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Radeon RX 7900 XT against ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC leads on the overall index. The price beside each button is the Amazon US reading where ScoutPrices has one; the comparison below is worked on typical prices.

Which one for what

Office & everyday

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

64 vs 69 for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

Coding & development

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

57 vs 60 for cores for builds and containers, plenty of memory, fast storage, and a card for several screens or a local model.

Light gaming

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

71 vs 77 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

65 vs 70 for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back.

Heavy gaming

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

54 vs 59 for the strongest graphics card the budget allows.

Content creation

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

55 vs 58 for export times: many cores, a card with good encoders, lots of memory.

3D & rendering

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

53 vs 56 for all-core throughput and render speed.

Gaming & streaming

ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OCright

60 vs 64 for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

AI & local models

Radeon RX 7900 XTleft

56 vs 54 for video memory first, then card speed, then system memory.

Head to head

Scores

Indices out of 100 on ScoutSpecs' own scale, one per kind of work. They are not frames per second and not a measurement of any one sample.

  • Spec score

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 62

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 67

    5 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1080p

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 71

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 77

    6 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1440p

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 65

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 70

    5 ptsto the right

  • Games at 4K

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 54

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 59

    5 ptsto the right

  • Rendering and video

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 48

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 50

    2 ptsto the right

Price and value

Worked on typical prices, the figures the comparison is built on.

  • Value, points per $100

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 7.8

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 8.6

    10%to the right

  • Typical price

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: $800

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: $780

    $20to the right

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 20 GB

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 16 GB

    25%to the left

  • Board power

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 315 W

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 304 W

    4%to the right

  • Length

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 310 mm

    ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC: 305 mm

    2%to the right

The verdict

  • The ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC is 8% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 9% in the ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC's favour.
  • RX 7900 XT carries 20 GB of video memory against 16 GB.
  • The ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC typically costs $20 less.
  • Per dollar, the ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC is the better buy: 8.6 points per $100 against 7.8.

Specifications

SpecRadeon RX 7900 XTASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB OC
Video memory20 GB (better)16 GB
Board power315 W304 W (better)
Length310 mm305 mm (better)
Power connectorPCIe 8-pinPCIe 8-pin
BrandAMDAMD
Released20222025 (better)
Typical price$800$780 (better)

The better figure of each pair is in green, with a tick.

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