- AMD RX 9070 GPUs are joked to hit shelves on March 6
- Another rumor suggests that 9070 XT may need a 900W power supply
- However, it is for a top-end over-clocked version of 9070 XT, and there are several warnings to be considered here
AMDS RADEON RX 9070 graphics card will have a full launch event on February 28, which has been confirmed by Team Red, and is now a rumor on the Rumor Mill indicating that these GPUs will be available to buy on March 6th.
This alleged date of the sale comes with permission from Videocardz’s sources, a claim also backed up by the Chinese tech place benchlife. Although these two rumors are in line, we still need to take this with a great deal of caution.
That said, AMD has told us that its RX 9070 models will be sold in early March, which I take to mean the first week, and March 6 fits that image. We still need confirmation officially, and presumably it will come to the said press event for RDNA 4 GPUs at the end of February.
At the same time, more speculation flows around the power consumption of the RX 9070 XT, suggesting that a third -party variant has a big question about your PC’s power supply.
Toms Hardware noticed a post on X from Tomasz Gawroński, who showed an alleged leaked image of PowerColor RX 9070 XT Red Devil, with the packaging apparently indicating that you need a 900W PSU to have this graphics card in your game -pc .
There will be 9070 XT cards available at the launch that requires lower minimum power supply transport, as well as plenty with 8 PIN power plugs for worry-free upgrade.February 14, 2025
This has raised lots of eyebrows as it is 100W more than the current recommendation for the RX 7900 XTX flagship, even though the poster even admitted that they were not sure if the image is forged.
Interestingly, Frank Azor, head of consumer and gaming marketing at AMD, actually replied to Gawroński, observing that there will be other RX 9070 XT models that will “require lower minimum strength. Stick for worry -free upgrade. “
Note that Azor did not confirm that the picture was real, although the AMD director also did not call it a fake (but of course he does not work for PowerColor).
Analysis: Ready for AMD vs Nvidia Mid-range GPU Shootout?
The launch date of March 6 for the RX 9070 models, if it turns out to be correct, is definitely an interesting choice – mainly because NVIDIA only announced March 5 is when the RTX 5070 arrives on the shelves. So, as we theorized earlier this week, this is very similar to a middle-class head-to-head between RX 9070 and RTX 5070 in the first week of March.
As for the PSU requirement, I would not panic over the potential scenario of the RX 9070 models in some way that require large reservoirs of power. Some of the Ottiest models can, but we have to remember that Red Devil Board, mentioned in the leak, is a top-end graphics card and as Azor observed, other models will require less wattage. In fact, the rumor that the reference 9070 XT from AMD will ask for a 750W PSU, with the RX 9070 vanilla, which needs 650W is far more modest requirements (add spices with it still).
It is also worth noting that 900W is a strange specification here, considering that there are no PSUs that deliver the exact number as far as I know. There are 850W models and then we jump to 1000W, so why PowerColor (theoretically) puts the requirement just over 850W, in a non-existent PSU bracket (as it was), I’m not sure. This may be another suggestion that the image is forged.
That said, I do not doubt that a strongly over -clocked RX 9070 XT model will drink much more juice than a standard card. It will clearly, and it would therefore not be a surprise if the top dogs in the RDNA 4 graphics card world are significantly more demanding on PC’s power supply. These GPUs will also cost much more than entry level 9070 XT products and how competitive AMD’s graphics card will be in pricing conditions is the second key question we die to have answered.
We’ll get these answers soon enough, thankfully. Scroll at the end of February.
