MSI confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that it won’t be pushing out any custom-cooled variations of AMD’s latest Radeon RX 9070 Series GPUs. That’s right, the PC brand is decidedly giving RDNA4 a miss.
“Regarding your question, MSI is not manufacturing AMD GPUs this generation.” That’s the response the company gave to Tom’s Hardware when asked about whether or not it plans on jumping on the RX 9070 Series bandwagon.
The PC tech portal also believes that MSI’s statement may not just be limited to the Radeon RX 9070 Series. Based on its reply, it is possible that the company is skipping the entire RDNA4 family altogether, meaning that we may not even see any other SKUs of whatever AMD plans on releasing down the road.
To be clear, this is all just speculation but it is easy to understand MSI’s reservations about investing resources into AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 Series- NVIDIA has effectively dominated the consumer graphics market for several years, and more so with the advent of the RTX series GPUs in 2018.
MSI’s last foray with red team’s GPU was with RDNA3. It released four custom models: the 7900 XTX, 7900 XT, and two variants of the RX 7600. The company just didn’t even bother with the 7800 XT, 7700 XT, or 7600 XT.
(Source: Tom’s Hardware, TPU, Videocardz)
