Tuesday, December 24th 2024
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Alleged Benchmark Leaks, Underwhelming Performance
Recent benchmark leaks have revealed that AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card may not deliver the groundbreaking performance initially hoped for by enthusiasts. According to leaked 3DMark Time Spy results shared by hardware leaker @All_The_Watts, the RDNA 4-based GPU achieved a graphics score of 22,894 points. The benchmark results indicate that the RX 9070 XT performs only marginally better than AMD's current RX 7900 GRE, showing a mere 2% improvement. It falls significantly behind the RX 7900 XT, which maintains almost a 17% performance advantage over the new card. These findings contradict earlier speculation that suggested the RX 9070 XT would compete directly with NVIDIA's RTX 4080.
However, synthetic benchmarks tell only part of the story. The GPU's real-world gaming performance remains to be seen, and rumors indicate that the RX 9070 XT may offer significantly improved ray tracing capabilities compared to its RX 7000 series predecessors. This could be crucial for market competitiveness, particularly given the strong ray tracing performance of NVIDIA's RTX 40 and the upcoming RTX 50 series cards. The success of the RX 9070 XT depends on how well it can differentiate itself through features like ray tracing while maintaining an attractive price-to-performance ratio in an increasingly competitive GPU market. We expect these scores not to be the final tale in the AMD RDNA 4 story, as we must wait and see what AMD delivers during CES. Third-party reviews and benchmarks will give the final verdict in the RDNA 4 market launch.
Sources:
@All_The_Watts, @GawroskiT
However, synthetic benchmarks tell only part of the story. The GPU's real-world gaming performance remains to be seen, and rumors indicate that the RX 9070 XT may offer significantly improved ray tracing capabilities compared to its RX 7000 series predecessors. This could be crucial for market competitiveness, particularly given the strong ray tracing performance of NVIDIA's RTX 40 and the upcoming RTX 50 series cards. The success of the RX 9070 XT depends on how well it can differentiate itself through features like ray tracing while maintaining an attractive price-to-performance ratio in an increasingly competitive GPU market. We expect these scores not to be the final tale in the AMD RDNA 4 story, as we must wait and see what AMD delivers during CES. Third-party reviews and benchmarks will give the final verdict in the RDNA 4 market launch.
83 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Alleged Benchmark Leaks, Underwhelming Performance
In the end, this would be like a much more balanced 7800 XT, the raster and RT performance shouldn't be too much apart.
A mid-range card of the NEXT generation usually is up to part with the top end of the previous one. In that aspect, it is disappointing. I am part of the group of people who don't want to encourage Nvidia's greedy rampage, and this is not exactly helping :(
That's why the 4070ti outsells the 7900xt by 2.7x
AMD released the 7800 XT with similar performance to the 6800 XT with slightly better efficiency and ray tracing, at a slightly lower price. It sold ok (I bought one), but they lost market share overall.
AMD doing the same with the "9070 XT" compared to the RX 7900 GRE isn't enough if they want to retake market share. If Nvidia release an RTX 5070 that's effectively an RTX 4070 Ti for $600, most people will still buy that instead. The 9070 XT would still be behind in path traced or fully ray-traced games, even if it has 3x the ray tracing performance of the GRE.
In the end this is rumours, let's wait for proper tests.
But even if those two fail to offer anything interested under $500, Intel might get serious this time. B580 and B570 look interesting and any B770 might look even more interesting.
Going by normal advances, it should match a 4080 or maybe a bit bellow but same or slower than a current 7800 XT is not good for that price.
About RT, to each their own, since I personally havent found worth the performance hit and PT is even worse and present in only one game (?) which doesnt really had nothing to the gameplay.
But they need to improve the raster, cant be the same or worse than a 7800 XT.
4060 wasn't faster than 3060 when it came out. It just that while time was passing, 4000 series was getting more optimizations for newer games and had also Frame Generation to create the illusion of a faster card. And that's ignoring the 12GB 3060 model that was and probably still sells at the same or a lower price. 5060 might be 5% faster, that will become 15% after a year or two, offering a couple new features that conveniently wouldn't be supported on 4000 to make it look as a better buy. And probably at a $329 - $349 price for the 8GB model.
It was customary for the new gen mid 1440p to mach and go over the last gen top 4k or so, but nowadays all rules are long gone.
A new strongly priced mid tire GPU is all we need, imo. The kind that will make the existing line to be non-relevant. Like it was in the past.
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Path tracing needs to die, it's an inefficient way of lighting.
Nvidia relies on the old nodes 6nm and 4nm, and this is a disaster for them.
If it really is effectively a 7900GRE card in performance and if they "spiritually" make it a 8700XT card by pricing it at 450$ it's pretty good albeit concerning for AMD.
Bonus points for getting consumption down (remember, the 7700XT and 7800XT had similar power consumption making the former piss perf/W) and raytracing in shape.
If the above is true, then this means that this 9070 is one level below and is what should be competing with the likes of the 5070 at an even lower price.
However, if this is their current "flagship" product, then let's hope it can manage 7900xtx performance in raw raster perf and way better RT perf, or that it has an amazing pricing.