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AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs GeForce RTX 5070

Radeon RX 9070
VS
GeForce RTX 5070
AMD Radeon RX 9070
Navi 48
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
GB205-300

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 16 GB with 56 pipelines and 3584 shaders against the GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (6)

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR7
94.9
(Very good)
Value Index
93.4
(Very good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 5070 over RX 9070
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070
  • Shows 9% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 139 vs 128 FPS
  • 17% higher maximum theoretical performance (36.1 vs 30.9 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Features 80 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 27% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (190K vs 149K)
  • Has 71% more shading units (6144 vs 3584)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9070
vs
RTX 5070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
229
156
137
102
197
140
130
97
The Witcher 3
240
216
159
84
216
183
131
71
Counter-Strike 2
307
215
158
84
293
210
160
81
Far Cry 6
192
163
148
95
164
145
128
82
Hogwarts Legacy
146
119
97
52
140
117
92
51
CoD: Modern Warfare III
219
212
157
107
178
171
136
89
Ghost of Tsushima
146
122
105
65
123
107
89
58
Cyberpunk 2077
174
149
102
47
164
144
99
43
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
262
248
188
99
253
238
189
98
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 213 192
1080p Ultra 178 162
1440p Ultra 139 128
4K Ultra 82 74
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 9070
22841
RTX 5070 +2%
23223
Time Spy 26693 22708
Solar Bay 106118 107004
Port Royal 15939 14498
Fire Strike 60053 58324
Wild Life Extreme 48323 43879
Night Raid 177554 172064
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070
149949
RTX 5070 +27%
190967
Background Blur 377.5 img/sec 254.4 img/sec
Face Detection 221.3 img/sec 180.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.4 Gpixels/sec 7.91 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.99 Gpixels/sec 10.2 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.52 Gpixels/sec 10.7 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.84 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 606 Gpixels/sec 975.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8521.2 FPS 27816.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070
25366
RTX 5070 +13%
28651
G2D Mark 1262 1289
DirectX 11 280 FPS 279 FPS
DirectX 12 73 FPS 106 FPS
GPU Compute 14799 Ops/s 14323 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3038 & 23210 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070
2776.63
RTX 5070 +120%
6109.17
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 218 & 1904 samples
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 9070 +23%
37056
RTX 5070
30221
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 +3%
54866
RTX 5070
53037
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 +28%
29946
RTX 5070
23474
Image Classification (SP) 15375 12270
Image Segmentation (HP) 37834 30237
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43910 35585
Face Detection (HP) 67858 62662
Pose Estimation (Q) 172939 145190
Text Classification (SP) 4469 4198
Machine Translation (HP) 8499 6233
Object Detection (SP) 15393 16709
Depth Estimation (Q) 66890 58300
Style Transfer (SP) 365633 246598
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 5070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 January 7, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $549
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 48 GB205-300
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 - Radeon RX 9070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above
Desktop GPU rating (16th and 21st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1330 MHz 2160 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2512 MHz
Shading Units 3584 6144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 56 48
Tensor Cores 112 192
Ray-tracing Cores 56 48
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 48MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 323 GPixel/s 201 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 564 GTexel/s 482 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 +17%
36.1 TFLOPS
RTX 5070
30.9 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 220 W 250 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 263 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 31.1 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 118.25 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Size 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070
644.6 GB/s
RTX 5070 +4%
672 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA No 12.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1b

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DasheriM October 26, 2025 at 01:03 AM
In my country (Turkey) they are opposite for pricing. Always Nvidia much expensive than amd cards. Which 5070 is the same. 5070 is in here 650-700 dollars. 9070 on the other hand you can buy at 605-650 dollars. (9070xt 700 or more) I just bought Sapphire pulse 9070. I hope it will be great...
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Bird August 1, 2025 at 05:48 PM
At the time of writing, the cheapest I could find for each was $600 (9070) and 550$ (5070), I'm still unsure as to which to recommend, these are both good cards, and fairly priced. One has 16gb VRAM (9070) vs 12gb VRAM (5070), VRAM issues are blown out of proportion and currently it seems like 12gb VRAM would still last easily another 2 years, more if neural compression becomes more popular, 9070 is 10% faster, 5070 has DLSS 4 transformer which is very noticeably better than even the really good FSR4. I think these are neck and neck, go for whichever you want if they're within $50 of each other, both are good, better than last gens who were $50 away from each other but FSR was nearly unusable.
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Free Palestine July 22, 2025 at 05:57 AM
If the RX 9070 costs less than the RTX 5070, it would've been an easy decision. But, unfortunately, it's more expensive. And I don't think it's justified. I think I'll go with the RTX 5070, because even with lower VRAM, it's an overall better value.
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ComputerNerd June 16, 2025 at 02:44 AM
With prices and raster performance being nearly the same, I would have to go with Nvidia RTX 5070. The DLSS4 steroids for gaming and Cuda cores for video editing give it the edge for me.
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Carlos April 29, 2025 at 09:28 AM
RX 9070 performs very well but today gaming is not just anymore raster, dlss4 transformer is the really big improvement of the current generation and unfortunately we have to admit that Radeon gpus are 2 generations behind Nvidia in RT performances But Nvidia looks like anti-consumer and persists in placing on the market products inadequates by amount of memory and price Hoping they fix it with a Super mid-gen
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Rick May 2, 2025 at 09:04 AM
It depends on how AMD it will work to bring the technologies to as many games as possible, this is the path that has already been previously taken by nVidia and maybe the only way. Because it must be recognized that FSR4 is a huge step forward in terms of quality as well as performance. Not at the same level as dlss4, but objectively it surpasses the already excellent dlss 3
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