Official AMD Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT performance benchmarks leaked: 20-40% better than 7900 GRE
Leaked AMD benchmarks show Radeon 9070 GPUs outperforming 7900 GRE, with ray tracing gains up to 68%.
Leaked benchmark results reveal that AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics cards offer a performance boost of 20-40% over the RX 7900 GRE. Specifically, the 9070 XT is reported to outperform the 7900 GRE by around 42% in a combination of raster and ray tracing 4K workloads. If validated, this could position the 9070 series to challenge Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 models assuming competitive pricing.
The benchmarks cover a wide array of over 30 games, some of which include hardware-accelerated ray tracing, demonstrating the significant benefits of the new GPUs. Notably, ray tracing improvements on these cards could exceed 60%, with the RX 9070 XT reportedly beating the older 7900 GRE by 23 to 46% in raster tasks and up to 68% in ray tracing tasks.
Though AMD has not directly compared these cards to Nvidia's latest offerings, Redditors have made some comparisons using existing benchmarks. The RX 9070 is expected to resemble the RTX 3090 in raster performance and approach the 7900 XTX in ray tracing. Pricing for these GPUs is estimated between $600 and $700, and they are anticipated to launch early next month.