AMD Confirms Big 9070 XT Reveal on Feb. 28
After not telling us much at all about its next-generation graphics cards at CES 2025, AMD has finally announced its announcement for February 28. The event will detail AMD's RX 9000 series, with a particular focus on the previously confirmed RX 9070 XT and RX 9070. We also expect to hear about the RX 9060, as well as details on the underlying RDNA4 architecture, and AMD's long-awaited FSR4 with frame generation.
AMD is expected to stick to recent statements of launching the RX 9070 and 9070 XT in "Early March," so it's unlikely we'll see cards available right after this event. However, it will finally give us a deeper insight into what these next-generation cards are capable of, after months of leaks, rumors, and speculation being the only morsels we could satiate ourselves with.
Outside of performance benchmarks, pricing will be a key focus of the event. We've already seen a little of what the competition will be doing, including Nvidia's announced pricing for its cards. The RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti will launch in the coming weeks , too, and may compete directly with AMD's upcoming GPUs. Indeed, AMD likely changed the name of its standard mid-tier GPUs from X700 to XX70 cards, in order to appear more in-line with the Nvidia options.
If AMD can undercut the Nvidia alternative while offering competitive performance and greater availability , it may be on to a winner. It will need to make the promised leaps in ray tracing performance, however, as AMD's last few generations have fallen well behind Nvidia on that front. With games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle demanding capable ray tracing hardware to even run at all, it's a feature that's more important to modern gaming than ever before.
However, AMD's cards won't need to drive all those rays without a little AI assistance. Just as Nvidia leans on its DLSS technology to make its cards perform far beyond their native-rendering capabilities, AMD's FSR4 has been in the works for some time and we should learn more about it at AMD's upcoming event. Set to introduce AMD's own version of frame generation, it could help pull AMD level with Nvidia's capable new RTX 50 GPUs.
FSR4 has the potential to reach far beyond the latest AMD graphics cards, too, as it's said to be a drop-in technology for existing FSR 3.1 games. That could give it an impressive lineup of compatible titles on day one, as well as allow those with older AMD (as well as Nvidia and Intel) graphics cards to take advantage without spending hundreds of dollars on an upgrade.
Elsewhere, AMD has denied claims that its launching a 32GB version of the RX 9070 .
