For those who came in late, the much-hyped chips are supposed to compete against some of the best graphics cards on the market.
AMD’s 45-minute keynote was packed with announcements with updates on various CPUs, including the new Ryzen 9950X3D, and a slew of laptop processors and APUs. However, the graphics segment was devoid of much info.
Jack Huynh, the senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group [pictured], teased the RDNA 4 architecture and machine-learning-based upscaling with FSR 4.
However, even that was short on details with Huynh only saying that FSR 4 would make games like Starfield run better. There was nothing on RDNA 4 either.
Other than it was all waffle about AMD loving the gaming community and AI PCs.
Rumoured specs for RX 9000 series GPUs have been floating around the internet for weeks now, and yet, there was next to no mention of these cards during CES 2025.
On the plus side, AMD teased RDNA 4 architecture, pointing to various hardware- and software-level improvements, including better ray tracing capabilities thanks to third-gen RT accelerators. The slides revealed that we may not get Made By AMD RX 9000 cards, and that all the GPUs will instead be made by AMD’s partners, including Acer, Asus, XFX, Gigabyte, and more.
FSR 4 got its own slide, and got more screen time during the presentation than RDNA 4.
AMD told us the RX 9070 cards will compete with the RTX 4070 Ti and the RTX 4070 Super. On AMD’s side, the top GPU is set to keep up with the RX 7900 XT; last-gen’s flagship RX 7900 XTX will remain undefeated. Meanwhile, the RX 9060 will match up against the RTX 4060 Ti and the RX 7700 XT at the most.
AMD mentioned that the RX 9070 XT will be an upper-midrange card targeting the mainstream market — but we already knew as much. The biggest revelation was the fact that FSR 4 will be an RDNA 4 exclusive; everything else was already speculated about for weeks.