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RX 970 XT vs. RTX 5070 TI Review: A Close Battle with Strengths and Weaknesses

• 0:00:01 Introduction: The review compares the AMD RX 970 XT and the NVIDIA RTX 5070 TI, highlighting their back-and-forth performance in rasterization, with NVIDIA generally leading in ray tracing.

• 0:00:14 4K Rasterization (No RT): At 4K resolution without ray tracing, the 970 XT and 5070 TI are often within 6% of each other in games like F1, Cyberpunk, Resident Evil 4, Starfield, Total War: Warhammer 3, and Dragon's Dogma 2.

• 0:00:40 RTX 570 Ti and 4080 Comparison Because the 5070 Ti performs similar to a 4080, the 970 XT gets very close to 4080 super levels.

• 0:01:01 Ray Tracing: AMD has improved ray tracing performance over the 7000 series, but NVIDIA still holds a significant advantage, particularly in demanding titles like Black Myth: Wukong.

• 0:01:36 NVIDIA's Strengths: NVIDIA excels in ray tracing efficiency, overall feature set (like DLSS, although the video jokes about "Multiframe Generation" causing failures), and power consumption.

• 0:01:54, 0:05:38 Availability: The reviewer talks about many issues with Nvidia. The launch of the 970XT may experience supply issues and scalping, similar to NVIDIA's 50 series.

• 0:03:09 RDNA 4 Architecture: AMD made significant architectural changes for RDNA 4, especially in ray tracing, with improvements like doubled ray intersection rate and new acceleration blocks.

• 0:03:35 Card Specs: The RX 970 XT (focus of the review) has 64 compute units, a TDP of 304W (with board partner scaling), 16GB of GDDR6 memory at 20 Gbps on a 256-bit bus.

• 0:04:39 Pricing: The RX 970 XT is priced at $600 (MSRP). Availability and actual street prices are uncertain at the time of filming.

• 0:06:24 Game Benchmarks (Rasterization):

  • Dragon's Dogma 2 (4K): 970 XT performs well, achieving 95% of the RTX 5070 TI's performance at 80% of the MSRP.
  • Final Fantasy XIV (4K): 970 XT performs worse than the 5070 and 5070 TI. The reviewer notes that these results are outliers compared to AMD's claims and other benchmarks.
  • Resident Evil 4 (4K): 970 XT performs similarly to the RTX 4080 Super, significantly outperforming the 5070.
  • Black Myth: Wukong (4k): 970 XT performs similar to the 4070 TI super.
  • Starfield (4K): 970 XT roughly equals the RTX 4080 Super and is close to the 5080.
  • Dying Light 2 (4K): 970 XT is slightly ahead of the RTX 3090 TI and 11% ahead of the 5070, but the 5070 TI leads by 12%.
  • Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty (4K): 970 XT is slightly ahead of the 5070 TI (5.8%) and significantly ahead of the 5070 (29%). It also technically outperforms the 4080.

• 0:16:05 Game Benchmarks (Ray Tracing):

  • Black Myth: Wukong (4K, Upscaling): 970 XT performs poorly, significantly behind the 5070 and 5070 TI. However, it shows substantial improvement over the previous generation (7900 XTX).
  • Dragon's Dogma 2 (4K): 970 XT is competitive, outperforming the 5070 and slightly behind the 5070 TI.
  • Dying Light 2 (4K, Upscaling): 970 XT ties with the 7800 XTX, but the 5070 TI leads by 24%.
  • Resident Evil 4 (4K, Upscaling): 970 XT performs on par with the 5070 TI.
  • Cyberpunk 2077 (4K, RT Ultra): 970 XT is behind the 5070 TI by 23.5%, but ahead of the 5070 (which suffers from vRAM limitations). With RT Medium, the gap narrows.

• 0:22:36 Power Efficiency: NVIDIA generally maintains an advantage in power efficiency. The 970 XT often consumes more power for similar performance, particularly in rasterization. However, in some ray tracing scenarios (like F1 24), the 970 XT shows improved efficiency over the previous generation.

• 0:26:22 Cost per Frame: AMD takes the lead when comparing cost per frame.

• 0:27:07 Rasterization Recap Concludes that the 970 XT is often within 5-6% of the 5070 TI, but with some exceptions where NVIDIA has a greater lead.

• 0:28:07 Ray Tracing Recap: NVIDIA is generally ahead in ray tracing, especially in demanding titles. AMD is more competitive in games with lighter RT implementations.

• 0:29:06 Pricing Discussion. The price is critical, emphasizing the importance of the 970 XT's $600 price point, and how this affects mass market appeal.