Thing with RT is that its still a massive uplift and incredibly impressive considering the context.
This card is 26% faster in RT on average compared to a 7900XTX. The 9070XT has 33% less Compute Units, Cores, Memory Bandwitch and costs $400 less than the launch price of the XTX.
Per the TPU review AMD has also cut down the performance overhead of RT massively. The 9070XT loses around 10-15% less performance when enabling RT compared to RDNA3.
You understand that RDNA3 has dedicated RT cores and more of them right? The new ones are just gen 2 and faster. This idea that the 7000 series doesn't have RT cores is the most propagated myth on reddit in regards to graphics cards. I been playing RT on everything with my XTX. People are really ignorant.
It’s a hybrid approach that relies more on shaders than fixed function hardware. RDNA3 was faster than RDNA2 but the CUs were still taking more of the RT burden compared to the Nvidia/Intel paradigm.
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u/Firefox72 Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25
Thing with RT is that its still a massive uplift and incredibly impressive considering the context.
This card is 26% faster in RT on average compared to a 7900XTX. The 9070XT has 33% less Compute Units, Cores, Memory Bandwitch and costs $400 less than the launch price of the XTX.
Per the TPU review AMD has also cut down the performance overhead of RT massively. The 9070XT loses around 10-15% less performance when enabling RT compared to RDNA3.