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.
130 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Alleged Benchmark Leaks, Underwhelming Performance
Don’t honestly know if true or what.
Also, was said that rdn4 is a “bug cleanup” of rdna3 plus improving the rt part (for the victims of Ngreedia marketing team) and rdna5 would be a proper new gpu.
Given the announcement of udna, who knows if we will see rdna5 or udna in 2026.
Either way, my 7900xtx will be good enough for what i play and following steam year end review, looks like lots of people didnt bother playing new games anyways.You know the drill, everything related to AMD gpus must be trashed and everything from Ngreedia must be praised.
Water is wet and so on… :)
And 9070 is slower than 7900XtxBy looking spects its mid range Gpu
Nothing else
Just like Amd also told, no high ends coming.
it is what it is
Nothing like a slap happy game of forum rumor ball on Christmas Eve. Yeehaa!
Yeah, yeah, I'm procrastinating. I'll shut up and go wrap this ungodly mountain o boxes. :banghead:
Tough crowd.
Hopefully FSR4 is amazing and only works on it because otherwise good luck AMD.
Just gotta send in the UPC code on the box from the AMD to qualify :D
I kid I kid..
But maybe we will propose a truce hehe. No bullying will come their way :nutkick:
If it's as fast as a 4070 Super then it's going to be in the same price range, it's that simple.
Hopefully it's the driver dragging down perf, but we'll see.
If they had such benefits, there'd be no reason to not reach out and crush nvidia's higher end cards. Maybe we'll see that with uDNA, but rDNA4 is likely just to be a *slight* upgrade over rDNA3, at best, so long as you are not a high end customer.If it's as fast, it will have asterisk after asterisk.
"It's just as fast as the 4070 super *as long as you dont use RT *with significantly worse frame gen tech", ece.
Try to sell a product with an inferior package for the same price, dont be surprised if it fails. Sorry, I know AMD is the underdog and we have to make excuses for the multi billion dollar corpo, but if they are only competitive in one avenue (gaming with just raster), that wont be enough to justify being a "premium" brand and an equivalent price will be seen as stupid.I dont know why you were, there was zero indication that the 8800 would be a 7900 xtx. The only source for it being xtx level was internet comments, no leaks, no roadmaps, nothing official indicated that kind of performance.
And after two generations, I wouldnt put any stock in any RT claims AMD makes.
Like the 7900XT, 7700XT before it.
The 4080 was priced stupidly and so was the 4080 12G that got turned into the 4070ti but was still priced stupidly both got replaced by better products... The thing is when you own 90% of the market without even trying you can afford stupid pricing.
"Moving the performance needle with the price gauge it's not progress"
AMD can price products however they want but if they want people to actually buy them they should stop pretending more vram and a 10% price cut is appealing to anyone but 10% of the market.
Amd needs to price in a way that there is no debate what one should buy because even somthing garbage like the 4060ti will still murder AMDs products in sales in its general price range when that's the effort your competitor has to make to come out on top you got major problems.
And if this is the best amd can do then we are all screwed regardless....
I'm happy they've locked up both consoles becuase who knows where their gpu division would be otherwise.
I'd like to see a 9070XT at $500-550 if it's in the 4070 Super range, but realistically the green team camp is going to crap on AMD no matter the price.
Do you believe AMD has pricing power in the GPU market? I don’t.
It seems like people are ok with stupid prices from Nvidia, but not from any other company. The only pricing competition I would expect is between AMD and Intel.