AMD video cards RX9000 series

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

Although specific performance details 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.

AMD RDNA4 fails to meet its launch price, for 8 weeks
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 Cool

Quote from: ..XyZ.. on May 29, 2025, 12:21:01 PM

At least they keep OG 8-Pin power connector Cool

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.

Another 16-pin GPU power connector gets scorched, but this time it's not an RTX 5090 — User finds their Sapphire Nitro+ 9070 XT with scorched pins

This is possibly the fifth time an RX 9070 XT has been subject to the incendiary nature of the 12V-2x6 connector. As u/divinethreshold describes on the r/pcmasterrace subbredit, their PC had started randomly crashing with little to no stability even after checking all the components. The last part to troubleshoot was the GPU and, sure enough, after plugging out the cable, they found scorch marks on the top-row of 16-pin connector.

Usually, we're left to guesstimate what happened in a certain case, but here it's pretty clear that the pins in the bottom didn't make proper contact with the GPU's female plug, leading to increased load on the top row. Despite the fact that the RX 9070 XT is a midrange card with only 304W of TGP, the electrical load was too much for just half of the pins, so they got scorched. Otherwise, the 12V-2x6 connector is rated for up to 600W of power.

This 12V HPW connector is the absolute mess of all times.

At one 12" plus graphic card lenght, to put that small power connector, is the stupidest thing possible, EVER, started with RTX4 series, also ones RTX3090 had it. Doing it again, (continuing again after alot failures) for next generation RTX5, means or you're absolute idiot or playing fool with consumer...

2026 MSI graphic card (not mine, I will never buy one graphic card with those idiot connector, as long they will continue to use it), it seems not bended or missalignet connector, just one fermly plugged it and get in fire after couple months of use.

https://i.postimg.cc/VLkT1LFj/2026-MSI.jpg

Maybe they had enough of it, for this one they will use 2 pieces to cover power hungry graphic card.

That could be one acceptable sollution for "wonder connector"...

https://i.postimg.cc/Kzc7L4jJ/Calumea.jpg

"The RTX 3090 Founders Edition uses a proprietary 12-pin connector (12-pin PCIe Molex Micro-Fit 3.0) rather than a 16-pin connector." The rest of the RTX 3090 models have two or three standard 8-pin PCIe connectors. The RTX 3090 Founders Edition is generally rare and I remember its power issues. Manufacturers are bound by standards, and unfortunately they cannot use old power connectors.

AMD has cut production of the RX 9070 and RX 9070 GRE, increasing production of the RX 9060 XT 8GB and RX 7650 GRE.
According to Chinese Board Channels, a reliable source of GPU news, AMD's add-in board (AIB) partners are preparing for another round of GPU price increases. They also seem to be shifting their product focus toward 8 GB Radeon models. After distributors implemented a 5-10% price adjustment in January, another increase is reportedly planned for February or March, though the exact percentage is not yet known. Board Channels also reports that AMD is expected to prioritize stocking 8 GB SKUs such as the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB and the older RDNA 3-based RX 7650 GRE, rather than the 16 GB SKUs like the Radeon RX 9070 XT. This shift is due to a shortage of GDDR6 memory, which is reducing the profit margins for AIBs without a significant price increase.

Will be interesting to see how the RX 9070 performs on memory-intensive algorithms like KawPoW.
Currently running a TITAN X (Pascal) with T-Rex 0.26.8 and getting around 21.5 MH/s on KawPoW at 219W, so roughly 98 kH/W efficiency.

Decent hashrate for the card's age but the power draw is not great Angry

RDNA 4 seems focused on efficiency, which could be a real advantage for miners who care about electricity costs.
Anyone has early benchmarks on the 9070 for GPU mineable algorithms ?

Curious whether the 16GB VRAM and the new memory controller make a difference on DAG-heavy workloads.

Quote from: gaelium on April 17, 2026, 10:44:35 PM

If you like older video cards, then the older Radeon 7 video card is better suited for the kawpow algorithm.
https://www.hashrate.no/coins/RVN/benchmarks
The oldest AMD RX 470 graphics cards are 2-2.7 times less energy efficient than newer ones. And 8 GB of graphics card memory is currently sufficient for this algorithm.