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The Radeon RX 9070 XT is Now Faster, AMD FineWine (i.ytimg.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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TL;DW:
[1440p Average] "So across 16 games tested, the 9070 XT saw on average a 9% improvement with the latest game and driver updates. In comparison the 5070 Ti saw just a 2½% improvement."

  • Steve Walton from Hardware Unboxed.

4K results shows the 5070 Ti and the 9070 XT performance matching neck and neck.

  1. On review day the 5070 Ti was 2% faster, but now the 9070 XT is 3% faster than the 5070 Ti.
  2. With the 9070 XT being $150 CAD or ~30% cheaper (in US and AU) than the 5070 Ti, the 9070 XT wins out in being the better value buy.
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

9% is significant

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

That's a generational upgrade according to some companies these days.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wonder if this is similarly true on Linux platforms.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Linux drivers were pretty buggy at launch, so probably. Every Mesa release this year has come with a ton of fixes and improvements.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmm. I gotta say, I got alarm bells going off in my head as soon as I saw the charts at 2:57 and 3:02. All four tests came out exactly the same in both trials? Not a single frame of difference for 1% lows or the average? I wouldn't expect results that consistent if they were run back to back, let alone months apart on new drivers...

Oh lord, 3:27 is even more suspect. The 5070 gets the exact same result twice, but then the 9070's updates make it also exactly the same??? aint no way chief

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that based on the assumption that the numbers come from single runs instead of averages of multiple runs?

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't see the number of runs stated anywhere. Still would be pretty unlikely to get the exact same results, and even more still for a 9070 to perform exactly the same as a 5070

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So HU are fudging the numbers to favor ....?

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not making any claims except that these first several results look extremely suspect

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I'm seeing 9070XT at €850, while a 5070Ti is at 950. This is like, 10 - 11% cheaper?

I mean, AMD is still better value, but nowhere close to 30%