AMD just officially unveiled its Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards, and I'm absolutely thrilled at the price we're getting on March 6. Designed to take on Nvidia's RTX 5070 series, the GPUs with come in at $549 and $599 respectively and the XT will boast up to 42% better performance than the last gen RX 7900 GRE.
It's pretty clear that AMD isn't gunning for the best graphics card crown this generation. Instead, it's sending cards like the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT into the mid-range battlefield to take on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and its cheaper RTX 5070 sibling, I initially had fears that the red team would pick the wrong price point for these cards, but with the XT model coming in $150 cheaper than the new Blackwell card, I think we could be looking at a proper middle ground scrap.
