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AMD Radeon RX 9070 Review
Mar 7, 2025
RX 9070 vs. RTX 5070: Equally Missing the Mark
AMD looks to have hit it out of the park with the Radeon 9070 XT. Reviews have been universally positive, and reception from gamers has been even better. Now, AMD just needs to follow through with the next step: getting these GPUs into the hands of gamers at the expected MSRP. Hopefully, we'll see this happen over the next few days.
Before that, we need to take a closer look at the cheaper option – the Radeon RX 9070 (the non-XT model). Interestingly, AMD has priced it at $550, the same alleged MSRP as the RTX 5070.
The new vanilla Radeon RX 9070 should generally be faster than Nvidia's RTX 5070, at least based on what we saw from the XT before. As an added bonus, AMD's GPU comes with more VRAM – 16GB vs. 12GB for the GeForce, which is less than ideal for those looking to take full advantage of RTX features like frame generation and ray tracing.
Radeon RX 9070 XTRadeon RX 9070Radeon RX 7900 XTXRadeon RX 7900 XTRadeon RX 7900 GRE
Price MSRP$600$550$1000$900$550
Release DateMarch 2025Dec 2022Feb 2024
ProcessTSMC N4PTSMC N5 (GCD) / TSMC N6 (MCD)
Die Size (mm²)357 mm²529 mm²
Core Config4096 : 256 : 1283584 : 224 : 1286144 : 384 : 1925376 : 336 : 1925120 : 320 : 192
L2 Cache (MB)64 MB96 MB80 MB64 MB
GPU Boost Clock2400 MHz2070 MHz2500 MHz2400 MHz2245 MHz
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