CES 2025 arrange an old school graphics card battle between Nvidia and AMD, even when the latter confirmed up a bit late. We all know when the brand new RTX 50 collection GPUs will debut (on the finish of January) and we now know when AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT playing cards will hit retailer cabinets: March.
If you need a extra particular date, nicely, you aren’t alone. However that’s as a lot as AMD vp David McAfee (whom we’ve spoken with on a number of events) is keen to share in the mean time, solely barely bettering on the “Q1” date that was introduced at CES.
A submit on The Social Media Web site Previously Often called Twitter says this:
“Radeon 9000 series hardware and software are looking great and we are planning to have a wide assortment of cards available globally. Can’t wait for gamers to get their hands on the cards when they go on sale in March!”
AMD’s resolution to launch the Radeon 9000 collection on the xx70 degree has been interpreted as an unstated capitulation to Nvidia, who has dominated costlier tiers of graphics playing cards for each industrial AI purposes and shopper PCs. Within the announcement (which surprisingly didn’t get a spot in AMD’s keynote presentation), AMD says that the brand new naming scheme is designed to “match direct competitor compare,” in addition to align with the Ryzen 9000 CPU collection.
Combating for a extra value-focused market makes a number of sense, particularly with Intel’s Arc discrete GPUs getting into the market on the decrease finish. However that can make AMD’s pricing choices for these playing cards that rather more essential, as PC avid gamers search for a less expensive different to the most recent Nvidia RTX fashions. The RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti will price $550 and $750 for the bottom fashions, for the sake of reference.
AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs, particularly the gaming-focused X3D fashions, have been flying off the cabinets. If AMD can ship comparable efficiency at a lower cost, it may very well be a much-needed increase for the graphics card facet of its enterprise.
