Not even the RTX 5080 is a competitor: the most powerful new generation AMD video card has been declassified

The first results of the Radeon RX 9070 XT video card in the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark have appeared on the network. In terms of performance, the expected flagship of the new generation of AMD will compete at best with the GeForce RTX 5070, writes Wccftech.

As is already known, with the new generation of 3D accelerators AMD will abandon the competition for the top segment: instead, the company will focus on the middle price segment. Apparently, the Radeon RX 9070 XT will be noticeably cheaper than its competitors.

If the benchmark data is correct, then in synthetic tasks the Radeon RX 9070 XT is inferior to the Radeon RX 7900 XT, the top AMD video card in the current line, and shows results slightly better than the Radeon RX 7900 GRE and approximately at the level of the basic GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.

However, it is worth noting that the real performance of the video card may be higher. It is assumed that AMD graphics cards based on the RDNA 4 architecture (the Radeon RX 9070 XT includes them) will receive new ray tracing units, and regular rasterization should also be accelerated.

The announcement of the next generation of AMD graphics cards will take place in January 2025. At the same time, Nvidia will also show its new products; it is expected that the GeForce RTX 5080 with 16 GB of memory will go on sale first, so that it is not overshadowed by the more powerful RTX 5090.

Given that there may be no more budget graphics cards from Nvidia, AMD will have to compete with Intel for the mass consumer. Its new accelerator, the Arc B580, puts both the Radeon RX 7600 and the RTX 4060 on both sides, reviewers say.

A recent Steam survey showed which PC most gamers on the planet will play on in 2024. The most popular graphics card is the GeForce RTX 3060, and the once-leader GTX 1060 has fallen out of the top 10 for the first time.