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Details on AMD’s $549 and $599 Radeon RX 9070 GPUs, which aim at Nvidia and 4KNew GPUs launch March 6, targeting upper-midrange 1440p and 4K gaming PCs. AMD says the RX 9070 will start at $549, the same price as Nvidia's RTX 5070. The slightly faster 9070 XT starts at $599, $150 less than the RTX 5070 Ti. The cards go on sale March 6, a day after Nvidia's RTX 5070. Neither Nvidia nor Intel has managed to keep its GPUs in stores at their announced starting prices so far, though, so how well AMD's pricing stacks up to Nvidia in the real world may take a few weeks or months to settle out. For its part, AMD says it's confident that it has enough supply to meet demand, but that's as specific as the company's reassurances got. Specs and speeds: Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT
As is implied by their similar price tags, the 9070 and 9070 XT have more in common than not. Both are based on the same GPU die—the 9070 has 56 of the chip's compute units enabled, while the 9070 XT has 64. Both cards come with 16GB of RAM (4GB more than the 5070, the same amount as the 5070 Ti) on a 256-bit memory bus, and both use two 8-pin power connectors by default, though the 9070 XT can use significantly more power than the 9070 (304 W, compared to 220 W). AMD says that its partners are free to make Radeon cards with the 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 power connectors on them, though given the apparently ongoing issues with the connector, we'd expect most Radeon GPUs to stick with the known quantity that is the 8-pin connector.
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