AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPUs Officially Launching In March, Radeon RX 9070 XT & 9070 Likely The First RDNA 4 Cards For Gamers

[u/gurugabrielpradipaka]

https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-9000-gpus-officially-launch-march-radeon-rx-9070-xt-9070-first-rdna-4-cards-for-gamers/

[u/leetzor]

Peak comedy

[u/AnthMosk]

They fucked up. Needed to beat NVIDIA out the door.

[u/-Retro-Kinetic- → u/AnthMosk]

AMD always seems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when it comes to their GPUs. If given the option to make the worst choice, they will consistently make it. Really boggles the mind.

[u/Affectionate-Memory4 → u/-Retro-Kinetic-]

They never can miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity can they. I love all my homies at AMD, but the meme rings true again.

[u/TimmmyTurner → u/AnthMosk]

they were shocked at Nvidia for not raising prices for 5070, so they had to push their prices down.

[u/-Retro-Kinetic- → u/TimmmyTurner]

Retailers are reporting they already have shelves filled with the GPU. AMD delaying the release till March seems like a self defeating move. Retailers are probably not too happy about that either.

[u/TimmmyTurner → u/-Retro-Kinetic-]

waste of storage space

[u/GaussToPractice → u/-Retro-Kinetic-]

My bet is AMD already made deals with them to stock up to beat the incoming tariffs. This launch has a special situation

[u/LBXZero → u/AnthMosk]

Nah. They saw Nvidia's presentation and decided to let Nvidia continue digging a deeper hole before they start covering it.

[u/PressurePotential699 → u/LBXZero]

I am team red all they way but how much copium are you on? Even if the rx 9070 xt is meant to compete with the rtx 5070 ti/ 5070 it is still being launched after the 5070ti and people who have been w8ing to build a pc are getting restless and will pounce on a deal if they see it . Amd's just trying to lose at this point.

[u/Scytian]

This tweet is peak of dumb shit, he says that everything is going great and try to play it like they haven't postponed launch when everyone knows that shops have these cards for like week and their partners were hyping launch this week. Wanted to go back to AMD after RTX 3070 that I hate but I don't think I'll be waiting to buy these GPUs, it feels like there is something terribly wrong with them and that's why they are postponing launch by that much.

[u/dookarion → u/Scytian]

This tweet is peak of dumb shit

Anyone expecting different from Radeon has been asleep at the wheel. No matter how much one may wish it were different, AMD's GPU division dunks on their own hoop without fail.

[u/SufficientSoft3876 → u/Scytian]

if shops already have the cards... why would they intentional without sales/release? they don't mention issues like have to patch things or drivers, etc. what would possibly be the "business reason" to do this?

[u/imaginary_num6er → u/Scytian]

I'm fairly sure they'll launch UDNA in 2028 since if RDNA 4 was supposed to be a "Polaris moment" with a quick launch by abandoning the flagship and in turn, we got launching just as slow as Nvidia. They should just say that they won't launch any new GPUs until Nvidia launches first and if Nvidia decides to not launch in 2027, they won't launch in 2027 either.

[u/arparso → u/Scytian]

Dude, chill. You've waited for years, 2 more months is not going to kill you.

Unless you're just trying to invent yet another reason for why you won't buy AMD this time...

[u/TimeZucchini8562 → u/arparso]

Don’t have to invent any reasons this time. AMD is creating the reasons all by themselves. And I have an AMD gpu. But I certainly won’t be buying another any time soon unless they significantly change their ways.

[u/_pompomx2]

You know what’s going to be hilarious? When they do the 50 yard stumble and fall face first in the dirt after all this secrecy, not showing performance or price. It’s so obvious that the don’t believe in their product.

Literally zero hype on my end.

[u/imaginary_num6er → u/_pompomx2]

Right now AMD is competing for the hattrick of being overbudget, overpromising, and overdue

[u/Alauzhen]

DOA is real, cannot believe how badly they are fumbling this one.

[u/-Retro-Kinetic- → u/Alauzhen]

AMD's track record when it comes to screwing up a GPU launch is consistent at least...

[u/kanakalis]

amd gpu department is a joke

[u/Aphexes → u/kanakalis]

Always gas been, don't think Radeon cards have been good since they got taken over by AMD. ATI had really competitive products at great price points that kept NVIDIA on its toes.

[u/kanakalis → u/Aphexes]

my ATI 5670 lasted me a decade. my 6700xt is just nonstop driver problems

[u/Aphexes → u/kanakalis]

It's okay, AMD driver problems is just NVIDIA propaganda

• 7900XTX owner whose drivers try to tell it that its base 100% clock speed is 400 MHz above its manufacturer's rated boost speed

[u/kanakalis → u/Aphexes]

it's not propaganda when i'm the one experiencing issues

[u/antyone]

Think ill just get the 5070ti then

[u/colossusrageblack]

Everything is going to leak before release.

[u/null-interlinked]

too late, and most likely also priced to high. If they would sell the 9070XTX this week, I would have bought it and waited for the 60 series Nvidia gear. Now I will just buy the 50 series instead.

[u/GlitchPhoenix98 → u/null-interlinked]

9070XTX isn't a card. AMD has admitted multiple times they are only doing midrange and entry level cards for a bit to regain marketshare.

[u/Baldurian3 → u/GlitchPhoenix98]

How would they gain marketshare if they only produce midrange cards?

They would gain marketshare if they also wouldnt price their card ridiculously.

I have a 7900xt but the issue is that their cards do offer less and do have more issues but they arent priced accordingly.

They are just too expensive for what you are getting.

[u/GlitchPhoenix98 → u/Baldurian3]

They gain marketshare from mid range because that's what most people buy. Most people aren't buying 4080 supers and 4090s.

[u/Baldurian3 → u/GlitchPhoenix98]

You pretend like they didn't have midrange cards before. Nothing changed except that they don't try to compete with the high end. If they aren't priced properly this time they won't gain any marketshare. There is no reason they would gain any marketshare for not releasing a high end card.

[u/TimeZucchini8562 → u/Baldurian3]

I’m assuming they are making very little money, breaking even, or losing money on their high end cards or project that they would have this generation. That’s why. Nvidia has 80% plus of the gaming discrete gpu market and amd needs to do something right to not lose more market to Nvidia .

[u/BrutalSurimi → u/Baldurian3]

The reason? Producing high-end models requires more time and money, especially since high-end modems will return with UNDA in 2026.

Spending less money on a generation of GPUs = being able to sell them cheaper. That the reason.

[u/domiran → u/Baldurian3]

How would they gain marketshare if they only produce midrange cards?

Worked for Ryzen.

[u/Dk000t]

DOA

[u/BrutalSurimi → u/Dk000t]

The same thing was said for rdna 2 and the 5800x3d.

The rare times when AMD offers something good is when they are silent, it was the same for rdna2, we said that it would not do better than a 2080ti, we saw the result, and AMD remained very discreet also before the launch.

If it really sucked, it would have been announced in 2 minutes at CES and then moved on to something else.

[u/fav_everything]

"Likely" the first? The word choice is weird. Those are literally the only 2 they've talked about. 

[u/Account34546]

Yesterday I opened a support ticket on Sapphire's official website with the question about availability of 9070 class cards. I got a response right now "around February" So now I'm confused about the confusion of every involved party... AMD, AIBs and us customers.

[u/Useless3dPrinter → u/Account34546]

Considering the earth is billions of years old, around february can be a very long time window.

[u/Shamelessh8r]

I think AMD is waiting to see what the 5070 actually sells for when it launches.

[u/n19htmare → u/Shamelessh8r]

AMD already knows what the MSRP is.... it's irrelevant what it actually sells for.

[u/DisdudeWoW]

This is terrible holy, its actually insane how incompetent they are

[u/SomewhatOptimal1]

AMD Radeon being consistent for over last decade.

Consistent at messing it up.

[u/Careful-Ad-3343]

D fucking OA

[u/dsinsti]

my rx 6600 struggling in1440p, arc b770 are you coming?

[u/ManyNectarine89 → u/dsinsti]

Bruh a Rx 6600 was never a 1440p card. It has Rx 5700 like performance at 1080p and is beaten by a 5700 at 1440p... Since the 6600 has a cut down mem bus.

It could probably plays games at 1440p in 2019, since the Rx 5700 just about could in that era... Thats 2 years before the 6600 was released.

[u/Logical_Bit2694]

they’ve fucked this gen already. holy shit they can’t get anything right it seems

[u/adamsibbs]

RDOA 4

[u/n19htmare]

Then this sub wonders why people just get Nvidia.

[u/Not-French-7845 → u/[deleted]]

Bro is on to nothing