Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti vs AMD RX 7900 XTX battle gets a surprise twist

Date:
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:48:45 +0000

Description:
Its surprising to see the 4070 Ti edge out the flagship AMD GPU, but theres more to this than meets the eye.

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Nvidias purportedly imminent RTX 4070 Ti has popped up in a leaked benchmark on Twitter, showing the GPU edging out AMDs RX 7900 XTX to the shock of many but dont get carried away with that idea (well come back to why in our analysis).

The Geekbench result for the graphics card was shared by Benchleaks (as spotted by VideoCardz ), and as ever with pre-release leaks, we should bear
in mind that it might not be genuine. [GB5 GPU] Unknown GPUCPU: Intel Core i7-12700 (12C 20T)Min/Max/Avg: 4472/4812/4630 MHzCodename: Alder LakeCPUID: 90672 (GenuineIntel)GPU: GeForce RTX 4070 TiAPI: Open CLScore: 214654, +50.9% vs RTX 3070VRAM: 11.99 GBhttps://t.co/RorAyawLul December 15, 2022 See more

We can see that the RTX 4070 Ti achieves a score of 214,654 for the OpenCL test in Geekbench 5. Thats 45% quicker than its predecessor, as VideoCardz observes, and 2% faster than AMDs new RDNA 3 flagship.

Moreover, some spec details are imparted that match previous leakage the presence of 7,680 CUDA Cores, notably, again underlining that this GPU should have the full loadout of cores for the AD104 chip and we also get a glimpse of the boost speed here.

The latter is interesting because its different from the leaks weve already seen, being pegged at 2,730MHz rather than 2,610MHz. Analysis: Does not compute...

A 45% generational bump is very impressive, of course, but theres a heap of caveating to be done here. We cant put too much faith in one benchmark, especially a leaked one, and in this case, Geekbench OpenCL is a compute test for GPUs. What we really need are gaming metrics, and most of all, real-world in-game benchmarks, and lots of them (as results can vary considerably from game to game when comparing different graphics cards).

As for the RTX 4070 Ti outdoing AMDs new RX 7900 XTX thats clearly not
right. This is the case because Nvidia GPUs (and drivers) are simply better
at this particular compute test than AMDs cards, which underlines just why
you cant put too much weight on a single benchmark result.

Aside from the score itself, theres also that boost speed to consider, which doesnt match another recent rumor , as noted above. What we assume has happened here is that while the RTX 4070 Ti has a boost of 2,610MHz, it has been overclocked in this test to 2,730MHz. In other words, we fully expect that the 4070 Ti will have the same boost speed as the canceled RTX 4080 12GB (itd be very odd if it was faster, after all, being a lower-tier card in its new incarnation).

With more and more leaks appearing for the RTX 4070 Ti, this also suggests
the speculation about a CES launch is on the money, and that we will see this GPU ushered onto the stage at Nvidias keynote on January 3 (followed by it being on shelves swiftly come January 5 ).

And whatever the performance level turns out to be, gamers wont be scrutinizing that so much as the price/performance ratio, which is the really telling aspect will the RTX 4070 Ti be good value? Were not hopeful, sadly, for a good result on that score, but you never know



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