AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
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We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB with 64 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 2 years and 10 months older GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB that utilizes 84 pipelines and 10752 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 20% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 152 vs 127 FPS
- 22% higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 vs 40 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Features 208 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 56% higher memory bandwidth: 1008 vs 644.6 GB/s
- Has 2.6x more shading units (10752 vs 4096)
- Achieves 27% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (232K vs 182K)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 242 169 149 109 |
200 136 126 99 |
| The Witcher 3 | 267 237 167 89 |
214 185 130 71 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 325 224 163 82 |
286 213 154 85 |
| Far Cry 6 | 198 176 163 104 |
160 151 133 83 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 162 133 107 58 |
141 116 93 52 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 240 232 174 118 |
186 174 139 90 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 158 137 116 73 |
129 105 89 57 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 190 171 119 53 |
158 140 98 44 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 280 265 207 107 |
254 237 183 101 |
| 1080p High | 229 | 192 |
| 1080p Ultra | 194 | 162 |
| 1440p Ultra | 152 | 127 |
| 4K Ultra | 88 | 76 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 29556 | 21855 |
| Solar Bay | 122220 | 109239 |
| Port Royal | 18363 | 14890 |
| Fire Strike | 66319 | 51935 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 54672 | 48861 |
| Night Raid | 194947 | 156537 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 427.4 img/sec | 362.7 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 251 img/sec | 227.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.77 Gpixels/sec | 11.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 9.42 Gpixels/sec | 15.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 9.35 Gpixels/sec | 12.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.42 Gpixels/sec | 1.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 651.4 Gpixels/sec | 1080 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 23630 FPS | 31024.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1311 | 1226 |
| DirectX 11 | 294 FPS | 238 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 77 FPS | 121 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 16070 Ops/s | 16494 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 9070 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-12 (luizmdd) | Cinebench 2024 | 50113 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenS | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 179283 |
| 📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenS | Steel Nomad Light | 27505 |
| 📘 2025-10-15 (adv) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 175418 |
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 18001 | 10246 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 25174 | 22830 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 45714 | 23532 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 74776 | 48657 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 196137 | 147241 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 5163 | 2917 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 8677 | 4427 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 19602 | 13323 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 74879 | 40055 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 411302 | 298683 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 3090 TiGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 7, 2025 | March 29, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $599 | $1999 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 48 | GA102 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core i9 12900K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (12th and 14th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1660 MHz | 1560 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2970 MHz | 1860 MHz |
| Shading Units | 4096 | 10752 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 256 | 336 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 128 | 112 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 64 | 84 |
| Tensor Cores | 128 | 336 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 64 | 84 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 8MB shared | 6MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 380 GPixel/s | 208 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 760 GTexel/s | 625 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 304 W | 450 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 357 mm² | 628 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 53.9 billion | 28 billion |
| Transistor Density | 150.98 MTr/mm² | 44.59 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6X |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2518 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20100 Mbps | 21000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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