Lisa Su says Radeon RX 9000 series is AMD's most successful GPU launch ever

[return]

Hopefully it will motivate them to improve the drivers.

 

[pencea]

Hopefully it will motivate them to improve the drivers.

AMD drivers have been solid for the past few generations. It's nothing like before. If anything, it's Nvidia, who's having driver issues now days.

 

[opckieran]

Not entirely sure where you got your numbers…

https://www.techspot.com/review/2970-amd-radeon-9070-xt-vs-nvidia-rtx-5070-ti/#2160p-png

According to the 4k data collected by TechSpot the 7090XT is on average 32.1% faster than the 7900GRE (74 vs 56 fps) and the 5070Ti is 15.3% faster than the 4070Ti (75 vs 65 fps). Sure you can hold the new cards as the performance base and then the 9700 GRE is 24.3% slower than the 9070XT and the 4070Ti is 13.3% slower than the 5070Ti. However, no matter how you slice it or dice it, AMD has done a better job at refreshing their mid-high range hardware than Nvidia.

With this release AMD declared goal was aiming to get within the 5070/ 5070Ti performance ballpark and they achieved that particular task quite well, 74 vs 75 fps is essentially a wash. To add insult to injury, AMD has significantly closed the quality/ performance gap with FSR4.

Nvidia got grilled for their outrageous claims like the one of the 5070 being faster than the 4090, to which the meagre overall performance gains of the 5000 series over the 4000 series only poured some more fuel over the fire.

This is the reality of AMD receiving praise vs Nvidia receiving scorn.

Here:

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review

AMD's Radeon 9070 GPUs have been the subject of much speculation, but now we finally have the hardware in hand. Let's put the 9070 XT to the test to...

www.techspot.com

"More concerning is AMD's claim that the 9070 XT offers a 35% improvement over the 7900 GRE in raster performance, whereas our testing found only a 20% increase in mostly rasterized workloads."




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TL;DR:

AMD claimed +35% over 7900GRE, TS found +20%, and worse, for a product that launched at +10% price.


So in reality, both companies oversold their performance improvements. That’s all!

 

[BogdanR]

Here:

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review

AMD's Radeon 9070 GPUs have been the subject of much speculation, but now we finally have the hardware in hand. Let's put the 9070 XT to the test to...

www.techspot.com

"More concerning is AMD's claim that the 9070 XT offers a 35% improvement over the 7900 GRE in raster performance, whereas our testing found only a 20% increase in mostly rasterized workloads."




Also in this thread…

Lisa Su says Radeon RX 9000 series is AMD's most successful GPU launch ever

In an interview with Asus China's Tony Yu, Lisa Su stated that the Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards have been a major success, becoming AMD's best-selling...

www.techspot.com

TL; DR:

AMD claimed +35% over 7900GRE, TS found +20%, and worse, for a product that launched at +10% price.


So in reality, both companies oversold their performance improvements. That’s all!

TL; DR
The 7090XT is 32.14% faster than the 7900 GRE. Also the 9070XT is largely equivalent to the 5070Ti at 4k. Both statements are true.
AMD has largely hit the target here. That is the reality. See below as to why.

Some math 101 is needed here at Tech Spot.
From the average 4k stats:
7900GRE = 56 fps
7090XT = 74 fps

So how much FASTER is the NEW card vs the OLD one? We’re comparing the new against the old reference.
So if:
56 fps ….. 100% (the reference)
74 fps ….. x %
Then x=(74x100)/56=132.143 %
(Edit 2 for clarity)
So the NEW card, the 9070XT is 132.143-100=32.143% faster than the OLD card, the 7900GRE.

Now if we want to see how much SLOWER the OLD card is COMPARED to the NEW, the 74 fps becomes the reference, therefore the result is:
X=(56x100)/74=75.676%

So the OLD card is 75.676-100=-24.324 % slower than the NEW one. The negative value indicates lower performance than the reference. (end Edit 2)

This is a mistake TechSpot does CONSISTENTLY, flipping base references.

So, next time you read something, process it please, people have been wrong a lot especially when math is involved.

Edit: @Steve please revisit the corresponding section of the 9070xt review.

 

[scoffer]

Aggressive pricing my a**.

 

[LimyG]

I think AMD did pretty well this time round. Not perfect, but good.

I'd love to see them have a go at a high end model. Something similar in power to the RTX 4090, or even approaching the RTX 5090, and with good drivers.

I'm probably just dreaming now. But occaisionally dreams come true.

If they could pull that off, with decent prices (at least less than the insane NV cards) now or 2025 would be a good time. The attention is on them at the moment.

Thing is can AMD produce such a card? Simply on the technical level I mean. What do you guys reckon?