- B&H Photograph unintentionally posted early listings of RDNA 4 graphics playing cards
- RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT got a pre-order date of January 23
- That’d counsel an on sale date on the finish of January, when Nvidia’s RTX 5080 (and 5090) hit the cabinets
AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 graphics playing cards, which had been revealed (in a quite fleeting method) at CES 2025, is likely to be out there prior to you thought – on pre-order not less than, if the date unintentionally posted by a US retailers seems to be appropriate.
B&H Photograph apparently put up early listings for some Asus RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics playing cards (TUF and Prime fashions), all of which got here with a pre-order date of January 23.
These listings have now been eliminated, however not earlier than they had been screenshotted by one of many common {hardware} leakers on X, @momomo_us (hat tip to VideoCardz).
Preorder begins at 9:00am ET, Thu Jan 23 pic.twitter.com/kATVQZNtZvJanuary 8, 2025
So, it seems that we’d have the ability to reserve these much-awaited RDNA 4 graphics playing cards in simply two weeks, presumably forward of a launch which might come possibly every week or so after.
Evaluation: Battle of the next-gen desktop GPUs
Apparently, one other latest rumor on the RX 9070’s launch date got here from graphics card maker XFX, which has some type of both announcement or launch of those GPUs deliberate for January 24. A technique or one other, then, plainly one thing’s going to occur with RDNA 4 as we get to the ultimate week of January.
It looks like this is likely to be the official revelation of the complete spec and value particulars (which weren’t shared at CES 2025), forward of the on-shelf availability (which is why B&H has it as pre-orders going dwell). Clearly take all this with a big serving to of salt, and certainly there’s a distinction within the dates – January 23 or 24 – which casts additional doubt on these rumors. True, the XFX rumors comes from its center east division, however the time distinction between that and the 9am ET pre-order kick-off B&H had down remains to be on the identical day (simply).
We’ll simply have to attend and see, but it surely wouldn’t be a shock if AMD was planning to kick off RDNA 4 and have these graphics playing cards on the cabinets late in January, as a result of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and 5080 go on sale come January 30. So, the dates fall in place for what is likely to be an enormous next-gen GPU showdown – of types.
As you is likely to be conscious, the RX 9070 fashions aren’t going to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5080 (and positively not the 5090), so how is that this a ‘showdown’ precisely? Nicely, the truth is that the RTX 5080 goes to be approach too expensive for many customers, despite the fact that the $999 MSRP was extra reasonably priced than anticipated. (Sure, some of us had been considering it’d simply be $1,199, possibly extra – although third-party boards will inevitably land extra on this territory, as most of them will probably be a good bit pricier than the Founders Version at Nvidia’s MSRP).
What we’ll have, then, is a state of affairs the place in idea AMD can are available with far more reasonably priced next-gen GPUs, grabbing the curiosity of would-be patrons, scooping up extra gross sales with RDNA 4 as of us understand simply how expensive RTX 5080 GPUs will probably be – when Nvidia’s $999 Founders Version inevitably sells out in a flash – probably successful the showdown on this approach.
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