- AMDS RX 9070 GPUs have witnessed waste around their specifications and possible benefits levels
- POWER-WISE RX 9070 XT looks a little shattering than expected but the vanilla 9070 is beaten at a more comfortable level
- Benchmarks paints a shaky picture of performance than previous leaks – but there are good reasons not to worry here, fortunately
AMDS RX 9070 GPUs will soon be officially revealed – in a week there is a big press event dedicated to these cards – but prior to that we have just been treated with some alleged leaked specifications and benchmarks.
As for the specifications, Videocardz comes with the news that Hoang Anh Phu, a regular leak on X, published some details about the RX 9070 models (though this post has since been deleted).
Salt clings to the hand, so we can consider the revelations that seem to be done in a recent AMD press briefing.
We are told that the RX 9070 XT runs with 64 calculation units (4,096 power processors) and a boost watch of 2970MHz, all as previously rumored, with a power consumption (TBP or total board strength) of 304W.
As for Vanilla RX 9070, it reportedly has 56 calculation units (3,584 power processors) and a boost watch of 2520MHz with a 220W power consumption.
Meanwhile, both of these incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards from AMD have had the benchmark leaked, giving us a rough idea of where their performance can be (shot even more salt here).
WCCFTECH noted the benchmarks highlighted by benchleaks (on X), which shows that RX 9070 XT scored 179,178 in the OpenCL test from Geekbench and 177,395 points in Vulkan (both of these are graphics samples).
[GB6 GPU] Unknown GPUCPU: AMD RYZEN 7 9800X3D (8C 16T) CPUID: B40F40 (AUTHENTICAMD) GPU: RADEON RX 9070 XTAPI: OPEN CLSCORE: 179178PCI ID: 1002: 7550VRAM: 15.9 GBHTTPS: //T.CO/RRECWGTFebruary 21, 2025
In the same tests, Vanilla RX 9070 GPU managed to achieve 140,842 points in Opencl, while it hit 158,520 in the volcano.
Of course, these are just numbers, and only useful if we compare them to existing results for other GPUs, as WCCFTECH does. Technical site found that RX 9070 XT is approx. 6% faster than RX 7900 XT in OpenCL, and a touch slower (4% discount on the pace) in the volcano compared with the same current re-graphics card.
The RX 9070 (non-XT), on the other hand, is roughly even with 7800 XT in Opencl and approx. 6% slower than this GPU in the volcano test (where it is only a smash faster than 7700 XT, actually).
Analysis: Causes of being questionable (and cheerful)
At this point you might be thinking: Huh, wasn’t these RDNA 4 GPUs that should be faster than this based on past rumors? Well, yes, they were. In fact, Chatter has suggested that AMD was aiming to make the RX 9070 XT be a little faster than the RTX 4080 (Founders Edition model from NVIDIA).
Now, if the RX 9070 XT is not much faster than the RX 7900 XT, as it is indicated here, the current GEN AMD GPU is significantly out of the pace of a vanilla RTX 4080, so this latest leakage is disappointingly slow compared to what we ‘is been due to expecting.
However, this is only a few geekbonch races, and as I always say when it comes to measuring gaming graphics cards, this is not almost the best way to judge performance. Synthetic benchmarks are not ideal full-stop, and Geekbench is low on the ladder for these measurements to start.
Other leaked estimates of services (including 3dmark results and a glimpse of the vanilla 9070 that bends the muscles in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6) Suggest a beef GPU than what we see here is for sure. And AMD certainly puts expectations on the table with its new name arrangement -the RTX 9070 models are clearly intended to squarage up to NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 offer.
So in short, I really wouldn’t worry about these fresh benchmarks and I would be surprised if they were not proven to be out of line in the end.
The specified power consumption figures are certainly interesting. Previously, we have seen suggestions that the RX 9070 XT could require up to 330W power, even if it is for top-end boards, with the entry level (and reference) graphics cards expected to turn in at 260W. This leak, which claims 304W for the reference board, is slightly higher than expected, so (while top-end GPUs that go very heavy with power is something that has already been rumored and not really a surprise, of course).
The RX 9070, on the other hand, sounds like it is in a theoretically much more comfortable place for a lot of games -PCs out there being judged to 220W.
All of these rumors will be cleared soon enough, because as mentioned, AMD’s official launch event is now imminent, where we find out the hefty size missing from the next general Radeon Puslespil-Pussy MSRPs.
After all, no matter what performance comes out compared to Nvidia’s new middle-class graphics card, the right price tag can still make RDNA 4 a potent rival or maybe even a strength to blow up Blackwell. (Okay, so the latter is undoubtedly wishful thinking, but come on AMD – let’s have a pricing of a good character in the GPU world for once?).
