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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Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Pulse Review - Relative Performance | TechPowerUp
5070Ti vs 9070XT gen ras: 1.06
5070Ti vs 9070XT RT: 1.17
Then we go to the latest graphics card review on June 20:
Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Pulse OC 16 GB Review - An Excellent Choice - Relative Performance | TechPowerUp
5070Ti vs 9070XT gen ras: 1.03
5070Ti vs 9070XT RT: 1.06
That's a pretty good improvement in RT and a small but significant improvement in gen ras over a three month period.
Edit: US pricing for the 9070/9070 XT seems to have settled at $600/$700 compared to their announced $550/$600
Funnily enough the 9070 is every so slightly above MSRP now, unexpected.
HU must be an AMD sponsored channel and they cherry pick games to favor AMD and beat 5070ti.
They just forgot to do the same on the most important Benchmark day, the 9070xt release day where they concluded that 5070ti was faster...
sure
Some cherry picking in the news to get a clickbait headline but sure.
Not sure exactly what is worth there paying more for average gamer. Slightly better image quality and wider game support for DLSS4? The only meaningful advantage i can think of are professional apps like Blender etc where AMD still lags behind, but that's a small minority of users. Most users consume, not create media. Or CUDA.Can you elaborate on the driver problem? In my opinion 5080 is the worst card to buy. Either 5070 Ti or 5090, but 5080 is a waste of sand.
But if you're happy paying $600 more (almost the price of a second 9070 XT) for less than 20% more performance at the same 16GB ram then who am i to judge.Very few people were able to get 9070 for advertised MSRP at launch. In US or otherwise.
So i dont think it's correct to say "since launch" because they've always been over MSRP.
By how much varies from country to country.
In my country 9070 XT launched at 900€+ prices. Now it's 700€. Not quite at MSRP yet, but way more reasonable than at launch.
AMD drivers were and are very good. Even at launch. If the main problem with driver is performance (that no one even noticed) then that's much easier thing to add later than first trying to resolve issues and stabilize the card.
"electronics is like fruit. It goes bad quite fast".
= Money spend on electronics is most likely wasted.