RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT: Which GPU Wins in 2026?

Benchmarks and what each frame costs

The Ti’s Newegg price premium exceeds its performance lead in all six of Tom’s Hardware’s averages below.

What the Ti’s extra $330 buys. Frame rates are averages from Tom’s Hardware’s GPU hierarchy (Jeffrey Kampman, updated June 24, 2026): 11 raster games, four with ray-tracing support, plus four games that require RT or look best with it, at a mix of high and ultra settings on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The FPS below come from the numbers in parentheses in its 1080p, 1440p and 4K Ultra columns. Prices are the cheapest new cards sold and shipped by Newegg when I checked on September 26, 2026: the MSI RTX 5070 Ti 16G Frieren Edition OC at $1,149.99 and the ASRock RX 9070 XT Steel Legend at $819.99, one of three new RX 9070 XT listings at that price. The Ti costs 40% more.

At Newegg’s September 26, 2026 prices the RX 9070 XT’s frame is cheaper in every row. At 1440p without ray tracing a Ti frame costs 40% more. Even in the 4K ray tracing row, the Ti’s best, it costs $31.33 against $27.24. These are suite averages, and one game can sit far from them. To set either card against another GPU at three resolutions, open the GPU comparison tool with both cards loaded.

Steven Walton’s RTX 5070 Ti vs RX 9070 XT test for TechSpot (May 22, 2026) ran 52 games, each at two presets with ray tracing on in some, on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The 5070 Ti came out 2 fps ahead at 1440p, about 1.4%, and averaged 84 fps at 4K against the Radeon’s 81 fps, roughly a 4% lead. TechSpot’s 55-game test a year earlier had the Radeon about 5% behind at both resolutions. With ray tracing disabled, TechSpot says, the 9070 XT consistently beats the 5070 Ti at 1440p.

Weighing the plain RTX 5070 instead? The cheapest new one sold by Newegg on September 26, 2026 was the MSI RTX 5070 12G Gaming Trio OC at $869.99, $50 more than the 9070 XT. In Tom’s Hardware’s June 24, 2026 GPU hierarchy averages the 9070 XT is 21% faster at 1440p without ray tracing (116.5 against 96.4 fps) and 8% faster with it (55.5 against 51.5). At those prices, skip the 5070. The NVIDIA step between those two is in RTX 5070 vs RTX 5070 Ti.

Where the RTX 5070 Ti earns its price

In Tom’s Hardware’s June 24, 2026 GPU hierarchy averages the Ti is 16% faster at 1080p, 19% at 1440p (66.2 against 55.5 fps) and 22% at 4K with ray tracing on. The heavy cases are far wider. In Steven Walton’s May 22, 2026 52-game test for TechSpot, the Ti ran path-traced Doom: The Dark Ages at 31 fps at 1440p, 63% faster than the 9070 XT and still short of playable, and it led by 56% at 1440p in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with high ray tracing.

It is not a sweep. TechSpot found the 9070 XT level with the Ti or ahead with ray tracing on in Pragmata, Resident Evil Requiem and Monster Hunter Wilds. If those are your games, the average lead does not apply to you.

TechSpot also saw the Ti pull ahead more often at 4K and says the likely reason is its 40% more memory bandwidth from GDDR7, 896 GB/s against 640.

For video and AI work, NVIDIA’s spec page lists two ninth-generation NVENC encoders on the Ti, plus CUDA support. For streaming, video export or local AI, I would buy the Ti.

DLSS or FSR Redstone

Both cards upscale with machine learning and both generate frames. NVIDIA’s DLSS page says Multi Frame Generation on RTX 50 cards can generate up to five frames per rendered frame, and DLSS 4.5 added a dynamic multiplier and a second-generation transformer model for upscaling. DLSS 5 adds 3D-Guided Neural Rendering on RTX 50 cards, which uses AI to add lighting and materials to a scene, tuned per game by its developers. On the AMD side, AMD’s FSR page groups FSR Upscaling (the renamed FSR 4), FSR Frame Generation, Ray Regeneration and Radiance Caching as FSR Redstone on RX 9000 cards; FSR Upscaling 4.1 also runs on RX 7000. In games with neither, AMD’s driver-level AFMF 2.1 runs on RX 6000 cards and newer and adds generated frames across thousands of games in DirectX 11, DirectX 12, Vulkan and OpenGL.

At Newegg’s September 26, 2026 prices, I would not pay the extra $330 for frame generation alone; both cards have a version of it now.

Specs, power and PSU

From NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 family page, AMD’s RX 9070 XT page and the spec table in Jarred Walton’s RTX 5070 Ti review for Tom’s Hardware (February 19, 2025). MSRP figures are from Tom’s Hardware’s GPU hierarchy (updated June 24, 2026):

ASUS Prime RX 9070 XT exact-card specs

ASUS identifies the Prime OC card as PRIME-RX9070XT-O16G. Its current specification page, checked October 11, 2026, lists a 312 × 130 × 50mm, 2.5-slot card with three 8-pin power connectors and a 750W PSU recommendation. Default mode reaches up to a 3010MHz boost clock and 2460MHz game clock. Those dimensions and connectors are model-specific; use them instead of the reference-GPU row when checking case and power fit for the Prime.

Shader counts are not comparable across the two architectures; the benchmark table is the comparison.

The spec sheets put the two cards 4W apart, though NVIDIA rates total graphics power and AMD typical board power. TechSpot, citing its launch-day testing, says the RX 9070 XT typically consumes about 20% more power than the 5070 Ti. Both vendors recommend 750W for the reference cards; ASRock recommends 800W for the Steel Legend listed here. Check the exact card before buying a PSU. Board-partner requirements can be higher. If you buy the 9070 XT, the RX 9070 XT undervolt guide covers bringing that draw down, the RTX 5070 Ti undervolt guide does the same for the NVIDIA card, and the PSU wattage calculator sizes the rest of the build.

Which should you buy?

I may earn a commission if you buy through these affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

• The RX 9070 XT for raster gaming at 1440p or 4K, and for ray tracing in the games where TechSpot found it level. The ASRock RX 9070 XT Steel Legend was $819.99 at Newegg on September 26, 2026. Check it on Amazon or at Newegg.
• The RTX 5070 Ti if you play path-traced games, stream or export on NVENC, or run CUDA software. The cheapest new one sold by Newegg on September 26, 2026 was the MSI RTX 5070 Ti 16G Frieren Edition OC at $1,149.99. I found no Frieren Edition on Amazon that day, so search Amazon for RTX 5070 Ti cards, or check the Frieren Edition at Newegg.
• Not the RTX 5080. At Newegg on September 26, 2026 the MSI RTX 5080 16G Ventus 3X OC Black cost $1,679.99, 46% more than the Ti, for 128.3 fps against 116.8 at 1440p in Tom’s Hardware’s June 24, 2026 GPU hierarchy raster averages, 9.8% more. If you want it anyway, my ROG Astral RTX 5080 OC review has my own 4K runs on that GPU.

Both cards are S tier in my 2026 GPU hierarchy, next to each other. One price tier down, the same NVIDIA-or-AMD choice is in the RTX 5060 Ti vs RX 9060 XT 1440p showdown.