AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT: price, specs & release date

PCWorld lab-tested · 2025-03-05

Average FPS lead over RTX 5070 (1440p, full suite): 15% faster · Average FPS lead over vanilla RX 9070 (1440p): 7% faster · Average FPS lead over RTX 5070 excluding Black Myth Wukong (1440p): 19% faster · RTX 5070 Ti lead over 9070 XT (1440p, full suite): 6% faster · RTX 5070 Ti lead over 9070 XT excluding Black Myth Wukong (1440p): 3% faster

Across our suite, the Radeon 9070 XT runs 15 percent faster than the RTX 5070 on average, and 7 percent faster than the vanilla Radeon 9070.

So major, in fact, that the Radeon RX 9070 XT punches above its weight class to challenge the $750 RTX 5070 Ti.

Much slower than RTX 5070 in AI text generation and Premiere Pro

We've had a terrible time reliably activating FSR 4 in games, needing to jump through hoops both in-game and in-driver, only for it to silently fail sometimes.

Tom's Guide lab-tested · 2025-10-24

Cyberpunk 2077 ray tracing ultra, 1440p: 30.2 FPS · Forza Horizon 5 max settings, 1440p: 190.8 FPS · Call of Duty max settings no frame gen, 1440p: 173 FPS · Black Myth: Wukong Cinematic, 1440p: 62 FPS · Cyberpunk 2077 ray tracing ultra, 4K: 25.7 FPS · Forza Horizon 5 max settings, 4K: 105.4 FPS · Call of Duty max settings no frame gen, 4K: 92 FPS · Black Myth: Wukong Cinematic, 4K: 57 FPS · Deficit vs RTX 5070 Ti in GPU-intensive creator tasks: 11.2% behind

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT surprised me in the best way possible — reaching higher frame rates in some games than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti , while also being up to $150 cheaper at the same time.

you're getting around 95% of the performance of the 5070 Ti at 80% the cost.

And unfortunately, ray tracing is still not quite there on the Radeon RX 9070 XT.

if you aimed to do more with your desktop than just play, you'll be left a little shorthanded with the RX 9070 XT.

TechPowerUp lab-tested · 2025-05-01

Noise at full load (default BIOS): 30 dBA · Noise at full load (quiet BIOS): 26.6 dBA · Temperature increase using quiet BIOS: +4 C · Real-life performance gain from overclocking (ASUS TUF): 10-11% · RT performance uplift vs RX 7900 GRE: +51% · Factory-OC performance uplift over base RX 9070 XT: 1% · Manual maximum power limit: 370 W

Averaged over all our games, without ray tracing or upscaling, the RX 9070 XT TUF is able to pretty much match the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.

The new GPU is considerably faster at ray tracing, which fixes one of the biggest drawbacks of RDNA 3.

out of the box the card runs at 30 dBA at full load, which is quiet, but most other RX 9070 XT cards that we've tested run a little bit quieter.

NVIDIA DLSS still offers better upscaling and frame generation

Tom's Hardware lab-tested · 2025-03-05

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT provides strong mainstream performance at a great price.

The RDNA 4 architecture delivers significant generational improvements in AI and ray tracing performance, without sacrificing rasterization performance.

The biggest concerns will be retail availability and pricing — and the lack of any true high-end solutions.

Still trails Nvidia in ray tracing and AI performance