AMD RX 9070 could struggle to compete with Nvidia 50-series GPUs according to latest tech demo

• AMD released a new path tracing demo running on RX 9000 hardware
• Some PC gamers have cited muddy textures, blurriness, and artifacting
• It's created a wider discussion on RDNA 4's price-to-performance

An official path tracing demo published on AMD Gaming's YouTube channel has revealed that the RDNA 4 graphics cards fall behind what's possible with rival Nvidia's RTX 50 series regarding price-to-performance.

AMD published the Toyshop real-time path tracing neural rendering tech demo, which has highlighted the impressive capabilities of the RX 9070 XT, considering its sub-$600 MSRP. However, this is when taking the 75-second video in isolation, while some tech enthusiasts and concerned gamers have made comparisons with Nvidia's latest.

As spotted by Notebookcheck, some dissenting voices have claimed that this RX 9000 series path tracing benchmark is marred with blurry textures and visual artifacts, with the impressive lighting ...