AMD RX 9070 XT with 32 GB GDDR6 VRAM Is Reportedly in the Works to Sway Consumers Needing More Memory

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It's only a matter of weeks until the expected launch of AMD's RDNA4 graphics cards which have already been confirmed to feature 16 GB of VRAM. This amount of memory is usually considered more than adequate for gaming at 1440p and for many games can suffice at 4K. However, from video and photo editing projects to AI tasks the sky is the limit for PC users looking beyond gaming for their graphics card purchases.

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What are the use cases for that? Video editing, compute and AI?

I don't think I've ever see my 4090 come even close to 16GB VRAM use, and I run everything at 4k ultra.

I understand the desire for future-proofing, but I guess my perspective is, that if we get to a point where above 16GB RAM is necessary, the 9070XT chip is probably going to be insufficient to render it at any acceptable framerate anyway.
 
LazyGamer said:
Yes. Loading smaller (non-enterprise) LLMs, and whatever photo / video / modeling works on AMD GPUs currently without crashing.
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Correct and you can get local LLM's into the 40gb plus memory footprint and offloading to the GPU still helps.
 
Devil's in the details. . . .Frank may've denied an XT model with this but turns out there might be an XTX version coming.

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Despite Frank Azor's Dismissal, Whispers of a 32 GB Radeon RX 9070 XTX Resurface

Recent rumors hinted at a 32 GB variant of the Radeon RX 9070 XT being in the works, which were quickly dismissed as false information by AMD's Frank Azor. However, reliable sources seem to point to the contrary, stating that a 32 GB variant of the RX 9070 XT, likely dubbed the RX 9070 XTX, is...
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Grimlakin said:
Correct and you can get local LLM's into the 40gb plus memory footprint and offloading to the GPU still helps.
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If that's the case you aren't exactly buying gaming cards for that workload. You're buying Radeon Pro's or Nvidia Ava's or H100's for DC's.

Right tool for the job.
 
Grimlakin said:
If you're doing tinkering the consumer card is a easier pill to swallow.
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Then make your dataset work within it's specifications. There's zero reason a gaming card like the 9070XT should have 32GB of VRAM it'll never be able to utilize in gaming, just to drive up the cost so a very small percentage of people can "tinker".
 
Riccochet said:
Then make your dataset work within it's specifications. There's zero reason a gaming card like the 9070XT should have 32GB of VRAM it'll never be able to utilize in gaming, just to drive up the cost so a very small percentage of people can "tinker".
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That's at least one reason...
 
Riccochet said:
Then make your dataset work within it's specifications. There's zero reason a gaming card like the 9070XT should have 32GB of VRAM it'll never be able to utilize in gaming, just to drive up the cost so a very small percentage of people can "tinker".
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While I agree, I don't think anyone suggested the regular 9070xt would have 32GB of VRAM. The way I read the rumor is that there will potentially be versions of it that have 32GB, probably just by doubling the size of the individual RAM chips on a special version, suggesting that the regular version will be 16GB.
 
Problem I have is if they keep the vram as GDDR6 and not 7 or 6x then you're putting in an bottleneck intentionally. IF the GPU can use the ram that is.
 
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