As you have already seen, AMD officially exhibited its next Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT earlier this week, including price details that were an extremely welcome view. Now, I'm starting to ask my extremely Attractive value proposal for PC players.
Naturally, I will not get too excited until we see some real world performance figures for new AMD cards. Team Red made some bold statements in its Rx 9070 XT performance showcase, placing the GPU a little above the Nvidia RTX 5070 TI in terms of native performance of 4K games even though it is cheaper of $ 150 (and let's be honest, you cannot get a 5070 TI at a retail price at this time anyway).
I suspect that it is a burden of balons, since AMD used an RX 9070 XT OvercLocked RX 9070 for its tests and its 5070 Ti comparison was probably taken from a garbage container from a cryptographic miner and then spat to a good extent (AMD: This is a joke, please do not demand me). AMD also exhibited Native Marcos 4K RAW RAW, while Nvidia is anxious to boost the effectiveness of its new dlss 4 and multiple frames functions, which, for all the debate that surrounds them, do Improve your FPS significantly in the game.
Even so, it is very impressive, but at $ 549 (around £ 520 / AU $ 880), even the Rx 9070 version cannot be called exactly a budget GPU. It is more an average range card, and although it looks like a excellent Middle range card would still argue that the best option at this time for PC builders in a budget is Intel Arc B580, which obtained a rare five stars in our review for its solid 1440p games performance and a price price of $ 249.99 / £ 249.99 / AU $ 449.
Discovering it
So, as things are at this time, it seems that AMD could be taking the medium range of a storm, while Intel clings to the budgetary market and Nvidia remains the undisputed king of the high range. But with more cards in the RX 9000 series to come, it is completely possible that AMD can descend Intel with a burning (but affordable) anger, after all, AMD made clear last year that it would no longer be pointing to the premium space, with a greater approach to the middle and budgetary range GPU.
Then, RX 9060. We know very little about it at this time, but we can make some reasonable extrapolations in this regard based on previous leaks and our existing knowledge of RX 9070 cards.
To begin with, some December leaks proved mainly precise with respect to 9070 and 9070 XT, correctly predicting the change of RX 8000 name and the update to RDNA 4, as well as the new FSR 4 Reduction technology of AMD. These leaks said that the price for the two new GPU would be in the range of $ 449 to $ 649, which has also proven to be precise, although it is true that it was a fairly wide network there. The same filter stated that the next Navi 44 GPU (9070 cards are Navi 48) would be located in the price range of $ 179 to $ 349, presumably with RX 9060 XT, or perhaps only an old and simple RX 9060 and simple, at the top.
This is where I begin to doubt the leaks a bit; A price of $ 349 would be a $ 200 gap between that card and RX 9060, which feels like a fairly wide space when it comes to prices. $ 399 It feels a bit more reasonable to me, especially if we get an RX 9060 XT, and as PC Game reports, we can apparently expect “multiple RX 9060 products” terrify in the second quarter of 2025.
Performance without price
But if the leaks are precise and AMD produces an RX 9060 xt for $ 349 or less in a few months, I will absolutely lose my Merde (Sorry to my Frenchman). The Radeon RX 7600 XT was a sufficiently decent GPU, but it did not stay up to the NVIDIA RTX 4060 when it came to hitting for its money.
However, AMD seems to be advancing in that department. Even if RX 9070 XT is 10% behind the RTX 5070 TI in terms of gross performance, and I suspect that the average could be much closer to that, it is 20% cheaper cheaper, and there are still no signs of a NVIDIA RTX 5060 desktop. While I imagine that the card will eventually go to the surface, AMD has the gloves in the Arencible GPU sand at this time, and frankly there is no hope in hell, we will see an RTX 5050 desktop, so anything below that level of performance that AMD decides to offer absolutely that price. Yes, I know that Intel's new budget GPUs are good. No, I don't think they exceed the new Radeon cards.
The fact is that AMD has had skin in the budget game for a long time. My partner, who is true that he mostly plays Stardew ValleyIt is still a Radeon RX 570 that works perfectly well for the 1080p games, a graphics card that was sold only $ 179 in the US. UU. When it was launched in 2017. I have offered to replace it with something a little more current, but it says “Why does it still work well.”
The affordable space for the average range is where the Red equipment stands out, and after some small false steps in the previous desktop generation, I think it is ready to recover its crown. With Nvidia focused on AI and ridiculously high performance, there is no time like the present.
