AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Official Performance Metrics Leaked, +42% 4K Performance Over Radeon RX 7900 GRE

[AleksandarK]

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.



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[Broudka]

Why the hell compare them to GRE and XT or XTX ?

 

[Bomby569]

so 9070 xt on par with the 5070ti/7090xtx and the 9070 on par with the 7900xt/3090ti

now if you price them like those cards expect market share going to zero, so you're move AMD. I would say 650 for the xt and 550 for the non xt (probably too much to compete with the 5070 non ti) to have any chance of making any meaningful sales.

Not sure what they were doing as RT performance seems incredibly disappointing, didn't they promised the opposite?

 

[Ozzer]

Why the hell compare them to GRE and XT or XTX ?

Maybe because they have similar MSRP

 

[Zazigalka]

Why the hell compare them to GRE and XT or XTX ?

why not ?

 

[Hyderz]

Pretty sure AMD will price it just below the 5070ti msrp probably like $729 for xt and 679 for the non xt

 

[Zazigalka]

Maybe because they have similar MSRP

and 16gb, so you can be sure it's not vram pressure.

 

[Bomby569]

Maybe because they have similar MSRP

i doubt both cards will be price similar to the GRE, no one would buy the non xt
That makes no sense

 

[mate123]

Why the hell compare them to GRE and XT or XTX ?

Cause the %-s look better

 

[Hecate91]

The 9070XT being 42% faster than a 7900GRE puts it ahead of the 5070Ti according to TPU relative performance.

 

[The Shield]

i doubt both cards will be price similar to the GRE, no one would buy the non xt
That makes no sense

A lot of AMD price decisions didn't make any sense in recent years, and its market share is there to prove it.

 

[Jermelescu]

600€ for xt and 500€ for the other one, easy +20% market share on desktop.

 

[Hyderz]

600€ for xt and 500€ for the other one, easy +20% market share on desktop.

Way too low, amd needs to make money too

 

[Bruno Vieira]

Its a fantastic jump over the 7800xt (same die size, node and 256bit G6 Vram), having similar perf to the 4070tiS in raster and the new modules. I still think this should cost 600.

 

[Nostras]

and 16gb, so you can be sure it's not vram pressure.

To be fair, the GRE is known to be memory speed constrained, the 7800XT has more bandwidth. It will inflate 4k performance somewhat.
A comparison against the 7900XT would've been more useful.

 

[Bomby569]

Way too low, amd needs to make money too

not sure they are going to make any money if they don't price them aggressively either, see past experiences

 

[Jermelescu]

Way too low, amd needs to make money too

They (AMD) can afford it. They (consumer Radeon division) are with one foot in the ground and in the long run they'll make more money by capitalizing market share than by being more expensive and selling less units.

 

[Bruno Vieira]

Way too low, amd needs to make money too

This is short-term thinking; pricing them low now means investing in the future. At 600, it's still much more profit than a 7800xt.

 

[Nostras]

not sure they are going to make any money if they don't price them aggressively either, see past experiences

Well, considering Nvidia is unobtanium they can price it quite high and still sell.
AMD is probably going to pull the usual, MSRP too high and gradually lower the actual prices.
Now it actually makes more sense financially as well because of the current market.

 

[Zazigalka]

To be fair, the GRE is known to be memory speed constrained, the 7800XT has more bandwidth. It will inflate 4k performance somewhat.
A comparison against the 7900XT would've been more useful.

I think (not 100% sure tho) GRE got its vram speed unlocked a while ago.

 

[Bomby569]

Well, considering Nvidia is unobtanium they can price it quite high and still sell.

maybe some TPU users will do that, 99% of customers will just wait until the 5070 stock normalises, you're grasping at straws

 

[Jermelescu]

Well, considering Nvidia is unobtanium they can price it quite high and still sell.
AMD is probably going to pull the usual, MSRP too high and gradually lower the actual prices.
Now it actually makes more sense financially as well because of the current market.

It will be a bad move to force the price as high as possible. Radeon needs to sell as many GPUs as possible, and FAST. AMD gpus are already irelevant for most people, so the #1 prio should be market share ASAP.

 

[Nostras]

I think (not 100% sure tho) GRE got its vram speed unlocked a while ago.

Well, yes, but I can assure you that TPU nor AMD have benched it against the unlocked "real" speeds. They just used the stock 2250MHz.
You can see the result this has by checking the performance improvement when overclocking the 7800XT vs 7900GRE, there's a lot more to gain.

maybe some TPU users will do that, 99% of customers will just wait until the 5070 stock normalises, you're grasping at straws

I wouldn't say that. The XTX models weren't priced that well and sold out in no time as well, and that's with different market conditions.

It will be a bad move to force the price as high as possible. Radeon needs to sell as many GPUs as possible, and FAST. AMD gpus are already irelevant for most people, so the #1 prio should be market share ASAP.

Of course it's a bad move, that's exactly why AMD is going to do it.

 

[vega22]

Why the hell compare them to GRE and XT or XTX ?

same vram, same mem bus, same same as same can get for them. tdp is in the middle.

 

[Hecate91]

maybe some TPU users will do that, 99% of customers will just wait until the 5070 stock normalises, you're grasping at straws

Aggressive pricing won't help either if people are just going to wait for 5070 to sell at MSRP, or more likely just buy them at higher prices. It's the same situation that happened with the RX7000 series.