AMD is joined to hold an RDNA 4 -launching event later this month – RX 9000 GPUs still scheduled for March

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New information suggests that AMD may be planning a launch event for its Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs at the end of February, per. BenchLife. While the GPUs are still scheduled for a March release, this can be an excellent opportunity to learn more about ins and outs in RDNA 4, provided AMD detailed these aspects.

The initial reveal of RDNA 4 on CES was quite over. With many who still hope for a January launch, AMD quickly addressed rumors and confirmed RDNA 4 to March with reference to much needed tuning to maximum performance prior to launch. Still, we grabbed a few excerpts of Navi 48, the GPU that drives the RX 9070 family, measured approx. 390 mm2slightly larger than GB203 on RTX 5080 that comes in at 378 mm2.

In an article describing the RTX 5070 Tis Embargo, Benchlife claims that AMD hosts a dedicated launch event for RDNA 4 later this month. If this information is accurate, we can expect to learn more about AMD’s pricing structure and how RDNA 4 holds up against Blackwell. In context, RX 9070 XT is joined to follow with RTX 4080 Super in Raster Performance. Although we do not expect more hardware revisions, as a handful of retailers already have these GPUs in stock, the benefit can further take advantage of driver optimizations.

“If nothing else, AMD will hold a launch event for the Radeon RX 9000 series with RDNA 4 GPU architecture in late February, but details still need to be confirmed.”

BenchLife (translated)

The RX 9070 family will be disputed by RTX 5070 TI and RTX 5070 if you assume that the latter is even available in stock at the launch. With rumored performance numbers within 15% of RTX 5080, this can be the perfect option for AMD to interfere with the budget market and get these GPUs in the hands of the players. More competition is generally always beneficial to the end user.

With that in mind, NVIDIA was also being prepared to launch the RTX 5060 TI and RTX 5060 next month to fight what should be RX 9060 XT and 9060, or possibly even RX 9050 from AMD’s Dugout. However, these are reportedly coming into higher ASPs (average sales prices).

AMD will also debut FSR 4 This generation, which contains AI-run framework generation, which will be exclusive for RDNA 4. It also has AI-driven upscaling, similar to what DLSS and Xess have done for years. We will have to see how its upscaling is compared to Nvidia’s new transformer model for DLSS. Either way, it is good to see AMD pushing its technology forward to fight nvidia.