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OcUK RX9070 Series Review Thread

I think I'd be tempted with a 9070XT if I was in the market but it's not really a big enough jump over my 4070 Super. The extra memory doesn't give it as much as a boost in Indy Jones ray tracing as I was hoping.
 
Re: Productivity - Yup 50% slower than 5070TI


That seals it for me but having said that the chart places the 9070XT higher than the 7900 xtx so AMD is definitely improving but does need to close the gap more to Nvidia

For plain old gaming on a budget this is a no brainer - go for it
 
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Re: Productivity - Yup 50% slower than 5070TI


That seals it for me but having said that the chart places the 9070XT higher than the 7900 xtx so AMD is definitely improving but does need to close the gap more to Nvidia

For plain old gaming on a budget this is a no brainer - go for it

In the Topaz Video AI 5 and ON1 Resize AI tests,they seem to be doing fine,ie, RTX4080 to RTX4090 level.
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The other test probably needs a software update.
 
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Mixed results for me.
Productivity in blender was a shocker


Will check more but not as strong as I had hoped but having said that - it's a bargain if it can be had for £600
Strange Blender outlier.

The Topaz results are encouraging. I'm waiting for some Da Vinci Resolve benches, if the AI effects are similarly in the same ballpark as a 5080 (and the details on the HVEC 10-bit 4:2:2 hardware are out), I might nab a 9070 XT.

Specifically I make heavy use of the AI powered SuperScale upscaling in DVR.
 
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The memory temps seem to be on the high side and these are the better Aib cards lol , wonder what the throttling temp is

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Strange Blender outlier.

The Topaz results are encouraging. I'm waiting for some Da Vinci Resolve benches, if the AI effects are similarly in the same ballpark as a 5080 (and the details on the HVEC 10-bit 4:2:2 hardware are out), I might nab a 9070 XT.

Specifically I make heavy use of the AI powered SuperScale upscaling in DVR.

I need to see how well it compares in Davinci vs the 7900xt/x and it's extra vram. The H.264 is meant to be improved too. If the 9070xt can be an ok gamer but just as capable at encoding then I might purchase one.
 
I'm not blown away.

First, the 9070. The MSRP is the same as the maligned RTX 5070. Raster performance is ~8% better at 1440p. And RT performance between the two cards is similar. Is an 8% gain in raster performance & 4GB extra VRAM really the difference between a disappointing card and an acceptable one?

Now for the 9070 XT. Pricing is similar to the 7900 XT over the past year. Raster performance on stock clock models is ~8% above the 7900 XT. RT is a substantial improvement, 29% better across Tom's Hardware's test suite. And then there's the improvements which FSR4 brings. It's not an awful package, but it's difficult not to wonder 'is that it?'.

It's a better launch than the 50-series. But IMO that's not much of an achievement. These cards should have been maybe $449 and $549 at most & only look good because Nvidia delivered a disaster.
 
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If you bought a 7900 XTX I bet your feeling pretty gutted at the moment
All depends on when you bought one. If it was on launch 2.5 years ago for £1000, probably not. If it was over the past year where you could get them for ~£850, still probably not.

If you bought one over the past month for £900+... yeah, probably.
 
Hoped for more performance but the price is hard to beat. I've been tweaking away to keep at the 10GB VRAM limit for a while on the 3080 at 4K DLSS. No stock means no sane 5070Ti/5080 prices so I'll settle for a 9070 XT now I think until the next gen of cards come around.
 
All depends on when you bought one. If it was on launch 2.5 years ago for £1000, probably not. If it was over the past year where you could get them for ~£850, still probably not.

If you bought one over the past month for £900+... yeah, probably.
Bought one brand new for £760 - still feeling pretty good and pretty smug :)
 
If you bought a 7900 XTX I bet your feeling pretty gutted at the moment

Why?

The 7900 XTX is holding up pretty well considering we have now seen all of the higher end 50-series and 9070 series cards. It's still one for the top 5 cards on the market in terms of raster performance. Usually the expectation would be that a new generation would relegate the performance of old high-end cards to the mid-range...
 
So AMD managed to hit it in off the post rather than miss the open goal entirely.

- Big improvement in RT
- Big improvement in FSR (better than DLSS3 and not as good as DLSS4 but still much improved according to DF)
- Slower than AMD marketing alleged (typical) but still not by a considerable margin.
- Power consumption is acceptable but Nvidia still ahead there.

So overall a win by default and to be fair the 9070XT is a great GPU in its own right. Far better than the 5070 and just a touch worse than a 5070Ti for a lot less cost. Though that 9070 needs a price cut, sorry it’s just meh.

Well done AMD, you didn’t miss an opportunity for once.
 
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