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Radeon RX 9070 will launch in March
Not in January, not in February but March.

McAfee’s announcement is likely to cause some confusion among GPU enthusiasts. Retailers have been stocking these cards since early January, and we have confirmed that some reviewers received them as early as late December. Imagine waiting with a new GPU without drivers for 2.5 months or so, I’m not sure if this has ever happened before.

Thus far, AMD has announced only two SKUs so far: the Radeon RX 9070 XT and the Radeon RX 9070 non-XT. The company has not confirmed the name of the GPU these models will use; however, a render of the processor was shown. Unofficially, it’s Navi 48. In terms of specs, ASUS and other board partners have confirmed that both models feature 16GB of GDDR6 memory.

The good news is, once officially released, the series should have large stock available. So hopefully, AMD won’t disappoint with pricing and FSR4 will be ready as well.

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-radeon-rx-9070-series-launching-in-march

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Although specific performance details  (https://www.dlcompare.com/gaming-news/amd-confirms-radeon-rx-9000-graphics-cards-to-launch-in-march-50149)have not been disclosed, AMD’s promotional materials hint that the top two models may deliver performance comparable to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Super. Leaked specifications for the RX 9070 XT include a Navi 48 GPU with 4,096 cores, boost clock speeds of up to 2.97 GHz, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a memory bandwidth of 640 GB/s.

While pricing for the new models has not yet been announced, AMD is expected to offer competitive prices compared to Nvidia’s products, such as the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti, which start at $549 and $749, respectively. McAfee also stated that AMD plans to roll out “a variety of graphics cards globally” this March, highlighting the company’s commitment to delivering high-quality products to consumers.

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AMD RDNA4 fails to meet its launch price, for 8 weeks (https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-is-not-available-at-msrp-for-over-2-months)
Shortly after launch, AMD displayed queues of gamers at the US retailer MicroCenter eager to buy Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards. For reasons not publicly explained, AMD chose this retail chain to receive thousands of units at launch, all available at MSRP. However, over time, the prospect of buying at MSRP has faded.

ComputerBase now reports that it has been over eight weeks since the Radeon RX 9070 launched, and throughout this period, the cards have not been available at MSRP. This is due to the initial stock being sold with rebates. The rebate-based payment system has led to ongoing issues, and two months after the initial price inflation, RDNA4 pricing remains unchanged.

AMD’s Frank Azor, who was active on social media before the RX 9070 launch, stated that the company was working with AIB partners to restock cards. He also reaffirmed that MSRP pricing would continue to be encouraged, an apparent response to rumors about AMD ending the rebate system for distributors and retailers. Unfortunately, there has been no progress since that statement.

Radeon RX 9070 ->>>> 9070XT BIOS modding
Members of the PC Games Hardware forums are the first to try something new with the Radeon RX 9070. Although BIOS modding was very popular back in the day, GPU vendors are now locking down such modifications quite strictly, meaning it is often very hard or even impossible to introduce changes to the card specs with such a simple switch. It turns out that at least some Radeon RX 9070 non-XT GPUs can be flashed with the 9070 XT BIOS.
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-9070-can-be-bios-modded-with-xt-firmware-surpasses-reference-rx-9070-xt-when-overclocked
Basically, this enables higher clocks and higher TGP, one of the most visible changes when comparing both variants of RDNA4 GPUs. However, this does not change the core count or memory specs, the latter being identical on both SKUs already.

The power and clock-starved RX 9070 non-XT got new wings with the unlocked XT BIOS. Users are reporting that it is even possible to overclock the card further. There is no issue running the non-XT 9070 cards with XT BIOS at stock, adds one of the modders.

Radeon RX 9070 with 9070XT BIOS, Source: Gurdi/PCGH

The card has scored 15-20% higher than stock RX 9070 non-XT. This is of course with overclocking not out of box experience after flashing. However the important detail is that this is already at or near RX 9070 XT level.

Radeon RX 9070 with 9070XT BIOS (overclocked), Source: Gurdi/PCGH

Performance gains are one thing, but there are also some drawbacks. For instance, ULPS mode does not seem to work, and some freezes were encountered by one of the modders. However, with some optimizations, the card seems to be stable and can beat reference 9070XT cards.

At least they keep OG 8-Pin power connector  8)

And this is because their video cards do not consume more electricity than the old ones, so they do not need a new power supply system.
Moreover, the old 8-pin system has proven itself very well.
Even on a very old RX 7990 XTX video card, which could consume 400 watts, there were 2 8-pin connectors. An 8-pin connector can transmit 300 watts.