Is it worth upgrading?
A newer card winning every row of a comparison table does not make it worth buying. This works out how much faster it actually is at your resolution, what that improvement costs per percentage point, and whether a cheaper card would get you most of the way there.
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RTX 4060 Ti 8GB → RX 9070 XT at 1440p
Worth upgrading
Recommended- Performance gain
- +125%
- Estimated, native
- Measured cross-check
- +96.8%
- Third party, upscaled
- Upgrade cost
- $599
- Price of the new card
- Cost per 1% gained
- $4.8
What you gain
- In favour: Estimated 125% more performance at 1440p.
- In favour: Third-party measured suite ratings put the gain at 96.8%, which is an independent check on the estimate above.
- In favour: Estimated frame rate moves from roughly 50-75 FPS to 115-165 FPS.
- In favour: Memory goes from 8 GB to 16 GB, which clears the shortfall CompareYourGPU flags at 1440p. This often matters more than the average frame rate, because running short of memory shows up as stutter.
- In favour: 96.3% stronger in ray-traced workloads.
- In favour: Adds FSR 3.1 Frame Generation, AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 (driver-level), FSR 4.
- In favour: Works out at about $4.8 per percentage point of performance gained.
What it costs you
- Caution: Board power rises by 144 W, from 160 W to 304 W. Check your power supply before ordering.
The two cards side by side
| Measure | RTX 4060 Ti 8GB | RX 9070 XT | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated FPS at 1440p | 50-75 | 115-165 | +125% |
| VRAM | 8 GB | 16 GB | +8 GB |
| Board power | 160 W | 304 W | +144 W |
| Ray tracing index | 27 | 53 | +96.3% |
| Price on record | $399 | $599 | +$200 |
| Launched | May 24, 2023 | March 6, 2025 | 1.8 years apart |
Where these numbers come from
- Performance gain: CompareYourGPU estimated index, native resolution, no upscaling.
- Measured cross-check: third-party suite rating, run with vendor upscaling at Quality. Not directly comparable with the native estimate, which is why both are shown.
- VRAM, board power and features: manufacturer specifications.
- Prices: launch MSRP. CompareYourGPU holds no verified street price for these cards, so the cost per percentage point is a reference figure rather than what you would pay today.
- The cost of the upgrade is the price of the new card. CompareYourGPU does not model what your current card might sell for.