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*** The AMD RDNA 4 Rumour Mill ***

NZXT30 said:
Saw that rumour as well, absolutely dreadful if true.
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Wouldn't believe it tbh. That leaker got a lot of things wrong about RDNA3 and then deleted their whole twitter timeline after the launch.

Logically speaking, why would AMD price a midrange GPU at $649? It would not only go against what they've said about their strategy with RDNA4, but it would represent a $150 increase on the 7800XT. I struggle to think of any reason why they wouldn't price it at $499 or lower.
 
I wonder why they'd change the naming scheme and use RX 9070 instead of RX 9700, the second number has denoted the tier within that generation for most of their releases if I recall. Maybe they don't want it sharing a name with the legendary Radeon 9700 PRO (or they're just copying Nvidia's naming).
 
Killer7xx said:
Wouldn't believe it tbh. That leaker got a lot of things wrong about RDNA3 and then deleted their whole twitter timeline after the launch.

Logically speaking, why would AMD price a midrange GPU at $649? It would not only go against what they've said about their strategy with RDNA4, but it would represent a $150 increase on the 7800XT. I struggle to think of any reason why they wouldn't price it at $499 or lower.
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To me it makes more sense than anything else I've heard. AMD will do what they've done for the better part of the last decade, come in overpriced and underperforming with a price cut 6-9 months later when everyone will have forgotten about their GPUs.
 
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Killer7xx said:
Logically speaking, why would AMD price a midrange GPU at $649? It would not only go against what they've said about their strategy with RDNA4, but it would represent a $150 increase on the 7800XT. I struggle to think of any reason why they wouldn't price it at $499 or lower.
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AMD don't do logic unfortunately.
 
Heinz57 said:
I wonder why they'd change the naming scheme and use RX 9070 instead of RX 9700, the second number has denoted the tier within that generation for most of their releases if I recall. Maybe they don't want it sharing a name with the legendary Radeon 9700 PRO (or they're just copying Nvidia's naming).
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I have fond memories of my 4070X2

Make that a 4870X2

Damn, I'm getting old and have seen too many GPU and monitor numbers

E: I imagine they've gone 9070 for the lolz
 
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Honestly thinking I was right to buy my GRE now. I am hoping FSR 4 works to some degree on it, I am not paying Nvidia more than 650 for a card and so that means I won't be buying one as I would require at least 16gb and now these cards looks to offer similar performance to my card but with better RT. happy to skip until UDMA.
 
Heinz57 said:
I wonder why they'd change the naming scheme and use RX 9070 instead of RX 9700, the second number has denoted the tier within that generation for most of their releases if I recall. Maybe they don't want it sharing a name with the legendary Radeon 9700 PRO (or they're just copying Nvidia's naming).
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9700 CPU. 9070 GPU It makes sens to me
 
humbug said:
The quality will never be equal or even good enough, try to picture Digital Foundry saying FSR 4 is just as good as the latest DLSS.
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But stick a Sony / PlayStation label on it and it shows promise. Does anyone know how much of PSSR is Sony IP or if its built from FSR?
 
adidan said:
I have fond memories of my 4070X2

Make that a 4870X2

Damn, I'm getting old and have seen too many GPU and monitor numbers

E: I imagine they've gone 9070 for the lolz
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I had a 4870X2 mobility in a laptop (which was essentially 2x MXM-factor 4870s with a Crossfire bridge). It was a heckofa mobile gaming machine, although ATI/AMD only released, get this... a single driver for it. Long story, but this was around the AMD-ATI acquisition and Hector/AMD was doing everything he/it could to offload ATI's support requirements. They actually put the honus on the laptop manufactuer to update drivers... who, in turn, issued not a single driver update.

My guess is AMD is really trying to differentiate the RDNA 4 product line with this naming convention change because a) it no longer competes in the high range, b) they want to change consumer perception on AMD cards not being able to handle RT.
 
harmattan said:
I had a 4870X2 mobility in a laptop (which was essentially 2x MXM-factor 4870s with a Crossfire bridge). It was a heckofa mobile gaming machine, although ATI/AMD only released, get this... a single driver for it. Long story, but this was around the AMD-ATI acquisition and Hector/AMD was doing everything he/it could to offload ATI's support requirements. They actually put the honus on the laptop manufactuer to update drivers... who, in turn, issued not a single driver update.

My guess is AMD is really trying to differentiate the RDNA 4 product line with this naming convention change because a) it no longer competes in the high range, b) they want to change consumer perception on AMD cards not being able to handle RT.
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I still have a M18 R2 with 2 Radeon HD 6990M in CrossFire, it worked great.
 
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