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Radeon RX 7900 XT against GeForce RTX 5070

Radeon RX 7900 XT 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

Radeon RX 7900 XTleft

64 vs 62 for snappy single-core speed, quiet running, and a card that drives two or three screens without fuss.

Coding & development

Either

Within 0 points; buy on price.

Light gaming

Radeon RX 7900 XTleft

71 vs 65 for 1080p frame rates per dollar.

Gaming

Radeon RX 7900 XTleft

65 vs 58 for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back.

Heavy gaming

Radeon RX 7900 XTleft

54 vs 49 for the strongest graphics card the budget allows.

Content creation

GeForce RTX 5070right

55 vs 57 for export times: many cores, a card with good encoders, lots of memory.

3D & rendering

GeForce RTX 5070right

53 vs 57 for all-core throughput and render speed.

Gaming & streaming

Radeon RX 7900 XTleft

60 vs 57 for frame rates with headroom for the encoder and the chat.

AI & local models

Radeon RX 7900 XTleft

56 vs 51 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

    GeForce RTX 5070: 58

    4 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1080p

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 71

    GeForce RTX 5070: 65

    6 ptsto the left

  • Games at 1440p

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 65

    GeForce RTX 5070: 58

    7 ptsto the left

  • Games at 4K

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 54

    GeForce RTX 5070: 49

    5 ptsto the left

  • Rendering and video

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 48

    GeForce RTX 5070: 56

    8 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

    GeForce RTX 5070: 7

    11%to the left

  • Typical price

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: $800

    GeForce RTX 5070: $827

    $27to the left

From the spec sheets

  • Video memory

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 20 GB

    GeForce RTX 5070: 12 GB

    67%to the left

  • Board power

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 315 W

    GeForce RTX 5070: 250 W

    26%to the right

  • Length

    Radeon RX 7900 XT: 310 mm

    GeForce RTX 5070: 245 mm

    27%to the right

The verdict

  • The RX 7900 XT is 12% faster at 1440p.
  • At 4K the gap is 10% in the RX 7900 XT's favour.
  • RX 7900 XT carries 20 GB of video memory against 12 GB.
  • The RX 7900 XT typically costs $27 less.
  • Per dollar, the RX 7900 XT is the better buy: 7.8 points per $100 against 7.

Specifications

SpecRadeon RX 7900 XTGeForce RTX 5070
Video memory20 GB (better)12 GB
Board power315 W250 W (better)
Length310 mm245 mm (better)
Power connectorPCIe 8-pin12V-2x6 (16-pin)
BrandAMDNvidia
Released20222025 (better)
Typical price$800 (better)$827

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

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