Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070. 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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NVIDIA · Blackwell
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
12 GB VRAM250W TDP$549 MSRP2025
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 16 | 12 |
| vram type | GDDR6 | GDDR7 |
| tdp w | 304 | 250 |
| cuda cores | — | 6144 |
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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 66,762 pts | 41,611 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | 33,887 pts | — |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 18,240 points | 13,939 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 6,267 points | 5,769 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 7,025 points | 4,968 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 29,716 points | 22,221 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 14,367 points | 9,535 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 1,318 pts | 1,299 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 26,908 pts | 28,758 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 719 rank | 812 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: 137.1 tok/s
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
- llama2:7b: 127.5 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 127.5 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 101.0 tok/s
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