- AMD RX 9070 GPUs have witnessed spills around their specifications and possible performance levels
- As for power, RX 9070 XT looks a little more hungry than expected, but Vanilla 9070 is launched at a more comfortable level
- The reference points paint a more trembling image of performance than the previous leaks, but there are good reasons not to worry here, fortunately
AMD RX 9070 GPUs will soon be officially revealed, in a week there is a great press event dedicated to these cards, but before that, we have just received some specifications and reference points of alleged.
In terms of the specifications, Videcardz comes with the news that Hoang Anh Phu, a regular filter in X, published some details of the RX 9070 models (although that publication has been eliminated since then).
The salt firmly clung to the hand, then, we can consider the revelations apparently made in a recent information about the AMD press.
We are told that RX 9070 XT will be executed with 64 computer units (4,096 transmission processors) and a 2970MHz impulse clock, all as previously rumored, with a power use (TBP or total plate power) of 304W .
As for Vanilla RX 9070, which supposedly has 56 computer units (3,584 flow processors) and a 2520MHz impulse clock, with a 220 W energy consumption.
Meanwhile, these both RDNA 4 graphics cards of AMD have leaked reference points, which gives us an approximate idea of where your performance may be (however, it includes even more salt here).
Wccftech noticed the reference points highlighted by Benchleks (in X) that show that RX 9070 XT obtained 179,178 in the OpenCl test of Geekbench, and 177,395 points in Vulkan (both are graphic tests).
[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 GBHTPS: //t.co/recwgtnzFebruary 21, 2025
In those same tests, the RX 9070 vanilla GPU managed to reach 140,842 points in OpenCL, while reached 158,520 in Vulkan.
Those are only numbers, obviously, and only useful if we compare them with the existing results for other GPUs, as Wccftech does. The technological site found that RX 9070 XT is approximately 6% faster than RX 7900 XT in OpenCL, and a slower touch (4% discount on the rhythm) in Vulkan compared to the same graphics card of generation of generation of current.
The RX 9070 (not Stit), on the other hand, is almost even with the 7800 XT in OpenCl and approximately 6% slower than this GPU in the Vulkan test (where it is just a little faster than the 7700 xt, in fact) .
Analysis: Reasons to be doubtful (and cheerful)
At this point, could you be thinking: huh, weren’t these RDNA 4 GPU supposed to be faster than this based on previous rumors? Well, yes, they were. In fact, the last talk has suggested that AMD was aimed at the RX 9070 XT was a little faster than RTX 4080 (NVIDIA founding editing model).
Now, if RX 9070 XT is not much faster than RX 7900 XT as indicated here, that the gen-gen GPU is considerably out of the rhythm of a vanilla RTX 4080, so the latter escape is disappointing slow compared to what we ” I have been prepared to wait.
However, this is only a few Geekbench races, and as I always say when it comes to measuring game graphics cards, this is not almost the best way to judge performance. The synthetic reference points are not ideal, and Geekbench is low on the ladder of these metrics to start.
Other leaked performance estimates (including 3DMark results, and a vision of vanilla 9070 flexing its muscles in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6) Suggest a more robust GPU of what we are seeing here, that’s safe. And AMD is certainly firmly putting expectations on the table with its new nomenclature scheme: RTX 9070 models are clearly destined to face NVIDIA RTX 5070 offers.
In summary, I would not really worry about these new reference points, and I would be surprised that they were not out of place eventually.
The indicated power use figures are interesting, no doubt. Previously, we have seen suggestions that RX 9070 XT could require up to 330W of power, although that is for high -end boards, with entry level graphics cards (and reference) that is expected to be in 260W. This filtration that claims 304W for the reference board is a little higher than expected, then (while high -end GPUs become very heavy with power is something that was already rumored, and it is not really a surprise, by supposed).
The 9070 RX, on the other hand, sounds as if it were in a theoretically much more comfortable place for many PC for games, with a 220W rating.
All these rumors will be clarified soon, because, as noted, AMD’s official launch event is now imminent, where we will discover the missing piece of the next -generation Radeon puzzle: those MSRP.
Because after all, any performance that comes out in relation to the new Nvidia average range graphics cards, the right price can still make RDNA 4 a powerful rival, or maybe even a force to eliminate Blackwell. (Well, then the latter is undoubtedly an illusion, but let’s go, let’s have a price surprise of a good nature in the world of GPU for once, huh?).
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