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.
129 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Alleged Benchmark Leaks, Underwhelming Performance
Path Tracing is the next step in bringing the current stagnated graphics to a new level, wether people like it or not, it's going to happen eventually.
If they've lowered their costs enough it would be a very interesting card as the 7xxx series or the new arc are.
*The problem is the inflation of prices since 1080 and many prople trying to play unoptimized games at "4k" (UHD) with raytracing (doubtly usefull graphics improvements).
We need to cool down, and let them cook in their financial problems.
Nobody needs a gaming PC, an AI laptop, etc. except for the influcencers and "pros", the ones bringing the illusion "4k", 600fps for "competitive" games, etc.
If AI pipeline rendering is good enough to fill in someones face, then it's good enough to fill in shadows and generate what light looks like.
I'm sorry to anyone who had unrealistic expectations because of random people on the web making things up. But that's your own fault. The rumored 4080 performance referenced in the article was posted by a Chinese Nvidia fanboy. One can only guess at his goal in overhyping Radeon.
Then the B580 is also disappointing, 270mmq for low-end performance, not mid range.
P.S.A.: all upscalers degrade image quality regardless of whose implementation.
And since we know that AMD will not ask a normal price, then we can declare DOA already!
Even if minor, those errors stand out because they are simply unnatural, uncanny, and butt ugly. Upscaling is not quite at the point of completely eliminating those issues - not even DLSS - but FSR is notably worse at that. In static imagery, it looks fine. In motion? I can't get used to it. The same thing applies to the vaseline filter that is running a below native res form of upscaling. It ain't better. Its a notable loss of fidelity to gain some FPS, simple as that.
VFX studios are still favouring the brute force approach since it’s still the most stable and reliable thing around.
Until low/mid-range cards like the RTX 5060 can pull off framerates of 30FPS or at least above slideshow levels, these path tracing benches are as worthless as those Ashes of the Singularity async compute benches that AMD used to be obsessed with back in the day: it only matters on one page for reviewers and absolutely nowhere in the real world. If this card's RT performance is even under Nvidia's by 10-15% and raster performance is better than Nvidia's equivalent card by at least that same amount, anyone with a brain will pick the 16GB AMD card over the already obsoleted 12GB Nvidia card (if the VRAM capacity rumours are to be believed of re-using 12GB capacity for 5070 class GPUs and 8GB for the 5060s) because PS5 ports without RT already need 12GB or more VRAM for native 4K. I'll take the much higher frame rate and native resolution + settings with realistic lighting but no/minimal RT over the lower frame rate and resolution path traced one with glistening mirror-looking floors and fuzzy reflections of RT anyday.
Probably signals the death of progress in the mid range gpu market.
If the price is right it's about as far as it could be from the death of progress in the mid range gpu market.
Unless you think a 4080 Super for 1000$ is mid-end. Fair enough I guess.
I well understand that it's entertaining to chew over rumors and such, but let's keep some perspective.
And, yes, you're right... I suppose I'm not much fun at parties.