If you're in the market for a new AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, you may want to double-check your model's specs. A recent round of benchmarks from Chinese hardware tester 51972 (h/t Uniko's Hardware) found that models shipping with Samsung VRAM modules score on average 2% worse than their siblings with SK hynix VRAM modules.
51972, a large hardware channel on Bilibili, recently performed a full round of tests on nearly every commercially available 9070 XT in China, coming up with a gauntlet of 22 GPUs going head-to-head. While the testing suite did not include any gaming tests or other real-world performance indicators, each model with Samsung VRAM performed 1% to 2% worse on 3DMark's Speed Way benchmark than SK hynix models at matching memory speeds.
