Thursday, July 3rd 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gains 9% Performance at 1440p with Latest Driver, Beats RTX 5070 Ti
In what could spell trouble for the upcoming GeForce RTX 5070 SUPER, Hardware Unboxed found that the latest Adrenalin drivers give the Radeon RX 9070 XT a 9% gain in raster performance at 1440p over review press drivers. This closes its performance gap with the current GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, which would make the card faster than any potential SKU NVIDIA intends to position between the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti. This testing is part of a feature by Hardware Unboxed where they compared current drivers to review press drivers for both the RX 9070 XT and RTX 5070 Ti.
When averaged across 16 games, the RX 9070 XT with latest drivers was found to gain 9% performance over review press drivers; whereas the RTX 5070 Ti with the latest drivers only gained 2.5% performance over its review press drivers. This 9% gain for the RX 9070 XT puts it ahead of the RTX 5070 Ti. Both the RTX 5070 Ti and RX 9070 XT are capable of gaming at 4K with some settings turned down. Here, averaged across the same 16 games, Hardware Unboxed found that the RTX 5070 Ti gained 3% performance, while the RX 9070 XT gained 4%, and the two GPUs were evenly matched. Helping AMD's average are specific game tests where the RX 9070 XT vastly improved its performance, with "Counter Strike 2" posting a 23% improvement, and "Spider-Man Remastered" posting a massive 27%. "Hogwarts Legacy" sees an 18% gain for AMD. There's more interesting findings and insights in the Hardware Unboxed video linked below.
Sources:
Hardware Unboxed (YouTube), VideoCardz
When averaged across 16 games, the RX 9070 XT with latest drivers was found to gain 9% performance over review press drivers; whereas the RTX 5070 Ti with the latest drivers only gained 2.5% performance over its review press drivers. This 9% gain for the RX 9070 XT puts it ahead of the RTX 5070 Ti. Both the RTX 5070 Ti and RX 9070 XT are capable of gaming at 4K with some settings turned down. Here, averaged across the same 16 games, Hardware Unboxed found that the RTX 5070 Ti gained 3% performance, while the RX 9070 XT gained 4%, and the two GPUs were evenly matched. Helping AMD's average are specific game tests where the RX 9070 XT vastly improved its performance, with "Counter Strike 2" posting a 23% improvement, and "Spider-Man Remastered" posting a massive 27%. "Hogwarts Legacy" sees an 18% gain for AMD. There's more interesting findings and insights in the Hardware Unboxed video linked below.
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Regarding the issue, it seems I had a driver corruption. I blamed the 9070 XT on graphics not looking good, but then upon switching with a 5080, I had performance issues. I had to remove the drivers fully with a specific program, reinstall, then everything worked well again. something to keep in mind, I loved that 9070 XT (Asrock Taichi model).
And no, these mush brains aren’t getting one from me
Asus Prime RX 9070 XT goes for 592 € (no VAT incl.).
The cheapest RX 9070 non-XT goes for 521 € (no VAT incl.).
It has always been like $=€ when it comes to MSRPs here in Europe, which has been alway unfair.
Given the current € to $ ratio, you might not find lot of things priced right in the US. Maybe tables have finally turned?
Or maybe go thank your unpredictable (= randomly coming up with laws and tariffs every day) narcistic president?
TPU posted this article back in June. I'd say it's not just temporary price cut, as it's been going on for nearly 3 months in a row.
You can get both RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti below MSRP. Those are the shittiest MSI and Gigabyte versions, but still they are below MSRP.
5070 Ti regularly drop below €790 in France from tech retailers (Cybertek/Grosbill, probably others that I missed and LDLC isn't one of them).
9070 XT is cheap only on Amazon and directly from XFX, because otherwise all other 9070 XT are still around €700 for the cheapest ones and the most expensive ones are just as expensive as any 5070 Ti model.
But if we go by exchange rate rather than fixed price by companies, then 9070 XT is still nowhere close to its supposed MSRP of €620 (tax included) this month.
Even the 9070 non-XT is nowhere close to 5070 prices if we consider any price deviation above 10% to be way too high, and this one is supposed to have the same price as the 5070.
9070 starts at 575€, 5070 at 540€.
From those prices, the 5070 is a better deal than the 9070, but the 9070XT is definitely a better deal than the 5070Ti.
The best price for RTX 5070 Ti is 760€ or 10€ over msrp and RTX 5070 is 540€ or 10€ under msrp.
For some reason people definitely are buying more AMD gpus this generation (probably nvidia greed not all people are blind) otherwise there are no explanation for such a prices for amd i mean in EU. Overall RTX 50 Series are worse than RTX 40 Series and AMD have big improvements over RX 7000 Series in some areas.
For 600€ RX 9070 is a weak buy but people are still buying it that says something about nvidia! Nvidia has better p/p gpu RTX 5070 but AMD are not even thinking to lower their prices.... This phenomenon has happened for the first time or very long time ago as i can remember.
MSRP varies by country and depends on it's taxes. 629€ is very close. In some countries it's under MSRP.The only compelling Nvidia cards are:
5060 Ti 16GB
5070 Ti 16GB
5090 32GB
The only compelling AMD cards are:
9060 XT 16GB
9070 XT 16GB
The rest are best avoided either due to stupid 8GB VRAM (for the prices they're asking) or just plain unreasonable prices like 9070 non-XT and 5080.
Hence why im not surprised that 5070 is under MSRP and 5070 Ti is over MSRP.
Best gpus period in this generation are RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT.
I suspect 12GB will be fine until next gen consoles come out, but not at this price. It needs to be around 450€ and 9070 needs to be 500€.
Naturally 5060 Ti 16GB etc all need to move down a notch too. Im not saying 5060 Ti 16GB is a good p/p card because it's not, but everything below it is even worse. So it's the first in the lineup i can actually recommend despite the price.
5090 wins by default because there i no competition as the fastest card. I doubt that people buying 5090 class cards care about p/p anyway.
5080 is the biggest waste of sand this generation. It's essentially a 5070 Ti v2 renamed as 5080. But it's not 5080. It's a 15% faster 5070 Ti with 30% higher price.
Average fps @4k TPU charts.
RTX 5070 is 43% faster than RTX 5060 Ti 16GB but costs only 19% more (RTX 5070 a clear winner)
RTX 5070 Ti is 27% faster than RTX 5070 but costs 41% more (RTX 5070 still is better)
RTX 5090 is 52% faster than RTX 5080 but costs 131% more (RTX 5080 destroys RTX 5090 and by a clear mile when it comes to p/p) Nvidia are offering peanuts for that RTX 5090 price aka very dumb purchase.
RX 9070 is only 6% faster than RTX 5070 but costs 11% more (RTX 5070 is better value for the money)
And now the best vs the best.
RX 9070 XT is 18% faster than RTX 5070 but costs 20% more (RTX 5070 has a touch better value in it but that's depends on region and may sway in both direction slightly)