# Radeon RX 9000 series

The Radeon RX 9000 series is a series of consumer graphics processing units developed by AMD, based on the RDNA 4 architecture. The series is targeting the mainstream segment and is the successor to the Radeon RX 7000 series.

## Background

AMD's Q3 2024 earnings call in October 2024 confirmed that RDNA 4 would be releasing in early 2025 with CEO Lisa Su saying that the architecture "delivers significantly higher ray tracing performance and adds new AI capabilities".
In December 2024, an AMD advertising campaign tie-in with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on Reddit showed a Ryzen 9 processor and what appeared to be the Radeon RX 9070 XT reference design.
The Radeon RX 9000 series and RDNA 4 architecture were officially previewed on January 6, 2025 during AMD's CES keynote in Las Vegas. AMD were light on concrete details surrounding the RDNA 4 architecture or the Radeon RX 9000 series during their CES keynote. The Radeon RX 9000 series targets midrange performance and value rather than competing with Nvidia at the high-end like the Radeon RX 7000 series did. This is a similar approach taken by the RX 5000 series in 2019. On January 8, 2025, reports surfaced that U.S. retailer B&H would begin pre-orders for the Radeon RX 9000 series on January 23.
The Radeon RX 9070 series was revealed on February 28, 2025 in an AMD live stream event.

## Features
### RDNA 4 architecture

The RDNA 4 architecture used by the Radeon RX 9000 series is, according to AMD, focused on improved ray tracing performance and expanded AI acceleration capabilities with an "optimized" Compute Unit design.

### FSR 4

FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) is AMD's first machine-learning upscaling solution that is able to leverage the second-generation AI accelerator cores in the RDNA 4 architecture. AMD stated that due to requiring hardware acceleration, FSR 4 was limited to the Radeon RX 9000 series. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be the first title to integrate FSR 4 upscaling support.

## Products
### Desktop

| Radeon RX | Radeon RX | 9070 | 9070 XT |
| Release date | Release date | 6 Mar 2025 | 6 Mar 2025 |
| Launch MSRP (USD) | Launch MSRP (USD) | 549 | 599 |
| GPU die | GPU die | Navi 48 XL | Navi 48 XL |
| Transistors (billion) | Transistors (billion) | 53.9 | 53.9 |
| Die size | Die size | 356.5 mm$^2$ | 356.5 mm$^2$ |
| Core | Stream processors | 3584 | 4096 |
| Core | Texture mapping units | 224 | 256 |
| Core | Render output units | 128 | 128 |
| Core | Ray accelerators | 56 | 64 |
| Core | AI accelerators | 112 | 128 |
| Core | Game frequency (GHz) Boost frequency (GHz) | 2.07 2.52 | 2.40 2.97 |
| Compute units | Compute units | 56 | 64 |
| Cache | L0 | 32 KB per CU | 32 KB per CU |
| Cache | L1 | 128 KB per Array | 128 KB per Array |
| Cache | L2 | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Cache | L3 | 64 MB | 64 MB |
| Memory | Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory | Size | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory | Clock (Gb/s) | 20 | 20 |
| Memory | Bandwidth (GB/s) | 640 | 640 |
| Memory | Bus width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fillrate | Pixel (Gpx/s) | 322.6 | 380.2 |
| Fillrate | Texture (Gtex/s) | 564.5 | 760.3 |
| Processing power | FP16 (TFLOPS) | 72.3 | 97.3 |
| Processing power | FP32 (TFLOPS) | 36.1 | 48.7 |
| Processing power | AI INT8 (TOPS) | 289 | 389 |
| Processing power | AI INT4 (TOPS) | 578 | 778 |
| Interface | Host | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 5.0 |
| Interface | Power | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin |
| Interface | Displays | 1x HDMI 2.1b 3x DisplayPort 2.1a | 1x HDMI 2.1b 3x DisplayPort 2.1a |
| TDP | TDP | 220 W | 304 W |
* ↑ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of render output units (ROPs) multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
* ↑ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of texture mapping units (TMUs) multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
* ↑ Officially declared performance is 2x shown here due to sparsity.
* ↑ Officially declared performance is 2x shown here due to sparsity.