Radeon RX 9000 series

The Radeon RX 9000 series is a series of consumer graphics processing units developed by AMD, based on the RDNA 4 architecture. The series is targeting the mainstream segment and is the successor to the Radeon RX 7000 series.

AMD Radeon RX 9000 series

Model of the AMD Radeon RX 9000 series
Manufactured by	TSMC
Designed by	AMD
Architecture	RDNA 4
Fabrication process	TSMC N4C[1]
History
Predecessor	Radeon RX 7000 series

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".^[2][3]

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.^[4]

The Radeon RX 9000 series and RDNA 4 architecture were officially previewed on January 6, 2025 during AMD's CES keynote in Las Vegas.^[5] AMD were light on concrete details surrounding the RDNA 4 architecture or the Radeon RX 9000 series during their CES keynote.^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8][9]

The Radeon RX 9070 series was revealed on February 28, 2025 in an AMD live stream event.^[10]

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.^[11]

FSR 4

See also: FidelityFX Super Resolution

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.^[12] 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.^[12]

Products

Desktop

Radeon RX		9070[13]	9070 XT[14]
Release date		6 Mar 2025
Launch MSRP (USD)		549	599
GPU die		Navi 48 XL
Transistors (billion)		53.9
Die size		356.5 mm2
Core	Stream processors	3584	4096
	Texture mapping units	224	256
	Render output units	128
	Ray accelerators	56	64
	AI accelerators	112	128
	Game frequency (GHz) Boost frequency (GHz)	2.07 2.52	2.40 2.97
Compute units		56	64
Cache	L0	32 KB per CU
	L1	128 KB per Array
	L2	8 MB
	L3	64 MB
Memory	Type	GDDR6
	Size	16 GB
	Clock (Gb/s)	20
	Bandwidth (GB/s)	640
	Bus width	256-bit
Fillrate	Pixel (Gpx/s)[a]	322.6	380.2
	Texture (Gtex/s)[b]	564.5	760.3
Processing power	FP16 (TFLOPS)	72.3	97.3
	FP32 (TFLOPS)	36.1	48.7
	AI INT8 (TOPS)[c]	289	389
	AI INT4 (TOPS)[d]	578	778
Interface	Host	PCIe 5.0
	Power	2x 8-pin
	Displays	1x HDMI 2.1b 3x DisplayPort 2.1a
TDP		220 W	304 W

1. Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of render output units (ROPs) multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
2. Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of texture mapping units (TMUs) multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
3. Officially declared performance is 2x shown here due to sparsity.
4. Officially declared performance is 2x shown here due to sparsity.

See also

• Radeon RX 5000 series – first implementation of RDNA architecture
• Radeon RX 6000 series
• Radeon RX 7000 series – AMD's predecessor to Radeon RX 9000 series (RDNA 3 based)
• RDNA (microarchitecture)
• RDNA 4 – microarchitecture used by the RX 9000 series
• List of AMD graphics processing units
• GeForce RTX 50 series – competing Nvidia GPU generation released in a similar time-frame