It seems as if AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT pre-orders might begin later than preliminary stories prompt. A brand new leak from a US retailer factors to a late March date for this new AMD graphics card to develop into obtainable for pre-orders.
AMD has already confirmed that the Radeon RX 9070 XT launch date will probably be in March, however hasn’t supplied a selected day for the launch but. Whereas this new Radeon GPU isn’t anticipated to be the very best graphics card on the market when it launches, it’s nonetheless anticipated to function a powerful competitor in opposition to mid-tier Nvidia RTX 50-series playing cards such because the RTX 5070, with hopefully a aggressive price ticket to match.
As with the final RX 9070 XT pre-order rumor, this knowledge was revealed through the B&H retail web site. 4 fashions of Asus-branded RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT playing cards at the moment are listed with a brand new pre-order time and date of 9am on Sunday, March 23. That’s every week earlier than the top of the month, and means that the ultimate 9070 XT launch will probably be proper on the finish of Q1 2025.
No different data, together with specs or pictures, is listed for any of the 4 playing cards listed on the B&H web site, though we managed to get our fingers on a number of AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics playing cards at CES, together with the Asus TUF Gaming variant of the RX 9070 XT.
Regardless of asserting the brand new card at CES 2025 earlier this month, AMD hasn’t stated an excessive amount of about these new graphics playing cards simply but. It hasn’t but launched the official AMD Radeon RX 9070 specs to the general public, both. As all the time with leaks and rumors, keep in mind that this date hasn’t been formally confirmed by AMD both, so take all of it with a grain of salt, and maintain an in depth eye on future updates.
Within the meantime, try our Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 evaluation for our first, real-world testing of a next-gen graphics card, which is prone to be a good distance in entrance of the efficiency of AMD’s subsequent GPUs.
