After months of waiting, AMD had finally announced the AMD Radeon RX 9000 series of graphics cards a few days ago. Starting with AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards.

With them launching tomorrow, the reviews for them are out today. The reviews show them taking on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 Ti & RTX 5070 graphics cards at much lower prices. Both of them have released to bad reviews thanks to bad gen-to-gen performance uplift and really high prices.

While AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 launch with an MSRP of $599 and $549 respectively, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti & RTX 5070 are priced at $749 and $549 respectively. With real pricing of the Nvidia’s versions being far higher than the MSRP. Not to forget major availability issues with Nvidia cards. All thanks to Nvidia diverting all the GPU supply towards the datacenter GPUs, leaving gamers with very fewer units.

So the reviews are basically concentrating on these graphics cards. But before them, lets check out the specs.

RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 Specs

In terms of cost and price, AMD Radeon RX 9070 series is somewhat similar to the Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics cards.

Reviews

Tom’s Hardware

Tom’s Hardware reviewed both AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards. They called them – Excellent value, if supply is good.

They found RX 9070 XT’s 4K and 1440p raster performance in gaming to be:

• 3% slower than Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti.
• 5% slower than AMD RX 7900 XTX (which is great).
• 7% slower than Nvidia RTX 4080 Super.
• 7% faster than AMD RX 7900 XT.
• 14-15% faster than AMD RX 9070 non-XT.

They found RX 9070 non-XT’s 4K and 1440p raster performance in gaming to be:

• 8-12% faster than Nvidia RTX 5070.
• 3-5% slower than AMD RX 7900 XT.
• 3-5% slower than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super.
• 2-6% faster than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti.
• 24-28% faster than AMD RX 7800 XT.

In ray tracing performance at 4K and 1440p, they found RX 9070 XT in gaming to be:

• 9-14% slower than Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti.
• 11% faster than AMD RX 7900 XTX.
• 20-22% slower than Nvidia RTX 4080 Super.
• 26-28% faster than AMD RX 7900 XT.
• 15-18% faster than AMD RX 9070 non-XT.

In ray tracing performance at 4K and 1440p, they found RX 9070 non-XT in gaming to be:

• 1% slower than Nvidia RTX 5070 non-Ti.
• 10% faster than AMD RX 7900 XT.
• 17-20% slower than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super.
• 9% slower than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti.
• 30-36% faster than AMD RX 7800 XT.

In power usage, both RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 to use around 300W and 220W respectively at both 4K and 1440p. Making them more efficient than RX 7000 series. However, while RX 9070 is more efficient than RTX 5070, the RX 9070 XT uses more power than RTX 5070 Ti.

TechSpot

TechSpot’s Steve Walton posted a written review for AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT.

In raster performance in gaming at 4K and 1440p, RX 9070 XT was found to be:

• 1-6% slower than Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti.
• 28-35% faster than AMD RX 7900 GRE.
• 2-9% faster than AMD RX 7800 XT.
• 10-14% slower than AMD RX 7900 XTX.

In ray tracing performance in gaming at 4K and 1440p, RX 9070 XT was found to be:

• 20-26% slower than Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti.
• 54-57% faster than AMD RX 7900 GRE.
• 35-42% faster than AMD RX 7800 XT.
• 23-26% faster than AMD RX 7900 XTX.

The total computer power consumption was found to be in similar range as RX 7900 XT, which is far higher than most, but lesser than Nvidia RTX 3080 and AMD RX 7900 XTX.

The review mentions how AMD’s claims are not completely true. While the performance improvement is big, it’s not as big as what AMD claimed.

Another thing it mentions is that $599 price might only be for initial buyers. Restocks might and could be about $50 more. But even then, thanks to higher stocks, AMD RX 9070 XT alone might get sold far more than the whole Nvidia RTX 50 series combined.

TechPowerUP

TechPowerUP reviewed both AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070 individually.

TechPowerUp found RX 9070 XT’s 4K and 1440p raster performance in gaming to be:

• 3% slower than Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti.
• 5% slower than AMD RX 7900 XTX.
• 7% slower than Nvidia RTX 4080 Super.
• 9% faster than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super.
• 11% faster than AMD RX 7900 XT.

TechPowerUp found RX 9070 non-XT’s 4K and 1440p raster performance in gaming to be:

• 5-7% faster than Nvidia RTX 5070.
• 2% slower than AMD RX 7900 XT.
• 3% slower than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super.
• 2-6% faster than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti.
• 31-33% faster than AMD RX 7800 XT.

In ray tracing performance at 4K and 1440p, TechPowerUP found RX 9070 XT in gaming to be:

• 14-18% slower than Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti.
• 3% faster than Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti
• 15-17% faster than AMD RX 7900 XTX.
• 20-22% slower than Nvidia RTX 4080 Super.
• 26-29% faster than AMD RX 7900 XT.

In ray tracing performance at 4K and 1440p, TechPowerUP found RX 9070 in gaming to be:

• 10% faster than Nvidia RTX 5070 non-Ti at 4K, 4% slower at 1440p.
• 1-2% faster than AMD RX 7900 XTX.
• 15-16% faster than AMD RX 7900 XT.
• 20-23% slower than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super.
• 6% faster than Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti at 4K, 14% slower at 1440p.
• 35-36% faster than AMD RX 7800 XT.

In power consumption in gaming, RX 9070 XT used 351W, whereas RX 9070 used 242W. Which is not massively efficient, but not bad either.

Conclusion

There you have it. In our opinion, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card is one of the best graphics card released in recent times. Not only it has big raster performance improvements over the previous-gen, but more importantly, it has massively improved ray tracing performance increase across all the tests. While it’s still not a match for Nvidia, its ray tracing performance has increased massively over the RX 7000 series.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 isn’t bad either. It, too, has similar performance increase like the XT model. But we think it’s priced too higher. In our opinion, $500 would have been better than $550.

As for availability and actual price, VideoCardz and Club386 report that a single retailer alone has more than a thousand graphics cards of a single model of a single brand. Which strongly suggests that availability isn’t going to be an issue for the RX 9000 graphics cards. This is unlike Nvidia’s recently released RTX 50 series, which can hardly be found anywhere for purchasing.

While there are strong suggestions that graphics cards makers aren’t really interested in selling these cards at MSRP, the price isn’t going to be that big an issue as Nvidia currently.

This isn’t alone, reviews show (YouTube) that the FSR 4 that launched as an RX 9000 series exclusive, is a massive upgrade in quality over FSR 3.1.

So basically, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 ARE all set to make sure that AMD increases its graphics card market share.

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Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning "to find things on the Internet." Soon, Google might just tell you what's on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see more AI Overviews at the top of the results page, but Google is also testing a more substantial change in the form of AI Mode. This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode.

This marks the debut of Gemini 2.0 in Google search. Google announced the first Gemini 2.0 models in December 2024, beginning with the streamlined Gemini 2.0 Flash. The heavier versions of Gemini 2.0 are still in testing, but Google says it has tuned AI Overviews with this model to offer help with harder questions in the areas of math, coding, and multimodal queries.

With this update, you will begin seeing AI Overviews on more results pages, and minors with Google accounts will see AI results for the first time. In fact, even logged out users will see AI Overviews soon. This is a big change, but it's only the start of Google's plans for AI search.

Gemini 2.0 also powers the new AI Mode for search. It's launching as an opt-in feature via Google's Search Labs, offering a totally new alternative to search as we know it. This custom version of the Gemini large language model (LLM) skips the standard web links that have been part of every Google search thus far. The model uses "advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities" to build a response to your search, which can include web summaries, Knowledge Graph content, and shopping data. It's essentially a bigger, more complex AI Overview.

As Google has previously pointed out, many searches are questions rather than a string of keywords. For those kinds of queries, an AI response could theoretically provide an answer more quickly than a list of 10 blue links. However, that relies on the AI response being useful and accurate, something that often still eludes generative AI systems like Gemini.

Google insists this is not the end of web search, saying that helping people discover content online "remains central" to its approach. Indeed, the examples Google shows include links and citations from around the web similar to AI Overviews. However, you can't just scroll down in AI Mode to see organic results. Instead, AI Mode is designed to operate in a conversational way, allowing you to refine your search or ask follow-up questions.

AI Mode can still show some web links, but organic results are nowhere to be found.

If this sounds like something you absolutely do not want, you can safely ignore it for now. The experimental feature is only available for Google One AI Premium subscribers, who pay $20 per month for access to Google's best LLMs. This could be an indication that generating these search pages is extremely costly even for a company that gives away so much AI processing for free. Still, Google's AI efforts move fast, and you could find yourself confronted with AI Mode soon. It only took a few months for the Search Generative Experience to graduate from Labs as AI Overviews.

Google notes that it still has a lot of work to do before AI Mode is ready for prime time—it's a dramatic departure for a core part of the Google experience, after all. Google says the AI-only searches might not always be able to offer a good rundown. In those instances, it will fall back to showing you traditional links to websites that can answer your questions. AI Mode may also appear to take on a persona or form an opinion like a chatbot while it's still in development.

The feedback from the public test will help Google address AI Mode's shortcomings and make rapid changes to the experience. If you want to check out AI Mode, you can join the waitlist in Search Labs. If not, it's probably only a matter of time before you have no choice. No one was exactly clamoring for AI Overviews, but that hasn't stopped Google from pushing it to ever more searches.

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Brother laser printers are popular recommendations for people seeking a printer with none of the nonsense. By nonsense, we mean printers suddenly bricking features, like scanning or printing, if users install third-party cartridges. Some printer firms outright block third-party toner and ink, despite customer blowback and lawsuits. Brother’s laser printers have historically worked fine with non-Brother accessories. A YouTube video posted this week, though, as well as older social media posts, claim that Brother has gone to the dark side and degraded laser printer functionality with third-party cartridges. Brother tells Ars that this isn’t true.

On March 3, YouTuber Louis Rossman posted a video saying that “Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company.” The video, spotted by Tom’s Hardware, has 163,000 views as of this writing and seems to be based on a Reddit post from 2022. In that post, Reddit user 20Factorial said that firmware update W1.56 caused the automatic color registration feature to stop working on his Brother MFC-3750 when using third-party cartridges.

“With the colors not able to be aligned, the printer is effectively non-functional,” 20Factorial said. The Redditor went on to say that when asked, a Brother customer service agent confirmed that “the printer is non-functional without genuine toner.”

Rossman created a Wiki page breaking down the reported issues, including “printers continue to function with third-party toner but print at degraded quality unless OEM toner is installed.” He also noted that Brother printers automatically update when connected to the Internet and that Brother doesn’t offer older firmware versions to users.

Brother’s response

Brother denied to Ars Technica that it intentionally bricks printer functionality when users install third-party toner or ink. In a statement, the company said:

We are aware of the recent false claims suggesting that a Brother firmware update may have restricted the use of third-party ink cartridges. Please be assured that Brother firmware updates do not block the use of third-party ink in our machines.

Brother said it’s “actively addressing the source of these false claims to ensure accurate information is available to our customers.”

20Factorial isn’t the only one who has claimed to see printer capabilities decline when trying to use a third-party cartridge. A month ago, Reddit user West-Skin4092 claimed:

I had an error message when I installed a non[-]OE toner on a 3770[,] and I took the original chip off the Brother cartridge and swapped it onto the non-OE toner cartridge[,] and it recognized it and works.

Reddit user Gloomy-Score-8279 claimed to have a similar experience with their MFC-L3750CDW but added that the workaround of putting a Brother chip on a non-Brother cartridge stopped working after an unspecified update.

Two years ago, fncamo claimed on Reddit that their MFC-L3370CDW stopped printing and scanning when trying to use third-party toner after installing new firmware.

When asked for more detail, Brother told Ars that “firmware updates do not block the use of third-party compatibles,” but added:

Brother printers do not intentionally degrade print quality based on whether a Brother Genuine or non-genuine ink/ toner cartridge is used. Brother cannot verify the quality of printing that will result when using a third-party compatible with a Brother printer.

When asked where Brother thinks the confusion may be coming from, the company said:

Brother encourages the use of Brother Genuine ink and toner for optimal performance and reliability, and it is standard practice that we perform a Brother [G]enuine check when troubleshooting a Brother printer. Compatible supplies may range in quality, and in order to verify that a printer is working properly, we like to troubleshoot with Brother Genuine supplies. We believe this check in the process may have led to a misunderstanding[,] but as we confirmed, the firmware update would not be responsible for the degradation of quality or removal of printer features.

Oh, brother

With most claims of bricked Brother printers coming from people online, it’s impossible to confirm the accuracy of the reports and whether or not user error or the selected cartridges are factors.

It would be shocking for a company like Brother, which has made a name for itself as a reliable, more consumer-friendly printer company than rivals, to blatantly lie about this. On the other hand, with the print industry declining and rivals more heavily relying on ink and services to stay afloat, there is incentive for Brother to push people to proprietary cartridges. After seeing the backlash that other printer firms endured for bricking printers via firmware updates, Brother would be demonstrating awful judgement by not being upfront about breaking its customers' property.

Notably, Brother’s statements to Ars leave the door open for third-party cartridges to work poorly with Brother devices, but without more concrete evidence, we can't confidently state that Brother is behind the reported user complaints.

For what it’s worth, an Ars staffer has been successfully using their Brother HL-2270DW laser printer with v4ink-brand toner, but their device doesn't receive automatic updates. We'll let you know if we find further evidence of Brother breaking printers. In the meantime, we wouldn’t blame you for ensuring more control over your printer by disabling automatic updates.

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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 GPUs are launching tomorrow. This benchmark and review of the AMD RX 9070 XT (Sapphire Pulse model) looks at the gaming performance, ray tracing, power consumption, and efficiency vs. the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti, 5070, AMD's prior 7900 XT, and plenty more GPUs. The benchmarks for the RX 9070 non-XT will go live a little later on our channel. The 9070 XT has an MSRP of $600, with the 9070 at $550 MSRP. "Actual" pricing is TBD, as the NVIDIA launch has certainly set a current meta of pricing and availability issues. We'll follow-up on the price situation once the cards are publicly released. These benchmarks look at the best GPUs available in early 2025, including prior generation cards that you might be able to buy used. We're expecting another round of lower-end cards (likely the 5060, 5060 Ti, and possible 9060) in a few months. We're also waiting to see if Intel ships a B770 or equivalent higher-end Battlemage GPU.

00:00 - AMD RX 9070 XT GPU Review

02:56 - Specs, Architecture Basics, and Price

05:55 - Availability and Scalper Situation Unknown

06:26 - Dragon's Dogma 2 4K Benchmarks

07:16 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p Benchmarks

08:11 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p GPU Comparison

08:45 - TRANSPARENT DISCLAIMER: FFXIV Results Outlier

09:33 - FFXIV Dawntrail 4K Benchmarks

09:59 - FFXIV 1440p Benchmarks

10:16 - Resident Evil 4 4K

10:45 - Resident Evil 4 1440p

11:23 - Resident Evil 4 1080p

11:40 - Black Myth: Wukong 4K

12:16 - Black Myth: Wukong 1440p

12:49 - Black Myth: Wukong 1080p

13:03 - Starfield 4K

13:27 - Starfield 1440p

13:48 - Starfield 1080p

14:12 - Dying Light 2 4K

14:46 - Dying Light 2 1440p

15:16 - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty 4K Ultra

15:43 - Cyberpunk 2077 1440p Ultra

16:04 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 4K

17:19 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1440p

17:37 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1080p

18:07 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 4K

18:39 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p, 1080p

19:03 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 4K

19:32 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 1440p

19:53 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 1080p

20:08 - Ray Tracing: Resident Evil 4 4K, 1440p

20:45 - Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 4K RT Ultra

21:33 - Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 4K RT Medium

22:07 - Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 1080p RT Ultra

22:24 - Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 1080p RT Medium

22:40 - Power and Efficiency: FFXIV 4K

23:22 - Power and Efficiency: FFXIV 1440p

23:48 - Power and Efficiency: F1 24 RT 4K

24:29 - Power and Efficiency: F1 24 RT 1080p

24:55 - Power and Efficiency: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p

25:15 - Power and Efficiency: Starfield 1440p

26:22 - Conclusion, Cost Per Frame, Summary Charts

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We will be pitching it against the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 VENTUS 2X 12G, and Gigabyte Radeon RX 7800 XT GAMING OC 16G seeing as they are in a similar price class and also because AMD has pitted it against 70-series GeForce GPU and the 4070 happens to be just that from last gen. (This review focuses on the gaming side, we have a separate one if you are interested in AI performance.)

Before we get underway, this is a collaboration between Steven Parker (author), and Sayan Sen who also provided the benchmark graphics and data points.

First up the specs of the 9070, and 9070 XT which were given to us by AMD:

The list price according to AMD is given as $599 for the 9070 XT, and $549 for the 9070, but it's anyone's guess what card manufacturers will do with these prices.

The Sapphire Pulse is a three slot design with two 8-pin connectors, and at a (self measured) 32.5cm it can only be installed in our NR200P Max system by taking off the back plate, which hold the rear of the GPU in place. For size it resembles a 7900 XTX, even though our 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming is actually a two slot design.

On the left Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT, on the right RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming 24GB OC

As you can see, the 7900 XTX still edges out the Sapphire Pulse in size, but only just, and also if we ignore the larger three slot design on the rear of the card.

Test system

Our test system consists of the following

• Cooler Master MasterBox NR200P MAX
• ASRock Z790 PG-ITX/TB4
• Intel Core i7-14700K with Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut Pad
• T-FORCE Delta RGB DDR5 (2x16GB) 7600MT/s CL36 (XMP Profile)
• 2TB Kingston Fury Renegade SSD
• Windows 11 24H2 (Build 26100.3194)

Drivers used for the 7800 XT and 9070 were Adrenaline v24.30.31.03 / 25.3.1 RC (press driver provided by AMD), and for the 4070 Geforce v572.47 was used.

Benchmarks

For our benchmarks, hwinfo.com provided a commercial license of HWiNFO, and UL Solutions provided us with Professional (commercial use) licenses for 3DMark, VRMark, and Procyon.

We start our gaming performance testing using 3DMark synthetic benchmarks to give a rough idea of how the cards stack up against each other. In these results, we have also added the scores for the $1999+ GeForce RTX 5090 and the $250+ Intel Arc B580 since they are the highest-end and lowest-end GPUs of this current generation.

On 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra, which measures DirectX 11 performance at 4K, the 9070 XT is 36% and 76% faster than the 7800 XT and 4070 respectively.

On Time Spy Extreme, which is a DirectX 12-based 4K benchmark, the 9070 XT wins by even greater margins as it is 44.3% and 67.3% better than the 7800 XT and 4070, respectively.

Thus it looks like the new RDNA 4 card boasts DX12 specific optimizations and it also seems that Fire Strike even at 4K is perhaps CPU bottlenecked when it comes to the 9070 XT, despite us using a fairly powerful processor.

Up next we have Steel Nomad which is also based on DirectX 12 but is more intense than Time Spy Extreme as it aims to measure modern rasterization performance. Here the RX 9070 XT is 63% and 79% faster than 7800 XT and 4070, respectively.

In modern rasterization, it looks like AMD's 9070 XT has made strides, at least in the case of synthetic testing. We will see later if this holds for real-world gaming scenarios too.

So we then move on to ray tracing performance testing using 3Dmark's Speed Way. In this situation too, the new AMD RX 9070 XT shows a commendable performance uplift vs its previous generation as it does 57.3% and 41.2% better, respectively, than the 7800 XT and RTX 4070.

With that, we wrap up our synthetic testing and move on to real games. The RX 9070 XT is advertised as a 1440p and 4K GPU, therefore we chose 2560 x 1440 as our resolution for the tests given and also since this is a mid-range card that will appeal to a lot of 1440p gamers.

We start with 2016's Deus Ex Mankind Divided powered by the Dawn Engine. The Radeon 9070 XT starts off great as it demonstrates minimum frames that are higher than what the 7800 XT or 4070 are capable of delivering.

The Dawn Engine makes an appearance again later.

Following that, we have another 2016 title in the form of Final Fantasy XV based on Luminous Engine. Despite such a great start initially, the 9070 XT demonstrates a relatively poor show here as it is 'just' 27% and 17% faster than the 7800 XT and RTX 4070 respectively.

Up next, in 2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey running on AnvilNext 2.0, the RX 9070 XT is only 18.5% faster than the 7800 XT. This is a DirectX 11 game and hence, as we saw on Fire Strike, the performance gap is lower.

Following two relatively consecutive poor shows from the new AMD GPU, we are once again back to an impressive performance demonstration in Shadow of the Tomb Raider based on the Foundation Engine.

In this game, the 9070 XT was 40% better than the 7800 XT and nearly 42% better than the 4070. Even the minimum FPS on AMD's Navi 48 GPU was significantly higher than those averages on the two lesser cards.

We tested our only Vulkan API title with 2019's World War Z that's based on the Swarm Engine. We saw a 27% better average framerate on the 9070 XT than on the 7800 XT. The lead extended to 35% vs the 4070.

We wanted to test ray-tracing performance too and 2020's Cyberpunk 2077 was our game of choice for that. We also enabled upscaling in this title. We stuck to FSR on both AMD and Nvidia GPUs since we wanted to make it an apples-to-apples comparison. (As a note, Team Red is bringing its new ML-based upscaling technology called FSR 4 to many games soon though it was not in the scope for today's testing.)

As you can see in the image above, AMD has made quite an extraordinary jump in performance in ray-traced Cyberpunk 2077 that runs on the Red engine. We are seeing a 95% improvement in the average framerate on the 9070 XT vs 7800 XT and a 97% boost in minimum FPS.

The company explained in detail during its presentation about the ray traversal and shading upgrades RDNA 4 brings. You can learn about it here in our dedicated piece.

AMD also touted its path tracing enhancements on RDNA 4, so we have taken a look at it too.

The improvement on RDNA 4 compared to RDNA 3 is evident again as we see a 79% gain on 9070 XT vs 7800 XT in averages and 86% better FPS for the minimums. More importantly, this is an actually playable output.

Note however, that the performance gap between the 4070 and 9070 XT has closed down compared to the earlier non-path traced scenario indicating that Nvidia is still superior for heavier ray traced rendering situations.

We also looked at another case of ray-traced game in the form of Bright Memory Infinite. This title is built on Unreal Engine 4 and does not feature as heavy a ray tracing as Cyberpunk, making it representative of lighter ray traced situations.

The RX 9070 XT does a great job here showcasing 51% and 40.5% more average frame output than RX 7800 XT and RTX 4070 respectively.

Released in 2021 and based on the Glacier 2 engine, Hitman 3 was 27.3% faster on the 7800 XT and a whopping 121% faster vs the 4070.

We find that in 2021's Far Cry 6, built on the Dunia Engine, the new 9070 XT is 27% and 28% faster than the 7800 XT in average and minimum framerates, respectively. The gap is about the same vs Nvidia's 4070.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy was the only game in our rasterization test suite in which we see that the 9070 XT's performance was really poor in terms of minimum framerate. In all three of our runs, the card dipped quite a bit in FPS output, something we did not see with the other Dawn Engine game previously.

In The Callisto Protocol, we see one of the most unimpressive wins with just a 13% margin over 7800 XT, which is in contrast to what we observed in Bright Memory Infinite, which is also an Unreal Engine-based game.

Speaking of Unreal Engine (UE), Black Myth Wukong is up next and it is built on UE 5. The heavy cinematic setting even with FSR frame generation and 75 super-resolution is enough to overwhelm the RX 7800 XT. The new 9070 XT is far superior here putting up 58.5% better averages and even better 95% lows and minimum FPS.

Finally, we have Call of Duty Black Ops 6 as the last entry for our game testing. Built on IW 9.0 engine, this game runs exceptionally well on Radeon hardware and the 9070 XT is no different.

We get a 25% uplift in the average FPS vs the 7800 XT, and that extends up to 28% in 95% lows.

So far, overall, outside of a couple of instances, the new AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has put up excellent numbers for gaming especially in ray tracing, though we still need to look at other aspects before moving to conclusions. As such, in the next section, we look at VRAM usage, performance-per-watt, and performance-per-dollar.

VRAM usage

We now highlight the VRAM usages of the three cards where the games used more than 4 GB of dedicated GPU memory. Keep in mind, these are the actual used VRAM amounts, not the allocated amounts.

To make sense of the data above, we also need to have a look at the percentage of VRAM used, since the 4070 is equipped with 12GB while the 9070 XT and 7800 XT both pack 16GB.

As you can see above, having 16 Gigs of memory really helps and it is evident in Cyberpunk 2077 where the GeForce GPU is seen consuming 75-80% VRAM.

We were also a bit disappointed to see that the 9070 XT ate up around the same amount of memory as the 7800 XT. While this is not a need for worry, we expected to see some improvement in this area since AMD promises better BVH compression with RDNA 4.

It could also be a case of incorrect reading as the 9070 XT is new and the software (HWiNFO) does not officially support it yet. We will update these figures later if we notice changes.

Power Efficiency

Next, we check out power efficiency measured using average FPS output per watt. The new AMD 9070 XT Sapphire Pulse model we reviewed consumed 304 watts or very close to that across all games. That is also the TBP (total board power) spec of the 9070 XT.

The RTX 4070 showed its efficiency with he lowest use at around 199-200 watts while the RX 7800 XT was anywhere between 270 watts to 290 watts and typically around 285 watts.

Despite the performance improvement on the 9070 XT, Nvidia's last-gen card still manages to trump the new Navi 48 in power efficiency in most situations. There was only a single instance where the 9070 XT was better than the 4070 which is in Hitman 3.

There is one big positive though. It appears that in newer titles, the 9070 XT is very close to or matches the efficiency of the RTX 4070, especially in situations which involve light to moderate ray tracing.

We also ran HwINFO64 and observed the following Hot Spot temps (Max) for each card:

• RTX 4070: 91 C
• RX 7800 XT: 92 C
• RX 9700 XT: 85 C (Max memory temp.: 92 C)

So it looks like the Sapphire Pulse model we received is doing a fantastic job at cooling this thing down, in spite of being in the very small Coolermaster NR200P Max. Let us also add here that the fan speed under load was hovering around 1700-2000 RPM, and it was not loud at all.

Value for Money

We finally come to the value-for-money category that we measure by average performance per dollar. For the comparison we take the launch MSRP values to gauge how well the value of the cards stack up against one another and how much better or worse the new GPU is compared to last gen.

Value-wise, the Radeon RX 9070 XT holds up incredibly well, as it is seen delivering the same and sometimes better value than the 7800 XT; and consecutively is much superior to Nvidia's 4070. There is only one case in the above chart where the 4070 manages to draw even with the 9070 XT, and that is in path traced-Cyberpunk 2077.

Conclusion

Okay, color us impressed because this is the first time in its RDNA generation that the Radeon division has managed to design a gaming architecture that is quite well-rounded overall. The improvement is especially noticeable in the case of ray tracing and path tracing but rasterization output is excellent too.

If power efficiency is not the most crucial selection criterion for you, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT should offer great value for those looking for a solid 1440p 144 Hz or a 4K 60 Hz gaming experience.

It can serve as a great upgrade from something like the RX 6700 XT, the RTX 3060, the 7700 XT, the 3070, and equivalents. Just keep in mind that you do need a relatively modern high end processor to pair it up with especially if you are looking to snag one up for 1440p144 gaming.

Unfortunately, we do not have Nvidia's $549 RTX 5070 or the $749 5070 Ti for testing, so we can't draw direct comparisons with it.

However, seeing how most of the GeForce 5000 series GPUs are overpriced and far above the set MSRP levels, it wouldn't be all that surprising to see the 5070 selling at prices similar to the 9070 XT, at least initially.

In that case, the Radeon GPU would most certainly be our pick due to what we saw in the VRAM consumption chart. We are fairly confident that some of the upcoming games would potentially overflow the available 12 GB VRAM buffer on the RTX 5070. And we don't even need any direct performance comparisons for that.

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At the heart of the M3 Ultra is a scalable system-on-a-chip architecture that delivers performance and efficiency. With a 32-core CPU, the chip can deliver up to 1.5 times the performance of the previous-generation M2 Ultra and 1.8 times the performance of the M1 Ultra.

The M3 Ultra's 80-core graphics processor takes the newly-announced Mac Studio to new performance levels. Delivering up to 2x the performance of the M2 Ultra and 2.6x the performance of the M1 Ultra, this GPU can handle demanding tasks such as content creation, 3D rendering, and gaming.

The Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra features up to 512GB of unified RAM for memory-intensive workflows such as 3D rendering, visual effects, and AI development. Other improvements in the M3 Ultra include the following:

• Apple’s custom-built UltraFusion packaging technology uses an embedded silicon interposer that connects two M3 Max dies across more than 10,000 signals, providing over 2.5TB/s of low-latency interprocessor bandwidth, and making M3 Ultra appear as a single chip to software.
• With 2x the resources of M3 Max, the media engine within M3 Ultra is capable of far more concurrent video processing. The chip offers dedicated, hardware-enabled H.264, HEVC, and four ProRes encode and decode engines, allowing M3 Ultra to play back up to 22 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video.
• The display engine supports up to eight Pro Display XDRs, driving more than 160 million pixels.
• The Secure Enclave works with hardware-verified secure boot and runtime anti-exploitation technologies to provide state-of-the-art security.

Thanks to Thunderbolt 5 120Gbps support, the M3 Ultra is also capable of working with up to eight Pro Display XDRs and playing back 22 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video.

As of right now, the M3 Ultra is only available in the new Mac Studio with the starting price of $3,999. Shipments begin on March 12, 2025.

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Visually, the new Mac Studio is identical to its predecessors with all the changes inside the case. The Mac Studio now has the M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra processors. The M4 Max has up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, while the M3 Ultra packs up to 32 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores.

Compared with the original M1 Max Mac Studio, the M4 Max-powered variant is 1.6 times faster in Photoshop, 2.1 times faster in Xcode, 1.2 times faster in ProRes transcoding, and 1.6 times faster in video processing in Topaz Ai. As for the M3 Ultra (no, it is not a typo; it is indeed called M3 Ultra, not M4 Ultra), it is 2.6 times in rendering with Maxon Redshift, 1.4 times faster in 8K video rendering in Final Cut, and 16.9 times faster in token generation in LM Studio compared with the M1 Ultra.

Apple has also updated connectivity, giving Mac Studio owners the ability to use Thunderbolt 5 with its whopping 120Gbps throughput. Besides ultra-fast data transfer, Thunderbolt 5 on the M3 Ultra can drive up to eight Pro Display XDR monitors in their full 6K resolution. Other ports include a 10Gbps Ethernet, two USB Type-A, a headphone jack, and an SDXC card reader.

Also worth noting is that there are no odd power button placements. Unlike the new Mac mini, the Mac Studio has its power button within adequate reach.

The new Mac Studio with the M4 Max starts at $1,999. For this money, you get 36GB of unified memory and 512GB SSD (configurable up to 128GB of RAM and 8TB SSD). The M3 Ultra, however, offers more impressive configurations. The base variant costs $3,999, and it packs 96GB of RAM and 1TB SSD. If that is not enough, you can spec it all the way up to 512GB of RAM and 16GB TB. Such a config will set you back an eye-watering $14,099.

Both M4 Max and M3 Ultra Mac Studio are now available for preorder. Shipments begin on March 12.

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For thin and light laptops, Intel has made the 200V and 200U chips, for performance notebooks it has the 200H and 200HX, and for desktop and workstation, it has built the 200S. Intel said that this lineup gives businesses “a comprehensive solution of compute performance, power efficiency, connectivity, security and manageability, across desktop and mobile form factors.”

“2025 is a pivotal year for PC refresh, and with Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) processors, we’re delivering the most advanced commercial systems to date,” said David Feng, vice president of the Client Computing Group and general manager of Client Segments at Intel. “Our AI PC processors cater to every form factor – from thin-and-light productivity devices to high-performance workstations – all backed by Intel vPro®, which sets the industry standard in business computing with unmatched manageability and security.”

In the 200U series, there is the Intel Core Ultra 7 265U. The chipmaker compared it to the older Intel Core Ultra 7 165U, here's how they compared:

• Cinebench 2024 Single Core: Up to 1.08x
• Cinebench 2024 Multi Core: 1.08x
• Procyon Office Productivity: Up to 1.10x
• Geekbench 6.3 Single Core: Up to 1.06x
• Geekbench 6.3 Multi Core: Up to 1.13x
• Procyon Video Editing: Up to 1.30x

The 200H series shows even better improvements when looking at the Intel Core Ultra 7 265H vs. the 165H. The biggest improvement was in the Procyon Video Editing which increased by 1.60x.

In regard to availability, the Intel Core Ultra 200V is available now while the Intel Core Ultra 200U, 200H, 200HX and 200S series-powered systems will ship in late March 2025.

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This review of the NVIDIA RTX 5070 Founders Edition video card benchmarks performance vs. the RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 4070, RX 7900 XT, 7900 GRE, and prepares for comparisons against AMD's RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 GPUs. The AMD RDNA 4 RX 9070 series cards launch tomorrow at $600 and $550 MSRP, matching the RTX 5070's $550 MSRP. We'll see if either one holds when it launches, but for now, we're focusing on some of the marketing lies that NVIDIA told during its presentation of the RTX 5070 GPUs. Testing MFG 4X vs. an RTX 4090 without MFG, we show that NVIDIA's claims of equivalence between the two are simply not true. It is intentionally manipulative and a misrepresentation of reality, unfortunately torpedoing what otherwise could have been a simpler launch review focused purely on performance. Instead, we get to talk about marketing BS.

00:00 - NVIDIA's 5070 Lies

04:06 - RTX 5070 Specs, Pricing Problems, Basics

09:23 - FFXIV Dawntrail 4K GPU Benchmarks

10:29 - FFXIV Dawntrail 1440p Video Card Comparison

11:46 - FFXIV Dawntrail 1080p Best Graphics Cards

12:22 - Black Myth: Wukong 4K RTX 5070 Comparison

13:09 - Black Myth: Wukong 1440p 5070 vs 5070 Ti

13:35 - Black Myth: Wukong 1080p

13:59 - Starfield 4K Best GPUs 2025

14:31 - Starfield 1440p Benchmarks

15:02 - Starfield 1080p

15:25 - Dragon's Dogma 2 4K Best Video Cards

16:27 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p

17:01 - Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p

17:32 - Cyberpunk 2077 4K

18:02 - Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty 1440p Comparison

18:27 - Cyberpunk 2077 1080p Ultra

19:08 - Dying Light 2 4K

19:26 - Dying Light 2 1440p

19:50 - Resident Evil 4 4K

20:18 - Resident Evil 4 1440p

20:59 - Resident Evil 4 1080p

21:14 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 4K

22:12 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1440p

22:31 - Ray Tracing: Black Myth Wukong 1080p

23:04 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 4K

23:22 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1440p

23:52 - Ray Tracing: Dragon's Dogma 2 1080p

24:35 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 4K

25:00 - Ray Tracing: Dying Light 2 1440p, 1080p

25:31 - Ray Tracing: Resident Evil 4 4K

25:47 - Ray Tracing: Resident Evil 4 1440p

26:00 - Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk

27:20 - GPU Thermals on Founders Edition

27:54 - Power Efficiency: FFXIV

29:51 - Power Efficiency: F1 24 RT

30:52 - Power Efficiency: Black Myth Wukong

31:15 - Power Efficiency: Dragon's Dogma 2

31:33 - Power Efficiency: Starfield

31:57 - Tomorrow: RTX 4070 Super, RX 9070 XT, 9070

32:12 - Conclusion (For Now)

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NVIDIA RTX 5070 reviews are in, and the reception for the delayed midrange graphics card is much more negative than I expected.

With the official launch date set as March 5, 2025, a day ahead of AMD's competing Radeon RX 9000 launch, it's clear that NVIDIA wanted to get information about the new card before Team Red could make its debut.

That strategy, however, has seemingly backfired, with negative reviews piling up for the $549 GPU that NVIDIA promised could perform at the same level as an RTX 4090.

At this point, after weeks of negative press surrounding NVIDIA's iffy performance claims, extreme stock shortages, missing ROPs, melting power cables, and faulty drivers — am I missing anything? — many were expecting the RTX 5070 to fall flat.

And indeed, most reviews make it seem like NVIDIA saved the worst for last.

Here's a roundup of RTX 5070 opinions from around the internet to give you a clear idea of what to expect when the GPU launches on March 5.

• Tom's Hardware (80%): "If the RTX 5070 is available at its MSRP, it's a modest generational upgrade that we would happily recommend. That's about the best we can say or hope for. We'll discuss tomorrow how it stacks up against AMD's RX 9070 that has the same $549 MSRP. In normal times, there would be heated debates about which one is better, whether DLSS beats FSR, and if AMD or Nvidia makes better drivers. The winner this round, however, is going to be the company that produces more GPUs to sell to consumers."
• PC Gamer (61%): "At this price, and with this competition looming large, I just don't know how I can recommend the RTX 5070 as a genuine purchase for any PC gamer without major caveats. The GPU at its heart feels like it should be the basis for an RTX 5060 and now the rest of market might just force that upon Nvidia."
• The Verge: "It’s about 20 percent faster than the RTX 4070 and a bare 4 percent faster than last year’s RTX 4070 Super. It’s a solid card for 1440p gaming, just like the RTX 4070, but as with the rest of the 50-series cards, Nvidia’s performance claims rely on Frame Generation rather than meaningful improvements to rendering."
• Eurogamer: "However, in the real world where the RTX 4070 Super will be (sparingly) available for less money, the argument here is relatively meagre. There are performance regressions versus the 4070 Super in a handful of games, frame generation requires more judicious settings choices to ensure playable latency, and of course we can't forget that AMD's RX 9070 and 9070 XT are set to arrive very soon indeed - with potentially much greater price to performance ratios."
• PCWorld (50%): "Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 offers no performance increase over its predecessor, and the 12GB memory capacity is too skimpy for a $550 graphics card in 2025. It’s still a solid 1440p graphics card, and DLSS 4’s Multi-Frame Gen delivers transformative visual smoothness in supported games."
• TechPowerUp: "While the RTX 5070 is definitely a great card for 1440p, it's a little bit weak for 4K gaming without upscaling, that's why we recommend the card for a resolution of 1440p, especially when you consider that future games will have higher hardware requirements."

• Hardware Unboxed: "I'm personally not a fan of the GeForce RTX 5070. It's a compromised product that will struggle to leverage the RTX feature set due to its limited 12GB VRAM buffer. Although that may not be a significant issue right now, I expect it will be within the realistic lifespan of this product."

• Hardware Canucks: "I know what some people are going to be saying. They're going to be saying, 'Hey, you know what? The RTX 5070 ... it is nothing more than a slightly overclocked 4070 Super,' and I'd actually argue against that. I would say that because of its current positioning, where it is actually beaten by that [RTX 4070] Super in a bunch of situations, this thing isn't even that."

• Gamers Nexus: "NVIDIA is selling lies, and reviewers shouldn't be afraid to mince words about it. That is precisely what the RTX 5080 is. It is marketed on the back of lies. [...] That's right. NVIDIA says that AI can make a 5070, which has 12GB of VRAM, equal a 4090, which has 24."

Should you buy an NVIDIA RTX 5070?

"4090 performance at $549."

That’s what Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said of the GeForce RTX 5070 when he announced the card at CES in January. Thanks to AI, this new midrange GPU would be able to match the frame rates of what had been the fastest consumer GPU that had previously existed for around one-third the price.

Let's dispel that notion up front. No, the GeForce RTX 5070 is not as fast as an RTX 4090, not without some very creative comparing of non-comparable numbers. Per usual for the 50-series, Nvidia is leaning on its AI-generated interpolated frames for the bulk of its claimed performance improvements. In terms of actual rendering speed, the 5070 isn’t even as fast as a 4080 or a 4070 Ti. It’s barely faster than last year’s 4070 Super, and it has disproportionately higher power usage.

The RTX 5070 Founders Edition is a lot smaller than the 5090/5080 design.

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Like the 5090/5080, the 5070 switches to a slightly angled 12-pin power connector.

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For all that, it's still not necessarily a bad card—it's a little faster than the $599 4070 Super at the same $549 price that Nvidia used for the RTX 4070. It still represents Nvidia's minimum viable 4K GPU, once you factor in DLSS upscaling, and it’s well suited for people with 1440p monitors.

But it's a hard card to get excited about, and unlike every other 50-series GPU released so far, it actually has to compete against something—AMD's new Radeon RX 9070 series. I can't talk in detail about how these cards all stack up until later this week, but suffice it to say that Nvidia could use something a bit more impressive than the RTX 5070 at this price.

GeForce RTX 5070 specs

The 5070's CUDA core count falls right in between the RTX 4070 and the 4070 Super's, where the 5080 and 5070 Ti both included small increases from their previous-generation counterparts. To boost speeds over the 4070 Super, this means Nvidia is leaning on architectural improvements in Blackwell, the memory bandwidth increase from GDDR7 (a fairly significant 33 percent increase), and increased GPU clock speeds (the memory switch and clock speed boosts likely explain the higher power consumption).

The 5070 gives you 12GB of memory, which still clears that crucial “more than 8GB” bar you’ll want for higher-than-1080p resolutions and ultra-quality textures, though as time goes on, it may be more limiting at 4K if that’s a resolution you’re hoping to hit with this card.

The number that sticks out in a bad way is the power consumption—a maximum of 250 W under load, 30 W more than the old 4070 Super. The 5070 series is still far more power-efficient than older cards like the RTX 3070 or 3080, but efficiency is no longer as much of an advantage for the 5070 as it was for the 4070 series.

We reviewed the Founders Edition of the card provided by Nvidia, and it uses a different two-slot design than the much larger, much more powerful RTX 5090 and 5080 cards. It's the same physical size as the 4070 and 4060 Founders Edition cards, but with an updated power connector that's set at an angle instead of sticking out directly from the top of the card. Nvidia has updated the cooler design, too, moving both fans to the same side of the card rather than placing one on each side.

Whether it's because of the updated cooler or the higher power consumption or both, the 5070 actually runs hotter than any other card in our current round of testing, including (by a few degrees) the 5090. The card runs a bit loud under load—that's not a scientific measurement, but I noticed it more than I did when testing either the 5090 Founders Edition or the 4070-series Founders Editions. It's something to keep an eye on for any smaller or lower-end 5070 cards from partners that use smaller double-fan cooler designs, though we doubt it will be an issue for the triple-fan monstrosities.

Our testbed is the same as it's been since we updated it for the RTX 5090 review—a Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the heart of the build to minimize the likelihood that CPU performance will cap any of our GPUs' frame rates.

We've tested the 5070 at 4K and 1440p. Cards in this $500 to $600 price range tend to be a better fit for a 1440p high-refresh-rate gaming monitor, especially if you're hoping to play without DLSS or other upscaling technologies available.

But if you play older or lighter games, if you don't mind upscalers, and if you can turn down a few settings, hitting 60 frames per second at 4K is often within the realm of possibility. It's certainly the least I would spend if I was hoping to play on a 4K monitor.

Performance and power

4K game benchmarks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 5070 usually represents a mid-single-digit performance increase over the 4070 Super despite having fewer CUDA cores. It's about 20 percent faster than the RTX 4070—a comparison Nvidia would probably prefer, since the 5070 is technically replacing the 4070 at $549 and not the 4070 Super at $599. But the launch MSRPs for the 50-series have been mostly imaginary so far due to a combination of supply, demand, and people buying cards just so they can resell them for more money. We'd assume the same will hold true for the RTX 5070 until proven otherwise.

There were a couple of exceptions in our suite that performed strangely no matter how many times we re-tested them or how many times we tried clearing our shader cache or reinstalling drivers, and one game that benefitted from an outsized increase. Cyberpunk 2077 in Ultra mode with ray-tracing disabled showed a larger improvement than the other games we tested—24 percent faster than the 4070 Super, and 72 percent faster than the 4070. It was an outlier, but some games may benefit more than others.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and Cyberpunk 2077 in Overdrive mode with DLSS turned off both gave abnormally low or otherwise strange numbers—we've presented those here for the sake of transparency, and we've communicated our findings to Nvidia, but we'd take these with a grain of salt when comparing results. Horizon seems to have some kind of issue with DLSS frame generation regardless of GPU, with low frame rates and odd visual artifacts across all the GeForce cards we've tested with recent drivers.

4K benchmarks with DLSS/FSR upscaling and single frame-generation enabled.

 

 

 

 

On the AMD side, we can't compare the 5070 directly to the RX 9070 series yet, but it's worth noting that the 5070 outperforms the old RX 7900 GRE by a small but consistent amount in our benchmarks without ray-tracing effects (the gap in ray-traced games is larger because of AMD's typical performance deficit in these games).

AMD says that the $549 RX 9070 and $599 9070 XT should be 21 percent and 42 percent faster (respectively) than the RX 7900 GRE on average. That could spell trouble for the 5070, but it remains to be seen whether AMD has fixed its ray-tracing performance problems and how much the cards' power efficiency has improved.

1440p benchmarks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We ran our 1440p benchmarks on the GeForce RTX 3070, too, to give a bit more context for upgraders. The 5070 is usually between 40 and 70 percent faster than the 3070 here, a card that will find itself more and more limited by its 8GB of RAM as time goes on. The 5070 is still a good upgrade from the 3070; it's just not all that much better of an upgrade than what you could get from a 4070 Super a year ago. As usual, the older your card is, the better the upgrade will feel, even if the generation-over-generation improvement is small.

In exchange for five or six percent better performance, the 5070 uses 13.5 percent more power under load than the 4070 Super did. Nvidia was so far ahead of AMD and the RTX 30-series on efficiency with the RTX 40-series GPUs that one relatively inefficient upgrade cycle doesn't really wreck things, but we do generally like to see power consumption either increase proportionally with performance or for performance to increase more than power consumption does.

Improving efficiency was always going to be tough for the 50-series, since the Blackwell GPU dies are manufactured using a 4nm TSMC process similar to what Nvidia used for the Ada Lovelace GPU dies for the 40-series. But the 5070 ends up slightly worse on this metric than the other 50-series cards.

When you turn frame generation on, you can see the source of Jensen Huang's "4090 performance for $549" performance claim. The 5070 with DLSS Multi-Frame Generation (MFG) enabled in 4x mode has a similar average frame rate in Cyberpunk 2077 compared to the RTX 4090 with the old Frame Generation mode enabled (now labeled "2x" in games that support MFG). That's because the 5070 is capable of generating three AI-interpolated frames for every rendered frame, rather than one.

But the 5070 (and, when they arrive, the 5060 series) demonstrates the limits of FG and MFG more than the other 50-series cards do. With MFG enabled, Cyberpunk 2077 can hit over 80 frames per second on average with the Overdrive preset enabled. That sounds pretty good! Until you consider that the base frame rate (with DLSS upscaling enabled, but not any frame generation) is closer to 20 frames per second. With a base frame rate this low, user input will feel sluggish, and visual artifacts are plainly visible when objects are in motion.

DLSS MFG can still have its uses—the 5070 can push some pretty high frame rates at 1440p, and MFG could help you take better advantage of a 240 Hz or 360 Hz 1440p monitor than you could without MFG enabled. But it remains a relatively niche technology that's useful under certain circumstances, not the broad cure-all for mediocre performance that Nvidia's charts imply it is.

It could be better, or at least cheaper

The GeForce RTX 4070 and 4070 Super were some of the best values in Nvidia's lineup last generation, offering the same performance as high-end 30-series cards and outstanding power efficiency for a little less money than you'd spend on an RTX 3080 or 3090.

Now that it's here, it's hard to classify the RTX 5070 as anything other than a disappointment. It's just barely, by the skin of its figurative teeth, faster than the 4070 Super for the same $549 MSRP as the regular 4070. This technically makes it an improvement, along with support for multi-frame generation. But this nearly imperceptible performance improvement comes with a 13.5 percent increase in power consumption under load, which seems like a bad trade-off any way you cut it.

The RTX 5070 feels like the kind of product you make when you're not particularly worried about what your competition is doing. The entire 50-series has sort of felt like that so far, between the astronomically high price of the RTX 5090 and the so-so performance improvements for the 5080 and 5070 Ti. But it's different for the RTX 5070 because AMD actually has an answer for it coming soon.

AMD's RX 7600, 7700, and 7800 GPUs may not have been smash-hit sales successes for its last generation, but stiffer competition at and under $600 did help pull Nvidia's pricing down to earth a bit. Soon we'll know whether the RX 9070 series will exert a similar pull—or if it can actually manage to wrest some market share back from Nvidia after years of trending in the wrong direction.

• Great 1440p performance—and can stretch to 4K with the right settings
• Same price as the old RX 4070 and a little cheaper than the 4070 Super (in theory)
• Compact design that should fit in just about any case
• Reasonably power-efficient when compared to older RTX 30-series or Radeon cards
• DLSS Multi-Frame Generation is a situationally useful technology
• Wide ecosystem support for DLSS, CUDA, and other Nvidia software features

• Higher power consumption for not that much better performance
• A few odd performance results that will hopefully be ironed out by driver and/or game updates
• Founders Edition runs a bit hot
• 12GB of RAM feels stingy

• Nvidia's grandiose apples-to-oranges performance comparisons
• Availability remains a big question mark

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Selling that many copies in that time period makes the latest installment in the massively popular action franchise the "fastest a title has reached this milestone in the company’s history," according to Capcom.

While the company did not reveal any sales splits between the launch platforms, the Steam version's popularity was clearly seen over the weekend. The title managed to hit peaks of 1.3 million concurrent players three days in a row on the platform.

Capcom attributed the massive draw of Monster Hunter Wilds to the global promotions it had been running prior to launch, including the trailers it debuted at games showcases and the massive open beta tests:

Following the game’s announcement, Capcom promoted the appeal of Monster Hunter Wilds to a broad audience worldwide, exhibiting the title at global video game events and holding an online open beta test to give many players a chance to try it, while also providing updates on game information via the online events such as Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase. As a result of these continuous global initiatives, Monster Hunter Wilds has evoked massive excitement and achieved sales of 8 million units in 3 days, the fastest any game has done so in Capcom’s history.

Despite being well received by critics and now touting record-breaking sales, user reviews are not fairing well for Monster Hunter Wilds. Many players are reporting massive performance issues and visual defects in the experience, and Capcom is yet to announce any official fixes.

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We've seen a number of user reports pop-up about ASRock motherboard and 9800X3D CPU instability or failures, including CPUs dying (or sometimes, seeming "dead" due to instability -- but then working again with a new BIOS). We put together this report as we research and monitor the issue to see if anything larger comes from it, including potential for new information from the audience. Thus far, it seems like it possibly boils down to two primary issues: ASRock BIOS stability and possibly a CPU batch issue; however, we don't think the CPU batch issue is likely, and we have CPUs from both named batches that are working fine. Still, it's worth considering all options, as ASRock is not the only affected motherboard vendor. We'll see if this develops further. This is a new style for us: We don't have the capacity right now to take on more lab testing due to how overloaded we are with the incoming RTX 5070 and RX 9070 (and 9070 XT) GPU reviews, but we still wanted to study the issue and put something together in case it develops!

00:00 - ASRock and 9800X3D Stability Issues

03:14 - CPU Failures Are Uncommon

05:43 - Two Problems

07:39 - Symptoms and Affected Motherboards

09:03 - BIOS Issues

14:06 - Bad Batch Theory

15:42 - How to Find AMD CPU Batch Number

16:17 - ASRock's Response and Fixes

18:08 - Conclusions So Far

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The "there is something in the Air" teaser leaves little room for speculation. Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reports that the M4-based MacBook Air will be the first to debut, with the iPad Air and a new entry-level iPad following a bit later.

In addition to a CPU bump, the updated MacBook Air is expected to bring faster memory with more configurations (up to 32GB in contrast to the current 24GB maximum variant), an updated webcam with Center Stage support, and other minor changes. Overall, the computer will retain its current design, size, and form factor, so look out for both 13-inch and 15-inch variants getting an upgrade.

The current stock of M3-based MacBook Air laptops is dwindling, which is another sign of the inevitable refresh.

Interestingly, this is not the first time Apple has used the "There is something in the Air teaser." In 2008, when the original MacBook Air was unveiled, Apple posted big banners with the same slogan.

While the new M4 MacBook Air is unlikely to be as disruptive as the original MacBook Air (despite all of its shortcomings and lackluster performance), it is a nice throwback to where the lineup started.

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According to Valve's own numbers, Steam managed to hit a peak of 40,222,964 concurrent online users on Sunday, February 2. As for what pushed so many players to gather up and take the number to new heights, it certainly looks like Capcom’s Monster Hunter Wilds is what's behind it.

Released on February 28, the game went on to record 1.3 million concurrent players on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The hugely impressive achievement beat previous records held by releases like DOTA 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Baldur's Gate 3, Path of Exile 2, and even massive free-to-play experiences like Marvel Rivals and Apex Legends.

Per SteamDB data, Monster Hunter Wilds's 1.3 million player concurrent record on Steam was only behind titles like PUBG (3.7 million), Black Myth: Wukong (2.4 million), Palworld (2.1 million), and Counter-Strike 2 (1.7 million). It's interesting to see how a major release always seems to add even more millions to Valve PC gaming platform, and they seem to be sticking around. For instance, Path of Exile 2's explosive early access launch in December last year was what fueled Steam's 39 million concurrent user record.

With massive titles like Doom: The Dark Ages, Elden Ring Nightreign, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Borderlands 4, and others currently confirmed for 2025, Steam users could easily set more records in the coming months. Out of everything though, Grand Theft Auto VI's PC launch, when it ever happens, is probably what will smash most records on the platform.

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Following the debut of the RDNA 4-powered RX 9070 series, with the flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT, priced at $599, competing against NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 Ti, AMD appears ready to broaden its appeal. While the RX 9070 series has attracted the mid-to-high-end market, affordable options have remained scarce for mainstream consumers. However, the new RX 9060 series is expected to fill this gap, targeting the sub-$400 price bracket.

According to early reports from AMD China via MyDrivers, the Radeon RX 9060 series will likely utilise the Navi 44 silicon, a cost-effective GPU architecture. It is also anticipated that these models will come equipped with approximately 8GB of VRAM, with final configurations to be determined as AMD fine-tunes its market positioning.

It is anticipated that, following a similar strategy to the RX 9070 launch, AMD will aim to capture the coveted $400-$500 price bracket. This strategic move should provide stiff competition for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 and its 'Ti' variant. While the official launch date remains unconfirmed, expectations lean towards an April debut, likely timed after the release of NVIDIA’s 60-class GPUs. However, with no official confirmation yet, the precise release schedule remains speculative.

The introduction of the RX 9060 series could represent a significant challenge for NVIDIA, forcing the tech giant to reconsider its market approach if it wishes to retain its competitive edge in the budget segment. Overall, the evolving dynamics in the GPU market promise an intriguing period ahead for both AMD and NVIDIA.

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0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - March 2, 2025

1:50 AMD Radeon RX 9070 $550, RX 9070 XT $600

5:36 NVIDIA Accused of Suppressing Inventory For RTX 50 Series; 5070 may be better

7:33 RTX 50 Series Missing ROPs - All Models Affected

TECH BRIEFS

8:43 Redditor pairs 3050 with 5090 to un-cripple PhysX performance in older 32-bit titles

9:47 Reddit also reports RTX 50 black screen issues fixed with vbios, driver update

10:25 Sapphire puts 16-pin power connector on an RX 9070 XT

11:26 Intel delays $100 billion Ohio fab, now coming online in 2030

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Table of contents:

1. Windows 10 and 11 news
2. Windows Insider Program
3. Updates are available
4. Reviews are in
5. Gaming news

Windows 11 and 10

Here we talk about everything happening around Microsoft's latest operating system in the Stable channel and preview builds: new features, removed features, controversies, bugs, interesting findings, and more. And of course, you may find a word or two about older but still supported versions.

The February 2025 non-security updates for Windows 10 and 11 are now available. Windows 10 users can download KB5052077, which fixes OpenSSH issues, Narrator, IME, and other bugs. Windows 11 versions 23H2 and 22H2 received KB5052094, which improves the taskbar, File Explorer, Start menu, and more. Finally, those on Windows 11 version 24H2 can download KB5052093 to fix audio issues, File Explorer performance issues, and more.

Microsoft also released new setup and recovery updates and announced the end of DES encryption in Windows 11 version 24H2 and Server 2025.

Alongside the release of KB5052093 for Windows 11 version 24H2, Microsoft acknowledged a new bug in the latest Windows 11 version. It has compatibility issues with a certain AutoCAD version, which causes the app to fail to start. Microsoft has now placed a compatibility hold, so you might not see version 24H2 in Windows Update if you use AutoCAD.

At the start of each month, Statcounter published new stats. Windows 11 has reached a new all-time high market share and climbed to 38%. In some countries, such as the UK, Windows 11 is now the most popular Windows version of them all. On the desktop browser side, however, Microsoft products are not doing so well, and Edge barely scratches the 14% mark.

There is also a new blog post from Microsoft describing what USB settings in Windows 11 can do for you. Windows 11 supports USB4, and the system has a few features to help you better understand how everything works.

Here is an odd one to finish this week's Windows section. As it turned out, Copilot is pretty helpful when it comes to piracy. While it cannot generate a genuine working key for activating your Windows 11 copy, it will gladly show you a third-party script that can activate the system in two clicks. However, after the media picked up the story, Microsoft quickly shushed its AI companion—it can no longer help you with pirating Windows.

Windows Insider Program

Here is what Microsoft Released this week for testing in the Windows Insider Program:

If your Windows 11 PC is enrolled in the Release Preview Channel, Microsoft has some bad news for you: the company stopped the rollout of the redesigned battery indicator, citing unknown issues. However, it should be back in no time, and it is already available for testing in the Canary Channel.

Updates are available

This section covers software, firmware, and other notable updates (released and coming soon) delivering new features, security fixes, improvements, patches, and more from Microsoft and third parties.

The biggest update story from this week is unquestionably the death of Skype. Inside the recent preview version, users discovered a message stating that Skype would be discontinued in May 2025. In a few hours, Microsoft confirmed the rumor and published a blog post about what would happen to Skype in a few weeks.

Microsoft Copilot users can now use two of its best features for free and without any limits. This week, Microsoft announced that Copilot Voice and Think Deeper are now unlimited and no longer require a Copilot Pro subscription. You can access those features wherever Copilot is available. Speaking of availability, Microsoft now has a sort of native Copilot app for macOS. It offers a couple of additional features and conveniences over the standard web-based experience.

It appears that Microsoft wants to make its desktop Office apps available for free. Users noticed that in certain regions, it is now possible to use Office apps on Windows without purchasing a license or subscribing to Microsoft 365. You can view and edit documents, but limited features include the ability to save only in OneDrive, ads in a sidebar, and quite a lot of turned-off features. Still, for non-demanding users, this offer might be very enticing.

There is now a commotion among Edge users. Microsoft started turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions, claiming those extensions are no longer supported. For now, not all Edge versions exhibit this behavior, plus you can turn the extension back on, but you might want to start looking for alternative extensions or browsers that either have MV3-based variants or support MV2.

Microsoft also announced that the Edge Add-ons store review process is now faster for "high-quality and high-value extensions." Select developers of certain extensions can now enjoy a priority queue with quicker review times. Finally, Edge Dev has been updated to version 135.0.3154.3 with improved tab groups and various fixes.

Opera also had some updates for its browser this week. Opera One received updates to its sidebar, which now supports Discord, Slack, and Bluesky for faster navigation and fewer tabs when using popular social platforms.

Mozilla ended up in hot waters this week. The company updated its data privacy FAQ, and the new version no longer promises to never sell user data.

You might remember one of Microsoft's announcements last week: the company unveiled its Majorana 1 quantum chip, promising a breakthrough in this area. In a new editorial, Paul Hill tries to digest what this launch means for quantum computing.

Other notable updates include the following:

• Microsoft updated the list of supported processors in Windows 11 to confirm that there are no changes to the CPU baseline.
• Windows 11 package manager UniGetUI received performance improvements and more in the latest update.
• Microsoft released .NET 10 Preview 1 with performance and memory improvements.
• Microsoft released .NET Aspire 9.1 with new dashboard features and more.

• Microsoft announced Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini small language models.

• Microsoft completed the EU Data Boundary Solution.

• Teams Chat received support for SMS messaging.

• Microsoft announced TypeScript 5.8.

   

And here are the newest drivers released this week:

• Nvidia 572.60 WHQL with fixes for RTX 50 Series black screen issues and more.
• Nvidia 572.65 Hotfix with patches for systems booting into black screens.
• Intel 32.0.101.6632 non-WHQL with optimizations for GTA V Enhanced, Monster Hunter Wilds, Split Fiction, and FragPunk.

Reviews are in

Here is hardware and software we reviewed this week

Robbie Khan published a couple of reviews this week. One is about the Engwe N1 Pro, a futuristic e-bike with a carbon fiber frame, around-the-clock IoT security, good range, fast charging, and comfortable ride.

The second one is about Keychron Q6 Max, a literal weapon of a keyboard with heavy, all-metal construction, great typing sound and quality, tri-mode connectivity, and fantastic browser-based software.

On the gaming side

Learn about upcoming game releases, Xbox rumors, new hardware, software updates, freebies, deals, discounts and more.

Today is the final day to participate in the Steam Next Fest. For those unaware, it is a special event that Valve regularly holds to let millions of gamers try hundreds of upcoming games for free. You can download free demos and try them before launch. The first Steam Next Fest includes hardcore survival shooters, cute sims, and plenty of other games to try.

Forza Horizon 5 is still getting new content. Playground Games announced details about the Horizon Realms update that will land in April and bring quite a lot of new content, such as the ability to revisit iconic landmarks from previous updates, new vehicles to earn in the playlist, and a new car pack. The game will also launch on the PlayStation 5 on April 25.

The February 2025 Xbox update introduced several changes to Microsoft's gaming platforms. Xbox Cloud Gaming, for one, now lets you create invitational links and send them to your friends so they can quickly hop in and join you from their browsers, TVs, or any other Xbox Cloud Gaming-compatible device.

Fable fans eagerly waiting for the upcoming reboot of the franchise are in for some disappointing news. Playground Games announced this week that the game has been pushed to 2026, as Microsoft gives the studio more time to polish the title and ship it in a better state. To sweeten the pill, Playground Games published pre-alpha footage of the game.

Quite a few new games were announced for Game Pass this week. Hit rogue-like card game Balatro surprised fans with an unexpected arrival to Microsoft's gaming service. 33 Immortals is also coming to Game Pass in early access later this month, plus Moonlighter 2 has been confirmed to be part of the Game Pass library upon launch sometime later this year.

Another service getting new games is GeForce NOW. In a new, now-traditional weekly update, Nvidia announced that Halo: Master Chief Collection, Split Fiction, AC Shadows, inZOI, and other games are now available to play in the cloud.

On the hardware side, we have reports about Valve potentially launching a $1,200 VR headset for standalone gaming with some Valve-made mini-games, a similar thing that happened with the release of the Valve Index and the Seam Deck. Moreover, Valve is reportedly looking to offer the headset as a way to experience flat-screen titles on the wireless headset as if they are playing on a big-screen TV, all without an accompanying PC.

Deals and freebies

The Epic Games Store is giving away Mages of Mystralia, an indie adventure about a young girl who was exiled from her village for gaining magical powers. As usual, you can find plenty of other deals and specials in our weekly Weekend PC Game Deals series.

Other gaming stories include the following:

• Terminator 2 is going 2D with a retro-styled arcade scheduled to arrive in 2025.
• 4A Games is now Reburn, and it has a new sci-fi shooter in development.
• Razer and Mojang announced the Minecraft Collection of gaming peripherals.
• EA published the source code of its classic Command & Conquer games.
• Halo Infinite is getting a Counter-Strike-like 'plant and defusal mode.'

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AMD finally unveiled its new RDNA 4 GPUs in an official presentation on February 28, which arrived full of performance and pricing metrics.

I won't lie. I was worried that AMD would bungle the RDNA 4 announcement, whether with unrealistic pricing, poor performance, or lackluster FSR 4 improvements.

The standout news from AMD, at least for me, is that the RX 9070 XT performs at roughly the same level as the RTX 5070 Ti, dropping 2% at 4K ultra settings.

That is, of course, raw performance without FSR 4 or DLSS 4 upscaling techniques involved.

So, did AMD hang itself once again with uncompetitive pricing? Quite the opposite.

The RX 9070 XT is confirmed to have a $599 MSRP. That's $150 less than the RTX 5070 Ti's MSRP, which in itself is more of a dream than a reality.

With NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti approaching $1,000 on the open market — that's without considering scalpers' prices — AMD's opportunity to seize a larger portion of the GPU market share has never been better.

It has been quite the week for Microsoft. The tech giant announced the end of Skype, confirmed the use of AI to generate content in Call of Duty, and began testing a free version of Office that contains ads. Microsoft Copilot also helped people pirate Windows 11 for a brief time, though the AI tool will no longer provide a guide on that when asked.

Farewell Skype

Thanks to the handy data saved by SteamDB, it shows that Monster Hunter Wilds reached 1,307,976 concurrent players on Steam on launch day, February 28. Already though, on the second day of launch, the title is fast reaching that number. At the time of writing, Monster Hunter Wilds is already about to surpass 1.3 million concurrent players.

The title is also enjoying being at the top of Steam's global best-selling charts too, a place it has more or less managed to hold for weeks now. Capcom is yet to share any sales numbers for its latest action RPG, but it should be in the millions on PC alone. When also counting console sales, Capcom could have one of the most successful years ever thanks to this launch.

Despite the massive success the title is seeing, user reviews have not been so spectacular. The $70 game currently holds a Mixed Steam user rating from buyers, with only 49% of them (out of 30k reviews) giving it a positive review. Even many of the positive reviews compliment the gameplay while explaining just how bad the game is running for them right now.

The primary issue seems to be regarding the performance, with many reporting terrible frame rates, crashes, assets not loading correctly, and other problems with the port. The convoluted menu system has also been criticized by many, though this is generally a staple with Monster Hunter titles.

Capcom has quietly responded to these complaints, offering PC players some advice like updating their graphics drivers and adjusting their settings. The company is yet to announce any updates aimed at fixing the widespread issues.

Monster Hunter Wilds is now available across PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5.

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AMD finally released the specs of the RX 9070 and RX 9070XT...

UPDATE: US Pricing has been set at $549 for 9070 and $599 for 9070 XT

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Bebruary 28, 2025

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AMD has, for a second time now, announced its RX 9070 and 9070 XT -- but this time, we have prices. The AMD RX 9070 will be a 56 CU card priced at $550, with the RX 9070 XT $50 higher at $600 total, creating only a $50 gap between them. The 9070 XT is a 64 CU card, the two have the same VRAM capacity at 16GB, and power is about 80W apart. We'll have full benchmarks and reviews of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT soon, including testing against the NVIDIA RTX 5070, 5070 Ti, 5080, 5090, and plenty of prior generation GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA (and now also Intel). Release date for the AMD RX 9070 and 9070 XT RDNA 4 GPUs is March 6, 2025. The release date for the RTX 5070 is March 5, 2025.

00:00 - The Price

02:18 - Recapping AMD GPU Prices

03:57 - RX 9070 vs 9070 XT Specs

06:10 - Architecture and Block Diagram

07:20 - Compute Engine

07:54 - Ray Tracing Improvements

08:35 - Oriented Bounding Box

09:07 - RDNA 3 vs RDNA 4 Dynamic Registers

09:48 - Ray Tracing Traversal Improvements

10:06 - Memory Queuing

10:35 - RX 9070 Performance Claims (First-Party)

12:44 - RX 9070 XT Performance Claims (First-Party)

13:23 - Conclusion

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The first of which is hitting AMD's HYPR-RX suite, the custom profiles the company offers for optimizing performance and lowering input lag, all with one click from the AMD Radeon Software app. It's this package's Fluid Motion Frames tech that's receiving the update this time, bumping up the version number to 2.1.

This is an in-driver frame generation technology that users can enable in their games without needing any built-in developer support. This is separate from what AMD is delivering with the new machine learning-powered upscaling for RDNA 4 GPUs. As such, AMD Fluid Motion Frames can be used across Radeon RX 6000, 7000, and the new 9070 series graphics cards, as well as Ryzen AI 300 family of processors from the company.

AMD elaborated that with the Fluid Motion Frames 2.1 update, the tech is now producing less ghosting and better temporal tracking when generating frames, even down to the fine features that would give previous versions trouble. Overlays inside games will now be handled better with this upgrade too.

Coupled with other HYPR-RX technologies, AMD says players using it can expect 2.7 times the performance compared to native gameplay on average.

Elsewhere in the Radeon suite, AMD has delivered the Radeon Image Sharpening 2 post-processing technique for use in games and videos. Now though, the feature can even be used across the complete desktop. The company says the upgrade will "provide stronger, more responsive sharpening in more use cases," thanks to the efficiency gains it has made over the previous version.

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Aptly dubbed FSR 4, AMD says this delivers quality improvements to the technology across the board, using the benefits of machine learning much like Nvidia's offering. To achieve this, AMD has used custom ML models trained on AMD EPYC and Instinct accelerators to upgrade the AI upscaling algorithm of FSR 4.

Thanks to this, AMD is touting major image quality enhancements in FSR 4 compared to previous versions of the technology. Per the company's comparisons, it seems like FSR 4 can deliver better image fidelity in Performance Mode even over FSR 3.1's Balanced Mode at 4K.

On top of the frame rate gains seen just by using FSR 4, when AMD's own frame generation tech is applied to games, performance uplifts of up to 3.7 times could be seen as well. Check out the numbers that AMD showed off with several games below. To keep input lag at a minimum, AMD is once again using its Anti-Lag feature.

However, it doesn't look like previous generation AMD graphics cards will get this version of FSR, with the company saying FSR 4 is developed for the RDNA 4 Radeon RX 9070 series.

At launch, AMD expects to have over 30 games supporting the FSR 4 suite for RX 9070 series owners, while more than 75 titles are slated to add the technology later this year. It looks like the company is expecting fast adoption thanks to an upgradable FSR 3.1 API being offered to developers.

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