AMD

Radeon RX 9070 XT

The Radeon RX 9070 XT is AMD’s 16GB graphics card with a 304W board power rating, built on the RDNA 4 Navi 48 architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet and gaming and productivity benchmarks, plus all 10 board versions we track, each with its cheapest current price in the UK.

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Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Render and synthetic scores are in the Benchmarks section below.

Gaming scores are normalised performance indexes derived from Tom’s Hardware’s published GPU benchmarks. Performance per dollar and per watt are our own calculations on top of that data.

Radeon RX 9070 XTTop GPU
85.6
100.0

1080p Gaming

68.7
100.0

1440p Gaming

57.6
100.0

4K Gaming

The Radeon RX 9070 XT scores 85.6 at 1080p, 68.7 at 1440p, and 57.6 at 4K on a scale where 100 = the fastest GPU we test (RTX 5090). These scores apply to all board versions of this chip.

Performance-per-pound rank among all GPUs with live pricing in the UK

Value at 1080p

#4

Value at 1440p

#2

Value at 4K

#2

Benchmarks

Standardized benchmark scores for this chip, each compared to the fastest card we track and linked to its source. They apply to every board version.

3D & gaming

3DMark Fire Strike Graphicstechnical.city ↗
Radeon RX 9070 XT62,189 points
GeForce RTX 4090 (best)75,641 points
3DMark Steel NomadUL 3DMark ↗
Radeon RX 9070 XT7,238 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)14,544 points

Render

BlenderBlender Open Data ↗
Radeon RX 9070 XT3,357 samples/min
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)15,017 samples/min

Compute & AI

Geekbench 7 OpenCLGeekbench Browser ↗
Radeon RX 9070 XT169,974 points
GeForce RTX 5090 (best)365,480 points

Radeon RX 9070 XT versions (10)

Every board version we track, cheapest first.

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10 board versions of the Radeon RX 9070 XT are listed above, starting from £819.99. Prices update daily from live retailer stock. Click any version name for its full spec sheet and all current retailer prices. Prices include 20% VAT. Shipping is shown under each price, and offers are listed by price plus shipping.

Specifications

Board versions of the Radeon RX 9070 XT range from 288–360 mm long, so check your case's GPU clearance before buying.

Performance

Boost clock
2970 MHz
Shader cores
4,096
Compute units
64
Texture units (TMUs)
256
Render outputs (ROPs)
128
RT cores
64 · 3rd gen
Tensor / AI cores
128 · 2nd gen

Memory

VRAM
16GB GDDR6
Memory bus
256-bit
Bandwidth
640 GB/s
Memory speed
20.1 Gbps
Infinity Cache
64 MB

GPU die

Architecture
RDNA 4 Navi 48
Process node
TSMC N4P
Foundry
TSMC
Die size
357 mm²
Transistors
53.9 billion
Generation
Radeon RX 9000

Power

TDP
304W
Recommended PSU
750W
Power connectors
2 8-pin

Display & outputs

Max resolution
7680 × 4320
Max displays
4
HDCP
2.3
Outputs
1 HDMI 2.1b, 3 DisplayPort 2.1a
PCIe interface
PCIe 5.0 ×16

APIs & software

DirectX
12 Ultimate (12.2)
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.2
Shader model
6.8

Video encoding & decoding

CodecEncodeDecode
H.264 / AVCSupportedSupported
H.265 / HEVCSupportedSupported
AV1SupportedSupported
VP9Not supportedSupported

Encoder: VCN 5.0 · Decoder: VCN 5.0

Features

Upscaling
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
Also runs
XeSS 2, XeSS 2 Frame Generation
Resizable BAR
Yes

Physical

Length (by version)
288–360 mm
Slot width
2 slots
Released
2025-03-06

4,096 shader cores feed a 256-bit memory interface delivering 640 GB/s of peak bandwidth. 64 RT cores handle real-time ray tracing; 128 tensor cores accelerate AI workloads and FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling). Compare the Radeon RX 9070 XT against the full GPU lineup on the full graphics card rankings.

Local AI performance

What the Radeon RX 9070 XT can run on your own machine, and how fast.

Largest model it can run (8K context)

Q4 (the usual choice, near-original quality)
~20B
Q8 (closer to original, half the model size)
~12B
FP16 (unquantised, for training and research)
~6.6B

Parameter counts the card holds with room for an 8K conversation, counting the model weights plus its attention cache. A longer conversation needs more memory, so it lowers these figures.

Speed & value

Speed, 8B model at Q4
83-97 tok/s
Memory bandwidth
640 GB/s
Price per GB of VRAM
£51.25

Generation speed tracks memory bandwidth, because every word produced reads the whole model from memory. Shown as a range.

Models that fit, at Q4

ModelSizeMemory neededEst. speed
GPT Oss 20B20.9B13.2GB—
Granite Code 20B20.1B13.7GB35-41 tok/s
Starcoder2 15B16.0B9.7GB44-52 tok/s

Popular models small enough for this card at Q4, one per family. Speed is left blank for mixture-of-experts models, where a bandwidth estimate is not reliable enough to publish.

Choosing a card for AI? Compare every GPU for local AI, including setups that pool the memory of two or more cards.

Across generations

Where the Radeon RX 9070 XT sits in AMD’s lineup — the generation before and after.

Previous generation
Radeon RX 7800 XT

How the Radeon RX 9070 XT compares

Similar cards worth a look, based on live prices in the UK and 1440p gaming performance. Open a card for its full spec sheet.

Step down
Radeon RX 9070
11% slower15% cheaper (£120.00)

Save 15% (£120.00) for roughly 11% less 1440p performance.

16GB · from £699.99

Rival brand
GeForce RTX 5070
17% slower5% cheaper (£40.00)

Nvidia's closest match, within 17% on 1440p performance, 5% cheaper (£40.00).

12GB · from £779.99

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