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.
304 Comments on AMD Radeon 9070 XT Rumored to Outpace RTX 5070 Ti by Almost 15%
Explanation: greed, inflation, low availability and scalpers.
Remember the 5080? Even Nvidia wasn't daft to price it higher than last gen's equal performer. What makes you think AMD would pull something like that?
I am happy that they do not rush it on the market and take their time to get as much improvements as possible before the release on the market.
To be honest i would not even care if it would be launched in august, because then i can ask my friends to give me the card when i became again much older :roll:
Scalpers wouldn't be able to scalp if stores were filled with products.
2. 'RTX Video HDR'. It uses AI and RTX Tensor Cores to dynamically remap Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) video content to High Dynamic Range (HDR10) quality video, improving visibility, details, and vibrance of streamed video. Note that you will need an HDR compatible display to be able to use this feature.
This also works on locally stored videos on your computer.
3. 'RTX Video Super Resolution (VSR). It's a video upscaling technology that uses AI and RTX Tensor Cores to improve the quality of video by removing blocky compression artifacts and upscaling video resolution. This improves video sharpness and clarity, and lets people watch local and online content, for example from Twitch or YouTube in their native display resolution, even if they are on a 4K high-resolution display.
AMD might have something similar, but it only works in the web browser if I have understood it correct.
4. 'CUDA-cores'. It has a huge support in many programs over what the similar feature to AMD has.
5. 'Tensor-cores'. As mentioned over. This thing can be used to many different things.
6. Lower power usage. This will come handy in Mini-ITX computers (like I have) as they won't cook the rest of the computer.
7. And lastly. You know what you get with NVIDIA, and we know that we get high-quality features, every time.
All of those features mentioned over are worth like 200-250 dollars on a NVIDIA GPU alone for me.
So, changing GPU brand just to change is not what we want.
And as I'm doing 60% productivity / video editing / normal usage and 40% gaming now, then a NVIDIA card will always be better. AMD GPUs are more focused towards pure gaming and for those who do pure raster FPS chasing.
Of course, you'll excuse me, but I haven't seen a more hilarious comment for a long time)
You read all this for the first time when you wrote this post, and from your comments it's clear that you don't even know what you're writing about)
That's why you simply copied all this marketing nonsense from the advertising brochure;)
Don't be offended, but no one needs this information - it's well-known, but it doesn't carry any semantic load and doesn't explain anything
It simply just explains why most people prefer NVIDIA GPUs over AMD GPUs. Simply because the NVIDIA GPUs offer WAAAAY more than just pure gaming things. Yes, most peoples do many more things on their computers than just gaming, even those who call themself for gamers.
There is a very very good reason why AMD is almost non-existent in the market. Because they simply don't understand what most people actually want in a GPU. Having lower prices (by 20-25%) is not enough in a lightyear.
So, what exactly are so hilarious with my comment?
They are very useful for many.
You gave yourself the trouble of looking through nvidias pr material, just to copy and paste it here, and it ain't helping you out.
*Hint. It's not just because of marketing, but because of many useful features the AMD GPUs doesn't have, like I have written down over.The reason NVIDIA sells like hot cakes, is simply because all know what they get and know that they will get good and high-quality features. We get that every time a new NVIDIA GPU generation comes out. Why do you think people buy NVIDIA GPUs over and over and over?
Go figure.Why waste time when you can save time by copying what the features does directly from NVIDIA when I would just explain it the same way anyways without taking it from NVIDIA. The features would not be explained any different or explained what it does in a different way no matter how I would write it.
Also, you seem be upset because I am merely presenting the hard facts about why many people are purchasing NVIDIA GPUs like hot cakes and why most will not switch to AMD GPUs simply for the sake of change.
If the 9070xt actually does come close to the 5070ti, then it's power budget will likely be higher than the 5080 or it will come close to the 4090.
What AMD/RTG needs to do is look at improving their relationship with OEM's. They can't pick up marketshare if System Integrators like CyberpowerPC won't use their cards.