AMD introduced the Radeon RX 9070 at CES 2025 yesterday without giving any specifications or even a release date. However, since Team Red had the Radeon RX 9070 running Call of Duty Black Ops 6 at their booth – which has a built-in benchmark tool – I was able to take a quick look at the performance of this next-gen GPU.

All in all, the Radeon RX 9070 was able to achieve an impressive average of 99 frames per second at 4K Extreme settings without upscaling or frame generation, although it suffered the same visual error as the Intel Arc B580 when benchmarked . To be clear, this graphics card runs very early Alpha drivers and this bug will most likely be fixed when the card is released. But even with these early drivers, a solid 99 fps is incredibly impressive.

Since I ran the benchmark without upscaling and not with the vendor-specific upscaling method that I normally use when benchmarking this game for graphics card reviews, I can’t make a direct comparison. But even with DLSS in the “Quality” setting, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super achieves around 129 fps at 4K with the same graphics preset. Given that DLSS brings about a 30% jump in performance at the quality setting, this could put the Radeon RX 9070 on par with the 4080 Super – although I’d have to test the 4080 Super without DLSS to be sure.

Part of this benchmark’s amazing performance is also likely due to the CPU – the system ran on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a high-end gaming CPU that was also announced yesterday. But if this is the level of performance we can expect when the Radeon RX 9070 launches later this year, it will be a great card for anyone looking for a mid-range solution.

The benchmark also gives a little insight into the graphics card’s specifications, albeit limited. The Radeon RX 9070 has 16 GB of VRAM, but we still don’t know how many graphics cores or what clock speed the card runs at.

However, this is just a test and I won’t have a clear picture of how this graphics card will perform in a variety of games until I take it to the lab to put it through the full test suite. But the sneak peek is definitely exciting.

Jackie Thomas is IGN’s hardware and buying guide editor and the queen of PC components. You can follow her @Jackiecobra