in my launch day review for the new AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT I talked about the process of making launch day reviews and asked you guys for feedback on whether you like my typical launch day Benchmark charts Style videos or the recap that I had done several times with the RTX 50 Series launch and people were like Paul we really like the recap so I'm doing another recap. excellent today's video is brought to you by thermaltake's tr100 mini tower case and travel trunk the tr100 is a diminutive but full feature dual chamber chassis with a surprisingly roomy interior for high-end PC builds available in a variety of colors with support for up to 360 mm gpus and a 280 mm AIO Radiator on top the modular design means side panels are all removable for cable management and upgrades include an optional LCD panel or the travel trunk to easily take your tr100 gaming PC setup on the go for more on the tr100 mini tower case from thermaltake check out my build or click the sponsor Link in the video description so I'm going to be recapping six launch Day video reviews they're all Linked In the description they from Hardware unbox Gamers Nexus Jayz2cents Linus Tech tips Optimum and kitGuru some of these reviews covered the 9070 and 9070 XT like I did in mind and some just covered the 9070 XT although all of them were drawing comparisons to nvidia's cards most specifically the RTX 5070 but alongside that the RTX 5070 TI and while the RX 9070 and 9070 XT don't go up for sale until tomorrow the 5070 actually went up for sale today so let's take a look and they're gone well that was a pretty easy prediction to make the RTX 5070s all selling out within a few minutes of them going up for sale making all of us reviewers pretty much Liars for actually comparing that card at a $550 MSRP they're probably going to be going for more than that at least in the near future early rumors about stock and supply for the 9000 Series have been a little bit more optimistic because these have apparently been arriving at retailers as early as like January or even late December 2024 but that still lies in the realm of speculation we won't find out more about that until tomorrow let's stick to stuff that we can verify by going over the Benchmark results starting with rasterization performance we're looking at Hardware unboxed results from their 18 game Benchmark Suite Steve found that at 1440 the 9070 XT is 6% slower than the 5070 TI but is 133% faster than the 570 not a bad win there and Steve only showed the 9070 XT results in his first video at 4K though the Gap closed and the 9070 XT was only 1% slower than the 5070 TI while remaining 23% faster than the 5070 taking a look at Gamers next results next they ran 10 games for rasterization performance at 4K Steve and crew found the 9070 XT beats the 570 TI in three of their titles however it's typically 5 to 10% slower in the remaining games at 1440 the 9070 XT matches or beats the 5070 TI in five titles and then it's 3 to 34% slower otherwise again this is compared to the 5070 TI which is theoretically 750 bucks compared to 600 for the 9070 XT although 5070 TI is actually way more expensive than that right now and then there are some outliers with Final Fantasy and black myth Wukong where Nvidia still maintains a pretty significant lead next results from lonus Tech tips they tested six games at 1440 the 9070 XT was 133% faster than the 970 and 21. 5% faster than the 570 at 4K the 9070 XT was 13.
7% faster than the 9070 and 24. 5% faster than the 5070 the next results are from Optimum he tested 11 games and found that at 1440 the 9070 was 3% faster than an RTX 5070 whereas 9070 XT was 5% slower than a 5070 TI although it was 15% faster than an RTX 5070 next results are from kit Guru who tested 12 games at 1440 they found the 9070 XT to be 30% faster than the 5070 6. 2% faster than the 5070 TI and 13.
6% faster than the 9070 while at 4K the 970 XT was 33. 6% faster than a 5070 5. 5% faster than a 5070 TI and 15% faster than a 970 so to sum up these rasterization numbers the $600 9070 XT can often keep up with the $750 to $1,000 plus depending on the street prices right now 5070 TI or 480 super since those two cards are pretty equivalent with different reviewers finding about a 5% variance either way it's also 13 to 15% faster than the 9070 and is usually just a few percentage points behind the last gen Flagship 7900 XTX the 9070 non XT is typically 5 to 10% % faster than the RTX 5070 in Pure rasterization Performance as well but you know what it's 2025 and rate tracing is a thing I just rolled all the rate tracing results into my final numbers in my video but let's take a look at some separated rate tracing results starting with Hardware unboxed again who ran six games for rate tracing at 1440 the 9070 XT was 21% slower than the 5070 TI in Steve's tests well it was also 3% slower than the 5070 while rate tracing performance is improved with the 9000 Series cards as you can see the 26% improvement over the 7900 XTX is pretty significant the Nvidia RTX series cards still have a little bit of an edge here at 4K the 9070 XT was 25% slower than the 5070 Ti and 2.
5% slower than the 5070 while it was 27% faster than the 7900 XTX the Linus Tech tips rate tracing tests showed similar results at 1440 the 9070 XT was 2% slower than the 5070 for them while the 9070 XT was 177% slower than the 5070 the 9070 matches the 7900 XTX performance- wise here while the 9070 XT is 17. 5% faster kit Guru ran eight rate racing specific games at 1440 they found the 9070 XT to be 15% slower than the 5070 TI 99. 5% faster than the 5070 and 11.
4% faster than the last generation Flagship 7900 XTX so with these results we can see that rate tracing performance is much improved versus last gen for AMD going from the 7000 series to the 9000 Series and still Trails Nvidia here but that Gap has closed significantly and rate tracing performance I think it's safe to say is no longer a massive Nvidia Advantage / Radeon detractor a few other notes that I noted while going through these reviews uh Jay as well as several others noted the 1% lows or frame time consistency was often better with amd's 9070 and 9070 XT for example in this F1 2024 graph you can see the 5070 having many spikes and Jitters versus the much smoother results for the 9070 and 9070 XT 1% lows in many charts have shown AMD to have an advantage for this generation several reviews also focused on what is perceived as the 5070s biggest shortcoming the 12 gig vram buffer I guess perhaps only second to its availability lots of people have complained about the 5070 only having 12 gigs of vram for 550 bucks in 2025 550 bucks theoretically and the nice thing is we don't have to wait for some theoretical future game to show how a 12 gig vram buffer can hurt your performance lus text tips showed that while testing The Last of Us at 4K their 5070 ran out of vram resulting in Crazy frame time spikes with the 5070 versus the 9070 when all your vram gets used up performance tanks but those spikes go away when testing with 16 GB cards likewise Hardware unboxed showed that Indiana Jones in the great circle when maxed out with r tracing performance and everything can put a serious damper on the performance of cards that have 12 gigs of vram or less Steve heavily criticized Nvidia in his 5070 review using this demo and then further demonstrated the value of having more vram today cards with a 12 gig vram limit simply can't run this game at 4K using these maxed out settings now granted the 9070 XTS 7 FPS at 4K or 17 FPS at 1440 isn't exactly ideal but it is infinity percent better than the 5070s Zero FPS let's talk power draw and temperatures next over at Hardware andbox Steve tested five 9070 XT variants side by side showing that all of these third party designs can achieve excellent cooling with these gpus they were in the mid-50s or low 60s Celsius and hot spots were in the mid 80s for the most part while frequencies were in the 3100 to 3200 MHz range as I noted in my review memory temperatures can be a bit high on the 9070 and 9070 XT but are still reasonable at 85 to 90c Jay's two cense did some power draw testing under stress tests with furmark the overclocked XFX Mercury Mag Air 9070 XT which is one of those 340 Watt higher TDP models did hit 350 Watts of power draw while the standard 970 was running at about 230 watts and the 5070 TI hit 310 Watts kit Guru found a non overclocked 9070 XT model to draw a more typical 320 Watts across their 1440 tests with the 9070 coming in at 28. 9 watts and while the power draw with these cards does look a bit higher relative to Nvidia cards when Balan with performance performance as shown in Gamers nexus's frames per second per watt chart the 9070 XT actually aligns very closely with the RTX 5070 in terms of efficiency with the performance boost balancing the increased power consumption this is another area where Nvidia has typically had a lead in the past but that lead has apparently evaporated or at least the Gap has closed significantly much like it has with r tracing upscaling is another area that AMD needs to gain ground on nvidia's dlss with FSR4 FSR4 is now machine learning enhanced which on the downside means the latest features only work with the RX 9000 Series gpus but on the plus side it's a huge improvement over FSR 3. 1 per Dominic from kit Guru side-by-side comparisons in Ratchet and Clank show notably better upscaling Precision for things like confetti drifting down or semi-transparent objects not being a muddled mess and just overall Precision detail and accuracy have vastly improved with FSR 4 even when compared side by side with dlss 4 which is one of the few things that Nvidia got generally good feedback on with the 50 Series launch the FSR 4 upscaling holds up and it's pretty tough to tell the difference that's not to say it's perfect there are still artifacts to be seen particularly when video capture is zoomed in and slowed down but per LTT when upscaling to 4K the image quality of FSR is no more distracting than dlss4 it's also noteworthy that AMD has frame gen too single frame gen not multi frame gen but it actually seems to work a a bit better than Nvidia which is pretty funny though it's using FSR 3.
1 frame gen implementation which apparently has pretty low overhead the main complaints about FSR 4 though will likely be game support Dlss4 has much wider adoption right now even when including FSR 3 titles that can be forced into FSR 4 mode and amd's fluid motion frames backup driver level solution for frame generation is still very underwhelming and isn't even worth turning on based on how awful the image quality is if there's one area the new 9070 and 9070 XT truly fall short right now it's the other thing you can do besides gaming with a GPU productivity Ali from Optimum tried to use the special beta version of blender that AMD distributed for reviews and he wasn't even able to get it to work the 9000 Series cards are better at blender but they still fall short of nvidia's offerings LTT ran several Underwriters Laboratory bench marks showing AI workloads have improved with the 9000 Series though versus the 7000 series but again there's still falling short versus invidious offerings especially when compared to how those gaming charts lined up fortunately content creation tests still show AMD keeping up reasonably well in stuff like the Adobe suite but h264 encoding is also behind both Intel and Nvidia in terms of image quality so that pretty much sums up the reviews that I'm rounding up today and the general vibe for the 9070 and 9070 XT debut has been quite positive although not without a good amount of caveats and if then statements as shown by cost per frame charts including mine the 9070 XT is the best value we currently have available in the mid-range to high-end and while that's good news AMD is also greatly benefiting from a lack of competition in this space the fact that there are pretty much no last gen cards still available to buy means options are slim to none if you decide the 9070 or 9070 XT don't exactly meet your requirements your options then become an even poorer value Nvidia 5070 or 5070 TI that is probably grossly overpriced even Beyond its disappointing MSRP if you can even find one available for sale thanks to lack of availability or I suppose just don't be a PC Gamer go outside touch grass and stuff and after a very long Gauntlet of GPU launches in q1 I think that's what I'm going to do so thank you guys for watching this video and a reminder that all of these detailed reviews are linked in the videoos description if you'd like to watch them in full also you can check out my store at Pauls hardware.
