Sunday, January 12th 2025

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Tested in Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth: Wukong

The recently unveiled AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has been the epicenter of a plethora of leaks in the past few weeks. We now have not only a rough idea of what kind of synthetic performance the highest-end RDNA 4 GPU is about to bring to the table, but also how much the card is expected to cost. Now, yet another leak seemingly sheds light on perhaps the most crucial aspect of any gaming GPU - it's in the name, gaming.

Hilariously enough, this leak, once again, has been sourced from a now-nerfed forum post on Chiphell. This time around, site admin nApoleon was able to run a few games on the brand-new RDNA 4 card, including Black Myth: Wukong and Cyberpunk 2077. The results have been added as screenshots below, but here is a summary - the RX 9070 XT performs decently well, trading blows with the RTX 4070 Ti Super. In NVIDIA's favorite Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K with ray tracing, the RX 9070 XT managed 26 FPS, neck and neck with the RTX 4070 Ti, whereas the RTX 4080 Super was well ahead with 32 FPS.
In 1080p, the RX 9070 XT managed 85 FPS, whereas the RTX 4070 Ti edged past with 2 more frames. The RTX 4080 Super, unsurprisingly, was well ahead once again with 101 FPS. The RX 9070 XT appears far from promising in rasterization performance, as revealed by Black Myth: Wukong. At 4K, the RX 9070 XT managed around 30 FPS, defeating the 4070 Ti Super which managed 28. And at 1080p, the RX 9070 XT raked in 97 FPS, coming shockingly close to the 4080 Super, which managed 99 FPS. The RTX 4070 Ti Super was left behind, managing 87 FPS 'only'.

Of course, it now all boils down to how competitive Blackwell is priced, and what kind of performance it brings to the table. DLSS 4, along with all the multi-frame generation AI chicanery appears to be all set to shake up the way we measure performance, making things even more complicated. Either way, for those who cannot care less about ray tracing, the RDNA 4 GPU sure does look pretty enticing, if the leaked benchmarks and pricing information is taken to be true.
Sources: GameGPU, VideoCardz
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50 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Tested in Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth: Wukong

#26
TheDeeGee
Sound_CardShaping up to be more or less the same as the 5070. Since that card is as fast as the 4090, looks like AMD has a real winner here.
Lol?

Clearly shows it's between 4080S and 4070 TiS, so how is it going to be as fast as the 4090 then?
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#27
ZoneDymo
TheDeeGeeLol?

Clearly shows it's between 4080S and 4070 TiS, so how is it going to be as fast as the 4090 then?
its a joke on Nvidia claiming the 5070 is going to be as fast as a 4090
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#28
HOkay
IFF it really is 4080ish in raster, & is $500 or so, I'll finally swap back to AMD! I've been green for way too long now, it's time for a change :)
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#30
dir_d
$499 and i will buy one.
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#31
Punkenjoy
ChryFor 550$ and given it's full ray tracing enabled, it's pretty good. Wonder how it would be against the other two cards in these games (or others) with RT disabled.
Well it's not Full or Path Tracing,

This look like Ray Tracing Ultra but not the overdrive mode based on the results of 4080 Super. Full Overdrive results at 4K are about half of those.


It is still very good that AMD is catching up in RT when some game start to require RT to run. About time.
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#32
Pierre Cyr
I think it is Path Tracing per the third pict and I could run RT ultra on my 7800xt fine... forget the fps and settings tho but it was playable. Theres 2 more RT levels above ultra tho IIRC which kind of defeats the term.
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#33
Nater
Awesome. AMD has ray-tracing at unplayable/unenjoyable framerates just like nVidia!
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#34
dragontamer5788
NaterAwesome. AMD has ray-tracing at unplayable/unenjoyable framerates just like nVidia!
It's a big deal for any 3d modeler who wants this Raytracing performance for work.
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#37
Flyordie
Vayra86And I would have waited with this 7900XT :)

Goes to show the value of patience, the one thing I stopped having after 6,5 years of GTX 1080.... :( It doubly confirms to me we should always just wait until a deal comes up that truly feels right.
How dare you give up. lol. I'm still rollin with my V64. Does all I need it to still. Although its showing its age.
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#38
mama
AMD says no one has access to the finished driver. How accurate is this information then?
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#39
bug
the RX 9070 XT performs decently well, trading blows with the RTX 4070 Ti Super
Problem(as I see it) is 4070 Ti, Super or not, was a decent mid-ranger for the last generation. And this is supposed to be AMD's top dog for the next couple of years.
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#40
Marcus L
bugProblem(as I see it) is 4070 Ti, Super or not, was a decent mid-ranger for the last generation. And this is supposed to be AMD's top dog for the next couple of years.
if you call $700 mid-range, sure
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#41
hero1
This is excellent news. Let's see what the reviews show. I'm still rocking my EVGA 2080 Hydro copper and I haven't seen any reason to upgrade. Maybe this is it? Time will tell.
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#42
dyonoctis
bugProblem(as I see it) is 4070 Ti, Super or not, was a decent mid-ranger for the last generation. And this is supposed to be AMD's top dog for the next couple of years.
I doubt that Nvidia will speed up the 2/2 and half years release cycle that they have now. I'm wondering however what the 3nm GPU lineup will look like, in theory, they should be much faster, but with TSMC hiking the prices, we'll probably get even more cut down chips for any tier below the xx90.

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#43
bug
Marcus Lif you call $700 mid-range, sure
Fwiw, I'm not calling $700 mid-range, I'm calling the mileage you get from that card mid-range.
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#44
Marcus L
bugFwiw, I'm not calling $700 mid-range, I'm calling the mileage you get from that card mid-range.
The mileage? what even does that mean lol that in 2 years it's struggling to run games and needs to rely on upscaling and trickery to acheive stable FPS? c'mon man, you are believing the hype..... Call it what you like, if it was released at MSRP of $700 that is not mid-range, it might be considered so since they decided to straight up rip people off over the last 2-4 years because of covid, ukraine, cost of living, (whatever else BS label you want to put on it to justify corporations making the highest profit margins ever), but I am never paying over $500 for a friggin GPU to play games, whether I have to hodl on to my 6800 for another 2-3 years to get any kind of performance upgrade is fine by me, I will play their game, hopefully the 9070 XT being sub $500 will shake things up and get prices back to a somewhat decent level we will have to see though the noise coming from AMD, the price leaks, the performance with a lot left on the table at a driver level makes me optimistic, I could be wrong but like I said I am willing to wait until I get a decent uplift in performance for the same price I payed for an even inflated RX 6800 which was about $400 at the time
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#45
ModEl4
RX 7090XT needs to be $499, logically the performance difference with RTX 5070 ($549) won't be greater than 10% in raster QHD for reference models (in AMD's favor, 9070XT=100/5070=90), so the top OC models like Sapphire Nitro/GB Aorus etc will probably be close or more expensive than the reference RX 5070 models.
Anything higher than $499 will be a missed opportunity and I also wouldn't price it lower because RX 9070 16GB (probably only -$50 vs RX 9070XT) will be much faster than a GB206 (that's the rumors) based RTX 5060Ti.
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#46
bug
ModEl4RX 7090XT needs to be $499, logically the performance difference with RTX 5070 ($549) won't be greater than 10% in raster QHD for reference models (in AMD's favor, 9070XT=100/5070=90), so the top OC models like Sapphire Nitro/GB Aorus etc will probably be close or more expensive than the reference RX 5070 models.
Anything higher than $499 will be a missed opportunity and I also wouldn't price it lower because RX 9070 16GB (probably only -$50 vs RX 9070XT) will be much faster than a GB206 (that's the rumors) based RTX 5060Ti.
I have a hard time saying where a card "needs to be" in terms of pricing, having not seen a full range of benchmark runs. Hell, for me even the power draw factors in. But, like I said in the other thread, 5070 being priced as it is and assuming a mild 10% improvement over the 4070, doesn't leave a lot of wiggle room for 9070XT.
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#47
MCJAxolotl7
I might buy a 7900xtx during the coming summer, and get the next gen high end card after? I DON'T want to give ngreedia 3 grand for a 5090, but nothing new high end amd, sooooo....?
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#48
Hyderz
like i said before this is a testing gpu to see how the rt holds up after 9070xt we weill definately see much stronger gpu with rt on
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#49
AusWolf
Nearly 4080 performance for an expected price of around $550 is a winner in my books. Let's not forget about the 16 GB VRAM, either. The 5070 will only have 12.
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#50
Guwapo77
This seems too good to be true... but if TPU and HWU says this is legit, I'd be very happy for buying this GPU. Like everyone else here, I am curious to see what the MSRP will be.
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