The
9070 XT performance is now pretty clear according to some leaked sources. Its RT + native performance is comparable to a
4070 TI Super, which is more or less on par with
7900 XTX and 3090 TI. Ah yes, native 4k is not possible on any of those cards, just to low FPS (around 30 or less), but they are all good for 1080P up to 1440 P (2k), so thats why i say "it is a 1080P up to 1440P card" for native gamers. Anyone using "magics" may obviously get way better performance but at the cost of quality in many terms (which is surely not the reason we go 4k). 5090 is the only card able to go 4k native with ANY game, while keeping up 60 FPS, it seems.
https://videocardz.com/newz/alleged-amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-performance-in-cyberpunk-2077-and-black-myth-wukong-leaked RT cores are approximately around 80-100 TFLOPS for those GPUs with comparable rasterization performance.
From what i can say the PS5 Pro GPU which is still using RDNA 3 cores for rasterization, is around the performance of a 4070 (non TI) or 7900 GRE when it comes to overall performance with a slight edge on the RT cores because those are RDNA 4 specs and most likely in the same range comparable to the 9070/9070 XT and ultimately 4070 TI Super, 7900 XTX and 3090 TI. Obviously the 3090 TI got the lowest efficiency by far out of those, yet still impressive it still can "match" the performance of so many new midrange cards after many years. The 9070 XT got a efficiency more or less on par with Nvidias 4070 TI Super (the last generation) but may not match the 5000 series. Although, the efficiency on rasterization was barely improving... for the newest gen, not even on Nvidia, reason why the new flagship need way more power.
Most likely the 5070 is comparable in performance vs. those cards in RT, but not sure it can keep up in native rasterization... it may still need a 5070 TI in order to beat or match the cards i was already mentioning.
Sure, according to Nvida "native" is almost dead... because the biggest improvement they did was on the NPU (neural processing unit) which is known as "Tensor cores" by Nvidia, not any different by what it does but surely exceeding everything at the marketing and currently on performance. Those cores are basically closest to "how a brain" is working but in the shape of a processor.
However, whats clear... this is still a alpha technology and the gamers will have to face many years with countless issues as this technology is extremely complicated.
No clue regarding the TOPS (AI performance) of the 9070/9070 XT, i think they may have the same NPU comparable to the PS5 Pro, which is in that case around 300 TOPS. Nvidia is surely exceeding it by at least 3 times with the newest generation. The 3090 TI, the second flagship using Tensor cores, got 320 TOPS, so AMD is basically 2 generations behind in NPU cores and 1 generation behind in RT cores. Intel is even weaker than AMD, their NPU on the Battlemage is providing 48 TOPS according to what i know.
It would not make sense providing another flagship because AMD will have to say "here, our flagship got 300 TOPS, and that other flagship 3000 TOPS"... it will become demolished at the marketing. Even if AMD is providing equal peformance, the people still buy Nvidia in 9 out of 10 cases; so AMD is kinda lost.
I still want to express a matter which has been brought up by Sony trying to make some AI-upscaling (PSSR): The TOPS may not be able to become fully utilized, not even nearly... because the bandwidth on the RAM is to slow on any GPU. Although Nvidia was able to achieve nearly 2 TB/s on the 5090 with a expensive 512 bit bus, even this crazy value is in many terms insufficient on providing the access a NPU will need. No matter what... on marketing at least Nvidia already was wiping out the entire competition, comparable to Apple.
On the server-GPUs Nvidia is not using "cheap DDR7 or lower", instead they use HBM (high bandwidth memory) which can achieve many TB/s, for example over a 5120 bit interface they can go as high as 3,3 TB/s or even more in the future. What i want to say is... in gaming terms, those TOPS are usually not properly utilized and it is more of a marketing instead of "a real thing".
