An earlier leak predicted AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT would perform on par with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4080 Super. That was in a synthetic benchmark, and the result has been replicated in some of the most demanding AAA games. But, with ray tracing thrown in the mix, its performance falls to two tiers below.
Black Myth: Wukong: No ray tracing, highest settings:
- Radeon RX 9070 XT: 4K (30 FPS), 1440p (73 FPS), 1080p (97 FPS)
- GeForce RTX 4080 Super: 4K (33 FPS), 1440p (77 FPS), 1080p (99 FPS)
- GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super: 4K (28 FPS), 1440p (67 FPS), 1080p (87 FPS)
Cyberpunk 2077: Ray tracing, no DLSS:
- Radeon RX 9070 XT: 4K (26 FPS), 1440p (52 FPS), 1080p (85 FPS)
- GeForce RTX 4080 Super: 4K (32 FPS), 1440p (65 FPS), 1080p (101 FPS)
- GeForce RTX 4070 TI Super: 4K (23 FPS), 1440p (53 FPS), 1080p (87 FPS)
Of course, the above leak isn't fully indicative of how the Radeon RX 9070 XT will perform in the real world. It doesn't account for variables such as CPU, memory and Windows versions, all of which play an important role in determining how a piece of hardware fares. But, it effectively confirms earlier leaks about where is sits in the GPU heirarchy.
Overall, the Radeon RX 9070 XT pretty much achieved what it set out to do and established itself as a viable alternative to Nvidia's mid-rangers. With Nvidia opting to use 12 GB of GDDR7 VRAM on the $550 GeForce RTX 5070, the Team Red alternative will serve as a better future proofing option because of its 16 GB of video memory.
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