Official AMD Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT performance benchmarks leaked: 20-40% better than 7900 GRE

Rumor mill: Team Red will reveal tech specs, pricing, and release date information for the Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards on Friday. We already have enough leaked details to get a rough estimate of their performance. However, VideoCardz claims to have acquired the company’s official benchmark charts, which show performance gains in 20 games compared to the 7900 GRE.

VideoCardz says that AMD expects its upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card to outperform the 7900 GRE by about 42 percent in a mixture of raster and ray tracing 4K workloads. If the leaked internal benchmarks prove accurate, the 9070 XT and standard 9070 could trade blows with Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 if the price is right.

The report indicates that AMD compared its upcoming GPUs to models from prior generations in over 30 games. The tests, pictured below, utilized ultra or maximum graphics settings without upscaling or frame generation, contrasting starkly with Nvidia’s methodology.

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 reached out to AMD, which said that it hadn’t acquired RTX 5070 Ti samples for direct comparisons with Nvidia. However, a Redditor attempted to approximate one by lining AMD’s averages from six games up against prior benchmarks for several of Team Green’s GPUs.

Please take the results with a grain of salt. They don’t incorporate FSR 4 – a critical improvement exclusive to RX 9000 – but appear optimistic for AMD. Although the 9070 XT might not match the RTX 5070 Ti in ray tracing performance, it likely outpaces every prior AMD card and matches the 5070 Ti in raster. The standard 9070 might resemble the RTX 3090’s raster performance and should almost reach the 7900 XTX in RT.

Pricing is the most crucial element, but a recent leak suggests that the company’s two upcoming GPUs could land between $600 and $700. They should launch early next month, likely butting heads with Nvidia’s standard RTX 5070. Detailed performance metrics for the $549 mid-range card remain unclear.

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