NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 2325 MHz vs 1500 MHz
  • Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 2512 MHz vs 2394 MHz
  • Around 14% higher pipelines: 6144 vs 5376
  • Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1286 vs 1217
  • Around 10% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 186565 vs 169572
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 4 Mar 2025 vs 3 Nov 2022
Core clock speed 2325 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed 2512 MHz vs 2394 MHz
Pipelines 6144 vs 5376
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1286 vs 1217
Geekbench - OpenCL 186565 vs 169572

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

  • Around 67% higher texture fill rate: 804.4 GTexel/s vs 482.3 GTexel/s
  • Around 67% higher maximum memory size: 20 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 28 Gbps effective
  • Around 11% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5623 vs 5077
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 804.4 GTexel/s vs 482.3 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size 20 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz, 28 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 28850 vs 28843
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5623 vs 5077

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1286
1217
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
28843
28850
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
186565
169572
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
5077
5623
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark 1286 1217
PassMark - G3D Mark 28843 28850
Geekbench - OpenCL 186565 169572
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5077 5623
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 343.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 12483.531
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 60.185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 2714.187

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Essentials

Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 3.0
Code name GB205 Navi 31
Launch date 4 Mar 2025 3 Nov 2022
Place in performance rating 20 17

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2512 MHz 2394 MHz
Core clock speed 2325 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 5 nm
Pipelines 6144 5376
Pixel fill rate 201.0 GPixel/s 459.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 482.3 GTexel/s 804.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 31100 million 57700 million
Compute units 84
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 3.218 TFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 103.0 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 51.48 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1b 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches 51 mm, 2 inches
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 245 mm, 9.6 inches 276 mm, 10.9 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 2x 8-pin
Width 115 mm, 4.5 inches 135 mm, 5.3 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.8 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 20 GB
Memory bandwidth 672.0 GB/s 800.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 320 bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 28 Gbps effective 2500 MHz, 20 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR7 GDDR6