Even more proof of AMD’s ‘fine wine’ effect as RX 9070 XT performance overtakes Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti
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AMD is slowly getting a strong reputation for its graphics card drivers, in that it just keeps giving out more performance months after their release. This Fine Wine performance, as it’s being dubbed, was already benchmarked last month, but now we’ve gotten even more good news on a recent driver.
This time, Hardware Unboxed has compared the performance of the RX 9070 XT and RTX 5070 Ti on their latest drivers, three months on from their release. Comparing the framerates across 16 games and at 1440p and 4K resolutions shows better growth for the AMD card compared to the initial review drivers.
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Both cards have, in fact, gained performance over the past months, but it’s the AMD GPU with the biggest gains. The RX 9070 XT gained 9% at 1440p, while at 4K, this drops to a 4% gain. The RTX 5070 Ti, in comparison, averaged a 2.5% and 3% improvement, respectively. In summary, the 9070 XT is now a little bit faster at 1440p, and has closed the gap at 4K. This demonstrates that it is worthwhile to update your graphics drivers from time to time.
RX 9070 XT Adrenalin 25.6.3 driver perfromance in 16 game average at 1440p, Source Hardware Unboxed, YouTube
RX 9070 XT Adrenalin 25.6.3 driver perfromance in 16 game average at 4k, Source Hardware Unboxed, YouTube
- GPU: Navi 48 XT
- Stream Processors: 4,096
- VRAM: 16GB GDDR6
- Memory Bus Width: 256-bit
- Base/Game/Boost clock speed: 1,660/2,400/2,970 MHz
- TBP: 304W
Individual improvements
In their video, Hardware Unboxed goes over the individual improvements in each of the games, and you can see the kind of performance boosts for each one. From this, we can see some rather huge gains. In particular, Marvel’s Spider-Man remastered has a 27% improvement at 1440p, and Counter-Strike 2 also gets 23%. The latter of which we saw some below-expectation performance in our RX 9070 XT review.
Even at 4K, even if the improvements are more limited, some games gain double digits. CS2 once again gets a great jump of 14% – clearly, AMD has found what was holding it back in the game. Along with Call of Duty Black Ops 6 gaining 13% and Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2 improving by 10%.
Considering the reviewers only tested 16 games, we can expect improvements beyond that as well. So, if you have a 9070 XT or are considering one, AMD has given you even more performance to enjoy since launch.
Hardware Unboxed RX 9070 XT benchmarks
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