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.
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GameGPU, VideoCardz
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.
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.
169 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Tested in Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth: Wukong
And I'm being generous with that 30%, considering both the 4070 and the 5070 are anemic upgrades, the equivalent unstagnated card should be over twice as fast as the 5070...
As for the rest of your post, I agree.
I'm selfish and only care about team me and what companies can give me for my dollar.
I'm waiting to see what the 500€ segment will look like. The 5070 is going to be a 649€ GPU in France.
Then why u care so much what others buy or think or what they want from GPUs
i like DLSS and 4K it makes dream come true, and afther 5090 it will be awesome, all the features is just the bonus i like to have.
Only thing i dont like is 5070 12GB, but im not buying it so not my problemsU cant see nothing yet until we see real benchmarks..
And why u trying to brainwash ppls to hate nvidia?
Ai/FG all those "fake" frames will be future.. even in AMD cards, if they dont quit releasing GPUs
Again, what are you doing posting "Nvidia this Nvidia that" in a Radeon thread? Have you got something to prove? Does Nvidia pay you to advertise them? Have you got anything to say about the 9070 XT? If not, get out. You're offing the thread.
For its time- Vega64 was a compute power house for its size. When is the last time a flagship card was less than 1.5" longer than the motherboard and only 2 slots thick. lol. I couldn't even fit a 7900XTX or even a GRE if I wanted to in my case. My water pump wouldn't allow it.
AMD is the Samsung of this tech space and is not a coincidence, it's on purpose, AMD's R&D stands for Research & Duplicate what Nvidia does.
That does not mean that perf/price is not progressing forward.
If 9070XT performs as 7900XT($900) in raster and over 7900XTX($1000) in RT with better FSR and cost about half the price of the both 7900s then the progress is huge.
Much higher than what nVidia offers.
Not counting FG…
AMD needs to drastically restructure its marketing department, focusing resources instead on software development and extracting every drop of potential from their hardware, 5-10% more or less is the difference between being at the top of the chart as a winner or not. Performance is the best possible marketing, consumers become the marketing.
This kind of thing cannot continue to happen, the driver/kernel written by a virtually unknown guy beating the one written by the engineers of a multi-billion dollar company:
Tiny Corp Nearing "Completely Sovereign" Compute Stack For AMD GPUs With Tinygrad - Phoronix
AMD's hardware is very good. I think if it were in Nvidia's hands, RDNA3 would be destroying ADA (in raster). That's just my ignorant opinion.