• AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs have witnessed spillage round their specs and doable efficiency ranges
• Energy-wise the RX 9070 XT seems to be a bit hungrier than anticipated, however the vanilla 9070 is pitched at a extra comfy stage
• The benchmarks paint a shakier image of efficiency than earlier leaks – however there are good causes to not fear right here, fortunately

AMD’s RX 9070 GPUs will quickly be formally revealed – in per week there’s a giant press occasion devoted to those playing cards – however forward of that, we’ve simply been handled to some purported leaked specs and benchmarks.

When it comes to the specs, VideoCardz comes with information that Hoang Anh Phu, an everyday leaker on X, posted some particulars of the RX 9070 fashions (though that submit has since been deleted).

Salt firmly clutched in hand, then, we are able to think about the revelations apparently made in a current AMD press briefing.

We’re informed the RX 9070 XT will run with 64 Compute Items (4,096 Stream Processors) and a lift clock of 2970MHz, all as beforehand rumored, with an influence utilization (TBP or Complete Board Energy) of 304W.

As for the vanilla RX 9070, that supposedly has 56 Compute Items (3,584 Stream Processors) and a lift clock of 2520MHz, with a 220W energy consumption.

In the meantime, each of those inbound RDNA 4 graphics playing cards from AMD have had benchmarks leaked, giving us a tough concept of the place their efficiency could lie (scoop up much more salt right here, although).

Wccftech seen the benchmarks highlighted by Benchleaks (on X) which present that the RX 9070 XT scored 179,178 within the OpenCL check from Geekbench, and 177,395 factors in Vulkan (each of those are graphics checks).

In those self same checks, the vanilla RX 9070 GPU managed to realize 140,842 factors in OpenCL, whereas it hit 158,520 in Vulkan.

These are simply numbers, clearly, and solely helpful if we evaluate them to present outcomes for different GPUs, as Wccftech does. The tech web site discovered that the RX 9070 XT is about 6% sooner than the RX 7900 XT in OpenCL, and a contact slower (4% off the tempo) in Vulkan in comparison with that very same current-gen graphics card.

The RX 9070 (non-XT) alternatively is about even with the 7800 XT in OpenCL and about 6% slower than this GPU within the Vulkan check (the place it’s solely a smidge sooner than the 7700 XT, in reality).

Evaluation: Causes to be uncertain (and cheerful)

At this level you could be pondering: huh, weren’t these RDNA 4 GPUs purported to be sooner than this based mostly on earlier rumors? Properly, sure, they had been. Actually previous chatter has instructed that AMD was aiming to get the RX 9070 XT to be barely sooner than the RTX 4080 (Founders Version mannequin from Nvidia).

Now, if the RX 9070 XT isn’t a lot sooner than the RX 7900 XT as is indicated right here, that current-gen AMD GPU is significantly off the tempo of a vanilla RTX 4080, so this newest leak is disappointingly gradual in comparison with what we’ve been primed to count on.

Nonetheless, that is only a few Geekbench runs, and as I at all times say relating to gauging gaming graphics playing cards, this isn’t practically one of the best ways to evaluate efficiency. Artificial benchmarks aren’t perfect full-stop, and Geekbench is low on the ladder of those metrics as well.

Different leaked efficiency estimations (together with 3DMark outcomes, and a glimpse of the vanilla 9070 flexing its muscle mass in Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6) recommend a beefier GPU than what we’re seeing right here, that’s for certain. And AMD is definitely placing expectations firmly on the desk with its new naming scheme – the RTX 9070 fashions are clearly supposed to sq. as much as Nvidia’s RTX 5070 choices.

So briefly, I actually wouldn’t fear about these recent benchmarks, and I’d be stunned in the event that they weren’t confirmed to be out of line ultimately.

The indicated energy utilization figures are attention-grabbing, definitely. Beforehand we’ve seen solutions that the RX 9070 XT may demand as much as 330W of energy, though that’s for top-end boards, with the entry-level (and reference) graphics playing cards anticipated to pitch in at 260W. This leak claiming 304W for the reference board is a bit greater than anticipated, then (whereas top-end GPUs going very heavy with the facility is one thing that is already been rumored, and probably not a shock, in fact).

The RX 9070, alternatively, sounds prefer it’s in a theoretically way more comfy spot for lots of gaming PCs on the market, being rated at 220W.

All these rumors will probably be cleared up quickly sufficient, as a result of as famous, AMD’s official launch occasion is now imminent, the place we’ll discover out the hefty-sized lacking piece from the next-gen Radeon puzzle – these MSRPs.

As a result of in spite of everything, no matter efficiency comes out at relative to Nvidia’s new mid-range graphics playing cards, the correct price ticket can nonetheless make RDNA 4 a potent rival, or maybe even a drive to blow away Blackwell. (Okay, so the latter is probably wishful pondering, however come on AMD – let’s have a pricing shock of nature within the GPU world for as soon as, eh?).

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