AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The benchmark data shows a clear split between legacy DirectX performance and modern compute workloads. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile wins 6 of the 9 head-to-head tests, while the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT takes 3 wins, each with notable margins.

The largest single victory belongs to the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile in Geekbench Vulkan. It scores 139,213 against the RX 7700 XT's 46,443, a 66.6% advantage. This is the most decisive result in the entire comparison and indicates a substantial gap in Vulkan API efficiency. The Geekbench OpenCL result is much closer: 143,870 versus 138,383, a 3.8% edge for the NVIDIA part. Both Geekbench tests favor the mobile GPU, but the OpenCL margin is modest, while the Vulkan margin is dominant.

In Passmark DX11, the two are nearly tied. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile scores 237, the RX 7700 XT scores 232, a 2.1% difference. The DX12 test shows a wider separation: 102 versus 79, a 22.5% win for NVIDIA. DX10 also favors NVIDIA at 151 versus 119, a 21.2% gap. These results indicate that the NVIDIA architecture handles newer DirectX feature levels with greater efficiency, while the older DX9 path tells a different story.

The RX 7700 XT wins Passmark DX9 by 13.5%, scoring 294 against 259. Its Passmark G2D score is 1,161 versus 981, an 18.3% advantage in 2D graphics work. The most striking AMD win comes in Passmark GPU Compute, where the RX 7700 XT posts 12,912 against 10,101, a 27.8% lead. This contradicts the overall trend and shows that raw compute throughput on the AMD side remains competitive despite the NVIDIA wins elsewhere.

The Passmark G3D aggregate score favors NVIDIA at 24,004 versus 22,547, a 6.1% difference. The average benchmark scores in the database tell a more dramatic story: the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile averages 35,435, while the RX 7700 XT averages 22,549. However, this average includes different test sets, so the head-to-head deltas are the more reliable comparison. The percentile ranking supports the NVIDIA advantage: the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile sits at the 80th percentile of all GPUs, while the RX 7700 XT sits at the 67th percentile.

Looking at nearest rivals in the database, the RX 7700 XT's 22,549 average places it within 0.5% of the RTX 5060 Mobile (22,435), 0.8% behind the RTX 4060 Mobile (22,729), and 1.5% behind the RTX 2080 (22,895). It is 1.7% ahead of the RX 5700 (22,170). The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile's 35,435 average is 0.2% behind the Quadro GV100 (35,520), 1.2% behind the Radeon Pro Duo (35,860), 2.1% ahead of the NVIDIA A2 (34,690), and 2.4% behind the NVIDIA T1000 (36,289).

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins more head-to-head benchmark tests?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile wins 6 of the 9 tests, while the AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT wins 3.

Q: What is the biggest performance gap in either direction?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile leads by 66.6% in Geekbench Vulkan, scoring 139,213 versus 46,443. The RX 7700 XT's largest win is 27.8% in Passmark GPU Compute, 12,912 versus 10,101.

Q: How do the two compare in DirectX 12 workloads?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile scores 102 in Passmark DX12 against 79 for the RX 7700 XT, a 22.5% advantage for NVIDIA.

Q: Where does the AMD card outperform NVIDIA?

A: The RX 7700 XT wins in Passmark DX9 by 13.5%, Passmark G2D by 18.3%, and Passmark GPU Compute by 27.8%.

Q: What are the average benchmark scores for each card?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile has an average benchmark score of 35,435, while the RX 7700 XT averages 22,549.

Q: How do the percentile rankings compare?

A: The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile ranks at the 80th percentile of all GPUs, while the RX 7700 XT ranks at the 67th percentile.

The Verdict

The data favors the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile in most modern graphics workloads. Its Vulkan advantage is enormous, its DX12 lead is substantial, and its G3D aggregate score is 6.1% higher. The 80th percentile ranking versus 67th confirms that the mobile NVIDIA part sits in a higher performance tier overall.

The AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT remains the stronger choice for compute-oriented tasks. Its 27.8% lead in Passmark GPU Compute is the largest AMD win in the comparison, and its 13.5% DX9 and 18.3% G2D victories indicate strength in legacy and 2D workloads. Users running older DirectX titles or compute-heavy applications would find the RX 7700 XT delivers more throughput in those specific tests.

The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile is the pick for Vulkan-based games and modern DirectX 12 content. The 66.6% Vulkan margin is decisive enough to outweigh the AMD compute advantage in most gaming scenarios. The RX 7700 XT is the pick for users prioritizing compute performance or running DX9-era software, where its margins are clear but narrower in scope.

The 3-win versus 6-win split in head-to-head tests, combined with the 13-point percentile gap, indicates the NVIDIA part is the more balanced performer across the recorded benchmark suite.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ across nearly every major specification category. The RX 7700 XT uses 3,456 shading units, 216 TMUs, and 96 ROPs. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile uses 5,888 shading units, 184 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. NVIDIA has fewer texture units and ROPs but far more shading units.

Clock speeds are dramatically different. The RX 7700 XT runs at a 1,435 MHz base and 2,544 MHz boost, with a 2,171 MHz game clock. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile runs at an 847 MHz base and 1,447 MHz boost, with no game clock listed. Despite the lower clocks, the NVIDIA part achieves higher frame rates in most tests due to its architecture.

Memory configurations share 12 GB capacity and a 192-bit bus, but the type and speed differ. The RX 7700 XT uses GDDR6 at 2,250 MHz with 18 Gbps effective speed, delivering 432.0 GB/s bandwidth. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile uses GDDR7 at 1,750 MHz with 28 Gbps effective speed, delivering 672.0 GB/s bandwidth. The NVIDIA card has 55.6% more memory bandwidth.

Power characteristics are polar opposites. The RX 7700 XT has a 245 W TDP, requires dual-slot cooling, and needs two 8-pin power connectors plus a 550 W suggested PSU. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile has a 60 W TDP, is an IGP form factor with no power connectors, and lists no suggested PSU. The AMD card consumes over four times the power budget.

The RX 7700 XT uses PCIe 4.0 x16, while the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile uses PCIe 5.0 x16. Display outputs differ completely: the AMD card offers 1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, and 1x USB Type-C, while the NVIDIA card's outputs are listed as portable device dependent. Physical dimensions exist only for the RX 7700 XT: 267 mm length, 135 mm height, and 50 mm width.

The RX 7700 XT has a release date of September 5, 2023, and a launch MSRP of 449 USD. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile has a release date of February 28, 2025, and no launch MSRP recorded. Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

Architecture Differences

The RX 7700 XT is built on the Navi 32 chip using RDNA 3.0 architecture, codenamed Wheat Nas, part of the Navi III (RX 7000) generation. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile is built on the GB205 chip using Blackwell 2.0 architecture, part of the GeForce 50 Mobile generation. Both use a 5 nm process from TSMC, but the transistor counts and die sizes differ significantly.

The RX 7700 XT packs 28,100 million transistors on a 346 mm² die, for a transistor density of 81.2M per mm². The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile packs 31,100 million transistors on a 263 mm² die, for a density of 118.3M per mm². The NVIDIA chip is smaller yet denser, fitting 10.7% more transistors into 24% less die area.

Ray tracing hardware differs in count. The RX 7700 XT has 54 RT cores, while the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile has 46. The NVIDIA part compensates with 184 tensor cores, a feature the AMD card lacks entirely, since tensorCores is null for the RX 7700 XT.

Rasterization throughput tells a mixed story. The RX 7700 XT achieves 244.2 GPixel/s pixel rate and 549.5 GTexel/s texture rate. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile achieves 115.8 GPixel/s and 266.2 GTexel/s, roughly half in both metrics. Yet the FP32 compute figures invert the picture: the RX 7700 XT delivers 35.17 TFLOPS, while the RTX 5070 Ti Mobile delivers 17.04 TFLOPS, half the AMD figure. Both run FP16 at a 1:1 ratio with their FP32 numbers.

The production status for both is Active. The RX 7700 XT lists Navi II as its predecessor and Navi IV as its successor. The RTX 5070 Ti Mobile lists GeForce 40 Mobile as its predecessor and has no successor recorded. The AMD card is a desktop add-in board with a dual-slot cooler; the NVIDIA card is an integrated graphics package with no slot width beyond IGP classification.

The architectural split is clear: AMD uses more silicon area, higher clocks, and more raster hardware to drive raw throughput, while NVIDIA uses a denser chip, tensor cores, and higher memory bandwidth to achieve efficiency and API-level performance advantages. The 66.6% Vulkan lead and 22.5% DX12 lead suggest the Blackwell 2.0 architecture extracts more performance from lower clocks and half the FP32 throughput. The RX 7700 XT's 27.8% compute win shows RDNA 3.0 still holds an edge in general-purpose GPU workloads despite the architectural differences.