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[Dicehunter]

A "leaked" Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark has been spotted using a 9070XT -

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Leak Spills Out RDNA 4 Flagship Specs: 4096 Cores on Navi 48, Up To 3.1 GHz Clock & Over 200 FPS In Monster Hunter Wilds

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT "RDNA 4" GPU appears in GPU-Z & was also benchmarked in Monster Hunter Wilds, revealing its potential ahead of launch.

wccftech.com

Just for a fun comparison I tested it with a 9800X3D and 7900XTX at the same res of 1080P with the same Ultra preset which puts FSR to Quality and used Frame Gen the same as the "leaked" pic indicates.

I did 1 run without RT and 1 with RT set to its maximum, I saw a maximum of 20GB VRAM being used.

Shame we don't know if they used RT or not but if they did then it nicely sits between a 7900XT and 7900XTX which will be really nice if they can nail the price down.

 

[Dicehunter]

The upcoming MMO releasing in May, Dune Awakening, Now has a character creator and benchmark -

Save 20% on Dune: Awakening on Steam

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

store.steampowered.com

I ran the benchmark, Pretty solid performance -

 

[Dicehunter]

GTAV on PC getting the previously release graphical options for consoles aswell as various other additions.

Free Upgrade for Grand Theft Auto V on PC Coming March 4 - Rockstar Games

On March 4, Grand Theft Auto V on PC is getting a free upgrade featuring sought-after enhancements previously only available in the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of GTA Online — including all the latest vehicles and performance upgrades available at...

www.rockstargames.com

Technical Enhancements​

Depending on hardware support, GTAV players on PC who upgrade will be able to enjoy:

• Ray tracing features only available on PC such as ambient occlusion and global illumination — plus ray traced shadows and reflections first debuted on consoles
• Support for AMD FSR1 and FSR3, and NVIDIA DLSS 3
• Faster loading times using SSD and DirectStorage on supported devices and configurations
• Enhanced support for higher resolutions, higher aspect ratios, and higher framerates
• DualSense® controller support, with adaptive triggers
• Enhanced audio with support for Dolby Atmos and improved fidelity of speech, cinematics, and music

I may actually play the single player now, Only ever used it for the benchmark

 

[Dicehunter]

Hogwarts Legacy has received a new patch, This time implementing Intels Frame Gen feature as well as a myriad of fixes.

https://hogwartslegacy.bugs.wbgames.com/patch-notes

 

[Dicehunter]

Basically an OC3D themed card, Black, Red and white

https://videocardz.com/newz/xfx-launches-rx-9070-xt-quick-silver-esport-card-with-custom-shroud-design

 

[NeverBackDown]

I actually quite like that look.

 

[Dicehunter]

I actually quite like that look.

Vendors are finally closing off the end of cards instead of having the nipped heatpipes looking ugly on display, Only took them 10+ years of people asking

 

[NeverBackDown]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-ceo-meet-with-trump-tout-investment-plans-2025-03-03/?utm_source=reddit.com

TSMC and Trump have put together a $100 billion plan to build 5 new Fabs in the US. This is in addition to the current on going deal for the Arizona plant which is adding building 2/3 while building 1 is currently already having better yields than their home Fabs.

 

[AlienALX]

A "leaked" Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark has been spotted using a 9070XT -

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Leak Spills Out RDNA 4 Flagship Specs: 4096 Cores on Navi 48, Up To 3.1 GHz Clock & Over 200 FPS In Monster Hunter Wilds

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT "RDNA 4" GPU appears in GPU-Z & was also benchmarked in Monster Hunter Wilds, revealing its potential ahead of launch.

wccftech.com

Just for a fun comparison I tested it with a 9800X3D and 7900XTX at the same res of 1080P with the same Ultra preset which puts FSR to Quality and used Frame Gen the same as the "leaked" pic indicates.

I did 1 run without RT and 1 with RT set to its maximum, I saw a maximum of 20GB VRAM being used.

Shame we don't know if they used RT or not but if they did then it nicely sits between a 7900XT and 7900XTX which will be really nice if they can nail the price down.

TBH if the RT rumours are true it may be the better all rounder. Not that it matters tbh, but the offset of better RT VS slightly worse raster may tip the crowd in its favour.

42 minutes til review. Canna fookin weet man.

 

[Dicehunter]

TBH if the RT rumours are true it may be the better all rounder. Not that it matters tbh, but the offset of better RT VS slightly worse raster may tip the crowd in its favour.

42 minutes til review. Canna fookin weet man.

If it's on par with a 7900XTX then it's going to be difficult to persuade myself not to sell it and get a 9070XT Nitro+

Even with having "only" 16GB of memory, FSR3.1 games being able to be converted over to FSR4 is very tempting considering the massive image quality boost and what with RDNA3 likely getting a very gimped version in 6-12 months it may be time to move over.

 

[Dicehunter]

Confirmed via AMD themselves on 1 of their slides but the 7000 series will be getting FSR4 driver integration.

 

[WYP]

Confirmed via AMD themselves on 1 of their slides but the 7000 series will be getting FSR4 driver integration.

Oooo. That's interesting. That's in my slide deck from AMD too. Definately legit slide.

 

[Dicehunter]

Oooo. That's interesting. That's in my slide deck from AMD too. Definately legit slide.

I imagine they want to let the 9000 series shine for a while before releasing it for the 7000 series. I don;t imagine it will work for the 6000 series though.

 

[WYP]

I imagine they want to let the 9000 series shine for a while before releasing it for the 7000 series. I don;t imagine it will work for the 6000 series though.

There have been statements about FSR 4 on RDNA 3 if they can make it "cheaper" AI-wise. Perhaps there will be a lower quality RDNA 3 model.

Sadly, RDNA 3 doesn't have the same AI capabilities as RDNA 3. That said, if they have a similar model that works, RDNA 3 users could get a good quality upgrade.

Like all of these AI upscalers, FSR 4 will be altered and improved over time. If one improvement is making it faster, great. If it is a lower quality "FSR 3.5" model for RDNA 3, that's also great.

TBH, a cheaper FSR 4 model could also find use on PS5 Pro, potentially.

 

[Dicehunter]

There have been statements about FSR 4 on RDNA 3 if they can make it "cheaper" AI-wise. Perhaps there will be a lower quality RDNA 3 model.

Sadly, RDNA 3 doesn't have the same AI capabilities as RDNA 3. That said, if they have a similar model that works, RDNA 3 users could get a good quality upgrade.

Like all of these AI upscalers, FSR 4 will be altered and improved over time. If one improvement is making it faster, great. If it is a lower quality "FSR 3.5" model for RDNA 3, that's also great.

TBH, a cheaper FSR 4 model could also find use on PS5 Pro, potentially.

See I'd love to move over to a Sapphire 9700XT Nitro+ as that would remove any "will FSR4 work properly" doubts but that's IF I had the funds spare and even selling the 7900XTX I'd still be a fair bit short which is annoying as my utilities all went up recently

 

[Dicehunter]

Apparently there may be a "ultimate" version of the 9070XT with higher power limit, Higher clocks and possibly more memory.

AMD rumored to be cooking 'Ultimate Navi 48' GPU: perf between RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080

AMD is reportedly preparing an 'Ultimate Navi 48' SKU: this could be the Radeon RX 9070 XTX or the RX 9070 XT Ultimate, tweaked RDNA 4.

www.tweaktown.com

 

[KingNosser]

Well i can honestly say having one and looking at much thou not had huge time testing as drivers chipset all sorts to change after bios update. Well it's better than a 7900xtx kinda on par in rasta but in dxr it's way ahead tbh the frame rates is one thing but man is this card smooth in game in dxr im seeing double most of the time and i guess due to the other settings hyper rx is doing at times 3 or 4x better than my 6800XT was.

My main issue i feel is virtual memory my c drive needs an upgrade soon so it took a bit of tinkering to get the last of us part 1 to open with shaders and such few games like that, but cyberpunk i deleted everything and reinstalled and idk it wont open so i need to mess around with that others have had issues but i seen it benched so idk so many things can happen when you switch hardware.

But everything working correctly after bios update and until i did i was getting nothing at all from the card.

Very very good card if amd don't sell on mass now with this card then they simply never will cause it's that good a card.

 

[Dicehunter]

Very very good card if amd don't sell on mass now with this card then they simply never will cause it's that good a card.

They're so popular they're sold out everywhere, Most stores got a massive amount of them in and they all went the first day. OCUK got something obscene like 10,000 units and they all went day 1.

I'll be getting a 9070XT Nitro+ but in 1-2 months once stock normalises.

Stock example, Again, They had in the neighbourhood of 10,000 units.

 

[KingNosser]

Yeah just if able you should as the prices and stock will not improve they will fly off the shelves and with tariffs and the way the world is or markets will not help matters is why i ended up not waiting, big sister lent me the funds and nephew gets my 6800xt to use, i know some are holding them but ocuk in fairness is outing tons of themone of the few places that did just a shame the site didn’t hold up and otherwise id have saved a little. But tbh any good brand well made card under 700 is well worth it as sure id have gone nitro plus as well but it’s too big that 3mm wasn’t going to fit, thou my card has same boost clocks and added 100 offset by auto so it’s not even sweating at 3165mhz.

Still decently priced on ocuk others not so much, thou tbh i'm just happy to have one but these prices i feel wont last as the demand is too high for them to sustain it, thou time will tell i guess but honestly why would you buy a 5070ti in my view no real reason to pay above it's 729 and unless they can get the price down why would you in my view, fsr4 stuff to check tonight and see if i can get cyberpunk running with adjusted page file location etc.

 

[KingNosser]

I just found out about this via Daniel Owens YT but he was hunting last few days due to comments, i've never heard of it myself but i've done my little mods and just about to test FSR4 in Cyberpunk with all the bells, yes i did say FSR4!!!!

GitHub - cdozdil/OptiScaler: OptiScaler bridges upscaling/frame gen across GPUs. Supports DLSS2+/XeSS/FSR2+ inputs, replaces native upscalers, enables FSR3 FG on non-FG titles. Supports Nukem mod for DLSSG-to-FSR3 FG.

OptiScaler bridges upscaling/frame gen across GPUs. Supports DLSS2+/XeSS/FSR2+ inputs, replaces native upscalers, enables FSR3 FG on non-FG titles. Supports Nukem mod for DLSSG-to-FSR3 FG. - cdozdi...

github.com

Has all the relevant details you need and it's not difficult to follow, just about to run it now wish me luck