AMD Confirms No Reference Designs for the RX 9070 Series and Official Benchmarks Show Up to a 42% Performance Increase over RX 7900 GRE

[Peter_Brosdahl]

As AMD confirms there will be no reference design for its Radeon RX 9070 series, official gaming benchmarks show impressive gains.

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[Marees]

Very curious that both cards are compared to 7900 gre (rather than 7800xt, 7900xt, & 7900xtx)

The 7900gre was originally launched as a 1440p max card but it is now compared to both new cards at 4K

Another curiosity was that the 7900 gre had 2 launches (& hence 2 launch prices)

July '23 — limited launch for $650
'24 — global launch for $550

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I thought the same thing as well. I have a feeling more cards will be included in future PR materials and might even get revealed on the 28th.
Rumors/hopes are 9070 for $549-599 and 9070 XT for ~650 or higher. There have been some very interesting stories regarding pricing for this over the last few months so it's really anybody's guess.

 

[Riccochet]

doesn't the 7900 GRE fit in between the 7800 XT and 7900 XT price and performance?

 

[Dan_D]

The fact that the 9070 isn't being compared to the 7900XTX is pretty telling and not in a good way.

 

[Grimlakin]

The fact that the 9070 isn't being compared to the 7900XTX is pretty telling and not in a good way.

They said back in 2024 that their new cards would not compete with the 7900xtx in performance.

 

[Denpepe]

They said back in 2024 that their new cards would not compete with the 7900xtx in performance.

If it was a high end card they would have called it a 9090 I assume; it's a mid range card from what I heard.