2% slower than the RTX 5070 TI of NVIDIA at 4K resolution; but With a PVP 150 dollars lowerit has a much higher performance/price ratio.
Regarding the last generation of AMD, RX 7900 GRE, basic RX 9070 is 20% faster at 1440p resolution, while RX 9070 XT is 38% faster at that resolution, while it is 42% faster at 4K resolution. The improvements can be seen in all kinds of games, but where the jump is really noticeable is in Ray-Training performanceor lightning layout, which has traditionally been one of the weak points of AMD cards; With the new third generation accelerators, each computer unit is capable of reaching twice as much performance, although we hope that NVIDIA will continue to have the advantage in this aspect.
The performance difference between 9070 XT and the basic version should be remarkable, but so will energy consumption. The XT version has a 304W TDP, compared to the 220W of the basic version; that, and the price and size difference, It can make normal RX 9070 in teams that do not search or need maximum performance.
AMD has launched a wink to the players With this presentation; And it seems that their goal is Nvidia users who want to update but have felt abandoned by the green brand. As a demonstration, he states that RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are 26% faster than RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 to 4K resolution; A comparison with two cards makes a couple of generations that does not seem coincidence.
Brands like Sapphire and Asrock have already confirmed that they will launch its versions of RX 9070 XT and RX 9070and it is expected that in the next few days availability and price in Spain will be confirmed.
