AMD's Upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Details

According to a new leak on ChipHell, AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card is expected to have an engine clock boost of up to 3.10 GHz. Depending on the board design, the total board power could reach up to 330 W. The GPU is rumored to have a high base frequency for the engine clock, with a reported 2.80 GHz base frequency (interpreted as Game clocks), and the ability to boost up to 3.10 GHz under optimal power and thermal conditions.

The RX 9070 XT will be AMD's fastest graphics card based on the next-generation RDNA 4 graphics architecture. While not targeting the enthusiast segment, AMD aims to compete in the performance segment against NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 series.

RDNA 4 is expected to bring significant improvements in ray tracing performance, with rumors suggesting that AMD has enhanced its ray tracing hardware to reduce the performance impact of ray tracing. The RX 9070 XT is based on the "Navi 48" silicon, a performance-segment chip succeeding the "Navi 32" and "Navi 22," with a rumored compute unit count of 64, or 4,096 stream processors.

Performance rumors for the RX 9070 XT vary, with some sources claiming it will outperform the RX 7900 GRE in raster graphics performance and surpass the RX 7900 XTX in ray tracing performance. Others suggest it will exceed the RX 7900 XT in raster performance and compete closely with the RTX 4080. The truth will be revealed in approximately one month.