AMD have finally done it. In this video I tested the new Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT (RDNA 4) against NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti, focusing on real-world gaming at 1440p and 4K. On paper you’re getting 16GB of GDDR6 on both AMD cards, and while it’s slower than NVIDIA’s memory, the actual raster performance is the story here—especially for the 9070 XT. At 1440p it’s basically trading blows with the 5070 Ti in a lot of titles, and that’s wild when the XT is supposed to be about $150 cheaper. The big takeaway is I don’t really recommend the non-XT 9070 because the 9070 XT is only about $50 more and was ~12% faster in my testing—money well spent. At 4K, the 9070 XT can land in the “last-gen flagship” neighborhood in some games, which makes $600 feel like it actually buys an enthusiast-tier upgrade again. There are catches: DLSS still looks better than FSR in a lot of games (FSR 3/2.1 can look unbelievably oversharpened and shimmery), heavy ray tracing can make the XT tank (RT Overdrive in Cyberpunk), NVIDIA is more power efficient, and if you do real work like Blender/3D rendering, NVIDIA is still the safer pick. But for mostly native raster gaming, AMD are absolutely rinsing NVIDIA on price-to-performance—assuming these actually show up at MSRP.