html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" AMDs upcoming RX 9000 series is still largely a mystery, but the cards are already out there and AMD was actually demoing the RX 9070 during CES 2025. We may not know any specs of the card at this point, but thanks to an early benchmark, we know that it does a surprisingly good job inCall of Duty: Black Ops 6. Can it really compete against some of Nvidias best graphics cards?The RX 9070 was available for brief testing at the AMD booth, paired with the mighty impressive Ryzen 9 9950X3D. IGN spotted it and gave it a test run inCall of Duty: Black Ops 6, which has a built-in benchmarking tool. Mind you, this is the non-XT model, meaning that its not the flagship card but its unclear just how much worse itll be than the XT variant.The GPU was benchmarked without upscaling, and thats great news. It removes any doubt as to how much extra power FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) can provide and gives us a better idea of how the GPU itself performs. Running at 4K and using Extreme settings, the RX 9070 managed to maintain an average of 99 frames per second (fps).Recommended VideosThats an impressive result, and IGN compares it to what the RTX 4080 Super can do. Considering that AMD itself claims that even its top GPU will only rival the RX 7900 XT, thats a good result. Its worth noting that IGN spotted some visual artifacts, but thats not unexpected, given that the GPU was running on alpha drivers.Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming There are a couple of things to take into account here before getting too excited, though. For starters, this particular game is known to favor AMD in benchmarks, so in other titles, the performance might be different. The high-end CPU might have helped, too. But in any case, seeing the RX 9070 which is a mainstream card nearly averages 100 fps at 4K is promising.RelatedIf not for this test, wed have had exactly zero benchmarks of the new RDNA 4 GPUs right now. This isnt unusual, given that they dont have a release date yet, but it wouldve been nice to hear some estimates. While Nvidia provided some tests for its new RTX 50-series (which are hard to take at face value), AMD kept quiet about the GPUs, promising to let us know more in the coming weeks.Editors Recommendations