The RX 9070 faced off with the RTX 5070 when it launched in March, and it did a great job of it. It undercut the competition and offered not just credible performance, but impressive performance. That raises the question, can it go up against the even-more-expensive RTX 5070 Ti? Benchmarks would suggest it can.
But performance is never the whole story. Let’s see how the RX 9070 and 5070 Ti compare, head to head.
The AMD RX 9070 launched on March 6, with a suggested retail price of $549. Unfortunately, like every new component launch in 2025 so far, stock issues and tariffs from the new Trump administration mean that graphics card prices are far higher than they should be, and if you can find an RX 9070 in stock, its price is more likely to be between $650 and $750. It can go for ever more on second-hand markets.
The RTX 5070 Ti was launched at the end of February, with a suggested retail price of $750. Like the RX 9070 and other RTX 50-series cards, though, its price has skyrocketed. These cards sell for over $1,000 when they’re in stock at all, and some listings are as high as $1,300.
The two cards are quite different in design, so their specifications are quite distinct, too. The RX 9070’s die packs in billions more transisitors, but the RTX 5070 Ti has many more CUDA cores than the AMD GPU’s shader units. Nvidia’s card has more tensor and RT cores, and much faster memory — but it comes at the cost of much higher power demands.
The RX 9070 can keep up in clock speed, though.
Let’s shine a light on the elephant in the room: The RTX 5070 Ti is the faster card. It has better rasterization performance, better ray tracing capabilities, and its DLSS upscaling and multi frame generation are better than the AMD alternatives. But the RX 9070 holds it own fairly well.
If we look at the overclocking RX 9070 XT graph from famed overclocker, der8auer, we can see that the RX 9070 is only within a few FPS of the RTX 5070 Ti in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K, and its 1% minimums are actually better than the Nvidia card.
In Club386’s testing, the RX 9070 was less than 10% slower than the RTX 5070 Ti, despite pulling far less power. PCGamer’s testing showed the RX 9070 dominating the RTX 5070 and often only sitting a few frames per second behind the RTX 5070 Ti.
In TechPowerUp’s relative performance tables, the RX 9070 falls about 20% behind the RTX 5070 Ti and that’s probably a fair distance to put between the two cards across a super wide range of games and all factors considered. But there’s no denying that the RX 9070 is more than powerful enough to play games at 1440p and at 4K with great frame rates, and do it much cheaper than the 5070 Ti.
If you’re looking for a new graphics card in 2025, you need to consider just buying whatever you can get your hands on. The market is that bare and the prices are that bad. But if we’re to look at these two cards objectively, they each have different things going for them.
The RTX 5070 Ti is the faster card. Its rasterization performance is better across most games, and its RT and AI upscaling capabilities are greater than the RX 9070s. However, the RX 9070 is often only 10-15% slower then the 5070 Ti, and its FSR frame generation and upscaling are still solid options in compatible games — there isn’t much of a difference on ray tracing, either.
As with most of the new GPUs this generation, what you can and should get comes down to price. If you can get either of these cards at MSRP, they’re worth considering. But in reality, the best you can hope for is a $700 RX 9070, or a $1,000+ RTX 5070 Ti. At least for the next couple of months.
With that in mind, the RX 9070 is the better buy. The 5070 Ti does not offer $300 (or over 42%!) additional performance or capabilities. It also uses far more power and makes you use Nvidia’s problematic power connector. The RX 9070 is good enough and could be great when its price returns to something more sensible, but for now it’s just the better value buy.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.
Two new highly requested iCloud plugins just got added to ChatGPT, giving people who rely on Apple’s Mail and Calendar services a way to search emails, check appointments, and manage their schedules directly through the chatbot.
The integration is rolling out to all ChatGPT plans, including the free tier. You can access it on the web, desktop, and iOS.