Radeon RX 9000 series

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AMD Radeon RX 9000 series
Manufactured by TSMC
Designed by AMD
Architecture RDNA 4
Fabrication processTSMC N4P
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Predecessor Radeon RX 7000 series

The Radeon RX 9000 series is an announced series of consumer graphics processing units developed by AMD, based on their RDNA architecture. The series is targeting the mainstream segment and is the successor to the Radeon RX 7000 series.

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Background

AMD's Q3 2024 earnings call in October 2024 confirmed that RDNA 4 would be releasing in early 2025 with CEO Lisa Su saying that the architecture "delivers significantly higher ray tracing performance and adds new AI capabilities". [1] [2]

In December 2024, an AMD advertising campaign tie-in with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on Reddit showed a Ryzen 9 processor and what appeared to be the Radeon RX 9070 XT reference design. [3]

The Radeon RX 9000 series and RDNA 4 architecture were officially previewed on January 6, 2025 during AMD's CES keynote in Las Vegas. [4] AMD were light on concrete details surrounding the RDNA 4 architecture or the Radeon RX 9000 series during their CES keynote. [5] The Radeon RX 9000 series targets midrange performance and value rather than competing with Nvidia at the high-end like the Radeon RX 7000 series did. [6] This is a similar approach taken by the RX 5000 series in 2019. On January 8, 2025, reports surfaced that U.S. retailer B&H would begin pre-orders for the Radeon RX 9000 series on January 23. [7] [8]

Features

RDNA 4 architecture

The RDNA 4 architecture used by the Radeon RX 9000 series is, according to AMD, focused on improved ray tracing performance and expanded AI acceleration capabilities with an "optimized" Compute Unit design. [9]

FSR 4

FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) is AMD's first machine-learning upscaling solution that is able to leverage the second-generation AI accelerator cores in the RDNA 4 architecture. [10] AMD stated that due to requiring hardware acceleration, FSR 4 was limited to the Radeon RX 9000 series. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be the first title to integrate FSR 4 upscaling support. [10]

Products

Desktop

SKUReleasedLaunch
MSRP
(USD)		 GPU
Die
Transistors (billion)
Die
size		Core Cache Infinity
Cache 		Memory Fillrate [a] [b] Processing power (TFLOPS)Interface TDP
Config [c] Clock
(MHz) [d] 		L1L2SizeBand-
width
(GB/s)		TypeSizeClock
(Gb/s)		Band-
width
(GB/s)		Bus
width		Pixel
(Gpx/s)		Texture
(Gtex/s)		 FP16 FP32 FP64

Radeon RX 9070Q1 2025Navi 48 XL MB MB MB GDDR6 16 GB256-bit
Radeon RX 9070 XTQ1 2025Navi 48 XT MB MB MB GDDR6 16 GB256-bit
  1. ↑ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  2. ↑ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. ↑ Compute Units (CUs)
    Stream Processors: Texture Mapping Units: Render Output Units: Ray Accelerators: AI Accelerators
  4. ↑ Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.

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References

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  10. 1 2 "AMD announces FSR4, available "only on Radeon RX 9070 series"". VideoCardz. January 6, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2025.
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