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Official AMD Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT performance benchmarks leaked: 20-40% better than 7900 GRE

Rumor mill: Team Red will reveal tech specs, pricing, and release date information for the Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards on Friday. We already have enough leaked details to get a rough estimate of their performance. However, VideoCardz asserts to have acquired the corporation's official benchmark charts, which show performance gains in 20 games compared to the 7900 GRE.

VideoCardz says that AMD expects its upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card to outperform the 7900 GRE by about 42 percent in a mixture of raster and ray tracing 4K workloads. If the leaked internal benchmarks prove accurate, the 9070 XT and standard 9070 could trade blows with Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti and 5070 if the price is right.

The investigation indicates that AMD compared its upcoming GPUs to models from prior generations in over 30 games. The tests, pictured below, utilized ultra or maximum graphics settings without upscaling or frame generation, contrasting starkly with Nvidia's methodology.

It's unclear why AMD chose the China-only RX 7900 GRE for comparison, but it might be because it has the same amount of VRAM as the 9070 family. Against the 6900 XT, the 9070 XT's average performance advantage grows to 51 percent. Meanwhile, the standard 9070 beats the 7900 GRE by around 20 percent and outperforms the 6800 XT by 38 percent in 4K.

The benchmarked titles include games with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Star Wars Outlaws, and raster-only titles like God of War Ragnarök and Starfield. Team Red also tested Cyberpunk and F1 24 with and without RT.

The new GPUs exhibit more significant gains in ray tracing than in raster performance. The RX 9070 outpaces the 7900 GRE by between four and 28 percent in raster, but the lead grows to 38 percent in RT. Similarly, the 9070 XT beats the same older card by 23 to 46 percent in raster and up to 68 percent in RT.

VideoCardz reached out to AMD, which noted that it hadn't acquired RTX 5070 Ti samples for direct comparisons with Nvidia. However, a Redditor attempted to approximate one by lining AMD's averages from six games up against prior benchmarks for several of Team Green's GPUs.

Please take the results with a grain of salt. They don't incorporate FSR 4 – a critical improvement – but appear optimistic for AMD. Although the 9070 XT might not match the RTX 5070 Ti in ray tracing performance, it likely outpaces every prior AMD card and matches the 5070 Ti in raster. The standard 9070 might resemble the RTX 3090's raster performance and should almost reach the 7900 XTX in RT.

Pricing is the most crucial element, but a recent leak implies that the organization's two upcoming GPUs could land between $600 and $700. They should launch early next month, likely butting heads with Nvidia's standard RTX 5070. Detailed performance metrics for the $549 mid-range card remain unclear.

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Over 1,000 musicians release silent album to protest AI copyright changes

What just happened? More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Tori Amos, and the Eurythmics' Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest against proposed changes to Britain's copyright laws. The new rules could allow companies to use artists' work to train their AI models without permission.

The album, called Is This What We Want?, attributes recordings of empty studios and performance spaces. Organizers say this represents the potential impact on artists' livelihoods, and creativity in general, should the government's plans go ahead.

The UK has put forward proposals that will allow AI companies to train their models on any material to which they have lawful access. Any creators or companies that don't want their work used this way would have to opt out, an option that has been called unfair and unworkable.

Ed Newton-Rex, the British composer and former AI executive behind the album, mentioned, "The government's proposal would hand the life's work of the country's musicians to AI companies, for free, letting those companies exploit musicians' work to outcompete them."

"It is a plan that would not only be disastrous for musicians, but that is totally unnecessary: the UK can be leaders in AI without throwing our world-leading creative industries under the bus."

The artist responsible for each of the album's 12 silent tracks is uncredited, but more than 1,000 artists are listed as co-writers. It's believed that Kate Bush recorded one of the tracks in her studio.

Bush, whose popularity experienced a revival following the use of her hit Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) in Stranger Things season 4, mentioned, "In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?"

Other co-writers include Tori Amos, Billy Ocean, the Clash, Blur/Gorillaz's Damon Albarn, and Annie Lennox. The track listings spell out the message: "The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies."

The album is now available on Spotify. All proceeds go toward Help Musicians, a UK charity supporting current and retired musicians.

Responding to the album, a government spokesperson mentioned the current copyright and AI laws were holding back the creative industries, media and AI sector from "realising their full potential."

"We have engaged extensively with these sectors throughout and will continue to do so. No decisions have been taken," the spokesperson added.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has outlined a strategy to position the UK as a global leader in AI, launching the AI Opportunities Action Plan with key initiatives such as AI Growth Zones, a National Data Library, and a twentyfold increase in supercomputing power by 2030. The plan also aims to integrate AI into public services to boost efficiency.

The government consultation on the copyright law changes closes today. Other protests include several daily newspapers featuring the slogan "Make It Fair" on their front pages. There's also a letter in The Times slamming the proposals, signed by 34 creatives, including film producer Barbara Broccoli, Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding, actor Stephen Fry, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, and musician Ed Sheeran.

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Qualcomm and Google team up to offer 8 years of Android updates

Qualcomm and Google have joined forces to extend software updates on Android devices. With Google's assistance, the chipmaker has committed to providing extended vendor support to any OEM building on its most powerful chips, pushing the theoretical lifespan of Android devices to eight years. There are plenty of caveats, but this move could make your next phone more useful for longer.

The extended support window only applies to Android devices with the latest Qualcomm chipsets. To start, the eight-year support timeline will be extended to devices running the new Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform, which has powered devices like the OnePlus 13 and Galaxy S25. Later this year, the same policy will be applied to the organization's new Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 7-series chips, and you can expect the same deal for at least the next five generations of Qualcomm silicon.

"Through this collaboration, OEMs can more seamlessly modification the software and security on their devices, ensuring a more secure and long-lasting Android experience for our individuals," revealed Google's Android Platform manager Seang Chau.

Snapdragon 8 and 7 chips are used in flagship and almost-flagship phones, so don't expect a new Qualcomm-based budget phone to get anywhere near the same improvement commitment. There's nothing stopping Qualcomm from offering the same deal with cheaper components, but people tend to expect phones that cost more to last longer. A cheap phone might not even make it eight years before something breaks or you get tired of how slow it is, and OEMs aren't incentivized to spend the money supporting cheap hardware.

Currently, Samsung and Google lead the market with seven years of guaranteed security patches and OS updates. With Qualcomm's help, other companies could reach similar heights. With Qualcomm's support, OEMs will be able to provide eight years of security patches, and there will also be at least two updates to the vendor's Android Common Kernel during that time. This will make it easier for OEMs to release full Android OS updates even toward the end of a device's lifespan.

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