AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT VS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

amd

Brand

16GB GDDR6

Memory

5120

Cores

512 GB/s

Bandwidth

Radeon RX 6900 XT

$499.99 Oct 2020 View Details

$989.00

$499.99

nvidia

Brand

12GB GDDR7

Memory

6144

Cores

672 GB/s

Bandwidth

GeForce RTX 5070

$519.99 Mar 2025 View Details

$519.99

$549.99

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

16GB GDDR6 300W $499.99 Oct 2020

Radeon RX 6900 XT

$999 • Oct 2020

GeForce RTX 5070

$549 • Mar 2025

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

12GB GDDR7 250W $519.99 Mar 2025

Specs Comparison

Specification	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
Memory Size	16 GB	12 GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR7
TDP	300 W	250 W
Core Clock	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	2250 MHz	2512 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	512 GB/s	672 GB/s
Process Size	7nm	5nm
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Blackwell 2.0
Shading Units	5120	6144
RT Cores	80	48
TMUs	320	192
ROPs	128	80
Memory Bus	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Clock	2000 MHz	1750 MHz
Pixel Rate	288 GPixel/s	201 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	512 GTexel/s	482.3 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance	23.04 GFLOPS	30.87 GFLOPS
L2 Cache	4.00 MB	48.00 MB
Die Size	520 mm²	263 mm²
Transistors	26800 Million	31100 Million
Required PSU	700 W	600 W
Power Connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 16-pin
Bus Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 5.0 x16
DirectX	12.2	12.2
Vulkan	1.3	1.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Foundry	TSMC	TSMC

Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy

Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads

Graphics Score

20261

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

23103 (+14%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Geekbench 6

Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs

OpenCL Score

124121

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

190967 (+54%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

GFXBench 5.0

Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs

Aztec Ruins High (FPS)

305.2 FPS

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

FPS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

PassMark G2D

Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations

G2D Mark

26744

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

29107 (+9%)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Game Benchmarks Comparison (231 benchmarks)

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora From The Ashes

7.6 2025 • Action, Adventure • Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Reflections

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+33%)

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 68 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 60 FPS

MIN 53 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+31%)

AVG 55 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 42 FPS

MIN 38 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+35%)

AVG 35 FPS

MIN 30 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 26 FPS

MIN 22 FPS

Winner

Loser

PRAGMATA SKETCHBOOK - DEMO

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure • CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+14%)

AVG 95 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 83 FPS

MIN 74 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+14%)

AVG 74 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 65 FPS

MIN 59 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+24%)

AVG 46 FPS

MIN 41 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 37 FPS

MIN 33 FPS

Winner

Loser

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories Background

Assassin's Creed Mirage Valley of Memories

8 2025 • Action, Adventure • Ubisoft Bordeaux

1080p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5070 (+6%)

AVG 116 FPS

MIN 100 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 109 FPS

MIN 94 FPS

1440p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5070 (+7%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 87 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 81 FPS

2160p

| ultra

| Patch: v1.1.0

GeForce RTX 5070 (+12%)

AVG 66 FPS

MIN 58 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 59 FPS

MIN 52 FPS

Winner

Loser

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy Background

Company of Heroes 3: Endure & Defy

8.5 2025 • Action, Strategy • Relic Entertainment

1080p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+37%)

AVG 212 FPS

MIN 48 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 155 FPS

MIN 40 FPS

1440p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+18%)

AVG 154 FPS

MIN 35 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 130 FPS

MIN 28 FPS

2160p

| high

GeForce RTX 5070 (+18%)

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 18 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 68 FPS

MIN 13 FPS

Winner

Loser

Of Ash and Steel

8.7 2025 • Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG • Fire & Frost

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+29%)

AVG 189 FPS

MIN 157 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 146 FPS

MIN 130 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+32%)

AVG 160 FPS

MIN 134 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 121 FPS

MIN 108 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+31%)

AVG 98 FPS

MIN 86 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 75 FPS

MIN 67 FPS

Winner

Loser

Where Winds Meet

8.2 2025 • Action, Adventure, RPG, Free To Play • Everstone Studio

1080p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+46%)

AVG 134 FPS

MIN 117 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 92 FPS

MIN 83 FPS

1440p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+30%)

AVG 104 FPS

MIN 91 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 80 FPS

MIN 73 FPS

2160p

| ultra

GeForce RTX 5070 (+19%)

AVG 63 FPS

MIN 57 FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

AVG 53 FPS

MIN 49 FPS

Winner

Loser

No more benchmarks available for this comparison

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Wins!

Based on 231 benchmarks across 67 games

Avg FPS

Radeon RX 6900 XT

+23.4%

Avg FPS

GeForce RTX 5070