AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

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Radeon RX 9070 compared with GeForce RTX 5070

	AMDRadeon RX 9070	NVIDIAGeForce RTX 5070
Overview
Released
Released	March 2025	March 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	NVIDIA
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA 4	Blackwell
Shader cores
Shader cores	3,584	6,144
Boost clock
Boost clock	2,520 MHz (better)	2,512 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	56 compute units, 128 ROPs; game clock 2070 MHz; 53.9 billion transistors	GB205 GPU; 48 SMs
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	–	TSMC 4nm (4N NVIDIA custom process); 31.1 billion transistors; 263 mm² die
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	56 third-generation Ray Accelerators	48 fourth-generation RT Cores; 94 RT TFLOPS
AI cores
AI cores	112 AI Accelerators; up to 578 TOPS INT8 or 1156 TOPS INT4 with structured sparsity	192 fifth-generation Tensor Cores; 988 AI TOPS
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	AMD FSR "Redstone" (including FSR 4 upscaling), AMD Fluid Motion Frames, Radeon Super Resolution	DLSS 4.5 with Super Resolution, DLAA, Ray Reconstruction, Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation
Base clock
Base clock	–	2.33 GHz
Cache
Cache	64 MB AMD Infinity Cache	48 MB L2
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	16 GB GDDR6 (better)	12 GB GDDR7
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit (better)	192-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	640 GB/s	672 GB/s (better)
Memory detail
Memory detail	GDDR6 at up to 20 Gbps	GDDR7 at 28 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	220 W (better)	250 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 5.0 x16	PCIe 5.0
Display outputs
Display outputs	DisplayPort 2.1a, HDMI 2.1b (number of ports depends on the card)	3 × DisplayPort 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 × HDMI 2.1b; up to 4 displays; HDCP 2.3
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	–	4K at 480 Hz or 8K at 165 Hz with DSC
Power connector
Power connector	2 × 8-pin	1 × 300 W or greater PCIe Gen 5 cable, or 2 × PCIe 8-pin cables with the adapter in the box
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	650 W	650 W
Slot width
Slot width	–	2-slot (Founders Edition)
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	–	242 × 112 mm, 2-slot (Founders Edition)
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode	1 × ninth-generation NVENC, 1 × sixth-generation NVDEC; AV1 encode and decode