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00:00AMD have finally done it. This is the new 9070 XT, pumping out more frames than a 5070 Ti,

00:07and apparently it's $150 cheaper. I say apparently because as for what the real world pricing is

00:14going to be for these new GPUs, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. As for performance

00:19though, they are looking really promising. And I'm not just saying that to hype up the underdog,

00:24which is AMD, they are actually very strong GPUs. So here we have the 9070 and 9070 XT,

00:30the first two new GPUs of AMD's 9000 series. The VRM setup is the same on both. So it's 16GB of

00:38GDDR6, which is the same capacity as what you'll find on Nvidia's 5070 Ti, but at slower speeds.

00:45Making up that performance difference though is the new RDNA 4 architecture, 56 and 64 compute

00:50units respectively, with the 9070 XT also getting a faster boost clock. So 9070, 5070,

00:579070 XT, 5070 Ti. These are the four GPUs that we're looking at today. Let's start with the

01:039070. At 1440p high to max settings, I tested it against the RTX 5070. Which one is the better

01:11$550 GPU? Well, it's pretty close, but in most games, it's the new AMD 9070. Most of the games

01:18here see around a 5% to 10% uplift, over 20% in Red Dead Redemption 2. But there are a couple of

01:25standouts where the Nvidia card is way faster. Assetto Corsa Competizione, which is a racing sim,

01:30favors Nvidia cards massively for whatever reason. I double checked these results, of course,

01:35cleaned the drivers, even swapped to a different monitor and kept getting the same result. But

01:39otherwise, the 9070 isn't looking bad at all. But I still don't recommend it. What I do recommend

01:46is spending an extra $50 and getting the XT model instead. In F124, Horizon Zero Dawn,

01:52Hellblade 2, Starfield, and even in Cyberpunk as well. It's as fast as Nvidia's 5070 Ti, which is

02:00$150 more expensive. AMD themselves admit the 9070 XT isn't quite as fast as the 5070 Ti,

02:07but it's close enough in most games to justify the price difference between them,

02:11unless you exclusively play ACC. And comparing the 9070 XT to Nvidia's 5070 shows just how far

02:18that extra $50 will go. It's 15% faster on average. Most games sitting around that 20%

02:24mark with a massive 52% in Red Dead Redemption 2. Let's also not forget that the 5070 has 12

02:30gigabytes of VRAM versus the 16 gigs on the 9070 and 9070 XT. At 1440p, you won't run out on either,

02:38but at 4K, you might run into some limits on the 5070. And for those wondering how much faster the

02:439070 XT is to the non-XT model, I found it to be around 12%. So 12% extra performance for 9% more

02:51money. On paper at least, that's money well spent. So 9070 XT, it's looking like the one. In fact,

02:57at 4K in God of War, it's basically equal to AMD's previous flagship, the 7900 XTX. That also lands

03:04you around RTX 4080 performance. Both of those GPUs were significantly more expensive just last

03:10generation. So 9070 XT for $600, that is looking extremely impressive. In Forza Horizon 5, again,

03:17at 4K maxed out settings, it's almost as fast as Nvidia's 5080, which is absolutely nuts. In fact,

03:24the 1% lows are basically equal. If you've got a 3080 or a 4070 around that tier of performance

03:31or lower, then it's a really noticeable jump. There are a couple of catches though. First one

03:37being AMD's FSR upscaling versus Nvidia's DLSS. In most games out there, generally speaking,

03:43DLSS is going to look a little bit better. In fact, in Cyberpunk and Black Myth Wukong,

03:48it's not even close. I really hope you never have to use FSR 3 or 2.1 because it looks terrible. I

03:54mean, it's unbelievably over-sharpened in these games. It's shimmery. There's tons of ghosting.

04:00Nvidia aren't perfect either, but it's an area where they've invested a ton more development and

04:05I've got to say it really shows. AMD are releasing a new version though. It's called FSR 4, only

04:11available in a few games for now though. I did some brief testing in Black Ops 6 and it does

04:15look cleaner than FSR 3. FSR 3 in this game looks pretty soft. FSR 4 looks a lot closer to native.

04:22Hopefully AMD can get FSR working well in a lot more games out there because they really need it.

04:27I also found really heavy ray tracing to grow that margin between the 9070 XT and the 5070 Ti.

04:33So in Cyberpunk, for example, if you have the RT Ultra preset, both cards are pretty similar,

04:38like pretty much equal. But if you turn on RT Overdrive, which is much heavier,

04:43then the AMD card just pretty much tanks. Now, maybe it's a driver bug. Maybe it's just because

04:48this is a really heavy Nvidia-sponsored title, but for what it's worth, AMD's own testing does

04:53show weaker performance once ray tracing is switched on. The other catch is power efficiency,

04:57where Nvidia's Blackwell architecture is superior. Although these GPUs are built on a very similar

05:02node from TSMC, AMD overall are less power efficient. I've yet to do any in-depth power

05:08testing with a PCAT yet, but for now, looking at power at the wall and monitoring software,

05:13Nvidia does look like the more advanced architecture. I wouldn't worry too much

05:17about it though for this tier of GPU. I mean, around the 300 watt mark is perfectly fine for

05:22the kind of heat sinks that you're getting here. I also found idle power consumption between them

05:26to be about equal. I got sent over the PowerColor Red Devils, which are monster cards, as you'd

05:32expect. The cooling is really impressive and I haven't had a single issue from them. I really

05:37do hate to go down the list of things to think about, areas where Nvidia's like a little bit

05:41more impressive. 3D work, Blender is another one. I really tried to run Blender on a 9070 and

05:479070 XT. AMD even provided a 4.4 beta build. I could not get it to work. It technically opened

05:54and I could select the GPUs, but they just would not render. No idea if this is going to be fixed

05:59in the future, but I mean, it's kind of always been like this. If you do actual work with your

06:03PC, 3D rendering, engineering, video editing, for example, it is just a much safer pick to go with

06:09an Nvidia GPU. Even in programs where both cards technically will run, Nvidia has always had better

06:15performance. If you don't do 3D work or like editing with your PC and the games you play are

06:20mostly native rendering and you don't like mess around with DLSS or FSR, the 9070 XT, you cannot

06:27be for the money. AMD are absolutely rinsing Nvidia right now when it comes to rasterization

06:33output and just the insane price to performance. The 9070 XT, it's an objectively strong GPU. I

06:39mean, 600 bucks should feel like it buys you an enthusiast tier upgrade and here it definitely

06:45does. I'll also be completely honest. You know, I haven't been a massive fan of AMD GPUs in the

06:50past, especially when it comes to launch day testing. My experience has not been good at all.

06:55Driver issues, black screens, bugs, some games just refuse to work. Here, I mean, testing this

07:01thing was easy apart from Blender, which I mean, I kind of expected it not to work and that will

07:06likely get up and running at some point. But yeah, otherwise they chewed through absolutely everything.

07:11I find it really interesting, actually, that Nvidia do have the superior architecture between

07:16them. Nvidia could offer a higher performing card at the same power level as AMD right here, but

07:23they just don't. You know, personally, I can forgive the engineering mishaps that they've had

07:27with the 5000 series. The missing ROPs, for example, I don't think that was intentional.

07:32The melting power connector, which we've seen a few times here and there, is that negligence? Yeah,

07:37probably. But personally, I can see what they're trying to do with a more low profile, small form

07:42factor connector. It's just something they need to keep working on and have more safeguards for.

07:47What I cannot forgive though is the sheer greediness, the conscious decision to look

07:51at your customers and say, you know what, we could give you a higher performing card, but

07:56we're just not going to because we don't need to. Take a look at the 5080, for example. It literally

08:01has a nerfed TDP compared to the 4080 Super. Please make that make sense. When you leave

08:08yourself open like that, this is what happens. I just really hope there's enough of them at MSRP

08:14when they finally launch. Even if you're not looking to pick up a 9070 XT,

08:19hopefully this is a big wake up call for Nvidia.

AMD just defeated NVIDIA. - 9070 XT.

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