After a weird not-quite-announcement at CES 2025, AMD is ready to whip back the curtain on its next generation of graphics card. Today, David McAfee (VP of Ryzen and Radeon) announced on X that the company will formally unveil the Radeon RX 9070 XT on the AMD Gaming YouTube channel on February 28 at 8 AM Eastern.
AMD originally briefed the press on the Radeon RX 9070 XT in early January, saying that it would be part of the company’s CES 2025 keynote. AMD never actually mentioned a new GPU generation, and in interviews afterwards, executives said it was delayed to provide a bigger, dedicated event for its complex new graphics generation. (Nvidia’s RTX 50-series reveal, with lower prices than expected and a frame-boosting Multi Frame Generation feature, might have also taken AMD by surprise.)
The original press briefing didn’t reveal much beyond philosophical changes. The new RDNA 4 architecture powering the Radeon RX 9070 and 9060 series graphics cards (finally) places a larger emphasis on AI hardware as AI upscaling devours native graphics. And AMD’s next-gen FSR 4.0 is designed to lean heavily on those new AI cores to more closely compete with Nvidia’s vaunted DLSS upscaling. AMD said a March launch would let the company add more polish to initial FSR 4.0 integrations.
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Beyond that, we don’t know anything official yet, though some compelling (unconfirmed) Radeon RX 9070 XT specs were recently leaked. Are they legit? Guess we’ll find out on February 28.
In the meantime, check out our reviews of the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, two graphics cards that go all-in on DLSS 4’s new Multi Frame Generation feature. Nvidia just announced that the RTX 5070 Ti, a more direct competitor to the name-borrowing Radeon RX 9070, will launch on February 20. It’s going to be a busy end of the month for gaming enthusiasts!
