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Rumor Mill: Team Red is expected to reveal the tech specs, pricing and release date for the Radeon RX9070 graphics cards this Friday. We have enough information leaked to give a rough estimation of their performance. VideoCardz claims that it has obtained the official benchmark charts of the company, which show performance improvements in 20 games when compared to 7900 GRE.
VideoCardz claims that AMD The company expects its upcoming Radeon RX9070 XT graphics cards to outperform 7900 GRE in a mix of raster and 4K workloads by 42 percent. If the leaked benchmarks are accurate, then the 9070 XT or standard 9070 could compete with Nvidia’s RTX5070 Ti and 5070 if they have the right price.
According to the report, AMD compared its new GPUs with models from previous generations in more than 30 games. The tests below were performed at ultra or maximum settings, without any upscaling, frame generation or scaling. This is in stark contrast to Nvidia’s method.
It’s unclear why AMD chose the China-only RX 7900 GRE for comparison, but it might be because it has the same amount of VRAM as the 9070 family. Against the 6900 XT, the 9070 XT’s average performance advantage grows to 51 percent. Meanwhile, the standard 9070 beats the 7900 GRE by around 20 percent and outperforms the 6800 XT by 38 percent in 4K.
The benchmarked titles include games with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars Outlaws, and raster-only titles like God of War Ragnarök and Starfield. Team Red also tested Cyberpunk and F1 24 with and without RT.
The new GPUs exhibit more significant gains in ray tracing than in raster performance. The RX 9070 outpaces the 7900 GRE by between four and 28 percent in raster, but the lead grows to 38 percent in RT. Similarly, the 9070 XT beats the same older card by 23 to 46 percent in raster and up to 68 percent in RT.
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VideoCardz contacted AMD, who said that they had not acquired RTX samples to compare directly with Nvidia. A Redditor tried to make a comparison between the two. To approximate a benchmark, AMD’s averages for six games are compared to previous benchmarks of several Team Green GPUs.
Please treat the results as a bit of a joke. They don’t include FSR 4, a critical improvement that is exclusive to RX-9000, but they appear optimistic for AMD. The 9070 XT may not be able to match the RTX5070 Ti’s ray tracing performance but it will likely outperform every previous AMD card in raster and even the 5070T. The standard 9070’s raster performance might be similar to the RTX 3090 and should almost match the 7900 XTX for RT.
The most important factor is pricing, but a leak suggests that two of the company’s upcoming GPUs will be priced between $600 and $700. They are expected to launch in the first week of next month and will likely compete with Nvidia’s standard RTX-5070. The performance metrics of the $549 midrange card are still unclear.
