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Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti leads on 5 of 8 shared benchmarks (22% in 3DMark Speed Way); the Radeon RX 9070 XT takes 3 (7% in 3DMark Time Spy). On qwen3:14b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti generates 74.3 tokens/s (per Hardware Corner) against 52.2 for the Radeon RX 9070 XT (per GitHub (hirokuze/local-llm-benchmark-rx9070xt)), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 9070 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. Both released in 2025. MSRP range: $599 · $749. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecRadeon RX 9070 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
vram gb 1616
vram type GDDR6GDDR7
tdp w 304300
cuda cores —8960

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from LANOC, Club386, Digital Trends, HWBOT, Overclocking.com, UL Benchmarks, PassMark and Tom's Hardware; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 9070 XTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: LANOC, Club386		 66,762 pts68,741 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better)
Source: LANOC		 33,887 pts—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: LANOC, Digital Trends, HWBOT, Club386		 18,240 points18,851 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, LANOC, Club386		 6,267 pts7,677 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: LANOC, Overclocking.com, UL Benchmarks, Club386		 7,025 points6,905 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: LANOC, Digital Trends, Club386		 29,467 pts27,667 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: LANOC, Club386		 14,367 pts13,485 points
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 1,318 pts1,329 pts
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 26,908 pts32,422 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy (lower is better)
Source: Tom's Hardware		 719 rank812 rank

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Radeon RX 9070 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 9070 XT or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti leads on 5 of 8 shared benchmarks (22% in 3DMark Speed Way); the Radeon RX 9070 XT takes 3 (7% in 3DMark Time Spy).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:14b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti generates 74.3 tokens/s (per Hardware Corner) against 52.2 for the Radeon RX 9070 XT (per GitHub (hirokuze/local-llm-benchmark-rx9070xt)), best community run on file for each.

What did the Radeon RX 9070 XT and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti cost at launch?

The Radeon RX 9070 XT launched at a $599 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti at $749. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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