Monday, February 24th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Official Performance Metrics Leaked, +42% 4K Performance Over Radeon RX 7900 GRE
AMD's internal benchmarks of its upcoming RDNA 4-based RX 9070 series graphics cards have been leaked, thanks to VideoCardz. The flagship RX 9070 XT delivers up to 42% better performance than the Radeon RX 7900 GRE at 4K resolution across a test suite of over 30 games, with the standard RX 9070 showing a 21% improvement in the same scenario. The performance data, encompassing raster and ray-traced titles at ultra settings, positions the RX 9070 series as a direct competitor to NVIDIA's RTX 4080 and RTX 5070 Ti. Notably, AMD's testing methodology focused on native rendering and ray tracing capabilities rather than upscaling technologies like FSR. The RX 9070 XT demonstrated large gains at 4K resolution, achieving a 51% performance uplift compared to the two-generations older RX 6900 XT. Meanwhile, the base RX 9070 model showed a 38% improvement over the RX 6800 XT at 4K with maximum settings enabled.
While AMD confirms its new cards are designed to compete with NVIDIA's RTX 50 series, specific comparative benchmarks against the RTX 5070 Ti were absent from the presentation. AMD acknowledges it has yet to acquire the competitor's hardware for testing. The company is expected to provide a comprehensive performance overview, potentially including additional GPU comparisons, during its official announcement on February 28. Both RX 9070 series cards will feature 16 GB of VRAM, matching the memory configuration of the RX 7900 GRE used as a primary comparison point. By the official launch date, AMD will have time to push final driver tweaks for optimal performance. Nonetheless, more information will surface as we near the official release date.
Source:
VideoCardz
While AMD confirms its new cards are designed to compete with NVIDIA's RTX 50 series, specific comparative benchmarks against the RTX 5070 Ti were absent from the presentation. AMD acknowledges it has yet to acquire the competitor's hardware for testing. The company is expected to provide a comprehensive performance overview, potentially including additional GPU comparisons, during its official announcement on February 28. Both RX 9070 series cards will feature 16 GB of VRAM, matching the memory configuration of the RX 7900 GRE used as a primary comparison point. By the official launch date, AMD will have time to push final driver tweaks for optimal performance. Nonetheless, more information will surface as we near the official release date.
136 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Official Performance Metrics Leaked, +42% 4K Performance Over Radeon RX 7900 GRE
I have a 7900 GRE card and recently got a 4K (3840 x 1250) display. Wouldn't hurt with that boost in some titles. Especially at a relatively reasonable cost.
The other thing is, as good as RT can be, artists and devs still have to learn how to wield it. Iirc there are a few titles that make good use of global illumination and you can really see a difference. Game engines still have to make look pretty with and without RT, another thing making devs' lives harder.
They're making enough money other places in the company that even if they ended up being flush, or took a small loss, gaining back the market share would be worth it for the next gen.
Especially if they released a banger card next gen.
Not to mention they could maybe take a similar approach to consoles, lose money, but make it up elsewhere. (For example: With professional cards)
Their main function is to prep AMD for failure and of course, the haters will run with it accordingly.
I mean, look at how bad the beloved Ngreedia 50 series launch has been, yet none of the rabid fanbois or influencers are nailing Ngreedia to the cross.
Nah, they are saving all the nails for AMD.
you can't excuse what AMD does with what Nvidia does, Nvidia can do whatever it wants, they own the market.
But by that logic, the 10 or so other articles based on rumors were also official numbers?
thats the gist of my post.Exactly my point, no matter what, AMD loses, Ngreedia wins.
Hence why I love this quote from X:
He admitted on another thread he buys nvidia regardless, so he's here just to troll anyways.
Anyways this will be a moot point since if the XT is at 550$ it will up against the 5070 and I can't see the 5070 being faster even in RT, at least not by a lot. So both companies will offer similar RT performance.
Coping hard
I think AMD is going to make huge marketshare inroads if they price correctly. nvidia has made a mess, and they can regain foothold.
If they follow this with a 9060 (12gig min) worth its name, we will be talking about a real comeback and nvidia currently has nothing to respond with on that segment.
But no halo card this time so no one will buy it. AMD knows this so I wonder why they didn't bother.
Plus I always have a laugh watching poor people with $600 RTX 4070s act like $620 7900 XTs are slow. In 8/10 games you're the slowpoke.
Though i'm waiting to see how the 9060 shakes out.