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.
143 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Alleged Benchmark Leaks, Underwhelming Performance
In another news, AMD market share drops from 9.9% in Q4 2024 to 4.9% in Q2 2025 . :rolleyes:
Even $499 isn't that good, same price as Q3 2023 7800XT with only so little performance uplift?And don't start with the improved raytracing, 9070 will be slower than 4070 super in QHD, i don't expect more than +15% in raytracing vs raster performance, meaning if 9070 is +2% faster vs 7900GRE in raster then it will be max around +17% faster in real world raytracing.
And anyway for AMD to justify same price with Q3 2023 7800XT isn't the best strategy to say that the reason is the increased raytracing performance (or the AI based FSR4 upscaling if they exclude RDNA3 parts which is unlikely to happen since the math engine is there, RDNA2 should not support the AI component of FSR4 on the other hand) because it will immediately in part justify Nvidia's rethoric all these years (although Nvidia's software stack and support from the industry is greater than the sum of just better raytracing+DLSS)
How AMD's new strategy to go after the 80% TAM correlates with $499 for this kind of performance?
Now, how on earth would a 7900GRE with 5% more perf at $500 be "an amazing deal" when the 4070 SUPER has been available at this price and in this area of performance for 6 months now? What's next, a 9080XTX at $1100 with the perfs of a 4080 SUPER?!
So you'd essentially be getting 4070 super performance for $100 less with full 16GB of vram so it has longevity beyond its first year of purchase. If the PS5 pro RT performance is anything to go by, then RT performance will be up to 2.5x times of the current GRE model.
4070 super prices in Europe are way worse, cheapest ones are 700 euros, that is essentially $750 us dollars for a mid range GPU. So you have a $750 4070 super in Europe competing against a $550 RX9070, that is $200 price difference for a mid range card. Most people, well actually 95% of all PC purchases are prebuilt, so consumers LOVE, absolutely LOVE and ADORE those types of deals! Only high end DIY users don't like those deals and they all buy Nvidia anyways!
So AMD should just ignore all of those consumers, because they won't spend a dime on AMD GPU's and focus on all of the rest, which is literally 95% of consumers.
Your average PC buyer in Malaysia, Morocco, Holland, Brazil, Cambodia, Romania, Uzbekistan, etc... doesn't buy DIY, the most they'll buy is maybe a new pair of ram sticks, but that's about it. They all buy prebuilt computers. So AMD should focus on that, prebuilt, combos, deals, etc...
In fact the biggest market for CPU's and GPU's is the $200-300 market by far, this is literally where 50% of all purchases are made! And in games the 7900XT is 30% faster than the 7800XT, in real life the 4070ti super is over 30% faster over the 7800XT and even the GRE in some games. So in actual games based on this bench the 9070XT should be 20% faster than the 7800XT.
So getting $100 less on a one year old card with +4Gb is nice, but that's not really the deal of the century to me.
If yes, then the right price would be $399 at launch, $349 after a month, and $299 after March 2025.
Anything less would not be worth releasing.
So AMDs next Gen mid-tier upgrade falls short of NVIDIAs current Gen 4070 SUPER/TiS - ouch! :banghead:
Thats way too much leverage for NVIDIA's 50-series mid-range cards. This isn’t going to be pretty. I can hear the evil laughter of the green suits in their boardroom all the way here in the UK (and its bloody 3am)
Do you spend a lot of time complaining about the prices of things other people buy? JFC! Would you guys look at the leak you’re spending pages posting fantasy prices about? The leak says Navi 48 is $649.