At CES 2025, AMD presented its new generation of graphics cards, the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070built on the RDNA 4 architecture. Although many details remain unclear, the company highlighted major improvements, including support for FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling technology powered by artificial intelligence . The Radeon RX 9070
Presentation of the AMD Radeon RX 970 (XT)
AMD announced that the RDNA 4 architecture was designed from the ground up, with a particular focus on improving AI capabilities. The company has optimized its computing units, improved the ray-tracing engine and its performance, while strengthening the encoding quality of multimedia files. Based on a 4nm engraving process, the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 integrated second generation AI accelerators, third generation ray tracing accelerators and a second generation radiance display engine.
One of the key points of this new generation is the launch of FSR 4, a machine learning-based image scaling and generation tool designed specifically for the RDNA 4 architecture. Currently, FSR 4 will be only available on Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards and will be supported in games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, as confirmed by Matt Booty, president of Microsoft’s content and studios division, during the conference from AMD at CES in Las Vegas.
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Although the potential of FSR 4 has been highlighted, AMD has not yet compared this technology to that of Nvidia, such as DLSS, nor specified the gains in performance or image quality that it could offer. But little information here and there from AMD suggests that the performance of the RX 9070 will come close to that of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Super cards.
Improvements for Adrenalin
Finally, AMD announced the integration of new AI features into its Adrenalin software, such as image generation via AI models, local document summarization, and a chatbot to ask questions about graphics settings. These features are intended to enrich the user experience, but additional details on the RX 9070 series and FSR 4 will be shared before their launch in the first quarter of 2025.
Note that Nvidia will announce its RTX 5000 graphics cards in a few hours.
