XFX's upcoming custom Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury OC graphics card has appeared, with a new listing on Amazon teasing a $849 price and March 6 release date.
In a new post by leaker @momomo_us on X, we have the XFX Mercury AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Magnetic Air Edition graphics card with a release date of March 6, 2025, and a price of $849.99. This looks like a premium RDNA 4 card with a boost GPU clock of 3.1GHz and the expected 16GB of GDDR6 memory.
The $849 pricing is a bit high for most people's liking, considering NVIDIA is about to unleash its new GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card starting at $749... meaning AMD will have an uphill battle trying to sell the Radeon RX 9070 XT for $849. We could be looking at Canadian pricing here as well, so keep that in mind... meaning the RX 9070 XT could fall into the $599-$649 price range, lining up with the exciting leaks that flagship RDNA 4 could start at $599.
If... a big if, AMD can price its flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card at $599... then it would be stealing some GPU thunder from the RTX 5070 Ti which starts at $749. However, if custom RDNA 4 cards cost $850+ then AMD is going to have a mighty hard time convincing gamers to dive into the arms of its new Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs.
- Read more: AMD's next-gen Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card launches on March 6
- Read more: AMD's big RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9070 reveal event is coming in late February
- Read more: RX 9070 XT performance leaks: less than 10% slower than RTX 5080 in 4K gaming
- Read more: RX 9070 XT perf leaks: similar to 7900 XTX in raster, smokes RDNA 3 in RT
- Read more: RX 9070 XT rumored at $599 could be RTX 5070 Ti killer, for $150 less
- Read more: RDNA 4 pricing rumor: Radeon RX 9070 XT for $599, RX 9070 for $499
In recent leaks, we've been hearing that the flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card is just 10% slower than the new GeForce RTX 5080 in 4K gaming. In other leaks, we heard that the new RDNA 4-powered RX 9070 XT has similar performance to the RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 XTX in rasterization, but RDNA 4 smokes RDNA 3 in ray tracing (RT) with more on these stories in the links above.
