In raster games the Radeon RX 9070 XT and the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti are the same speed: on Tom's Hardware's 2026 testbed they are within 1 percent in Counter-Strike 2 and Black Myth: Wukong, and the Radeon is ahead in Alan Wake 2 and Fortnite. The RTX 5070 Ti pulls ahead with ray tracing on, and by a wide margin in anything that runs on CUDA: local AI and Blender.

At launch the RX 9070 XT was $599 and the RTX 5070 Ti $749. Both have 16GB on a 256-bit bus, both draw about 300W, and both want a 750W power supply.

RTX 5070 Ti and RX 9070 XT

RTX 5070 TiRX 9070 XT
Price$749launch price; no Founders Edition (NVIDIA)$599launch price (AMD suggested price); board-partner cards only
GPUGB203Navi 48
ArchitectureBlackwellRDNA 4
Shaders89604096
Boost clock2450 MHz2970 MHz
Cyberpunk 20771080p Ultra, fps126128
Cyberpunk 20771440p Ultra, fps80.981.8
Cyberpunk 20774K Ultra, fps3537.2
Cyberpunk 20771440p Ultra + Ultra RT, fps54.145.4
Alan Wake 21440p Ultra, fps67.671.9
Black Myth: Wukong1440p Very High, fps65.965.9
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Figures as published by Tom's Hardware (Jun 2, 2026), Tom's Hardware (Jun 2, 2026), Tom's Hardware (Jun 24, 2026). The best figure is marked where a row is all one source.

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The figures, one lab per row

Only rows where one publication ran both cards are here. Comparing a KitGuru figure with a Tom's Hardware one mixes two test systems, and that is how a card picks up a 30 percent lead it doesn't have.

RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT, same test, same lab

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Test and settingRTX 5070 TiRX 9070 XTAheadLab
Cyberpunk 2077, 1440p, Ultra + Ultra RT (fps)54.145.4RTX 5070 Ti by 19%Tom's Hardware
Alan Wake 2, 1440p, Ultra (fps)67.671.9RX 9070 XT by 6%Tom's Hardware
Black Myth: Wukong, 1440p, Very High (fps)65.965.9levelTom's Hardware
Counter-Strike 2, 1440p, High (fps)429.1434.4levelTom's Hardware
Fortnite, 1440p, High (Lumen + Nanite High) (fps)108.3120.4RX 9070 XT by 11%Tom's Hardware
llama.cpp, Llama 2 7B Q4_0, prompt processing (tok/s)6,9525,036RTX 5070 Ti by 38%llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub)
llama.cpp, Llama 2 7B Q4_0, text generation (tok/s)176.8137.1RTX 5070 Ti by 29%llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub)
UL Procyon AI Text Generation, Llama 3.1 (points)4,3452,156RTX 5070 Ti by 102%KitGuru
Blender Benchmark (samples/min)7,5893,279RTX 5070 Ti by 131%Blender Open Data

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Games without ray tracing: a tie

At 1440p on Tom's Hardware's testbed (a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with DDR5-6000), the RX 9070 XT averages 71.9 fps in Alan Wake 2 against 67.6, and 120.4 in Fortnite with Lumen and Nanite against 108.3. In Black Myth: Wukong both cards land on 65.9 fps, and in Counter-Strike 2 they are 434 against 429. Across those four games neither card is a tier above the other; which one wins depends on the game.

Ray tracing and AI: the RTX 5070 Ti

With Ultra ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p the RTX 5070 Ti averages 54.1 fps and the RX 9070 XT 45.4, a 19 percent lead, and that is before DLSS, which most RTX owners turn on.

Outside games the gap is larger. In llama.cpp's community figures the 5070 Ti generates text with Llama 2 7B about 29 percent faster and processes prompts 38 percent faster. UL's Procyon AI text test (KitGuru) gives it twice the Radeon's score, and in Blender Open Data it renders 2.3 times as many samples a minute, because Blender's CUDA and OptiX paths are better optimised than its AMD HIP path.

Which one to buy

For a gaming PC, buy the RX 9070 XT while it costs less than the 5070 Ti. It matches the NVIDIA card in raster games for less money, with the same 16GB.

Buy the RTX 5070 Ti if you play with ray tracing on, rely on DLSS, or use the card for local AI models or Blender. In those cases the extra cost buys a real gap, between 19 percent and more than double.

If the two are within $50 of each other where you shop, the RTX 5070 Ti is the safer buy, since it is never meaningfully slower.

Questions

In raster games they are level: within 1 percent in Counter-Strike 2 and Black Myth: Wukong on Tom's Hardware's testbed, with the RX 9070 XT ahead by 6 to 11 percent in Alan Wake 2 and Fortnite. With ray tracing on, the RTX 5070 Ti is about 19 percent faster.

The RTX 5070 Ti. In llama.cpp it generates text about 29 percent faster and processes prompts 38 percent faster, and it scores twice as high in UL Procyon's AI text test.

Both are rated around 300W and both makers recommend a 750W supply. The RX 9070 XT uses two 8-pin plugs; the RTX 5070 Ti uses the 16-pin connector, with an adapter in the box.