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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 GPUs are launching tomorrow. This benchmark and review of the AMD RX 9070 XT (Sapphire Pulse model) looks at the gaming performance, ray tracing, power consumption, and efficiency vs. the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti, 5070, AMD's prior 7900 XT, and plenty more GPUs. The benchmarks for the RX 9070 non-XT will go live a little later on our channel. The 9070 XT has an MSRP of $600, with the 9070 at $550 MSRP. "Actual" pricing is TBD, as the NVIDIA launch has certainly set a current meta of pricing and availability issues. We'll follow-up on the price situation once the cards are publicly released. These benchmarks look at the best GPUs available in early 2025, including prior generation cards that you might be able to buy used. We're expecting another round of lower-end cards (likely the 5060, 5060 Ti, and possible 9060) in a few months. We're also waiting to see if Intel ships a B770 or equivalent higher-end Battlemage GPU.
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Watch our NVIDIA RTX 5070 review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSylZ1Bp1Y
And our review of NVIDIA's 5070 Ti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhtVic3Vm0Y
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - AMD RX 9070 XT GPU Review
02:56 - Specs, Architecture Basics, and Price
05:55 - Availability and Scalper Situation Unknown
06:26 - Dragon's Dogma 2 4K Benchmarks
07:16 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p Benchmarks
08:11 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p GPU Comparison
08:45 - TRANSPARENT DISCLAIMER: FFXIV Results Outlier
09:33 - FFXIV Dawntrail 4K Benchmarks
09:59 - FFXIV 1440p Benchmarks
10:16 - Resident Evil 4 4K
10:45 - Resident Evil 4 1440p
11:23 - Resident Evil 4 1080p
11:40 - Black Myth: Wukong 4K
12:16 - Black Myth: Wukong 1440p
12:49 - Black Myth: Wukong 1080p
13:03 - Starfield 4K
13:27 - Starfield 1440p
13:48 - Starfield 1080p
14:12 - Dying Light 2 4K
14:46 - Dying Light 2 1440p
15:16 - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty 4K Ultra
15:43 - Cyberpunk 2077 1440p Ultra
16:04 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 4K
17:19 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1440p
17:37 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1080p
18:07 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 4K
18:39 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p, 1080p
19:03 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 4K
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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 GPUs are launching tomorrow. This benchmark and review of the AMD RX 9070 XT (Sapphire Pulse model) looks at the gaming performance, ray tracing, power consumption, and efficiency vs. the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti, 5070, AMD's prior 7900 XT, and plenty more GPUs. The benchmarks for the RX 9070 non-XT will go live a little later on our channel. The 9070 XT has an MSRP of $600, with the 9070 at $550 MSRP. "Actual" pricing is TBD, as the NVIDIA launch has certainly set a current meta of pricing and availability issues. We'll follow-up on the price situation once the cards are publicly released. These benchmarks look at the best GPUs available in early 2025, including prior generation cards that you might be able to buy used. We're expecting another round of lower-end cards (likely the 5060, 5060 Ti, and possible 9060) in a few months. We're also waiting to see if Intel ships a B770 or equivalent higher-end Battlemage GPU.
Learn about the AMD RDNA 4 9070 architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe50byQGG0
Watch our NVIDIA RTX 5070 review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSylZ1Bp1Y
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - AMD RX 9070 XT GPU Review
02:56 - Specs, Architecture Basics, and Price
05:55 - Availability and Scalper Situation Unknown
06:26 - Dragon's Dogma 2 4K Benchmarks
07:16 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p Benchmarks
08:11 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p GPU Comparison
08:45 - TRANSPARENT DISCLAIMER: FFXIV Results Outlier
09:33 - FFXIV Dawntrail 4K Benchmarks
09:59 - FFXIV 1440p Benchmarks
10:16 - Resident Evil 4 4K
10:45 - Resident Evil 4 1440p
11:23 - Resident Evil 4 1080p
11:40 - Black Myth: Wukong 4K
12:16 - Black Myth: Wukong 1440p
12:49 - Black Myth: Wukong 1080p
13:03 - Starfield 4K
13:27 - Starfield 1440p
13:48 - Starfield 1080p
14:12 - Dying Light 2 4K
14:46 - Dying Light 2 1440p
15:16 - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty 4K Ultra
15:43 - Cyberpunk 2077 1440p Ultra
16:04 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 4K
17:19 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1440p
17:37 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1080p
18:07 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 4K
18:39 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p, 1080p
19:03 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 4K
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00:00No bullshit today, there's some real competition now.
00:02The shortest version of this review up front is that the 9070 XT and the 5070 Ti go back
00:08and forth a lot depending on the game, especially in rasterization, ray tracing and video still
00:12holds an advantage.
00:13So the quick version is at 4K rasterized without RT, for the recap, the 9070 XT and the 5070
00:19Ti are often within 6% of each other on either side.
00:24That's in F1, Cyberpunk, Resident Evil 4, Starfield, Total War, Warhammer 3, Dragon's
00:29Dogma 2, at 1440p and 1080p we saw similar results depending on the game, sometimes the
00:339070 XT can close the gap a little bit if it's behind there, sometimes it pulls ahead
00:37a little bit, just depends on the situation.
00:39Now interestingly because the 5070 Ti is basically a 4080 V, is it 3 or 4, we're going to go
00:47with 4, depends how you count the Ti that was unlaunched, but anyway because it's basically
00:50a 4080, which is therefore basically a 4080 Super, that means there's instances where
00:55the 9070 XT is getting really close to the 4080 Super, I think it might have been one
01:00where it passed it, but we'll talk about that.
01:02In ray tracing, it's all over the place, so this is sort of the downside to it where AMD's
01:07got some real strengths on this one, it's also got some real still present downsides.
01:11So in RT, AMD has improved massively over its prior generation, the 9070 XT definitely
01:16gets uplifted over the 7000 series in most instances for RT, Nvidia is fiercely competitive
01:21here still, and AMD for example gets absolutely crushed in Black Myth Wukong with ray tracing
01:28against Nvidia, but it is actually more competitive now in mixed RT workload games or sort of
01:33medium weight RT situations, depending on what they are.
01:36So Nvidia's biggest strengths remain in its feature set generally, ray tracing, efficiency
01:41in particular, power consumption is pretty effective for what's output.
01:45The features get difficult to measure, for example do we measure MFG as multi-frame generation
01:50or as multi-failure generation?
01:52Anyway that's the fastest possible recap of this review, Nvidia's had a busy three months
01:56destroying the hype that it built for the 50 series, they've really had a lot of ups
01:59and downs this launch, I mean for example on the positive side, but on the negative
02:05side there's been things like the melting 12V high power cables, the missing ROPs, the
02:10missing ROPs on the other card that they didn't disclose until after they were discovered,
02:14the paper launch, the fact that the prices aren't real even from its own first parties,
02:19the line on stage by the 5070 vs the 4090, and actually we're going to be here all day
02:25if we list all the issues so let's just move to the 9070 XT review.
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02:56We're going to keep this one really focused today, let's start with the basics.
02:59AMD's RX 9070 and 9070 XT launch the day after this video goes up.
03:03We already posted separate videos going into the specs and the architecture of the cards
03:07so we'll link that below, but the quick recap is this.
03:09AMD has made major changes architecturally for the RDNA 4 generation, which is this one.
03:14There's two cards, there's the 9070 and the 9070 XT.
03:17There's probably going to be another card later that's lower end.
03:19The basic specs of the cards today might feel familiar to the Vega era.
03:23The cards are divided by a 56CU or compute unit and a 64CU model, with today's review
03:30focusing on the 64, and no, not that one.
03:33We'll review the 9070 later today as well, so check back for that later today.
03:37For TDP, AMD markets them as 220W and 304W, with board partners having room to scale beyond
03:42that.
03:43We'll test this today as well.
03:44AMD is using GDDR6 memory at 16GB capacity at 20Gbps and on a 256-bit bus for both cards.
03:52The VRAM alone will be advantageous in heavier RT workloads, something we talked about yesterday
03:57in the 5070 review.
03:58The architecture's biggest overhaul that we're aware of has been in ray tracing.
04:03AMD has doubled the ray intersection rate, moved to two RT-accelerated blocks with a
04:07shared 128KB memory, moved to BVH8, and introduced oriented bounding boxes or OBBs to reduce
04:13or eliminate false positives in ray triangle and ray box intersections.
04:17AMD has also introduced a dedicated ray transform block to help with transformation.
04:21And again, this is all stuff that AMD really needs to improve on, because NVIDIA has successfully
04:25sort of manufactured a category it's really good at, which is real-time ray tracing.
04:30And Intel even, again, sort of makes AMD look bad in some of those situations with the 7000
04:36series, so they needed to make some ground here, and we'll be looking at that today.
04:40Now for pricing, this is a little difficult lately, because it's just like, nothing.
04:44But for the card that you might remember as being built entirely upon bullshit and lies...
04:504090 performance at 549.
04:55Impossible without the four tops, four tear-ups of AI.
05:02We did a quick look at Newegg for what was in stock, and it was nothing.
05:08It was all gone.
05:09When we checked Newegg yesterday, the only card that was between $450 and $650, sold
05:16first party, and not refurbished, was the 7800 XT.
05:22This is madness.
05:23And if it were about 10 years ago, I'd probably kick a video card off the table and yell something
05:28about Sparta, but madness nonetheless.
05:31There's just nothing there.
05:33The 9070 XT and the 9070 both should be within this range tomorrow, in theory, so we'll have
05:38to check back for that.
05:39They are also likely to get scalped, like Nvidia.
05:42What may help is that there are rumors of greater supply than the 50 series, and likewise,
05:48they may be less desirable in the AI at home segment than the 5090s, for example.
05:54So because the reviews go up before launch, we can't know the scalper or the availability
05:57situation right now as we film this, so you'll get to watch and find out.
06:03But we'll do a follow-up to talk about all that and see how the launch shook out.
06:07Either way, we'd normally dedicate an entire section to talking about the various different
06:11alternatives right now at the same price.
06:14The short version is that there are none.
06:17Isn't that fun?
06:18There's no options.
06:20And so that makes the section very short.
06:22Anyway, we're just trying to keep this simple today, so let's go straight into the numbers.
06:26Dragon's Dogma 2 at 4K is a remarkably strong show and for the RX 9070 XT, so we'll start
06:31here.
06:32This is going to go back and forth a bit.
06:33In this benchmark, the 9070 XT ran at 70 FPS average, landing at between the 4080 and
06:38the 3090 Ti.
06:39That means that even taking MSRP at face value for both cards, the $600 9070 XT is achieving
06:4695% of the performance of the $750 RTX 5070 Ti Prime, but at 80% of the MSRP.
06:53We want to caution that this result doesn't always happen, sometimes the 9070 XT is worse
06:59than a 5070, so it depends on the game, but this is a great start.
07:02The frametime pacing is also comparable, meaning that the frame-to-frame interval is
07:05not noticeably different to a human player.
07:08The 9070 XT leads the 7800 XT by 14.8% here, the lead over the 5070 is 24% at 70 FPS to
07:1556 FPS.
07:16At 1440p, the RX 9070 XT nearly ties the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, the latter of which only leads
07:22by 3%.
07:23It's measurable, but you'd never notice this difference, just like the 3% of truth was
07:27measurable in Nvidia's 5070 equals 4090, but you'd never notice that difference either.
07:33The lows are also within variance, the 5070 Ti is basically an RTX 4080 V3 or 4 depending
07:37on how you count them, and that means the 9070 XT is also punching close to 4080 Super
07:42levels.
07:43The 4080 Super was a $1,000 MSRP card that replaced a clinically insane $1,200 MSRP card
07:47before it, giving us some perspective here.
07:50The last-gen flagship makes us wish that AMD had something one step higher as well.
07:54The 7800 XTX still leads the new 9070 XT, holding an 8% advantage here.
07:59Against the new 5070, the 9070 XT leads by 21%.
08:03The 7800 GRE posts an even larger gap to the 9070 XT.
08:07As for owners on cards like the 2070 or 2070 Super here, this might be a good upgrade.
08:12At 1080p, the 9070 XT maintained its relative positioning against the 5070 Ti.
08:16It's now at 145 FPS average to the 151 result on the $750 MSRP Nvidia model, available on
08:22sale for only $150 more.
08:25We've never seen an inverse sale where the price goes up, but as they say…
08:32The 7800 XT ran at 134 FPS average on the Dragon's Dog with 21080p benchmark, giving
08:37the 9070 XT an uplift of 8%.
08:39As for the 7800 XTX, it's still technically ahead of the new flagship RDNA 4 card, but
08:44only by 8%.
08:45For Final Fantasy, I want to have a very clear disclosure here.
08:48The numbers we're getting are repeatable.
08:50They are, however, lower than what AMD is presenting in its public slide deck, and they
08:54don't really align with the other non-raytraced performance numbers that we've collected.
08:58So we re-ran everything, and we've been looking into it, and we're getting the same results.
09:03That's why we're going to present them.
09:04However, we do want to be clear that they appear to be outliers, and so we're going
09:09to dig into these some more and just see if anything changes.
09:11Thus far, we're getting the same results.
09:13Repeatedly, I spoke with Der Bauer, and he saw similar results in one of the games he
09:17tested.
09:18We'll update you all in a hardware news or the 9070 review or something.
09:21We don't think it's our test setup because it is repeating on both of the cards, but
09:26it might be something to do with the particular scene that we're benchmarking or something
09:30like that.
09:31So anyway, we're going to dig into this, but let's present the numbers as they came out
09:34for now.
09:35At 4K, the 9070 XT landed at 68 FPS average.
09:38Unfortunately for AMD, that means that the 9070 XT is worse than the 5070 here.
09:44The 5070 leads the 9070 XT by 13.6%, with its 78 FPS average.
09:49The 5070 Ti leads by a staggering 43% at 97 FPS to 68, whereas Dragon's Dogma 2 was a
09:56strong position for AMD.
09:57It's weak in this game.
09:59It all depends on the game itself.
10:00At 1440p, the 9070 XT ended up at only 2 FPS above the 7900 GRE.
10:05Architecturally, the improvements just aren't helping here.
10:08The 5070 Ti ends up at 187 FPS average, leading the 9070 XT by 34%.
10:13The 5070 leads it by 10%.
10:15Let's show how much of a tennis match it really is, and go back and forth again.
10:19Resident Evil 4 swings it back the other way.
10:22At 4K, the 9070 XT now holds a 103 FPS average, landing it nearly tied with the 4080 Super.
10:28That's a great spot for AMD's card, which it needs after that Final Fantasy showing we
10:32just saw.
10:33The 9070 XT leads the 7900 XT marginally, and leads the 5070 by 31%.
10:38The 5070 Ti leads the 9070 XT by 3.5%, with the 7900 XTX 23% ahead.
10:45At 1440p, the 9070 XT continues to rank alongside NVIDIA.
10:48The 9070 XT is about 5 FPS short of the 5070 Ti, making for a measurable but undetectable
10:54difference to a human, just like the measurable but undetectable difference between all of
10:58NVIDIA's 8,040 AD cards that it's remade.
11:01But all of that is assuming the 5070 Ti has all of its ROPs.
11:04If it doesn't, then we'd see anywhere from like a 6-12% change in the performance swing.
11:09The 4080 Super leads the 9070 XT by 5% here.
11:12The 7900 XTX, which was also once a $1,000 card in itself, leads the 9070 XT by 20%,
11:18with its 232 FPS result.
11:20Against the new 5070, the 9070 XT holds a 27% advantage.
11:23At 1080p, the 9070 XT clocked higher framerate than the 7900 XT, and landed just below the
11:285070 Ti.
11:29The 5080 leads the 9070 XT by 15%, which isn't all that much when considering we've all
11:34been gaslit into thinking a 5080 takes the place of a 1080 Ti or something.
11:38It's not the high end, it's like a mid-range card.
11:41Since we just alternated to a title where the XT looks better, let's bring it back
11:44maybe the other way.
11:46Black Myth Wukong tends to favor NVIDIA, both with and without RT enabled.
11:50We'll see if that remains true with the new architecture.
11:53At 4K, the 5070 Ti leads the 9070 XT by 12% here.
11:57It's not as big of a gap as it could be, we'll see how that maintains in RT, but against
12:02the 5070, the 9070 XT is at least ahead by 14%.
12:06Compared to the prior generation, the 9070 XT is about the same as a 4070 Ti Super.
12:11The 7900 XT acts as a few percentage points higher framerate than the 9070 XT.
12:15At 1440p, the 9070 XT's 83 FPS average result is matched with good pacing on the 1% and
12:200.1% lows.
12:21It's not better than its neighbors in a meaningful way, but it is keeping pace properly.
12:25The 5070 Ti leads the 9070 XT by 5%, and the 5080 leads it by 17%, probably calling
12:32the 5080's existence into question more than anything else here, and again, that's one
12:37with all of the ROPs there.
12:38The 5070 ran at 72 FPS average, so the 9070 XT is about 10 FPS higher.
12:43That also had the 5070 above the 7900 XT, which the 9070 XT has now vaulted past.
12:49At 1080p, the scaling shifts the 9070 XT closer to the 7900 XT-X.
12:53The two are functionally equal in all three metrics here.
12:56The 5070 Ti outranks the 9070 XT on a technicality, but not in an observable way.
13:011080p seems to squish all of these together.
13:03Starfield is up now.
13:04This one flips it again.
13:05At 4K, the 9070 XT leads the 5070 Ti by about 2 FPS.
13:09Just like we've said elsewhere, this is a measurable but irrelevant difference.
13:12You wouldn't notice the 2 FPS.
13:14You probably would notice the cost difference though.
13:16The 9070 XT actually roughly equals the 4080 Super here, and isn't that distant from the
13:215080.
13:22Both the 5070 Ti and the 9070 XT are a threat to the 5080's already questionable existence.
13:27At 1440p, the 9070 XT is again between the 5070 Ti and the 4080 Super, roughly tying
13:32the latter.
13:33The 7900 XT-X has a 6% lead over the 9070 XT here.
13:36The 5070 non-Ti, which is still not equivalent to an RTX 4090, continues to not be equivalent
13:42to an RTX 4090.
13:44Wow.
13:45Truly wondrous technology.
13:47We never could have predicted that.
13:48At 1080p, the 9070 XT now holds a 127 FPS average with lows at 68 and 46.
13:55That plans it right between the 7900 XT-X and the 5070 Ti.
13:58There's not much difference between these three in this test.
14:01The 4080 Super actually isn't that different either, and the 5090 shows that we do have
14:06a little bit more CPU headroom here.
14:07And actually, so does the 4090 for that matter, which continues to not be a 5070, just in
14:11case we hadn't mentioned it.
14:12Dying Light 2 is up next.
14:14This is one of the heavier games in our test suite.
14:16At 4K, the 9070 XT ran at 62 FPS average, which has it just ahead of the 3090 Ti.
14:21It's also 11% ahead of the 5070.
14:24The 5070 Ti leads the 9070 XT by 12% in this test, which matches its gain in other tests
14:29where it held an advantage.
14:31In other words, the 9070 XT achieves 89% of the performance at 80% of the listed MSRP.
14:37We're reviewing this before the 9070 XTs go on sale, so we can't know how much to adjust
14:41for for street price, so using the only one there's any control for.
14:46At 1440p, the 5070 Ti beats the 9070 XT at 130 FPS to 118, or about a 10% uplift to the
14:535070 Ti.
14:55The 4080 Super is a few frames above that.
14:57The 5070 is down at 106 FPS average, resulting in an advantage for the 9070 XT of 11%.
15:03It's equidistant between them.
15:05AMD has also improved on its 7900 XT model.
15:08The 6700 XT is way down at 61 FPS average, so users on that tier of hardware could experience
15:14nearly a doubling in framerate in some tests.
15:17We've been rerunning Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty on a newer version for all tests, so this
15:21chart is sparse.
15:22The 9070 XT ran at 53 FPS average, giving it a lead over the 5070 Ti's 50 FPS average
15:28of 5.8%.
15:30Against the 5070, the 9070 XT is ahead by 29%.
15:33Maybe more noteworthy is that the 9070 XT is technically ahead of the 4080.
15:38The 7900 XT-X, meanwhile, remains about 9% higher average framerate than the 9070 XT.
15:43At 1440p, the 9070 XT climbs to a playable 109 FPS average in Phantom Liberty.
15:48This is without upscaling or frame generation, just organic, farm-fresh frames.
15:53The 9070 XT ends up basically tied with the 5070 Ti, slightly leading the 4080, and notably
16:00leading the 5070.
16:02We haven't rerun AMD's older stuff in this one yet.
16:04Time for Ray Tracing.
16:05This is where AMD will really need to prove itself.
16:08AMD has spent a lot of time talking about its improvements to Ray Tracing blocks in
16:11its recent press briefings, so they're clearly aware of the deficit.
16:14We'll start with the worst-case scenario.
16:16It should get better from here.
16:18Black Myth Wukong has worked best on Nvidia hardware since its launch, especially in Ray
16:22Tracing.
16:23At 4K, with upscaling and ray traced, the 9070 XT ran with our settings at 29 FPS average.
16:29Playability isn't important to us right now, just the relative scaling.
16:33We'll get to the lower resolutions in a minute.
16:35With these settings, the 5070 ends up ahead by a large 38%, at 40 FPS to 29.
16:41The 5070 Ti is 78% ahead of the 9070 XT.
16:44This is AMD's absolute worst-case scenario.
16:47Against last generation, AMD is at least posting large gains.
16:50The 9070 XT outperforms the 7900 XT-X by 45%, climbing from 28 to 29 FPS.
16:57That is a substantial gain, especially considering the XT-X was often slightly ahead of the 9070
17:02XT in raster.
17:03But obviously, there are situations, especially games like this, where you still will have
17:07to just heavily weigh Nvidia if RT and this type of game matters a lot to you.
17:12Against the 7900 XT, there was an enormous 84% uplift in performance.
17:17It's undeniable that AMD is improving in RT.
17:19At 1440p upscaled, the 9070 XT ran at about the levels of the RTX 3090.
17:25The 5070 now is 37% ahead, so about the same as last resolution, with the 5070 Ti 66% ahead,
17:31reduced from before.
17:32The gain in the 9070 XT over the 7900 XT-X is 45%, so the same.
17:37At 1080p upscaled, the 9070 XT held 73 FPS average and climbed past the 3090.
17:42It's now approaching the 3090 Ti, which came out 3 years ago and had no formal MSRP at
17:47launch.
17:48It just sold for whatever in that period, and was typically close to $2,000, but occasionally
17:53$1,500.
17:54The 5070 is now 33% ahead, down from 37% before.
17:59The 5070 Ti is down to 53% ahead, still huge, but a gradual reduction, step by step, from
18:05the 4K upscaled gains of 78%.
18:07Let's look at something more balanced.
18:08Dragon's Dogma 2 is a game we'd play with Ray Tracing enabled, but it's not nearly as
18:13heavy an implementation as Cyberpunk or Black Myth.
18:16In Dragon's Dogma 2, with Ray Tracing and at 4K, the RX 9070 XT ran at 61 FPS average.
18:22This has it ahead of the RTX 5070's 49 FPS result by 26%.
18:27The 5070 Ti leads the 9070 XT marginally, and by 2 FPS, or 3.6%, the 7900 XT-X is about
18:335 FPS ahead of the 9070 XT.
18:36Definitely a healthier position than Black Myth, but also not as impressively heavy.
18:40At 1440p, the 9070 XT ran at 103 FPS average, and tied the 5070 Ti almost exactly.
18:45Again, this is heavier on raster than RT, but this is a better result than historically
18:50for AMD.
18:51Previously, the 7900 GRE was below the new 5070, with the 7900 XT about the same as a
18:574070 Ti Super.
18:581080p puts the 9070 XT as still right around the 5070 Ti and the 4070 Ti Super.
19:03Dying Light 2 is up next, tested at 4K with upscaling as the game is relatively heavy.
19:07The 9070 XT landed at 46 FPS average, which puts it tied with the 7900 XT-X and just behind
19:12the 3090 Ti.
19:13AMD still has a deficit in RTX compared to its Nvidia competition, with the 5070 Ti leading
19:19by 24%.
19:20That's not as obscene as the gap in Black Myth, but it's still an undeniable victory
19:25for Nvidia.
19:26The RTX 5070 ran at 44 FPS average here, so the 9070 XT is about 6% ahead.
19:321440p has the 9070 XT at 89 FPS average and tying the 4070 Ti Super and 3090 Ti.
19:38It's marginally ahead of the 7900 XT-X, though they're functionally equal.
19:43The 5070 Ti leads the 9070 XT by 16% now, down from 24% at the higher resolution.
19:48The 4080 Super and FE were tied with each other and aren't distant from the 5070 Ti.
19:53At 1080p, the 9070 XT ran at 129 FPS average.
19:57The 5070 Ti maintains a lead here, but it's now reduced to 9.4%.
20:01Those are some huge reductions in its advantage as the resolution comes down.
20:05So Nvidia is still ahead, but has lost significant ground here.
20:08Resident Evil 4 is up now at 4K with ray tracing and upscaling.
20:12The 9070 XT performs at parity with the 5070 Ti.
20:15This is another of the lighter weight RT titles.
20:18So broadly speaking thus far, games with fewer RT features implemented that lean more heavily
20:23on raster allow AMD to compete better.
20:26The 9070 XT leads the 5070 by 27%, with the 7900 XT-X leading the 9070 XT in this one
20:32by 16%.
20:33At 1440p upscaled, the 9070 XT ran at 180 FPS average and allowed the 5070 Ti a marginal
20:40victory.
20:41The 9070 XT improved upon the 7900 XT, but not the XT-X.
20:45Cyberpunk is up next.
20:46We'll start with the heaviest workload and scale down from there.
20:494K and RT Ultra tends to destroy cards with lower VRAM capacity, like the 5070, with its
20:540.1% lows.
20:56Cards like the 2070 and 2070 Super have been removed this time since they were unplayable
21:00and their results were just noise anyway.
21:03One could be better than the other, just because neither can play the game.
21:06The 9070 XT landed at 22 FPS average.
21:09In a relative sense, what matters is that the 5070 Ti's lead is 23.5%.
21:14The 9070 XT leads the 5070 by 26% in average FPS, but 5070 has massive stuttering problems
21:20due to insufficient VRAM as it depletes, and actually, we showed some video of the screen
21:25when we were running this game test in our 5070 review, it gets really bad the longer
21:31you play.
21:32It just can't keep up.
21:33Bringing RT down to medium, but still at 4K, the 9070 XT runs at 28 FPS average and lands
21:38between the 7900 XT-X and the 4080.
21:40It's a much better spot to be in.
21:42This puts the 5070 Ti ahead by 10%, down from 24% at ultra.
21:47You could then get to a playable framerate with upscaling or by dropping the resolution.
21:51You can see Nvidia getting embarrassed by its own choices once again.
21:54The 4070 Ti and 5070 are both crumbling at 0.1% lows, which is a direct result of the
21:59low VRAM capacity.
22:01This low 0.1% value manifests as stuttery frame delivery and inconsistent frame time
22:06pacing.
22:071080p but back to RT ultra, the 9070 XT ran at 71 FPS average, 61, 1% low, and 58, 0.1%
22:14lows.
22:15The 5070 encroaches on this result at 64 FPS average, although the 9070 XT has a slight
22:19advantage in 0.1% lows.
22:21The 5070 Ti leads the 9070 XT here by 20%.
22:24Finally, for Cyberpunk, tested at 1080p and RT medium, the 9070 XT ran at 92 FPS average.
22:30That reduces the 5070 Ti's lead back down to 12%, from the 20% we saw with the RT ultra
22:35and same resolution test.
22:37We're getting into power efficiency testing now.
22:39Efficiency benchmarks are a combination of power consumption and performance, so you'll
22:41get to see both in this testing.
22:43We performed the test with the PMD2 sitting as an interposer between the PCIe slot and
22:48the power cables, capturing just the GPU power consumption in isolation.
22:51We'll start with Final Fantasy XIV as usual for this section, however, this won't reflect
22:55well on the 9070 XT due to the overall lower performance in this title.
22:59The 9070 XT ends up toward the bottom of this chart.
23:01This power draw was 310W here, pulling less than the 430W of the 7900 XT-X, but also producing
23:07a lower frame rate.
23:08This drags down the efficiency, planting it between the XT-X and the 3090 Ti.
23:13The 7900 XT was more efficient in this particular test, with the 5070 likewise significantly
23:18improved on the 9070 XT.
23:20Nvidia remains advantaged in efficiency.
23:221440p has more cards on the chart, the 9070 XT ends up improved upon the efficiency of
23:27the 6600 XT and the 6700 XT up at 0.45FPS per watt, but still worse than the prior XT-X,
23:357900 XT, and Nvidia's entire modern lineup.
23:38The 5070 Ti is 62% more efficient than the 9070 XT here, up at 0.73FPS per watt.
23:44It's not a good result for AMD, it's burning a lot of power to produce the output it is.
23:48Here's a better test for the 9070 XT.
23:50An F124 at 4K with ray tracing, the 9070 XT ran at 0.18FPS per watt.
23:55These results round to the second place, so differing bar sizes for the same numbers
23:58is normal, it just means that the hidden digits are separating them.
24:01Anyway, the 9070 XT is more efficient than the 5070, and significantly more efficient
24:05than AMD's prior 7900 XT.
24:08This massive uplift and flip over the prior raster Final Fantasy charts comes as a combination
24:13of improved performance of the power with the large ray tracing uplift that AMD saw
24:16generationally.
24:17Nvidia's 5070 Ti, however, remains more efficient than the 9070 XT at 0.20FPS per watt, but
24:24this is much closer than it was previously, and now only has an 11% uplift, that's more
24:29normal.
24:30At 1080p, but still an F124 with RT, the 9070 XT ran at 311 watts and scored 0.51FPS per
24:36watt.
24:37That puts it ahead of the RTX 4060, the Intel B580, and 42% improved on the prior 7900 XT,
24:42so that's good.
24:43Nvidia's 5070 Ti maintains an advantage, though, at 266 watts and 0.62FPS per watt,
24:49or a 22% improvement in FPS per watt.
24:51That benefit mostly comes from its lower power draw to produce comparable performance.
24:55Dragonstalk with 2 with RT and at 1440p is up now, the 9070 XT consumed 311 watts during
25:01the course of this testing and calculated to a 0.33FPS per watt result, which makes
25:05it better than the 7900 XT and worse than the 5070 Ti.
25:09Despite AMD's gains overall, Nvidia retains its advantage in efficiency and output for
25:15the power used.
25:16AMD had to get performance before it could get efficiency, though, as these two are part
25:19of the same formula.
25:21We think their focus should remain on pumping the performance numbers with the hope to balance
25:25out the efficiency calculation on that side of the formula instead.
25:28Starfield at 1440p is up now, this is without ray tracing so this is rasterized and it's
25:32one of the titles that AMD does better in.
25:34The 9070 XT pulled 310 watts again here, landing at 0.34FPS per watt and just ahead of the
25:41B570 and 7800 XT.
25:43The 5070 and 5070 Ti are both more efficient, with the 5070 Ti in particular keeping a massive
25:49improvement at 0.48FPS per watt.
25:52The performance is comparable on the 9070 XT and the 5070 Ti here, meaning that most
25:57of that efficiency benefit comes from Nvidia's card pulling just 209 watts to produce basically
26:03the same amount of work.
26:04This is a good comparison because they're effectively ISO-worked or controlled for a
26:10nearly fixed output, and so we've eliminated that last variable of performance.
26:14Nvidia is simply more effective per watt consumed.
26:18Whether that matters for you is up to you, but we'll talk about that in the conclusion.
26:22AMD is definitely winning in the cost per frame category, so sort of that value perspective,
26:26but AMD has won there for a while, that's not news.
26:29The thing that really matters is if they're winning by enough, and that's why it was so
26:33important that AMD get the prize right here.
26:34Nvidia currently has about 90% of the discrete GPU market, AMD has the remaining 10, Intel's
26:39at about 0, and that's why it's so important for consumers that AMD, and one day Intel,
26:45are able to really compete with Nvidia.
26:47Now at the same time, AMD and Intel shouldn't get pity purchases just because someone should
26:53compete with Nvidia.
26:55They still have to earn it.
26:56So we'll see how the street prices shake out for the 9070 XT, and again the 5070 Ti has
27:01a problem where even its partners aren't hitting MSRP, so consumers are getting scalped by
27:05the likes of MSI.
27:06As a quick recap of performance, in rasterization performance and at 4K, AMD's 9070 XT is commonly
27:11within the range of 5-6% of the 5070 Ti, with a few breakouts like Dying Light 2 and
27:17Black Myth non-RT where the 5070 Ti has about a 12% advantage over the 9070 XT.
27:22As we said earlier, our Final Fantasy XIV results just don't match what AMD presented,
27:27but we also run the newest version of the benchmark.
27:30Across all resolutions and all games that we looked at, performance of the 9070 XT approaches
27:34levels of the 7900 XT-X in some benchmarks and is commonly around 7900 XT levels, but
27:40often between them.
27:41Broadly speaking, the 9070 XT beats the 5070 non-Ti, and these charts show the summary
27:46of some of the 4K and 1440p results we have against the 5070 Ti.
27:51The non-Ti is obviously below this.
27:53These charts illustrate the percent improvement from a 9070 XT to a 5070 Ti, or in other words
27:59if the bar is positive and going to the right, then that's a 5070 Ti victory.
28:03If it's going to the left, then that's where the 9070 XT was ahead.
28:06As for ray tracing performance, NVIDIA is ahead almost universally in our testing.
28:10In Black Myth, it's not even a competition.
28:12If you really wanted to play that particular game, and you decided you need RT for it with
28:17these heavy settings, you'd basically need NVIDIA.
28:20In Cyberpunk, AMD narrows the gap from previous generations, but NVIDIA maintains a large
28:25advantage.
28:26In games like Dragon's Dogma 2 with RT, the 9070 XT looks much more competitive.
28:30The extra VRAM is useful in some heavy situations, such as in Cyberpunk RT with Ultra settings
28:35where the 5070 starts to struggle under VRAM load.
28:38In our efficiency testing, NVIDIA maintains an advantage overall.
28:41This is derived from both FPS and power, and in many of these cases, the lower power draw
28:46serves as the stronger part of NVIDIA's side of the equation, rather than performance.
28:50We think AMD's focus on performance before power is the right move.
28:53Power is okay for them.
28:55It can obviously be better, but running lower power wouldn't be worth losing potentially
28:58everywhere on performance.
29:00We think they made the right decision on this balancing act, and they can try to bring the
29:03power down later.
29:04And this back and forth we're describing is why it's been so critical for AMD to get its
29:08pricing right.
29:09In situations where a purchasing decision between AMD and NVIDIA is unclear for the
29:13average consumer, not most people watching this necessarily, but we're talking mass market
29:18who don't even know we exist, then NVIDIA will often remain sort of the default choice
29:23in the minds of those consumers, unless AMD really gives them a reason to be paid attention
29:28to.
29:29And for AMD to really get noticed, it has to win in big ways, either in price or in
29:34performance, but ideally both.
29:36With the 9070 XT, we think $600 is the minimum that they had to hit.
29:40So there's a lot of support for what AMD's doing right now.
29:43It is good that they came down to $600.
29:46It's just that we do have to keep in mind what types of cards these are.
29:50And NVIDIA at any moment, I mean, they're, it's a powerful company, they kind of snap
29:54their fingers and change the pricing.
29:56So $600 was the minimum to get some groundswell and attention that was positive.
30:01And it worked.
30:02We saw that online.
30:03AMD leading up to the launch here has had a lot of positive groundswell and positive
30:07attention and that's a good thing.
30:08It achieved that much.
30:09And there's been a lot of enthusiasm over the last few days over the 9070 series, which
30:13is also good.
30:14And a good part of that is in no small part, thanks to NVIDIA, f***ing up everything they
30:20touch.
30:21It's like the Midas touch, except everything they touch is, it turns into a f*** up of
30:25some kind.
30:26And this is benefiting AMD right now in a big way.
30:29So for pricing, just briefly, we would have liked to see the 9070 XT a little bit cheaper.
30:32The main reason is we'd like to see AMD like really kick in the doors.
30:36I mean, this is the opportunity to maximize impact because of NVIDIA's external screw
30:41ups.
30:42And so a little bit cheaper would have helped them there for appealing to mass market.
30:46We're not talking like the sort of core audience that GN has and the core audience that maybe
30:51Reddit's PC Master Race or whatever has, but really that mainstream, like someone builds
30:56a computer once every five or 10 years or whatever, walks into a Best Buy and you really
31:03got to get the attention of that person if you're AMD to grow the market share rapidly,
31:10to just start generating that momentum.
31:11The reason it's so much more important now than normally is because of NVIDIA's screw
31:15ups.
31:16The 9070, we'll talk about that separately, but that price is weird.
31:20That price doesn't make a lot of sense.
31:21It is an upsell.
31:22It looks like they're trying to push people to the XT maybe.
31:27But that one, we'll talk about that in a separate review.
31:30So that's for this one.
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