At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), AMD announced its next-generation Radeon RX 9070-series GPUs, built on the company's latest RDNA 4 architecture. The new GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070, will be available in Q1 from various video card manufacturers. Although AMD hasn't disclosed specifications, pricing, or exact release dates, the company highlighted the significant boost in AI capabilities and improved performance of its RDNA 4 architecture.

The RDNA 4 architecture has been designed from the ground up, with optimized compute units, an improved ray-tracing engine, and upgraded media encoding quality. The new GPUs will be built on a 4nm process and will feature AMD's second-generation AI accelerators, third-generation ray-tracing accelerators, and second-generation radiance display engine. While AMD has only provided a glimpse into its RDNA 4 architecture, the company promises to share more details ahead of the Q1 launch.

The Radeon RX 9070-series GPUs will also enable the launch of FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), a machine learning-powered update to AMD's upscaling and frame-generation technology. FSR 4 has been specifically developed for RDNA 4 and its dedicated AI accelerator hardware, making it exclusive to Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards. The technology will be supported in games with FSR 3.1 already integrated, with Matt Booty, president of game content and studios at Microsoft, confirming that FSR 4 will be available in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 later this year.

Although AMD hasn't provided details on how FSR 4 will compare to Nvidia's DLSS technology or the expected performance uplift and image quality improvement, the company's branding slide suggests that the RX 9070 series will offer similar performance to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Super. Nvidia is expected to announce its RTX 50-series GPUs later today, setting the stage for a competitive GPU market in 2025.

In addition to the new GPUs and FSR 4, AMD is introducing AI-powered features to its Adrenalin software. These features include image generation with AI models, local document summarization, and an AMD chatbot that can answer questions about graphics settings and more. The company has also clarified that it will use the 8000-series branding for RDNA 3.5 mobile GPUs, skipping the 8000-series for desktop GPUs.

As the GPU market continues to evolve, AMD's next-generation Radeon RX 9070-series GPUs and FSR 4 upscaling technology are poised to play a significant role in shaping the industry's future. With Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs on the horizon, the competition is heating up, and consumers can expect significant advancements in AI-powered graphics capabilities and performance in the coming year.