Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange.

At $600, AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is just where it needs to be to compete for 4K gaming against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.

AMD has finally done it. For years it's tried to undercut NVIDIA with slightly cheaper, but less capable, video cards like the Radeon 6700 XT and 7900 XT. And sure, it's still following that same strategy with the new Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT.

That said, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX's memory bandwidth (384-bit/960GBps) and memory capacity (24GB) are undeniable advantages. The Radeon RX 9070 XT ships with a 256-bit memory interface and 16GB of GDDR6, which gives it 640GBps of bandwidth. That should be sufficient to avoid any major bottlenecks, but it is still less than some competing options.

At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・Fantastic 1440p gaming performance ・Radeon 9070 beats RTX 5070 performance; Radeon 9070 XT goes toe-to-toe with RTX 5070 Ti for $150 less ・16GB of memory and 256-bit bus are built for 4K gaming and strenuous modern games ・Ray tracing performance is vastly improved ・AI accelerators enable FSR 4 upscaling ・Hypr-RX

Here are the ASRock Taichi 9070 XT benchmarks, as we run the new graphics card in Indiana Jones, Black Ops 6, and more, with FSR 4 tests.

AMD’s RX 9070 series delivers high-refresh 1440p and smooth 4K gaming, improved ray tracing, AI-powered FSR 4, and HYPR-RX for enhanced performance.

The most striking improvement lies in the number of AI and ray tracing (RT) accelerators, which have seen a noticeable boost compared to previous generations. The RX 9070 XT packs 64 RDNA 4 compute units,

The $549 and $599 price points put these GPUs in intense competition with NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series. Plus, AMD committed to an AI telecom solution layer at Mobile World Congress.

AMD really came out swinging with the Radeon RX 9070 XT. At $599, it undercuts the Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 Ti by a whopping 21%, but ends up being, on average, 2% faster. There are games where the RTX 5070 Ti beats the Radeon RX 9070 XT, but the fact that these two graphics cards are trading blows at all is a win for AMD.