Friday, February 21st 2025
Radeon RX 9070 XT Sample Reportedly Scores 7931 Points in FurMark 2, Close to RX 7900 XTX Performance
An alleged AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card has posted an overall score of 7931 points in a Furmark v2.5 OpenGL test session. Earlier today, Tomasz Gawroński shared a hastily prepared screenshot, accompanied by his observations: "I found an AMD (RDNA 4) Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU with hacked drivers. Device ID (1002-7550) matches the recently leaked Geekbench entry. There are multiple benches with 9950X3D on Furmark. Scores are impressive: 41-48% higher than Radeon 7800 XT." VideoCardz believes that the Furmark leak points to the true potential of Team Red's upcoming Navi 48-based graphics cards. Recent Geekbench results—reportedly produced by Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 (non-XT) pre-release samples—have indicated underwhelming performance; closer to previous-gen mid-range levels.
The "hacked" Radeon RX 9070 XT sample's Furmark tally—of 7931—places it higher than previously perceived; when compared to Team Red's middle-to-high range portfolio of RDNA 3 offerings. VideoCardz posited that the leaked candidate's score: "puts it almost at the Radeon RX 7900 XTX's level, faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT, RX 7900 GRE, and over 50% higher than the 7800 XT. Based on rumors we heard this week, AMD is said to be claiming over ~40% higher performance at 4K (games) than the 7900 GRE, so this would be in line with these claims."
Sources:
GPU Magick Results, GawroskiT Tweet, VideoCardz, Geeks3D, BenchLeaks
The "hacked" Radeon RX 9070 XT sample's Furmark tally—of 7931—places it higher than previously perceived; when compared to Team Red's middle-to-high range portfolio of RDNA 3 offerings. VideoCardz posited that the leaked candidate's score: "puts it almost at the Radeon RX 7900 XTX's level, faster than the Radeon RX 7900 XT, RX 7900 GRE, and over 50% higher than the 7800 XT. Based on rumors we heard this week, AMD is said to be claiming over ~40% higher performance at 4K (games) than the 7900 GRE, so this would be in line with these claims."
48 Comments on Radeon RX 9070 XT Sample Reportedly Scores 7931 Points in FurMark 2, Close to RX 7900 XTX Performance
* Edit - Yeah - they'll charge what they want, but in the rational universe (which is disappearing ever time I check the news), it shouldn't be.
Wait for AMDs numbers on Feb 28 and independent reviews on Mar 5. No matter what AMD or anyone else says, RDNA4 competes against the 5060, 5060Ti, 5070 and 5070Ti. Buying any Blackwell cards above MSRP is crazy but having a budget below $1k for a GPU and not waiting to see RDNA4 review results is even crazier especially when those results are less than two weeks away.
I don’t believe until 3rd party reviews. Again this is too good to be true and Nvidia is messing up real bad. This is a golden opportunity for AMD(and Intel if they get their act together) but I have severe doubts.
Do I expect N31 level of raster? Not how I judge it (which is absolute/oc performance and accounting for VRAM limitations).
But that's not the point.
Is it >45TF/>12GB and at least comp PPC RT as nvidia, with the ability to upscale w/o having the aforementioned compute limit being breached (meaning 45TF after up-scale and as much free ram as possible)?
Because that's what matters. It is the first thing; "probably" the later. At least potentially when overclocking.
Because of that, it can now be compared on a similar level to nVIDIA and their 17 or so cards that aren't a 4090/5090 and aren't irrelevant, like the 4090 12GB that's coming pretty soon...
...and not in some weird "but raster/but RT" way, as we do. In a "can it run [x] resolution and/or [x] resolution upscaled and/or RT and/or up-scaled RT with 60fps mins while still looking okay" -sorta way.
I stand by that I don't care which card runs <60fps better. You can keep that shit. :p
nVIDIA says that's worth $750. I say it's worth about the same as a 7800xt; maybe about five fiddy most.
But que sera, sera.;)
Remember Ryzen, look where you are now on the CPU front, release good performance/value and people will adore you for it.
When AMD releases something that is slightly worse for 10% less money
Amd fans....
While I agree this Nvidia generation is pretty meh being happy about a competing gpu that is kinda just the same cracks me up. I'd love for AMD to prove me wrong and supply an ungodly amount at a decent MSRP but let's be real the MSRP is likely to be just as fake as Nvidia's.
This generation is quickly turning into the I really needed a new gpu and these are the cards I was dealt should have bought two years ago and at least got 4 years out of it.....
The sad reality is you use to be able to look at the flagship spend half 1 generation the other half the next generation and be better off had I done that I would have gotten the crappy AF 4070ti 12G and now I would be looking at the shit show that is the 5070ti vs just buying a 4090 2 years ago like I did.At launch unless AMD supplies an ungodly amount it likely won't matter what they price it at. Lets say the 9070XT is a banger at 500 usd well AIB/Distributors will just jack up the price but at least they will look good and if they have an ok supply of reference models from their own store probably golden.
Let's be real though it's AMD it's going to be 650+ and likely closer to 800 usd at retail just undercutting the 5070TI and AMD fans will eat it up at least initially.
I don't think I've ever seen a more blatantly fake MSRP since the 1080/2080ti outside of a pandemic/crypto boom at least and as long as AMD doesn't copy that part of Nvidia's gameplan I guess it's a win by default.
That's just GPUs in 2025 personally both gpu makers should do whatever they think would sell and that seems like for now a 900 usd 5070ti and probably a 7800XT successor that isn't much cheaper.
Look, like I said, it might be over-priced at launch to sucker early adopters and/or people that can't find their beloved green fairy box they may have preferred. That might happen, I dunno.
It really might. AMD does stupid (they think are opportunistic) things sometimes. And always fail (because bad reviews are forever) when they do. Even 'meh' reviews hurt AMD. They survive on positive reviews.
By that, I mean W1zard reviews where he doesn't compare them to a clearly inferior product.
When their prices are high, though, they drop to prices they should have started with real quick.
But if it's not overpriced at launch, I am going to fucking laugh.
For AMD/ATi will have done the literal thing they have also done literally half a dozen times, if not more, over the decades, some in a very similar sitch (expensive competition and expected to be similar).
And they've ALWAYS been affordable. Every single time. When they haven't been at launch they always quickly end up that way. Every. Single. Time. Some people don't remember literal history very well.
When those prices do happen, one way or another, as they always quickly do, I will have nothing other to say than people literally got tricked into this again (thinking AMD will keep a high price) every single time.
It NEVER, barring some kind of weird fluke like a boom/shortage, happens. They always settle into a decent price relatively quickly.
Sometimes I think AMD likes to play with peoples' expectations, and in reality that does make sense (as then their real prices are less 'meh' but appear more a 'steal'), but some people are just real, real, 'forgetful'.
I was only pointing out they general release slightly worse products at a discount and for some reason that 10% of the market thinks they are their lord and savior both companies suck @$$ for different reasons it's just comes down to which one suck less @$$ in a given generation at whatever price a consumer chooses to afford....
While it's nice for some that AMD gpu's tank in price it would be nice if they just got pricing right from the start for once I mean they did have 35-40% of the gpu market at one time when their head wasn't so far up their %#%$*.