AMD Kicks Off 2025 With Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs

Hot new GPUs are making CES 2025 a particularly noteworthy event. Nvidia announced its RTX 50 series Blackwell GPUs, and AMD unleashed its Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. The timing sets up another exciting showdown between the graphics giants and introduces a new twist: Intel has made another attempt to enter the game (at least in the midrange market), and this time, it has a real contender in the Intel Arc B580. All these new GPUs make good news for gamers.

AMD’s highly-anticipated RDNA 4 GPUs have a slightly different naming structure than previous generations, so let’s clear that up first: AMD is now naming its GPU models by 10s instead of 100s, which is why we’re seeing the Radeon RX 9070 name. As our colleagues at PCMag point out, AMD made the name changes to make clear which GPUs its Radeon cards compete with. In ...