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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs 7700 XT

Radeon RX 9070 XT
VS
Radeon RX 7700 XT
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Navi 48
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
Navi 32

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB with 64 pipelines and 4096 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.

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

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)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6
98.8
(Very good)
Value Index
59.4
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7700 XT over RX 9070 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 75%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 54% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 152 vs 99 FPS
  • 38% higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 vs 35.2 TFLOPS)
  • 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
  • Achieves 38% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (182K vs 132K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9070 XT
vs
RX 7700 XT

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
242
169
149
109
186
117
96
70
The Witcher 3
267
237
167
89
179
152
113
61
Counter-Strike 2
325
224
163
82
268
195
134
74
Far Cry 6
198
176
163
104
145
131
110
63
Hogwarts Legacy
162
133
107
58
106
89
69
39
CoD: Modern Warfare III
240
232
174
118
148
143
102
64
Ghost of Tsushima
158
137
116
73
111
90
73
44
Cyberpunk 2077
190
171
119
53
115
103
65
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
280
265
207
107
192
176
130
67
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 229 161
1080p Ultra 194 133
1440p Ultra 152 99
4K Ultra 88 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 XT +75%
26251
RX 7700 XT
14970
Time Spy 29556 17109
Solar Bay 122220 65104
Port Royal 18363 9114
Fire Strike 66319 42722
Wild Life Extreme 54672 30428
Night Raid 194947 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 XT +38%
182816
RX 7700 XT
132843
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec 285.8 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec 181.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec 4.9 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec 6.66 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec 5.68 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec 1.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec 493 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 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
RX 9070 XT +460%
50113
RX 7700 XT
8946

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 XT +18%
26913
RX 7700 XT
22743
G2D Mark 1310 1157
DirectX 11 295 FPS 232 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 83 FPS
GPU Compute 16100 Ops/s 12985 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 17863 & 2935 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 XT +56%
3287.07
RX 7700 XT
2108.86
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1724 & 268 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-12 (luizmdd)Cinebench 202450113
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSGeekbench 6 OpenCL179283
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSSteel Nomad Light27505
📘 2025-10-15 (adv)Geekbench 6 OpenCL175418
Add View all (4)
Radeon RX 7700 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912)Geekbench 6 OpenCL135040
Add View all (1)

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 XT +52%
39190
RX 7700 XT
25719
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 XT +85%
55727
RX 7700 XT
30075
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 XT +70%
33599
RX 7700 XT
19789
Image Classification (SP) 18001 11284
Image Segmentation (HP) 25174 14150
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45714 27972
Face Detection (HP) 74776 35311
Pose Estimation (Q) 196137 142235
Text Classification (SP) 5163 3836
Machine Translation (HP) 8677 4471
Object Detection (SP) 19602 12084
Depth Estimation (Q) 74879 49197
Style Transfer (SP) 411302 301429
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and 7700 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 September 6, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $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 Ti - 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 (12th and 33rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1660 MHz 1435 MHz
Boost Clock 2970 MHz 2544 MHz
Shading Units 4096 3456
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 216
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 -
Tensor Cores 128 -
Ray-tracing Cores 64 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 380 GPixel/s 244 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTexel/s 550 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 XT +38%
48.7 TFLOPS
RX 7700 XT
35.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 304 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 XT +49%
644.6 GB/s
RX 7700 XT
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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Choose between two graphics cards
25 (41%)
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Total votes: 61

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ComputerNerd June 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Objectively, the new Radeon RX 9070 XT is far better. It is basically a 4k gaming GPU. However, for the price of the 7700 XT you get a good GPU for QHD gaming.
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