AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 with 56 pipelines and 3584 shaders against the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti that utilizes 70 pipelines and 8960 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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
16 GB GDDR7
94.9
(Very good)
Value Index
81.0
(Good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 5070 Ti over RX 9070
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
  • Performs better (up to 31%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 6% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 148 vs 139 FPS
  • 22% higher maximum theoretical performance (43.9 vs 36.1 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Features 168 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 60% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (240K vs 149K)
  • Has 39% higher memory bandwidth: 896 vs 644.6 GB/s
  • Has 2.5x more shading units (8960 vs 3584)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
229
156
137
102
229
164
155
121
The Witcher 3
240
216
159
84
244
215
155
83
Counter-Strike 2
307
215
158
84
298
221
172
86
Far Cry 6
192
163
148
95
178
158
146
89
Hogwarts Legacy
146
119
97
52
160
131
107
58
CoD: Modern Warfare III
219
212
157
107
212
211
163
115
Ghost of Tsushima
146
122
105
65
144
122
109
70
Cyberpunk 2077
174
149
102
47
193
176
122
55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
262
248
188
99
279
265
207
106
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 213 215
1080p Ultra 178 185
1440p Ultra 139 148
4K Ultra 82 87
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
22841
29961
Time Spy 26693 27839
Solar Bay 106118 137852
Port Royal 15939 19713
Fire Strike 60053 67490
Wild Life Extreme 48323 58033
Night Raid 177554 188802
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
149949
240508
Background Blur 377.5 img/sec 297.9 img/sec
Face Detection 221.3 img/sec 218.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.4 Gpixels/sec 10.1 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.99 Gpixels/sec 13.9 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.52 Gpixels/sec 14.8 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 2.03 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 606 Gpixels/sec 1290 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8521.2 FPS 35438.3 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
25364
32341
G2D Mark 1263 1324
DirectX 11 280 FPS 303 FPS
DirectX 12 73 FPS 126 FPS
GPU Compute 14791 Ops/s 17786 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2835 & 20465 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2767.65
RTX 5070 Ti +175%
7601.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10]208 & 2876 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-28 (NOX)Cinebench 202488980

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 +2%
37056
36504
GB6 ML Half Precision
54866
64459
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 +10%
29946
27312
Image Classification (SP) 15375 14913
Image Segmentation (HP) 37834 45199
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43910 39360
Face Detection (HP) 67858 84188
Pose Estimation (Q) 172939 161400
Text Classification (SP) 4469 4010
Machine Translation (HP) 8499 7973
Object Detection (SP) 15393 18934
Depth Estimation (Q) 66890 67761
Style Transfer (SP) 365633 335879
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 January 7, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $749
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 48 GB203-200-A1
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 - Radeon RX 9070 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above
Desktop GPU rating (16th and 8th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1330 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2452 MHz
Shading Units 3584 8960
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 280
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 56 70
Tensor Cores 112 280
Ray-tracing Cores 56 70
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 235 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 564 GTexel/s 687 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
36.1 TFLOPS
43.9 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 300 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 378 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
644.6 GB/s
896 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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