Thursday, January 30th 2025
AMD Radeon 9070 XT Rumored to Outpace RTX 5070 Ti by Almost 15%
It would be fair to say that the GeForce RTX 5080 has been quite disappointing, being roughly 16% faster in gaming than the RTX 4080 Super. Unsurprisingly, this gives AMD a lot of opportunity to offer excellent price-to-performance with its upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs, considering that the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti aren't really expected to pull off any miracles. According to a recent tidbit shared by the renowned leaker Moore's Law is Dead, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to be around 3% faster than the RTX 4080, if AMD's internal performance goals are anything to go by. MLID also notes that RDNA 4's performance is improving by roughly around 1% each month, which makes it quite likely that the RDNA 4 cards will exceed the targets.
If it does turn out that way, the Radeon RX 9070 XT, according to MLID, should be roughly around 15% faster than its competitor from the Green Camp, the RTX 5070 Ti, and roughly match the RTX 4080 Super in gaming performance. The Radeon RX 9070, on the other hand, is expected to be around 12% faster than the RTX 5070. Of course, these performance improvements are limited to rasterization performance, and when ray tracing is brought to the scene, the performance improvements are expected to be substantially more modest, as per tradition. Citing our data for Cyberpunk 4K with RT, MLID stated that his sources indicate that the RX 9070 XT falls somewhere between the RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 3090 Ti, whereas the RX 9070 should likely trade blows with the RTX 4070 Super. Considering AMD's track record with ray tracing, this sure does sound quite enticing.
Of course, it will all boil down to pricing once the RDNA 4 cards hit the scene. If AMD does manage to undercut its competitors from NVIDIA by a reasonable margin, there is no doubt that RDNA 4 will be the better choice for most people. However, with NVIDIA's undeniable lead in ray tracing, paired with DLSS 4, will presumably make things more complicated than ever before. It is unclear what AMD has up its sleeve with FSR 4. Recent rumors do point at pretty good compatibility, but as with all rumors, be sure to accept any pre-release whispers with a grain of salt.
Source:
MLID via YouTube
If it does turn out that way, the Radeon RX 9070 XT, according to MLID, should be roughly around 15% faster than its competitor from the Green Camp, the RTX 5070 Ti, and roughly match the RTX 4080 Super in gaming performance. The Radeon RX 9070, on the other hand, is expected to be around 12% faster than the RTX 5070. Of course, these performance improvements are limited to rasterization performance, and when ray tracing is brought to the scene, the performance improvements are expected to be substantially more modest, as per tradition. Citing our data for Cyberpunk 4K with RT, MLID stated that his sources indicate that the RX 9070 XT falls somewhere between the RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 3090 Ti, whereas the RX 9070 should likely trade blows with the RTX 4070 Super. Considering AMD's track record with ray tracing, this sure does sound quite enticing.
90 Comments on AMD Radeon 9070 XT Rumored to Outpace RTX 5070 Ti by Almost 15%
The awesome feature set is one of the reasons why NVIDIA sells like hot cakes.
"Yeah we've got pretty nice mid-rangers which punch above their weight, and we told the public that were were after a nice price/perf ratio... BUT have you seen how poorly the 5080 is doing ? And the fuckers are charging 1000$ for that ! And suckers are sleeping in tents to get these !!! We can't relinquish too much margin, can we ?"
Multi fake frame generation is already considered a feature in your nvidia fanboy booklet?
Looks like AMD solved a lot of the issues that were plaguing RDNA3 and now their 64CU 9070XT is matching their 96CU 7900XTX (allegedly, ofc).
If only they had a 96CU RDNA4 die ready to go, they'd be nipping at the 5090's heels with a potentially much smaller die.
And all of this achieved with just 4096 cores and GDDR6. This means enhancing an architecture, not that nonsense of Blackwell.
And let’s talk about FSR4—its visual quality is outstanding, as showcased by reviewers at CES, and it’s incredibly easy to implement in games due to a modification from version 3.1, meaning many titles will support it right at launch and many more soon after. Additionally, it has been announced that everything technically possible with FSR4 will be implemented in previous RDNA generations as well.
This is, of course, for those interested in upscaling and frame generation. Personally, I always play at native resolution. Upscaling (or VSR) can be useful at most, but I find frame generation to be unnecessary, as it tends to activate when you don’t need it and not when you do (just look at the tests from Hardware Unboxed) and it make latency worse.
Let's eagerly awaiting the pricing, but I believe this time the mid-to-high range will be a tremendous success for AMD!
Also, who cares how it fares against 5070 Ti if we don't know the actual price and release date?
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Wait maybe they are!
Frank Azor already said that erlier rumored benchmarks are not correct aka RX 9070 XT is not at the RX 7900 GRE level also he said this.
Yep, that did no good at all.
Just let the cards do the talking themselves when they release.
I can't speak for others but my next purchase will be based on something that offers a reasonable level of performance while not costing stupid money.
My performance measurement will be based on real frames only and how much those real frames cost, based on that and the rumors, it looks like I'll by buying the 9070 XT...
What’s puzzling is that if they can extract this much performance from a die smaller than 400mm², why not replicate the RDNA3 MCM approach and produce a 500–600mm² GCD + Six MCDs to compete with the 5090? TDP? Nvidia is already pushing the game to 600w so who cares?
Perhaps Nvidia has secured all the available GDDR7 stock, or AMD sees greater profitability in allocating its TSMC capacity to Instinct accelerators (most likely).
Question 2: How with only 16 GB ? If the VRAM doesn't matter, then why do they put so much, and instead don't limit the cards to 10 GB (as of RTX 3080) ?
And, okay, they never planned on pricing it at 900 USD so what's the plan? Is there a plan?
Oh, and most importantly, it's crucial to strike at a proper time and the time was up ages ago. With this "slightly worse and slightly cheaper" approach AMD GPUs got outsold so obscenely I'm not sure it's not illegal to post these numbers. Was RDNA a game changer? Not really, it didn't offer anything you couldn't get already by buying a Pascal GPU, a 3 years older architecture. Was RDNA2 a game changer? Far from it. RDNA3, even less impressive despite new building approach.
They must include killer features. Must have included, rather. Now it's a "boy who cried, 'wolves!'" situation. No matter what they release the vast majority won't buy it because they already quote-unquote know AMD GPUs suck.