A little over a year ago, we compared the Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti in a 55 game benchmark and found the Radeon GPU trailing by roughly 5% at both 1440p and 4K. That comparison, however, focused primarily on rasterization performance, which is something we're changing for this updated benchmark review.
This time around, we've a few interesting changes to the testing methodology. Most importantly, every game has been tested using two quality presets, with some configurations enabling ray tracing and others disabling it. The result is a much broader look at how these GPUs behave across modern rendering workloads, and there's a lot of interesting data to unpack.
In total, we've benchmarked 52 games, including a healthy mix of newer releases. Most of the testing was conducted in-game using external performance monitoring software, though in cases where a built-in benchmark was used, we've labeled that on the graphs.
With that out of the way, let's dive into the data…
Pragmata is a strong showing for the RX 9070 XT. The Radeon card outperforms the RTX 5070 Ti across all tested metrics. It holds a solid 5-9% lead with the quality settings maxed out and extends that to an impressive 12-13% advantage when ray tracing is enabled.
