From PC World: After a weird not-quite-announcement at CES 2025, AMD is ready to whip back the curtain on its next generation of graphics card. Today, David McAfee (VP of Ryzen and Radeon) announced on X that the company will formally unveil the Radeon RX 9070 XT on the AMD Gaming YouTube channel on February 28 at 8 AM Eastern.
AMD originally briefed the press on the Radeon RX 9070 XT in early January, saying that it would be part of the company’s CES 2025 keynote. AMD never actually mentioned a new GPU generation, and in interviews afterwards, executives said it was delayed to provide a bigger, dedicated event for its complex new graphics generation. (Nvidia’s RTX 50-series reveal, with lower prices than expected and a frame-boosting Multi Frame Generation feature, might have also taken AMD by surprise.)
The original press briefing didn’t reveal much beyond philosophical changes. The new RDNA 4 architecture powering the Radeon RX 9070 and 9060 series graphics cards (finally) places a larger emphasis on AI hardware as AI upscaling devours native graphics. And AMD’s next-gen FSR 4.0 is designed to lean heavily on those new AI cores to more closely compete with Nvidia’s vaunted DLSS upscaling. AMD said a March launch would let the company add more polish to initial FSR 4.0 integrations.
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