Thursday, January 9th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Benchmarked in 3D Mark Time Spy Extreme and Speed Way
Although it has only been a few days since the RDNA 4-based GPUs from Team Red hit the scene, it appears that we have already been granted a first look at the 3D Mark performance of the highest-end Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, and to be perfectly honest, the scores seemingly live up to our expectations - although with disappointing ray tracing performance. Unsurprisingly, the thread has been erased over at Chiphell, but folks have managed to take screenshots in the nick of time.
The specifics reveal that the Radeon RX 9070 XT will arrive with a massive TBP in the range of 330 watts, as revealed by a FurMark snap, which is substantially higher than the previous estimated numbers. With 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, along with base and boost clocks of 2520 and 3060 MHz, the Radeon RX 9070 XT managed to rake in an impressive 14,591 points in Time Spy Extreme, an around 6,345 points in Speed Way. Needless to say, the drivers are likely far from mature, so it is not outlandish to expect a few more points to get squeezed out of the RDNA 4 GPU.
Regarding the scores we currently have, it appears that the Radeon RX 9070 XT fails to match the Radeon RX 7900 XTX in both the tests, although it easily exceeds the GeForce RTX 4080 Super in the non-ray-traced TS Extreme test. In the Speed Way test, which is a ray-traced benchmark, the RX 9070 XT fails to match the RTX 4080 Super, falling noticeably short. Considering that it costs less than half the price of the RTX 4080 Super, this is no small feat. Interestingly, an admin at Chiphell, commented that those planning on grabbing an RTX 50 card should wait, further hinting that the GPU world has "completely changed". Considering the lack of context, the interpretation of the statement is debatable, but it does seem RDNA 4 might pack impressive price-to-performance that may give mid-range Blackwell a run for its money.
Sources:
Chiphell, @0x22h
The specifics reveal that the Radeon RX 9070 XT will arrive with a massive TBP in the range of 330 watts, as revealed by a FurMark snap, which is substantially higher than the previous estimated numbers. With 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, along with base and boost clocks of 2520 and 3060 MHz, the Radeon RX 9070 XT managed to rake in an impressive 14,591 points in Time Spy Extreme, an around 6,345 points in Speed Way. Needless to say, the drivers are likely far from mature, so it is not outlandish to expect a few more points to get squeezed out of the RDNA 4 GPU.
79 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Benchmarked in 3D Mark Time Spy Extreme and Speed Way
PSA - don’t hype yourself up over leaks like this, you’re going to end up disappointed.
If it happened a few times sporadically, I would say it's a coincidence and think nothing of it, but it is strange how it happens every single time...
Obviously, AMD wouldn't put false, over promising leaks out, and AMD employees, if they are leaking information, would presumably be leaking correct information (which wouldn't be over promising) or purposely false information, however if AMD was purposely feeding false formation to employees (in a sting operation for example) I would have to assume those "leaks" would under-promise.....so the question remains, why is it that leaks always over promise with Radeon and who's behind it?
64 CUs (4096 SPs)
330W
3.0-3.1 GHz boost clock
16 GB 20000 MT/s GDDR6
256-bit memory bus
Raster performance +/- 5% of a 4080/4080S
Ray tracing performance +/-5% 4070Ti/4070TiS
$479
Release Jan 22
4 nm
PCIe 5.0 x16
If any of this is close to true, it would be prudent to wait as long as you can to see where everything lands. I would say by the end of February we would know the performance of the 5070/5070Ti/5080/5090 and the 9070/9070XT.
Considering its still ~8% slower in raster and matches rt performance in 3Dmark synthetics compared to a 7900XTX, I don’t think that’s over promising if true this time around.
It will do or die based on its price and performance position against the 5070/5070ti.
It still is a marketing gimmick, with negligible visual improvements and huge tanking in performance.
if infinity cache was made 4 times larger the chip would have to become a heck of a lot larger
It's grainier, blurrier:
Pick the RT shot -- it's the one on the left.
Those ROPs are wider now, able to hold a total of 256 TMUs, so 4 TMUs per unit.
Its supposed to be a mid tier card and as others have said, even the Ngreedias 90's GPU have issues with RT even after all kinds of trickeries.
And as others have said, its a performance killer that provides nothing to gameplay.
All that AMD need to do is price this damned thing right and stop trying to be greedy.