AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is based on the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (RDNA 4) and has 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 645 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (Blackwell) and has 12 GB GDDR7 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 672 GB/s.

GPU

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has the Navi 48 XTX graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 4 architecture.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition is based on the graphics chip GB205-300-A1, which comes from the Blackwell architecture.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
Navi 48 XTX GPU Chip GB205-300-A1
RDNA 4 Architecture Blackwell
64 Streaming Multiprocessors 48
4096 Shader 6144
128 Render Output Units 64
256 Texture Units 192
64 Raytracing Cores 48

Memory

The graphics memory of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT clocks at 2.518 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 20.1 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition is 28.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
2.518 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
20.1 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
645 GB/s Memory bandwidth 672 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.660 GHz Base Clock 2.165 GHz
2.970 GHz Boost Clock 2.510 GHz
2.40 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is powered by 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 304 W (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition has 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 250 W.

304 W (Reference) TDP 250 W
-- TDP (up) --
92 °C Tjunction max 85 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is equipped with a total of 3 Axial main fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition has 0 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 --
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1b
3x DP v2.1a DP Ports 3x DP v2.1b
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Non addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is connected to the system via PCIe 5 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 5 x 16 Lanes interface.

-- Length 242 mm
-- Height 112 mm
-- Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 5 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 16
No SFF-Ready Yes

Additional data

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has been manufactured with a structure width of 4 nanometers since Q2/2025.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition came on the market in Q1/2025 and will have a structure width of 5 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no --
Q2/2025 Release date Q1/2025
599 $ (Reference) Launch Price 549 $ (Reference)
4 nm Structure size 5 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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