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Tentative Radeon RX 9070 XT pre-order date revealed by retailer

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B&H Photo and Video may have revealed when pre-orders for AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT might open up. A listing on their website suggests a late-March sale date for the RDNA 4 flagship.

AMD's decision to delay the Radeon RX 9000 series launch is puzzling despite the company's assurances that state it was done to iron out kinks with its software stack. All we know is that some GPUs will be available for sale in March. A listing on US retailer B&H Photo and Video (via Videocardz) gives us a more specific date.

Multiple listings for Asus-branded RX 9070 XT graphics cards suggest they go up for pre-order on March 23, roughly two months after its rumoured launch date of January 23. Do note this is a pre-order date, and that reviews for the graphics card might drop earlier. For example, our Nvidia GeForce RX 5090 review went live today, but you won't be able to pre-order it until January 30.

But, there's a good chance the above date is a placeholder. There's a high chance AMD will launch the Radeon RX 9070 XT around when its Blackwell-based counterpart, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, which is slated to drop on February 20. Preliminary leaks insinuate the RDNA 4 flagship will perform on between the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4080 Super in rasterization and deliver around RTX 4070 Ti level performance in raytracing.

Performance estimates notwithstanding, the Radeon RX 9070's fate will be decided by its price. While that could change at any minute, recent estimates peg it between $450 and $550. Then there's the rest of the stack to think about. SKUs such as the RX 9070, RX 9060 XT (tentative) and RX 9060 should ideally shake up the sub$500 GPU market, one that Nvidia has long abandoned.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT pre-order date (image source: B&H)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT pre-order date (image source: B&H)
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Anil Ganti, 2025-01-23 (Update: 2025-01-23)