I Benchmarked the AMD Radeon RX 9070

AMD Just teased the Radeon RX 9070 yesterday at CES 2025 with very little specifications or even a release date. However, since Team Red was showing off the Radeon RX 9070 at their booth with Call of Duty Black Ops 6, which has a built-in benchmark tool, I was able to take a quick look at how this next-gen graphics card performs. GPU stands out.

Overall, at 4K Extreme settings without upscaling or frame generation, the Radeon RX 9070 was able to average an impressive 99fps, even if it had the same visual bug as the model. Intel Arc B580 when I compared it. Now, to be clear, this graphics card is running on very early alpha drivers and this bug will most likely be fixed by the time the card hits the market. But even on these early drivers, a consistent 99fps is incredibly impressive.

Since I ran the test without scaling, rather than the vendor-specific scaling method I use when I typically test this game for graphics card reviews, I don’t have a direct comparison to make. However, even if DLSS is set to Quality, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super gets about 129 fps at the same graphics setting at 4K resolution. Given that DLSS increases performance by about 30% on the Quality setting, this could put the Radeon RX 9070 on equal footing with the 4080 Super – although I’ll have to test the 4080 Super without DLSS to know for sure.

Part of the amazing performance of this test is probably also due to the processor – the rig ran on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a high-end gaming processor that was also announced yesterday. But if this is the level of performance we can expect when the Radeon RX 9070 launches later this year, it will be a great card for those looking for a mid-range solution.

The test also gives some insight into the graphics card’s performance, albeit limited. The Radeon RX 9070 has 16GB of VRAM, although we still don’t know how many graphics cores or what clock speed the card runs at.

However, this is just one test, and I won’t have a clear idea of ​​how this card will perform in various games until I get it into the lab to run a full battery of tests. But the review is certainly interesting.

Jackie Thomas is the editor of IGN’s hardware and buying guides and the queen of PC components. You can follow her @Jackicobra