Radeon RX 9070 XT vs Radeon RX 9070 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 9070 XT vs Radeon RX 9070. All released in 2025. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
AMD · RDNA 4
16 GB VRAM304W TDP2025
Full Radeon RX 9070 XT benchmarks →
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AMD · RDNA 4
Radeon RX 9070
16 GB VRAM220W TDP
Full Radeon RX 9070 benchmarks →
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.
Where to buy
Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | Radeon RX 9070 XT | Radeon RX 9070 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 16 | 16 |
| vram type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| tdp w | 304 | 220 |
| cuda cores | — | 3584 |
| rt cores | — | 56 |
| process nm | — | 4 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | Radeon RX 9070 XT | Radeon RX 9070 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 66,762 pts | 46,934 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | 33,887 pts | — |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 17,816 points | 15,760 points |
| 3DMark Solar Bay | — | 106,882 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 6,191 points | 5,860 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 6,856 points | 6,150 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 29,217 points | — |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 14,078 points | 11,702 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,318 pts | 1,266 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 26,908 pts | 25,397 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 719 rank | 719 rank |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
Radeon RX 9070 XT
- qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1.5B: 163.0 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 142.9 tok/s
Radeon RX 9070
- qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 163.0 tok/s
- phi-2: 139.2 tok/s
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