RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT
Both manufacturers' strongest mid-to-high offering, separated by $150 of launch MSRP. Both carry 16 GB. The question is whether NVIDIA's ray tracing and DLSS advantage is worth the premium over AMD's rasterisation-per-dollar.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
$749 MSRP · 16 GB · 300 W · index 65 at 1440p
The most sensible high-end RTX 50 card: 16 GB of memory, near-RTX 5080 feature parity and a 300 W power budget, for meaningfully less money. It is the natural pick for a high-refresh 1440p build that might move to 4K later.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
$599 MSRP · 16 GB · 304 W · index 63 at 1440p
AMD's fastest RDNA 4 card and the strongest argument for Radeon at the high end: 16 GB of memory and rasterisation performance that trades blows with far more expensive NVIDIA cards. Ray tracing improved sharply this generation but still trails NVIDIA at the same price.
Full specification comparison
Every row that can be compared marks a winner. Rows where the two cards match, or where a figure is not published, say so.
| Specification | RTX 5070 TiNVIDIA | RX 9070 XTAMD |
|---|---|---|
| Price and value | ||
| Launch MSRP | $749 | Best in this row: $599 |
| Current priceCompareYourGPU does not publish a price it has not verified. | Check current price | Check current price |
| Performance per $100Performance index at 1440p per $100 of launch MSRP. | 8.7 | Best in this row: 10.5 |
| Performance | ||
| Essentially tiedCompareYourGPU estimate, 100 = fastest card here. | 72 | 70 |
| CompareYourGPU estimate, 100 = fastest card here. | Best in this row: 65 | 63 |
| CompareYourGPU estimate, 100 = fastest card here. | Best in this row: 60 | 57 |
| CompareYourGPU estimate, 100 = fastest card here. | Best in this row: 62 | 53 |
| Measured suite average at 1440pThird-party geometric mean across their game suite, run with vendor upscaling at Quality. A different test from the estimated row below, not a check on it. | Best in this row: 94.1 FPS (ComputerBase) | 88.8 FPS (ComputerBase) |
| Estimated FPS at 1440pEssentially tiedModelled estimate for a typical modern AAA game at High settings with no upscaling. Not a measurement. | 115-170 FPS | 115-165 FPS |
| Memory | ||
| Essentially tied | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| GDDR7 | GDDR6 | |
| Essentially tied | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Best in this row: 896 GB/s | 640 GB/s | |
| Memory speed | Best in this row: 28 Gbps | 20 Gbps |
| Graphics processor | ||
| Architecture | Blackwell | RDNA 4 |
| GPU die | GB203 | Navi 48 |
| Only comparable within one manufacturer. | Best in this row: 8,960 | 4,096 |
| Not compared: data missing for at least one card | Data unavailable | 64 |
| Best in this row: 70 | 64 | |
| Best in this row: 280 | 128 | |
| Not compared: data missing for at least one card | 2,295 MHz | Data unavailable |
| 2,452 MHz | 2,970 MHz | |
| Game clockNot compared: data missing for at least one cardAMD only. | Data unavailable | 2,400 MHz |
| Power | ||
| Essentially tied | 300 W | 304 W |
| Essentially tiedVendor figure where published, otherwise board power plus 300 W of headroom. | 750 W | 750 W |
| Performance per 100 W | Best in this row: 21.7 | 20.7 |
| Power connectors | 1x 16-pin (12V-2x6) | 2x 8-pin |
| Technologies | ||
| 4th-generation RT cores | 3rd-generation ray accelerators | |
| DLSS 4 Super Resolution, DLSS Ray Reconstruction, FSR 3.1, XeSS | FSR 4, FSR 3.1, XeSS | |
| DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation | FSR 3.1 Frame Generation, AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 (driver-level) | |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Video encoder | 9th-generation NVENC with AV1 and HEVC encode | AMD Radeon media engine with AV1, HEVC and H.264 encode |
| Video decoder | 6th-generation NVDEC with AV1, HEVC and H.264 decode | AV1, HEVC and H.264 decode |
| Display outputs | ||
| DisplayPort | 3x 2.1b | 3x 2.1a |
| HDMI | 1x 2.1b | 1x 2.1b |
| USB-C | None | None |
| Physical | ||
| Length | Data unavailable | Data unavailable |
| Height from bracket | Data unavailable | Data unavailable |
| Data unavailable | Data unavailable | |
| Release | ||
| Launch date | February 20, 2025 | March 6, 2025 |
| Generation | RTX 50 | RX 9000 |
| Availability | In production | In production |
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Winner by category
Each category is decided by the same numbers used everywhere else on the site. A category with no clear leader says so rather than picking one.
Performance at 1440p
Performance index 65
Ray tracing
Ray tracing index 62
Price
$599
Performance per dollar
10.5 index points per $100
VRAM
Essentially tied
Memory bandwidth
896 GB/s
Efficiency
21.7 index points per 100 W
Lowest power draw
Essentially tied
The shape of the trade-off
All six axes are normalised to a 0-100 scale so they can share one chart. Performance and ray tracing are CompareYourGPU’s estimated indices; value, VRAM, efficiency and features are each card’s standing relative to every other card tracked here.
- RTX 5070 Ti
- RX 9070 XT
| Criterion | RTX 5070 Ti | RX 9070 XT |
|---|---|---|
| Performance | 65 | 63 |
| Ray tracing | 62 | 53 |
| Value | 73 | 96 |
| VRAM | 80 | 80 |
| Efficiency | 74 | 67 |
| Features | 100 | 100 |
Performance, memory and value
- 65
- 63
CompareYourGPU estimate aggregated from public review coverage, not a measurement.
- 115-170 FPS
- 115-165 FPS
Modelled from the performance index. Not a measured benchmark. Real results vary widely by title.
- RTX 5070 Ti256-bit bus16 GB
- RX 9070 XT256-bit bus16 GB
Capacity alone is not the whole story: memory bus width and bandwidth decide how much of it the GPU can actually use.
- $749
- $599
CompareYourGPU scores value from launch MSRP because it does not carry a verified live price feed. Street prices differ.
Which one should you buy?
The short version: the RTX 5070 Ti is faster, but the RX 9070 XT offers better value at the prices on record. Which of those matters more is the decision.
Highest estimated performance index at 1440p of the cards compared here, at 65. It is the right answer if frame rate is the only thing you are optimising for.
Delivers the most performance per dollar of the cards compared, at $599. Choose this if the difference in price matters more to you than the difference in frame rate.
Strongest ray-traced performance here, with an estimated ray tracing index of 62 at 1440p. It also carries DLSS 4 Super Resolution, which is how ray tracing becomes practical.
Carries 16 GB, the most headroom of the cards compared at 1440p. Memory is usually what dates a card before raw speed does.
Best performance per watt of the cards compared, drawing 300 W. That means less heat, quieter fans and less pressure on your power supply.
Best balance of speed, price and memory of the cards compared: 50% performance at 1440p, 30% performance per dollar, 20% memory headroom. Not necessarily the fastest.
RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT: common questions
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