It appears that the first gaming benchmarks for AMD’s upcoming RDNA 4 GPU, the AMD Radeon RX 9070XT, have appeared online. According to Videocardz, this GPU will be 38% and 42% faster than the AMD Radeon 7900 GRE at 1440p and 4K, respectively.
And I know. A lot of you will be asking one simple question. Why did AMD use the 7900 GRE and not the 7900XTX? And the answer is simple. The AMD Radeon RX 9070XT will trade blows in a lot of games with that GPU. So, using it in an official slide would immediately make the 9070XT feel a bit underwhelming.
Compared to the AMD Radeon RX 6900XT, the RX 9070XT will be 51% faster at 4K. This means that the AMD Radeon RX 9070XT should be close to the performance of the AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX. After all, the 7900XTX is usually 40-55% faster than the RX 6900XT at 4K.
Now the good news is that the RDNA4 GPUs are said to be significantly faster in Ray Tracing than the RDNA3 GPUs. So, in theory, the RX 9070XT should be as fast as the RX 7900XTX in rasterized games, and a bit faster than it in ray-traced games.
From what we’ve seen, the NVIDIA RTX 5080 is faster in most of the games than the AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX. So, it’s safe to assume that the AMD Radeon RX 9070XT won’t be able to match its performance. However, it will be interesting to see how it will fare against the NVIDIA RTX 5070Ti.
AMD will officially reveal its RDNA4 GPUs on February 28th. My guess is that the red team will unveil the release date and price for both the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070XT. AMD’s CEO has also confirmed that the first RDNA4 GPUs will be available in early March.
Before closing, I should note that these performance figures are from AMD’s official slides. In other words, these could be the best-case scenarios for the upcoming RDNA4 GPUs. So, I strongly suggest waiting for some third-party benchmarks.
Stay tuned for more!
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"Before closing, I should note that these performance figures are from AMD’s official slides"
frame generation?
Nope. Just native rendering, and RT performance. No FSR/Frame gen has been used in these tests.
So performance gains seem quite real.
For any sane persson to consider AMjunk, the price must be Halved, from nVidia 7X serie or they are DOA!
nvidia products are the actual junk you are clueless.
AMD=WORKING PRODUCT
NVIDIA=DEFECTIVE DESIGN FLAWED PRODUCT
what is this re**rd? lol
Who knows since they don't really say. If their benchmarks for the 9000 series of CPUs are anything to judge by then these are likely overrated in some way as the 9000 CPUs didn't benchmark as well as AMD claimed they would.
Best to wait for independent testing as always …….
Basically refreshed junk.
Yeah.thats POS AMtrash – Always!
I mean it's both really. AMD being worse cause they don't ever try
price will be everything, price and inventory
Performance seems reasonable and better than expected. Now it only depends on the price. 50$ less than 5070 ti and nobody's gonna buy it.
I'm waiting to see if they actually got their AI Cores working. Some 5090s may be missing 8 ROPs but every 7900XTX has 96 AI Cores that are defective and functionally missing.
8 ROPs = 64 ROP Units, isn't it?
It depends on the manufacturer as well as the architecture
For instance the 4090 and the 5090 both have 176 Render Output Units but the 5090 has more Shader Units, Texture Mapping Units, SMs, RT Cores and Tensor Cores
Shader Units, Texture Mapping Units, SMs, RT Cores and Tensor Cores all scale up together while ROPs do not
Each SM (Streaming Multiprocessor) has 128 shaders, 4 TMUs, 4 Tensor Cores, and one RT Core. ROPs are completely separate for the others
AMD on the other hand uses CU (compute Units) as the base. with the 7000 series each CU consists of 64 Shaders Units, 4 TMUs, 2 ROPs, 1 RT Core and 1 AI Cores (that doesn't work)
Expect a premium… $1000+ plus tax.
In the end it really doesn't matter what AMD sets the MSRP because if AIBs are adding 20 to 25% to Nvidia's MSRP then they will do the exact same thing with AMD's MSRP
The "S" in MSRP stands for "suggested" not mandatory and there is no legal way for Nvidia or AMD to enforce a MSRP, in fact it is specifically illegal to do so in most countries including the US and all EU nations.
The power consumption seems to be a bit concerning at least for some of the high-end AIB custom models.
Like this PowerColor RED DEVIL card which commands a 900 Watt PSU (as shown in the leaked box pic attached below).
I assume this card would require a triple 8-PIN power cable config.
Otherwise, I think the reference boards, and other normal AIB variants would be fine with a 750 Watt PSU requirement, for the RX 9070 XT.
And 650 Watts for the non-XT variant.
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John, have you been drinking? What RDNA3?
We're talking about RDNA4
I know, I know. Fixed.
Hey John,
Kindly correct all the obvious typos in the entire article, where it states "RDNA3".
The RX 9070 XT comes under the RDNA 4 family/lineup. Thanks !
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Find "RDNA"
Replace "Garbage"
garbage is all the defective design flawed products nvidia made using 12vx6 power connector.
gargabe is this new generation of nvidia cards
Duh, brainfart. Fixed.
The power consumption seems to be a bit concerning at least for some of the high-end AIB custom models.
Like this PowerColor RED DEVIL card which commands a 900 Watt PSU (as shown in the leaked box pic attached below).
I assume this card would require a triple 8-PIN power cable config.
Otherwise, I think the reference boards, and other normal AIB variants would be fine with a 750 Watt PSU requirement, for the RX 9070 XT.
And 650 Watts for the non-XT variant.
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I'm guessing this is an OC card or something, even the 7900XTX only recommends an 800W PSU and that's a significantly larger chip.
Yes, it's a heavily OC'd version from PowerColor.
As per leaks, this specific card has a factory calibrated "boost clock" of 3.0 GHz out of the box.
Yes, it's a heavily OC'd version from PowerColor.
As per leaks, this specific card has a factory calibrated "boost clock" of 3.0 GHz out of the box.
i'm always hearing people talk about power color and saphire when it comes to Radeon. yall ought to check out the XFX Mercury 7900XTX Magnetic Air. their coolers are best in the biz performance wise.
At least one vendor is using the 12V-2X6 connector on their highest end 9070XT
Pretty much every modular power supply made in the last 2 or 3 years uses the 12V-2×6 connector because that is the Intel ATX 3 standard now and therein lies the problem. If you change the GPU side or use two 12V-2×6 connectors all you will end up doing is burning up the single power supply connector. Not only will the connectors on GPUs need to be changed so will every ATX 3 power supply.
Yeah, ASROCK seems to be using the new 12/16-pin connector on some of its custom models.
I think even Sapphire is on the same boat. Some models were spotted at the CES event, sporting the new connector.
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That is because it is part of the new INTEL ATX 3 power supply standard.
Problems with these connectors are entirely the fault of Intel who designed the connectors and has sole control over the ATX power supply standards.
Nvidia's mistake was being an early adopter of the new INTEL standard but eventually they will all use it because all the power supplies will use it.
Lisa Su doesn't have the balls in both aspects she can't compete with her cousin. Sad. AMD has poor leadership
Lisa Su saved the company from bankruptcy, and led them to dominate Intel in CPU performance. How poorly their graphics division has done is unfortunate, but I have a feeling that there are some old ATI people still on the team who shouldn't be (especially on the team responsible for their software).
and the graphics performance isn't "that bad" especially when 7900XTX is close to 4090 performance. just because they don't have the title of "fastest graphics card in the world" doesn't mean the rest of their cards are sh*t!!!? i made the jump last gen and have been completely happy with my purchase. plus AMD is better for linux and i will not be installing win11 on my computer. so…
Heavy comparisons to the 7900 GRE and 6800s feel like they are implying they are going to be around that price but weird they only did MAX settings comparisons for the RDNA 2 but then Ultra for RDNA 3. $600 for the 9070XT and $500 for the 9070 dont feel terrible for this level of performance. I think the biggest question past that now is how much of an improvement is FSR4 supposed to be.
Actually the question is will the AI Cores actually work this time
Everyone gripes about 8 missing ROPs on 1 in 200 5090s but no one ever mentions that the 7900XTX has 96 out of 96 defective AI Cores that are functionally missing. Everyone paid extra for those AI Cores but they just don['t work and AMD says FSR4 will only work on the 9000 series GPUs which will be less than 10% of AMD Users for at least a couple of years
They did say theyll get FSR4 working on 7000 eventually. I guess we’ll just have to wait to see how long that takes.