AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs 7700 XT

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 16 GB with 56 pipelines and 3584 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older 7700 XT 12 GB that utilizes 3456 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
12 GB GDDR6
94.9
(Very good)
Value Index
59.4
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7700 XT over RX 9070
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070
  • Performs significantly better (up to 53%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 40% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 139 vs 99 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 49% higher memory bandwidth: 644.6 vs 432 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
229
156
137
102
186
117
96
70
The Witcher 3
240
216
159
84
179
152
113
61
Counter-Strike 2
307
215
158
84
268
195
134
74
Far Cry 6
192
163
148
95
145
131
110
63
Hogwarts Legacy
146
119
97
52
106
89
69
39
CoD: Modern Warfare III
219
212
157
107
148
143
102
64
Ghost of Tsushima
146
122
105
65
111
90
73
44
Cyberpunk 2077
174
149
102
47
115
103
65
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
262
248
188
99
192
176
130
67
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 213 161
1080p Ultra 178 133
1440p Ultra 139 99
4K Ultra 82 57
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 +53%
22841
14970
Time Spy 26693 17109
Solar Bay 106118 65104
Port Royal 15939 9114
Fire Strike 60053 42722
Wild Life Extreme 48323 30428
Night Raid 177554 147320
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070 +13%
149949
132843
Background Blur 377.5 img/sec 285.8 img/sec
Face Detection 221.3 img/sec 181.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.4 Gpixels/sec 4.9 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.99 Gpixels/sec 6.66 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.52 Gpixels/sec 5.68 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 606 Gpixels/sec 493 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8521.2 FPS 19410.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
n/a
8946

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 +11%
25364
22757
G2D Mark 1263 1157
DirectX 11 280 FPS 232 FPS
DirectX 12 73 FPS 83 FPS
GPU Compute 14791 Ops/s 12980 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2835 & 2872 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 +31%
2767.65
2109.44
Sources: Blender [9], [10]208 & 267 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070
No benchmark results yet
Radeon RX 7700 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912)GeekBench135040

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 +44%
37056
25719
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 +82%
54866
30075
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 +51%
29946
19789
Image Classification (SP) 15375 11284
Image Segmentation (HP) 37834 14150
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43910 27972
Face Detection (HP) 67858 35311
Pose Estimation (Q) 172939 142235
Text Classification (SP) 4469 3836
Machine Translation (HP) 8499 4471
Object Detection (SP) 15393 12084
Depth Estimation (Q) 66890 49197
Style Transfer (SP) 365633 301429
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 and 7700 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 September 6, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $449
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Navi 48 Navi 32
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 - GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
Successor - - Radeon RX 9070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i7 13700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (16th and 33rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1330 MHz 1435 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2544 MHz
Shading Units 3584 3456
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 216
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 56 -
Tensor Cores 112 -
Ray-tracing Cores 56 54
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 4 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 323 GPixel/s 244 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 564 GTexel/s 550 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 +3%
36.1 TFLOPS
35.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 220 W 245 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 346 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 28 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 80.92 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070 +49%
644.6 GB/s
432 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.2
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1

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