Some benchmarks going from Gigabyte Vision RTX 3080 to Asrock RX9070XT Steel Legend

[MissChief]

For fairness I also updated to the latest Nvidia driver available as of Friday 14/03/25.

First up we have Fire Strike, 3080 first. I know it's an older benchmark but it was already installed on my PC:

Now the 9070XT:

Time Spy next, again 3080 first:

And then the 9070XT:

Steel Nomad next, 3080 again

And 9070XT:

Next I already had the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark installed. Compiling Shaders on this bench takes 10 minutes. A ridiculous wait. 3080 first:

And the 9070XT:

I re-ran the benchmark at high settings, as the game picked for my 3080 run to provide a more valid comparison.

Just thought this might help anyone else on the fence about upgrading. There seems to be roughly a 50% uplift in performance without drilling down into the numbers too deeply. For a £300 price, once I sell my 3080 (it should be on the MM in a day or two), I'm happy to accept that.

 

[MissChief]

Decent for £300 but having looked at gaming at 1440p myself with 3080 I want a bigger jump , I wonder how much the 5950x is holding it back

An AM5 upgrade is in the plan for next year most likely.

 

[MissChief]

I've re-run the MHW bench on high settings to provide a more even comparison. It's included above. You'll need to re-do your sums for that bench @humbug .

 

[MissChief]

Graphics Fire Strike: 56,380 / 40,318 = 1.398 (+40%)
Graphics Time Spy: 28,614 / 17,738 = 1.613 (+61%)
Steel Nomad FPS: 68.75 / 44.19 = 1.5556 (+56%)
Monster Hunter FPS: 90.45 / 70.07 = 1.290 (+29%)

You're right, i got Monster Hunter wrong

I did, not you. I didn't run the same graphics presets on both runs.

 

[MissChief]

Historically I'd think of this as a mediocre upgrade but in the context of the last few years, I think you did real good.

We all have to spend big dollars on essentially no gains because one generation is an overclock and not only are we being charged for it, it's the most expensive one on record, and the other company didn't even try in the high end.

It was a performance and VRAM upgrade really, for the 16GB compared to the 10GB.

 

[MissChief]

You will have paid about the same for the 3080?

The 3080 was always a good card, only about 10 to 15% short of the 3090.

Monster Hunter is not a great result for AMD, its UE5, i'm sure if i benchmark the same settings i would end up behind the 3080 and yet overall the 7800 XT and 3080 are very equal, things haven't moved a lot since the 3080, despite 2 generations now since then, but at least the 9070 XT does offer decently more performance for that 3080 money, even in RT its about 30% faster in Cyberpunk vs the 3080, unlike the 5070 which is the same price in reality which barely moves the needle from the 3080 inn raster or RT.

This aside from the 16GB, which these days is increasingly needed, even 12GB doesn't really cut it, looking at you again 5070.

I think I paid about £800 for the 3080. RRP at the time.

If the 3080 had 16GB of VRAM I'd likely have kept it for another generation yet. I had no performance complaints about it at all.

 

[MissChief]

Oh.... Crypto boom? And now you needed a new GPU during the AI boom, that sucks....

It was right around the Crypto boom, yes. I managed to get a card from the MM at close to RRP.