Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti vs. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

While the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 sits comfortably astatine the apical of the graphics paper market, not galore radical realistically person the currency to propulsion astatine its $1,999+ terms tag. Luckily, you don’t person to suffer retired connected 4K gaming conscionable due to the fact that you can’t spend the implicit champion graphics card. Both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT are overmuch much affordable and present an highly coagulated 4K gaming experience.

While prices close present are unluckily elevated —due successful ample portion to the heightened request and debased proviso immoderate GPU faces close aft launch— the RTX 5070 Ti and RX 9070 XT are the graphics cards astir radical should beryllium looking astatine for a high-end gaming experience.

RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT: Specs

Comparing 2 graphics cards that usage wholly antithetic graphics architectures connected specs is incredibly complicated. While Nvidia’s CUDA cores and AMD’s Shading Units service a akin purpose, they’re antithetic capable that a nonstop examination from a purely quantity position is fundamentally pointless.

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT consists of 64 RDNA 4 compute units, each with 64 shader units, making for a full of 4,096. Each of those compute units besides has 2 AI Accelerators and 1 RT Accelerator, making for 128 and 64, respectively. AMD pairs these compute units with 16GB of GDDR6 representation connected a 256-bit bus, which should beryllium much than capable for modern games, though it could beryllium stretched successful the future, particularly astatine 4K.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti besides has 16GB of VRAM, but alternatively of opting for GDDR6, Team Green went with the caller GDDR7, which is theoretically overmuch faster. That’s besides connected a 256-bit bus, but due to the fact that of higher representation speeds, it has higher bandwidth. The RTX 5070 Ti is built with 70 Streaming Multiprocessors – Nvidia’s sanction for Compute Units, with a full of 8,960 CUDA Cores, oregon Shading Units. That’s doubly arsenic galore Shader Units per Compute Unit, thing Nvidia has been pulling disconnected since the RTX 3080 backmost successful 2020. However, that doesn’t straight pb to treble the performance.

Winner: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT: Performance

While connected paper, the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti looks acold superior to the Radeon RX 9070 XT, the show doesn’t rather enactment retired that way. Instead, some graphics cards are fantabulous entry-level cards for anyone who wants to play astatine 4K, and are among the champion graphics cards connected the marketplace for 1440p gaming.

When I reviewed the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, I expected it to beryllium wrong reaching region of the RTX 5070 Ti, falling further down successful games with a batch of ray tracing. However, I recovered that adjacent successful games similar Cyberpunk 2077, the AMD graphics paper had nary occupation staying wrong a fewer frames of the overmuch much costly RTX 5070 Ti.

There are surely games wherever the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti pulls ahead. For example, successful Total War: Warhammer 3, the RTX 5070 Ti gets 87 fps astatine 4K, compared to the 9070 XT’s 76 fps. But adjacent with Nvidia’s occasional wins, I recovered that the Radeon RX 9070 XT was connected mean 2% faster than the 5070 Ti. That’s a insignificant difference, but adjacent 2% is simply a immense triumph for a paper that theoretically costs 21% less.

Winner: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT: Software and Features

These days, picking the close graphics paper is much than conscionable looking astatine what the hardware tin do. Both Nvidia and AMD connection an full suite of bundle features that further agelong what the graphics paper tin do.

The large selling constituent for the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, and truly each Nvidia graphics cards, is the suite of features that present falls nether the DLSS umbrella. This includes things similar AI upscaling and Frame Generation, but for DLSS 4, Team Green recovered a mode to grow the latter. Now, with RTX 5000 graphics cards, Nvidia has enabled multi-frame generation, which tin usage AI to make 3 frames for each people rendered frame. This greatly improves framework rates, though it does travel with a tiny latency outgo – though that’s mostly offset by Nvidia Reflex. Just similar DLSS 3’s Frame Generation, you’re lone going to privation to alteration this diagnostic if you’re already getting a decent framework complaint – astatine slightest 45, but ideally much than 60 fps.

AMD besides supports Frame Generation, but Team Red GPUs tin inactive lone make 1 interpolated framework per rendered frame. Instead, the large betterment this clip astir is FSR 4, which brings AI upscaling to AMD graphics cards for the archetypal time. Before this generation, FSR was based connected a temporal upscaling method, which delivers fantabulous show but could effect successful fuzzy images. FSR 4 uses the Radeon RX 9070 XT AI accelerators to upscale the representation utilizing a instrumentality learning algorithm, overmuch similar however DLSS has worked since 2018. This upscaling method is overmuch much accurate, adjacent though it’s not rather arsenic accelerated arsenic FSR 4.

It’s besides important to support successful caput that this is lone the archetypal procreation of AMD’s AI upscaler, and Nvidia has been grooming DLSS for 7 years now.

Winner: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT: Price

GPU pricing is simply a hot-button contented close now, arsenic beauteous overmuch each graphics paper of this caller procreation is wholly sold out, with galore seeing incredibly inflated prices. The occupation is that some Nvidia and AMD acceptable a ‘suggested’ retail terms for these graphics cards, but past retailers and third-party manufacturers are fundamentally escaped to terms them nevertheless they privation to. I can’t foretell what GPU prices volition look similar successful six months, but hopefully the prices commencement falling person to MSRP erstwhile proviso catches up with the demand.

Because astatine its motorboat price, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is an implicit triumph. At $599, the 9070 XT is an unthinkable small 4K graphics card, easy susceptible of moving immoderate crippled connected the marketplace with everything maxed out, provided you usage the caller FSR 4 AI upscaler. This is the terms constituent flagship graphics cards used to motorboat astatine earlier Nvidia started gradually escalating prices, starting with the RTX 2080 Ti. Hopefully this means GPU manufacturers volition commencement returning prices to sanity, but that depends connected if prices normalize again.

Nvidia took a antithetic attack with the 5070 Ti, though. While it trades blows with the 9070 XT, it has a basal terms of $749, a immense $150 terms lift. That’s a monolithic quality betwixt 2 graphics cards that execute extremely similarly. There are a fewer features that you get by going with a GPU from Team Green, similar Multi-Frame Generation, but whether that’s worthy it is mostly going to beryllium connected what you’re looking for and the games you really play.

Winner: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

The Winner Is … The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

While some the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti are fantabulous 1440p graphics cards, it’s intolerable to flight the information that AMD is capable to commercialized blows with Team Green’s paper astatine a overmuch little price. Assuming prices instrumentality to normality, the spread betwixt the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and the 5070 Ti makes AMD’s paper a wide winner.

If you’re looking to physique a gaming PC for high-end 1440p gaming, oregon adjacent privation to agelong into 4K, it’s hard to deliberation of a amended graphics paper to bargain close now. Because, sure, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT doesn’t person multi-frame generation, but astir radical don’t person the high-refresh 4K gaming monitors that would really payment from it.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra.