AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 729.99
$ 2035.74 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

20778 points
42789 points
105% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

417 FPS
1019 FPS
602 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

297 FPS
503 FPS
206 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

378 FPS
740 FPS
362 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

171 FPS
425 FPS
255 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7249 points
14480 points
99% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3144.45 points
14992.38 points
376% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

160380 points
383325 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

194640 points
380401 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2970 MHz
23% slightly higher boost clock speed
2407 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

16 GiB
32 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
512 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

380.2 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
11% slightly higher pixel rate

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128
176
37% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

8th of 590
1st of 590

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

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12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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4.6

Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 5090 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5090 beats the Radeon RX 9070 XT in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 5090 has significantly more memory with 32 GiB of memory compared to 16 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 is better than the Radeon RX 9070 XT.

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