AMD simply teased the Radeon RX 9070 yesterday at CES 2025 with little or no in the way in which of specs or perhaps a launch date. However, as a result of Team Red was demoing the Radeon RX 9070 at its sales space with Call of Duty Black Ops 6 – which has a built-in Benchmark device – I used to be in a position to get a fast peek how this next-gen GPU performs.
All informed, at 4K Extreme settings with out upscaling or body era, the Radeon RX 9070 was able to a formidable 99fps common, even when it had the identical visible bug because the Intel Arc B580 after I benchmarked it. Now, to be clear, this graphics card is operating on very early alpha drivers, and that bug will greater than seemingly be resolved by the point the cardboard involves market. But even on these early drivers, a strong 99fps is extremely spectacular.
Because I ran the benchmark with out upscaling, relatively than the seller applicable upscaling technique that I exploit after I normally benchmark this recreation for graphics card opinions, I haven’t got a direct comparability I could make. However, even with DLSS on the ‘Quality’ setting, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super will get round 129fps on the identical graphics preset at 4K. Given that DLSS provides a couple of 30% efficiency bounce on the Quality setting, which will place the Radeon RX 9070 on equal footing with the 4080 Super – although I’d want to check the 4080 Super with out DLSS to know for certain.
Some of the superb efficiency of this benchmark is probably going because of the CPU as properly – the rig was operating on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a high-end gaming CPU that was additionally introduced yesterday. But if that is the extent of efficiency we are able to count on when the Radeon RX 9070 launches later this yr, it should be an superior card for anybody on the lookout for a mid-range resolution.
The benchmark additionally offers a little bit of perception to the specs of the graphics card, although it’s restricted. The Radeon RX 9070 has 16GB of VRAM, although we nonetheless do not know what number of graphics cores or at what clock pace the cardboard is operating at.
This is only one check, although, and I will not have a transparent image of how this graphics card will carry out throughout quite a lot of video games till I get it within the lab to place it by means of the total testing suite. But the sneak peek is unquestionably thrilling.
Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC parts queen. You can comply with her @Jackiecobra
