9070 / 9070 XT compared to the competition, from the latest leaks
TL;DR at the top: Pretty much what the other leaks were saying -- The XT about matches the 4080S or 5070 Ti in raster, and is somewhere around the 4070 Ti in RT. Now the question is, will AMD price this like they want to sell any, or not?
Methodology: I grabbed average FPS numbers for the 7900 GRE and other recent GPUs from Hardware Unboxed GPU review videos for as many of the titles included in the leaked AMD slides as I could, and added in the 9070-series cards by multiplying the 7900 GRE's performance according to the gains from the leaked slides. The games included in this average are:
- Space Marine 2
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dragon Age: Veilguard
- Starfield
- Stalker 2
- God of War: Ragnarok
All numbers are for 4k tests -- this was an annoying amount of data entry and selfishly, I am mostly concerned with how these will stack up for use with my 49" ultrawide. Sorry if you're more interested in 1440p!
For a sense of how each card performs in RT-dominant workloads, I also included Cyberpunk 2077 RT Ultra benchmarks separately. There were a couple missing values for the 5070 Ti where I had to pull in average FPS numbers from other reviewers. In these cases I checked them against other cards I had known values for, to ensure that there weren't setting disparities that would affect the validity of the data. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a CP2077 RT Ultra benchmark for the 3090 to include in a few minutes of digging, so it only has raster performance numbers.
Bottom line, these are a big improvement over the 7000-series and could be very good cards if the price is right. The 9070 is comparable to a 7900 XT in raster and nearly matches the 7900 XTX in RT, while the 9070 XT comes close to the 7900 XTX in raster and beats it handily in RT. Compared to the competition from NVidia, the base 9070 can nearly match the 4070 Ti Super in raster, and performs on par with the base 4070 in RT workloads. The 9070 XT, for its part, goes blow-for-blow with the 5070 Ti in raster and sits somewhere between the 4070 and 4070 Ti Super in RT. This all lines up pretty well with the more optimistic rumors and leaks about these cards. Now we just need to know the pricing...