Radeon RX 9070
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($549) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
People love the smooth 1440p performance and great value for the money. The common complaint is the card runs hotter than expected under load.
- Great value for smooth 1440p gaming
- Handles ray tracing without stuttering
- Stays quiet under heavy gaming loads
- Plenty of VRAM for modern textures
- Ray tracing performance lags behind competitors.
- Needs a beefy power supply for stability.
- Fan curve is aggressive under load.
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 3,584
- RT Cores
- 56
- AI Accelerators
- 112
- TMUs
- 224
- ROPs
- 128
- L2 cache
- 8 MB
- Size
- 16 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 644.6 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2518 MHz
- Base clock
- 1330 MHz
- Boost clock
- 2520 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 36.13 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 36.13 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 323 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 564.5 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 220W
- Suggested PSU
- 400W
- Power connectors
- 2x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 5.0 x16
- Length
- 267 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.1b, 3x DisplayPort 2.1a
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.8
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.2
- Vulkan
- 1.3
Our verdict on the RX 9070
The Radeon RX 9070 is a sensible, mid-range GPU that trades top-tier speed for good 1440p performance and the new FSR 4’s sharpness.
Get it if you want a solid mid-range card for 1440p gaming without chasing 4K ray tracing dreams. Skip it if you need top-tier ray tracing performance or plan to heavily use AI workloads where Nvidia's software ecosystem dominates.
Buy it if…
- You want smooth 1440p gaming without ray tracing.
- You need a reliable upgrade from an older mid-range card.
- You are building a quiet, power-efficient gaming PC.
Its place in the overall top
139 votes