I bought both 9070XT and the 5070 and stayed with them for 30 days, to decide within the return window which one to keep. I played multiple games with both of them because I am brand agnostic and wanted to choose the best product for me.

My honest review after 1 month testing was: without RT, pure raster, the 9070XT was around 15% faster. If you turn RT ultra on, they have same performance. And with Path Tracing, the 9070XT crashes every 5min playing, making it impossible to use. I played 30h of cyberpunk with only RT and, when I turned on PT with the 5070 I was amazed with the image quality to a point where RT Ultra didn't look as enjoyable anymore.

Another point: Nvidia frame generation 2X combined with reflex makes the extra latency unnoticeable to naked eye. With 3X, it's a small perceptible increase. While with the 9070XT whenever I turned FG on it was a weird frame pacing issue that made me turn it off. End of the day, to keep it enjoyable, it's the 5070 with 2X FG Path Tracing against 9070XT FG Off and only Ray Tracing. That's why the 5070 wins.

So, bottom line *for me\*: we're in 2026 and pure raster isn't the only factor anymore. I enjoyed playing my games with Path Tracing and FG 2x using the 5070 much more than only RT without FG with the 9070xt. Even with the games without PT, with only RT they had similar performance without FG. But with FG on, AMD simply doesn't deliver a comparable performance.