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.
153 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gains 9% Performance at 1440p with Latest Driver, Beats RTX 5070 Ti
I would recommend this anyway unless the user absolutely wants Nvidia.27% is something that is noticeable without a framerate counter at least. And it has extra memory.The fastest card does not have to make sense price wise. Of course 5080 looks much better when compared to 5090's price, but it's downright useless when compared to 5070 Ti. It uses the same chip as 5070 Ti. Just fully enabled. It doesn't even have 24GB of memory.10% according to TPU chart. Close enough. Choosing between the two i would rather pay that 11% more because that includes extra memory.
Not that 9070 itself is much better in my eyes than 5070. If it were the same price as 5070 then it would be instant recommendation.
Where is RTX 5080 Ti the real deal and ultimate titan killer ? 28GB 448bit or something similar to that. As you can see in the chart GTX 1080 Ti back then was better p/p gpu than GTX 1080!!! And Titan X loses badly to it in p/p but also in raw performance. GTX 1080 Ti literally was like a weasel who entered the chickens coop. Today's RTX 5090 is nothing but a disappointment in direct comparison.
The whole point of the performance chart is that i dont have to go to specific reviews to look up numbers and compare percentages.
Im not saying it's 100% accurate, because sometimes it's not, but it does give a quick, ballpark figure to quote.How many times do we have to go over this?
People buying 90 class GPU's dont care about p/p. You do and that commendable, but like i said before - 5090 wins by default.
Obviously there are nuances like the fact that unlike 3090 Ti > 4090 the performance uplift is much smaller with 4090 > 5090 and the price increase is higher (1500 > 1600 vs 1600 > 2000).
So objectively it's not as good of a step forward as 4090 was, but for certain people there is no alternative either and clearly they're willing to pay whatever Nvidia is asking. Im not that worried about the price of the halo product. Im more worried about how it affects pricing across the rest of the stack and drags everything up with it. Unfortunately these halo products do not exist in a vacuum.No reason to cannibalize their 5090 sales with a GB202 based 5080 Ti.
That would be like releasing a 4% slower 5090 with 28GB for 1300 so a 100 dollar increase.
Of course it would be awesome like 1080 Ti was, but that wont happen without a competitor at the high end.That was the exception and Nvidia probably regretted it ever since.
The past few generations we've not gotten a Ti model anywhere close to the halo product.They both have their uses.