AMD will unveil its first RDNA 4 GPUs at CES next week. Rebranded the RX 9000 series, the RX 9070 XT will head the upcoming Radeon stack. Team Red has decided to skip the RX 8000 branding, and opt for 9000 instead to match the Ryzen 9000 processors. According to Benchlife, the Radeon RX 9070 and the 9070 XT will be unveiled at CES next week, followed by a late January launch.
The Radeon RX 9070 XT will leverage the Navi 48 XTX die and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 20 Gbps. This is in sharp contrast to NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series “Blackwell” family, where even the mobility stack will adopt GDDR7 memory.
Unfortunately, the Radeon RX 9070 XT will feature a rather generous 330W TBP compared to 250-300W on the RTX 5070 series cards. The Radeon RX 9000 GPUs, unlike their GeForce rivals will also stick to the dual PCIe 8-pin power connector configuration. Consequently, we might see triple 8-pin connections on overengineered AIB cards.
Rumored specifications of Navi 48:
- GPU: Navi 48.
- Process Node: TSMC N4P (4nm).
- Work Group Processor/Dual Compute Units: 32?
- Compute Units: 64?
- Shaders/Cores/Stream Processors: 4096?
- RT Cores: 64?
- L3 Cache: 64MB?
- ROPs/RB+: 128.
- TMUs: 256.
- Bus width: 256-bit.
- Die: ~240 mm².
