Test Setup
We are using an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D for testing. For 2025 we have upgraded our testing PC with completely updated components from top to bottom. We are using the motherboard’s current default BIOS settings on the latest release BIOS. We have enabled PCI-Express Resizable BAR in the motherboard BIOS. We have enabled EXPO I in the BIOS for the memory. We are using a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro with the latest Windows Updates, including the 24H2 update. We have the latest drivers installed including the latest chipset drivers. We are using the “Balanced” power profile in Windows Settings, Core Isolation/Memory Integrity (VBS) is Enabled.
AMD provided a new press release driver package for this release. This driver has been utilized for each Radeon RX video card used today.
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →SON OF A BITCH will these AHOLES figure it out. LAUNCH IT AT MSRP AND YOU WILL DESTROY NVIDIA!!! Well at this tier.
Snagged one this morning from NE.
I was very impressed with the Sapphire 9070XT. The build quality is top notch and innovative. It ran so quiet. Also is pretty strong in every game at 1440p. Ray Tracing is still a little weak but AMD is inching closer......they need to fix that and then they will own the 600-1000 dollar GPU market.
Here, 6 or 7 years later, I'm still not convinced the Ray Tracing performance is a good metric to base my video card purchase decision on. I'm still considering it in the same vein as I am upscaling, frame generation, "AI", and proprietary feature sets: nice to have, but not worth spending extra money on over traditional rasterization performance and video memory capacity.
Sure, it's nice. And it may be the future. But I can upgrade again when that happens.
Not even the latest Indy Jones game with "required" ray tracing sways me on that, and it's what, the ~first~ game to have some level of ray tracing that isn't optional -- and even then, it just requires the feature set, not like the entire game is 100% ray traced. It still performs well on AMD and older RTX hardware (and even runs on some hardware without dedicated RT support)
Yup. Remind me again how mandatory PhysX is these days?
Going by support in the 5000 series... good point.
You should run the Half-Life 2 RTX demo and then tell me how you feel. Seeing a 20 year old game look entirely new is pretty amazing.