PC Building Guide and Discussion #14

[Osprey]

AMD introduces $599 Radeon RX 9070 XT and $549 RX 9070 RDNA4 GPUs

The XT's pricing is a relief and what I realistically hoped that it'd be. Credit to AMD for listening to the community. Also, it's nice to see comparisons to other cards at native settings and not with upscaling and frame gen enabled. Their slides show the XT being only 2% slower than the 5070 Ti at 4K Ultra settings in 30+ games and only 8% slower in the raytraced titles (but 2% faster and only 5% slower, respectively, for the OC models). So, it's pretty close to the performance of the 5070 Ti at 4K for $150 less.

The non-XT's pricing is puzzling and reminiscent of the initial pricing of the 7900 XT and 7700 XT. No one is going to buy the non-XT if the XT is only $50 more, but the upsell may be the plan, and then the non-XT might sell when the cheapest XT models go out of stock.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Honestly, the $600, and IF it has actual availability, the XT could be a massive boon for AMD.

But yeah, the non-XT should of been $500. It basically gets suffocated and killed by XT sales.

 

[Osprey]

The 5070 is no faster than the 4070 Super.

 

[Commander Clueless]

To no one's great surprise, the 50 series "improvements" are AI smoke and mirrors.

 

[PeteWorrell]

Nvidia still refusing to put any decent amount of VRAM is the real joke of each new generation. It's just planned obsolescence.

If they made phones, they would have 32GB as a standard and 64GB if you are willing to pay a premium for their high-end model.

 

[Osprey]

As expected, the 9070 XT's raster performance lands between the 7900 XT and 7900 XTX and between the 5070 and 5070 Ti, while the RT performance is a lot better than the 7900 XTX and on par with the 5070.



Surprisingly, FSR 4 provides slightly better image quality than DLSS 3 (with the CNN model), though it falls quite a bit short of DLSS 4 (with the Transformer model). It still seems like quite an accomplishment, though.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Massive and much needed leap for AMD with FSR4. Hope to see more.

 

[VEGASKING]

I just needed a 50 series to get the 240Hz out of my 57" Samsung monitor. I was just able to land the 5070 Ti at Best Buy. What's a good place to try to sell my 4070 Ti?