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Radeon RX 7900 XT against MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio 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

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

64 vs 73 for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

Coding & development

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

57 vs 68 for cores for builds and containers, plenty of memory, fast storage, and a card for several screens or a local model.

Light gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

71 vs 76 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

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

Heavy gaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

54 vs 62 for the strongest graphics card the budget allows.

Content creation

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

55 vs 68 for export times: many cores, a card with good encoders, lots of memory.

3D & rendering

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

53 vs 67 for all-core throughput and render speed.

Gaming & streaming

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

60 vs 69 for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

AI & local models

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OCright

56 vs 62 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

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 69

    7 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1080p

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 71

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 76

    5 ptsto the right

  • Games at 1440p

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 65

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 70

    5 ptsto the right

  • Games at 4K

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 54

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 62

    8 ptsto the right

  • Rendering and video

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 48

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 66

    18 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

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 5.9

    32%to the left

  • Typical price

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: $800

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: $1,170

    $370to the left

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 20 GB

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 16 GB

    25%to the left

  • Board power

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 315 W

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 300 W

    5%to the right

  • Length

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 310 mm

    MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC: 350 mm

    13%to the left

The verdict

  • The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC is 8% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 15% in the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC's favour.
  • RX 7900 XT carries 20 GB of video memory against 16 GB.
  • The RX 7900 XT typically costs $370 less.
  • Per dollar, the RX 7900 XT is the better buy: 7.8 points per $100 against 5.9.

Specifications

SpecRadeon RX 7900 XTMSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Gaming Trio OC
Video memory20 GB (better)16 GB
Board power315 W300 W (better)
Length310 mm (better)350 mm
Power connectorPCIe 8-pin12V-2x6 (16-pin)
BrandAMDNvidia
Released20222025 (better)
Typical price$800 (better)$1,170

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

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