Following the launch of GeForce RTX 5080, performance estimates for Radeon RX 9070 XT have leaked ahead of their March release. AMD could finally serve as David to Nvidia’s Goliath, with RDNA 4 apparently coming uncomfortably the second-fastest card Team Green has to offer.
According to leaker Moore’s Law Is Dead, AMD is aiming for a 3% raster performance increase over GeForce RTX 4080 with Radeon RX 9070 XT. Drawing from from Hardware Unboxed’s RTX 5080 Founders Edition review, the YouTuber goes on to say that this would translate to a les than 10% lead for Nvidia.
Moore’s Law Is Dead also shares their best guess of Radeon RX 9070 XT pricing, suggesting the graphics card will arrive for $649 yet deliver ~90% of the GeForce RTX 5080 performance. If true, this could spell serious trouble for RTX 5070 Ti and 5070.
Assuming AMD sells Radeon RX 9070 XT at $649, or even $699 for that matter, its value would easily trump RTX 5080. To paint it another way, you’re taking a 10% performance loss for a 30% discount. This is purely concerning raster performance, of course, as Nvidia could still dominate in ray traced rendering. This is to say nothing of the quality differences between FSR 4 and DLSS 4 which are impossible to gauge at this point in time.
Shifting gears to Radeon RX 9070, Moore’s Law Is Dead expects the slower albeit cheaper card to retail for $499. The leaker claims its performance profile should fit somewhere between GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super. Once again, this concerns raster performance with MLID’s sources slotting the upcoming RDNA 4 pixel pusher close to RTX 4070 Super in ray tracing.
Promising as this all sounds, I wouldn’t take this rumours as gospel. MLID admits that these are rough estimates based on sources close to him, so Radeon RX 9000 Series could truly go either way. I can’t wait to see what AMD has cooking up as it’s high-time Nvidia had some proper competition.
