AMD is rumored to hold an RDNA 4 launch event later this month — RX 9000 GPUs still planned for March
Hopefully, we can learn more about the architecture itself.

New information suggests that AMD might be planning a launch event for its Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs by the end of February, per Benchlife. While the GPUs are still slated for a March release, this could be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the ins and outs of RDNA 4, provided AMD details those aspects.
The initial unveiling of RDNA 4 at CES was quite underwhelming. With many still hoping for a January launch, AMD quickly addressed rumors and confirmed RDNA 4 for March, citing much-needed tuning for maximum performance ahead of launch. Even so, we grabbed a few snippets of Navi 48, the GPU that powers the RX 9070 family, measuring roughly 390mm2, slightly larger than GB203 on the RTX 5080, coming in at 378mm2.
In an article detailing the RTX 5070 Ti's embargo, Benchlife claims that AMD is hosting 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 versus Blackwell. For context, the RX 9070 XT is rumored to keep up with the RTX 4080 Super in raster performance. While we don't expect any more hardware revisions, as a handful of retailers already have these GPUs in stock, the performance can further benefit from driver optimizations.
"If nothing else, AMD will hold a launch event for the Radeon RX 9000 series with RDNA 4 GPU architecture at the end of February, but details are still to be confirmed."
Benchlife (Translated)
The RX 9070 family will be contested by the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070, assuming the latter is even available in stock at launch. With rumored performance numbers within 15% of the RTX 5080, this could be the perfect opportunity for AMD to disrupt the budget market and get these GPUs into the hands of gamers. More competition generally always benefits the end-user.
With that in mind, Nvidia is also rumored to be preparing to launch the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 next month to combat what should be the RX 9060 XT and 9060, or possibly even RX 9050 from AMD's dugout. However, these are supposedly coming in at higher ASPs (Average Selling Prices).
AMD will also debut FSR 4 this generation, which incorporates AI-powered frame generation that will be exclusive to RDNA 4. It also features AI-powered upscaling, similar to what DLSS and XeSS have been doing for years. We'll have to see how its upscaling compares to Nvidia's new transformer model for DLSS. Either way, it's good to see AMD pushing its technology forward to combat Nvidia.
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Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
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Jabberwocky79 Seems like Nvidia really botched the launch on the drivers-side of things (not even to mention the supply woes). If AMD takes more time and thus provides good stable drivers at launch along with adequate supply, they could really improve their brand image.Reply -
DS426 AMD's record in past years is fumbling the ball when given a great opportunity, so yes, here's to hoping consumers will have an extremely viable alternative to the market leader.Reply
Oh and hey, wait, where's the "AMD drivers suck" village people?? Probably shouldn't try to use this as a talking point now, lol. -
Mr Majestyk Just let them be reviewed already. You already know how poorly the 4070 5070 will perform and the pricing, what are you waiting for???Reply -
spongiemaster
The two cards Nvidia has released are not competing with anything from AMD, so it doesn't really matter. 70ti is launching February 20th, and 70 is supposed to be released this month too. Those are the 2 releases Nvidia needs to do better with to counter RDNA4.Jabberwocky79 said:Seems like Nvidia really botched the launch on the drivers-side of things (not even to mention the supply woes). If AMD takes more time and thus provides good stable drivers at launch along with adequate supply, they could really improve their brand image. -
YSCCC
Well, although those are not released yet, the chips and the specs are long set, they can’t do anything to compete with one another at this point, given how poorly the 5080 performs the 9070XT likely set it’s target too high during the marketing segment phase, now likely they will have a considerable lead compared to the 5070Ti, only thing they need to do are to have adequate supply and not last minute upping its price to miss the opportunity againspongiemaster said:The two cards Nvidia has released are not competing with anything from AMD, so it doesn't really matter. 70ti is launching February 20th, and 70 is supposed to be released this month too. Those are the 2 releases Nvidia needs to do better with to counter RDNA4. -
beyondlogic Amd can take as much time as it needs solid drivers is key no more fine wine crap take there time I'd gladly wait till may if it means bug free drivers.Reply
I've owned 3 amd cards and my last was rDNA 2 6700xt good raster but kept crashing on just desktop doing nothing spent more time diagnosing driver bugs then actually gaming. -
salgado18
I own an RX 6700 XT that I bought used, from a batch of mining cards. Works flawlessly. You probably had a bad card, incompatibility somewhere or bad luck. No card would ever be sold crashing on the desktop.beyondlogic said:Amd can take as much time as it needs solid drivers is key no more fine wine crap take there time I'd gladly wait till may if it means bug free drivers.
I've owned 3 amd cards and my last was rDNA 2 6700xt good raster but kept crashing on just desktop doing nothing spent more time diagnosing driver bugs then actually gaming. -
beyondlogic salgado18 said:I own an RX 6700 XT that I bought used, from a batch of mining cards. Works flawlessly. You probably had a bad card, incompatibility somewhere or bad luck. No card would ever be sold crashing on the desktop.
Brand new out the box wasn't cards actual fault what it was a driver issue Radeon bugs. Glad yours worked flawlessly as I said I've owned 3 Radeon cards all had either a bug with drivers that I just wasn't going to spend half a week diagnosing.
Did fresh driver installs etc the same thing kept happening.
Again my issue is with amd driver support from back when I bought the card. I also got the card replaced same issue tried different pc same issue.
Never had a issue with any of my Nvidia cards.
It's possible there driver side has improved but from what I've dealt with thus far I won't hold my breath.
I'm hoping they are focusing on drivers. -
YSCCC
Actually my gigabyte 3070ti was bought brand new upon release and it got serious artefacts, thought it was bad ram but the exchange sealed new card behaved the same. It only self fixed after a few driver updates. My exp is that in recent years the drivers are just the same quality, depending on your luckbeyondlogic said:Brand new out the box wasn't cards actual fault what it was a driver issue Radeon bugs. Glad yours worked flawlessly as I said I've owned 3 Radeon cards all had either a bug with drivers that I just wasn't going to spend half a week diagnosing.
Did fresh driver installs etc the same thing kept happening.
Again my issue is with amd driver support from back when I bought the card. I also got the card replaced same issue tried different pc same issue.
Never had a issue with any of my Nvidia cards.
It's possible there driver side has improved but from what I've dealt with thus far I won't hold my breath.
I'm hoping they are focusing on drivers. -
beyondlogic
Well I can agree that all cards at launch drivers just suck. My issue with the 6700xt I had was it already had 4 driver updates and was still broken. They still never really fixed direct x9 I believe on any rdna cards though unless there's been a magic update I missed.YSCCC said:Actually my gigabyte 3070ti was bought brand new upon release and it got serious artefacts, thought it was bad ram but the exchange sealed new card behaved the same. It only self fixed after a few driver updates. My exp is that in recent years the drivers are just the same quality, depending on your luck