Compute and AI Benchmarks
Now some people don’t need a video card for gaming, they need the processing power for rendering or 2D/3D production, or in some cases, people who game also do work on the side. AI performance importance has increased quickly recently as well. So it is also important to check out the compute and AI performance on all of the video cards that come in. That includes doing a few different tests.
With the 9070 not supporting the Blender benchmark (the actual app does work with it) my only test here was Geekbench AI, a cross-platform AI benchmark that uses real-world machine learning tasks giving three results, a full precision score, half precision score, and quantized score. The RX 9070 XT Pulse came in below the Steel Legend on all three tests by a small amount which when combined together shows a noticeable drop between the two. Not enough to change the order of any of the cards however, it still sits ahead of the RX 7900 XTX.
