Official: AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT start at $549, ship March 6th

AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs is arriving next week — and its new graphics cards are aggressively priced against Nvidia’s $749 GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and $549 RTX 5070. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT ship March 6th for $549 and $599 respectively, one day after the RTX 5070 arrives.

AMD says they both offer “4K gaming at a 1440p price,” though it’s making some unusual comparisons to do so — according to AMD, the 9070 XT is 51 percent faster on average than a four-year old RX 6900 XT at 4K and max settings, and 26 percent…