Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange.

At $600, AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is just where it needs to be to compete for 4K gaming against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.

AMD has finally done it. For years it's tried to undercut NVIDIA with slightly cheaper, but less capable, video cards like the Radeon 6700 XT and 7900 XT. And sure, it's still following that same strategy with the new Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT.

That said, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX's memory bandwidth (384-bit/960GBps) and memory capacity (24GB) are undeniable advantages. The Radeon RX 9070 XT ships with a 256-bit memory interface and 16GB of GDDR6, which gives it 640GBps of bandwidth. That should be sufficient to avoid any major bottlenecks, but it is still less than some competing options.

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT offer faster performance and more memory than Nvidia's lackluster RTX 5070. Hail to the new 1440p gaming champions.

AMD has gone big with the new Radeon RX 9070 XT, and I don't just mean because it's an absolutely monstrously large GPU. This is the first time in a very, very long time where AMD is releasing a brand new graphics card that isn't just toeing the same line Nvidia has already drawn in the sand.

The Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9070 is part of the new Radeon 9000 GPU lineup. With support for the new RNDA 4 architecture, 3rd generation ray tracing acceleration and 2nd generation AI accelerators, the new RX 9070 leverages its new RNDA 4 hardware to push the performance of the latest 9000 GPUs to the max.

Here are the ASRock Taichi 9070 XT benchmarks, as we run the new graphics card in Indiana Jones, Black Ops 6, and more, with FSR 4 tests.

The $549 and $599 price points put these GPUs in intense competition with NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series. Plus, AMD committed to an AI telecom solution layer at Mobile World Congress.

AMD’s RX 9070 series delivers high-refresh 1440p and smooth 4K gaming, improved ray tracing, AI-powered FSR 4, and HYPR-RX for enhanced performance.

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT offer more frames with FSR 4, but will it compete on performance for the lower price?