- AMD’s RX 9070 is supposedly set to have critiques aired on March 5
- That’s the identical day as Nvidia releases its RTX 5070 GPU
- This additional backs up the rumor that the on-sale date for RX 9070 fashions may very well be March 6
Extra proof has emerged from the rumor mill that AMD is organising a mid-range GPU showdown between its RX 9070 and Nvidia’s RTX 5070.
VideoCardz brings us what’s purportedly the overview embargo date for RX 9070 fashions, which is March 5, forward of a theoretical March 6 on-sale date (all AMD has formally stated, although, is that these graphics playing cards will go on sale in early March).
Nonetheless, as overview embargoes are likely to fall a day (or possibly two) forward of the arrival of GPUs on cabinets, this does additional recommend that the RX 9070 on-sale date may in truth be March 6 as rumored.
What’s additionally telling about March 5 is that it’s an enormous date in Nvidia’s personal launch diary – that is the day that RTX 5070 graphics playing cards formally go on sale.
So, the plan would seem like for AMD to set off a flood of critiques of RX 9070 GPUs, little question evaluating them to the RTX 5070 (which can have already got been reviewed at that time). And presumably the hope for Group Crimson is that this might dampen the passion for Nvidia’s graphics playing cards as they hit the cabinets.
Evaluation: Pricing playing cards on the desk, please, AMD
In fact, all this is determined by how these critiques pan out, and the rival graphics playing cards really stack up to one another. However to date, the leaks round the RX 9070 paint a promising image, and also you’ve bought to assume AMD have to be fairly assured to have arrange an (nearly) head-to-head launch right here.
At any charge, I can’t wait to seek out out, and clearly I’m not alone there – anybody in search of a good mid-ranger at a (comparatively) extra reasonably priced value is likely as eager as I’m to find the place the ultimate efficiency of those AMD and Nvidia GPUs will lie.
Whereas we all know the asking value for Nvidia’s RTX 5070 – which is $549 / £539 – what we don’t know is the place AMD is pitching its RX 9070 and 9070 XT. Thus far, Group Crimson is enjoying its pricing playing cards near its chest, however I’m hoping we’ll lastly discover out the MSRP on the huge launch occasion AMD has deliberate for February 28.
One other attention-grabbing level right here is that VideoCardz observes that when the embargo materials supposedly supplied by AMD talks about that huge launch on the finish of February, it calls the occasion an “RX 90×0 announcement” not an RX 9070 affair. That additional suggests we’ll get particulars on different RDNA 4 desktop graphics playing cards, maybe the specs of RX 9060 fashions, too? Or a minimum of one thing of a teaser for these extra wallet-friendly GPUs.