Performance Issues and Benchmark Leaks with AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

AMD’s new Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card might not provide the ground-breaking performance that enthusiasts had hoped for, according to recent benchmark leaks. Hardware leaker @All_The_Watts published the leaked 3DMark Time Spy findings, which showed that the RDNA 4-based GPU received a graphics score of 22,894 points. According to benchmark results, the RX 9070 XT only shows a 2% gain in performance over AMD’s existing RX 7900 GRE. It lags well behind the RX 7900 XT, which continues to outperform the new card by about 17%. Previous rumors that the RX 9070 XT will directly compete with NVIDIA’s RTX 4080 were refuted by these results.

But artificial standards only provide a portion of the picture. It’s unclear how well the GPU will perform in real-world gaming, although there are reports that the RX 9070 XT will have much better ray tracing than its predecessors in the RX 7000 series. Given the powerful ray tracing capabilities of NVIDIA’s RTX 40 and the future RTX 50 series GPUs, this might be quite important for market competitiveness. In an increasingly competitive GPU market, the RX 9070 XT’s ability to stand out with capabilities like ray tracing and keep an alluring price-to-performance ratio will determine how successful it is. We must wait and see what AMD reveals at CES, so we don’t expect these numbers to be the end of the AMD RDNA 4 story. The ultimate decision on the RDNA 4 market launch will be made based on benchmarks and reviews from third parties.