AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gains 9% Performance at 1440p with Latest Driver, Beats RTX 5070 Ti

[btarunr]

In what could spell trouble for the upcoming GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER, Hardware Unboxed found that the latest Adrenalin drivers give the Radeon RX 9070 XT a 9% gain in raster performance at 1440p over review press drivers. This closes its performance gap with the current GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, which would make the card faster than any potential SKU NVIDIA intends to position between the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti. This testing is part of a feature by Hardware Unboxed where they compared current drivers to review press drivers for both the RX 9070 XT and RTX 5070 Ti.

When averaged across 16 games, the RX 9070 XT with latest drivers was found to gain 9% performance over review press drivers; whereas the RTX 5070 Ti with the latest drivers only gained 2.5% performance over its review press drivers. This 9% gain for the RX 9070 XT puts it ahead of the RTX 5070 Ti. Both the RTX 5070 Ti and RX 9070 XT are capable of gaming at 4K with some settings turned down. Here, averaged across the same 16 games, Hardware Unboxed found that the RTX 5070 Ti gained 3% performance, while the RX 9070 XT gained 4%, and the two GPUs were evenly matched. Helping AMD's average are specific game tests where the RX 9070 XT vastly improved its performance, with "Counter Strike 2" posting a 23% improvement, and "Spider-Man Remastered" posting a massive 27%. "Hogwarts Legacy" sees an 18% gain for AMD. There's more interesting findings and insights in the Hardware Unboxed video linked below.



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[Daven]

TPU has also found RDNA4 performance improvements over time compared to the 5070 Ti at 1440p. Here is the original review of the stock 9070XT on Mar 25:

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Pulse Review - Relative Performance | TechPowerUp

5070Ti vs 9070XT gen ras: 1.06
5070Ti vs 9070XT RT: 1.17

Then we go to the latest graphics card review on June 20:

Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Pulse OC 16 GB Review - An Excellent Choice - Relative Performance | TechPowerUp

5070Ti vs 9070XT gen ras: 1.03
5070Ti vs 9070XT RT: 1.06

That's a pretty good improvement in RT and a small but significant improvement in gen ras over a three month period.

 

[Dahita]

And I returned mine back for a 5080 that was $600 more expensive... because of a driver problem that I found out afterwards This card is a beast!

 

[MrDweezil]

9% performance improvement since launch, but also a 16% price increase since launch.

Edit: US pricing for the 9070/9070 XT seems to have settled at $600/$700 compared to their announced $550/$600

 

[Kwadratowicz]

9% performance improvement since launch, but also a 16% price increase since launch.

In Poland 9070 xt card that I bought at lanuch now costs 86% of what I've payed.

 

[Nostras]

9% performance improvement since launch, but also a 16% price increase since launch.

9070XTs are now readily available at MSRP with some even going below it in Europe.
Funnily enough the 9070 is every so slightly above MSRP now, unexpected.

 

[cucol]

This cant be true, because nvidia is the best because of his driver quality...

HU must be an AMD sponsored channel and they cherry pick games to favor AMD and beat 5070ti.

They just forgot to do the same on the most important Benchmark day, the 9070xt release day where they concluded that 5070ti was faster...

sure

 

[Chomiq]

HU must be an AMD sponsored channel and they cherry pick games to favor AMD and beat 5070ti.

Some cherry picking in the news to get a clickbait headline but sure.

 

[Chaitanya]

9070XTs are now readily available at MSRP with some even going below it in Europe.
Funnily enough the 9070 is every so slightly above MSRP now, unexpected.

Even in US there are quite a few 9070XT which started to get discounts.

 

[Tomorrow]

TPU has also found RDNA4 performance improvements over time compared to the 5070 Ti at 1440p. Here is the original review of the stock 9070XT on Mar 25:

That's a pretty good improvement in RT and a small but significant improvement in gen ras over a three month period.

The improvement in RT is unexpectedly large. If this keep up then by the end of the year 9070 XT may actually be faster in both raster and RT compared to 5070 Ti. Yet 5070 Ti still costs at least 100+ more. 130€ in my country.

Not sure exactly what is worth there paying more for average gamer. Slightly better image quality and wider game support for DLSS4? The only meaningful advantage i can think of are professional apps like Blender etc where AMD still lags behind, but that's a small minority of users. Most users consume, not create media. Or CUDA.

And I returned mine back for a 5080 that was $600 more expensive... because of a driver problem that I found out afterwards This card is a beast!

Can you elaborate on the driver problem? In my opinion 5080 is the worst card to buy. Either 5070 Ti or 5090, but 5080 is a waste of sand.
But if you're happy paying $600 more (almost the price of a second 9070 XT) for less than 20% more performance at the same 16GB ram then who am i to judge.

9% performance improvement since launch, but also a 16% price increase since launch.

Edit: US pricing for the 9070/9070 XT seems to have settled at $600/$700 compared to their announced $550/$600

Very few people were able to get 9070 for advertised MSRP at launch. In US or otherwise.
So i dont think it's correct to say "since launch" because they've always been over MSRP.
By how much varies from country to country.

In my country 9070 XT launched at 900€+ prices. Now it's 700€. Not quite at MSRP yet, but way more reasonable than at launch.

 

[docnorth]

So Nvidia and AMD had a contest of bad drivers at launch?

 

[ixi]

9% performance improvement since launch, but also a 16% price increase since launch.

Edit: US pricing for the 9070/9070 XT seems to have settled at $600/$700 compared to their announced $550/$600

For 700e (including tax) is cheaper than their 600 MSRP. Which now shows that the price is 550e without tax.

In my country 9070 XT launched at 900€+ prices. Now it's 700€. Not quite at MSRP yet, but way more reasonable than at launch.

700e in my country is under msrp. If tax removed then the price is 550 which is msrp.

 

[cucol]

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Some cherry picking in the news to get a clickbait headline but sure.

was just ironic mode on

 

[Daven]

So Nvidia and AMD had a contest of bad drivers at launch?

Lol! But in reality Nvidia drivers were bad (black screens). It was really game developers optimizing their games for the RDNA4 architecture along with AMD shifting more to a software centric strategy that improved performance over the launch numbers.

 

[Tomorrow]

So Nvidia and AMD had a contest of bad drivers at launch?

If so then Nvidia won by a country mile with their driver issues that after ten hotfixes still plague 50 series by looking at their forums.
AMD drivers were and are very good. Even at launch. If the main problem with driver is performance (that no one even noticed) then that's much easier thing to add later than first trying to resolve issues and stabilize the card.

 

[Mr. Perfect]

This cant be true, because nvidia is the best because of his driver quality...

HU must be an AMD sponsored channel and they cherry pick games to favor AMD and beat 5070ti.

They just forgot to do the same on the most important Benchmark day, the 9070xt release day where they concluded that 5070ti was faster...

sure

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

 

[Guwapo77]

So Nvidia and AMD had a contest of bad drivers at launch?

Not even close... AMD drivers were stable as all hell while Nvidia's drivers were crashing left and right. Thankfully, Nvidia's most recent driver seems to work pretty good (only took 5 months).

 

[_roman_]

From Forum Topic to news piece! Did they merge those topics?

In Poland 9070 xt card that I bought at lanuch now costs 86% of what I've payed.

not my quote. A quote from a german television show.

"electronics is like fruit. It goes bad quite fast".

= Money spend on electronics is most likely wasted.

 

[Tomorrow]

From Forum Topic to news piece! Did they merge those topics?



not my quote. A quote from a german television show.

"electronics is like fruit. It goes bad quite fast".

= Money spend on electronics is most likely wasted.

Depends. A smart buyer can get quite a long lasting value if they buy the right hardware at the right time. GPU's like 1080 Ti, CPU's like 5800X3D etc.

 

[RejZoR]

To make 63% improvement, that has to be a broken driver from the get go. There is no way you have gains above 50% with normal working drivers. 9% however is what you'd expect from regular improvements. NVIDIA just fixed a driver that was just broken with that game. Same with AMD if it ever has such gains or when Intel had gains of 300% in some games. That's just broken driver being fixed.

 

[cucol]

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Yes it was, sorry about not being clear with my terrible english.

 

[JustBenching]

But did they fix the driver issues? It's nice that it now matches the 70ti in raster performance but if stability isn't there, what you gonna do with it...

 

[Daven]

But did they fix the driver issues? It's nice that it now matches the 70ti in raster performance but if stability isn't there, what you gonna do with it...

Nice try, dude. I know you, Visible Noise and dgianstefani want to derail this thread anyway you can but no one is buying your crap. Please take that misinformation elsewhere like WCCFTECH.

 

[Chomiq]

But did they fix the driver issues? It's nice that it now matches the 70ti in raster performance but if stability isn't there, what you gonna do with it...

Lol, it's the 50-series that now has problems with stability.

 

[SuperWideGaming]

As a new owner of the 9070xt Taichi, I can say the software is definitely better than the one I used with my rip 4080 from Nvidia. Testing results give me about similar performance with these new (fsr4) techniques. I'm very happy I've switched back to camp AMD