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.
191 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Official Performance Metrics Leaked, +42% 4K Performance Over Radeon RX 7900 GRE
They really need to treat this like Zen - Zen 2 where they were super aggressive in the space to claw back marketshare. It worked.
EDIT: Anyone remember the 4850 and 4870 during the 200-series from Nvidia? $199 and $299 cards respectively smacking down the $649 GTX 280 and $449 GTX 260. The difference between back then and now is people are actually not that happy with Nvidia these days. It's really a prime opportunity to do this again and win back a portion of the market.
Fighting NVidia is a different story. NVidia is almost entirely focused on GPUs (albeit on AI / Datacenter these days, but still close enough to video games to benefit).
Just dropping prices without acknowledging the long-term damage to AMD's brand is a bad idea. You can't just keep dropping prices each time NVidia raises them. If people aren't willing to jump for a nearly equivalent card at -$50 or -$100, then its not worth chasing them to -$150 or -$200.
Especially when NVidia in practice is +$200 in practice due to scalpers. So there's multiple-hundreds of dollars difference between NVidia cards and their equivalent AMD card as it is.
Also, no way in hell AMD would undercut its own card, the 7900XTX by nearly 50%, when the cheapest 5070Ti that one can get starts at 1200+ Euro.
Even better if it's not from greedvidia.
Keep an eye on eBay -- there are occasionally discount codes that come up on 7800 XTs that bring their price down to £385 or so.