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.
121 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Benchmarked in 3D Mark Time Spy Extreme and Speed Way
Check your facts and come back afterwards.
I really dislike both FSR3 and DLSS3, but if they have genuinely fixed the smearing, ghosting, and temporal blur that will be maybe enough to convert me. It's so hard to see how good or bad it is via captured, encoded, compressed YouTube though, so the only verdict I will trust is my own eyes but I do agree that the DF and HUB closeup footage of FSR4 seems very promising from here.
I'm going to grab the cheapest 16GB Nvidia and AMD cards (probably the 5070Ti and vanilla 9070) as soon as they're available for work reasons anyway, so I'll try both and see which one I prefer.
4070 and 4070S surely are trolling. These are meant to compete with 7800 XT / 7900 GRE respectively.Highly doubt it's gonna be better enough to convert you. DLAA on top of a 1080p display (DSR / 1440p display if you can afford a xx70 Ti+ class GPU) still strikes me as THE way to play vidya. Upscaling is a great way to enjoy 4K gaming but idk, GPUs strong enough for DLSS Q / XeSS UQ / FSR Q are unobtanium for most gamers. And at Balanced and lower, it's usually less exciting than plain 1440p. And at 1440p and lower, upscaling is just one last resort. Good to have it as a fall-back option but bad if you need it.
Since neither of my GPUs can do modern AAA games at high-refresh native res, I'm usually either dropping to 1080p120 on the Geforce and 1440p120 (with strobing) on the Radeon.
I don't want to use DLSS3 or FSR3 but FG is the carrot that makes me willing to keep trying it occasionally because FG is a great way to get the high-refresh, so long as the latency (1/2 FG'd framerate) is still over about 80fps.
Maybe you sell one room and buy a 5090 so you don't need upscaling..?
Still, I am interested to see if 9070 XT makes any difference. Feels like it's about two years too late to the party.
Bah. Now I need a new GPU :banghead:
That would make the 9070XT possibly equal to the 7900XTX here, rather than faster (as was my previous approximation based on the old result). Accounting for the differences in alleged boost clocks and Ray Accelerator count, RDNA4 would show close to 25% improvement over the previous gen in this particular benchmark.
Naturally, these are still speculations on my part. Speedway is a hybrid RT implementation, and it's likely that in RT heavy games RDNA4 could show bigger improvement.
I took a 3090 out to put a 7800XT in because it was too hot and noisy, and I found all of the RT titles at the time underwhelming anyway, because I hate temporal blur and most RT implementations add a lot of it.
The other PC is running a 16GB 4060Ti because it performs fine when I choke it down to 150W. I'm hoping there's something faster at 150W in this coming round of GPUs from AMD and Nvidia.
What was the GPU clock during your test?
From graph in the screenshot I would say around 2200-2300MHz?
And what was the TBP limit?5070nonTi and 9070nonXT to be around 150W?
Highly unlikely.
Both of them will be at 250~300W range.
nVidia already show the 5070 reference at 250W and 9070 cant be that far behind the 9070XT, and most likely the latter reference one will start around 330W.
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-5070.c4218
5060nonTi maybe will be around 150W
An OC version of the same GPU a 40% decrease in power could mean even less performance drop, like 10-15%
Pathetic :(
On the AMD side, there's a node shrink from 5+6nm to 4nm, so there's potential for some excellent undervolting there. The TDPs we're seeing at the moment seem to be factory OC models pushing >3GHz which is always going to be so far beyond the efficiency sweet spot that it's ridiculous. We don't know the configs of the 9060-series yet, nor the vanilla 9070 but I'm hoping that the 9070-series can be run at, say, ~2.4GHz at somewhere between 150 and 200W. I'm usually seeing 50% power draw for 80% clock speeds with RDNA2 and RDNA3....