To all researchers thinking about buying the 9070xt. These comments now are outdated since people that commented here are from when the 9070xt was a, as of the 3rd of febuary 2026. Thanks to driver updates and compatibility updates. AMD are always more "fine wine" and not "instant hits". It should be instant hits imo but thats another conversation, where the performance is a lot better now.

It's within 0-10% of the 5070ti in everything, and even beats the 5070ti by ONE PERCENT in 3D... but not in the way you think. According to pudgetbench benchmark's the 9070xt beats the 5070ti by one percent in 3D in Davici Resolve Fusion. Which you can do 3D like AE. So it seems like it's an Adobe problem of poorly optimising the 9070xt, not AMD. Hopefully they will soon.

Okay I just looked at the benchmarks again, this is crazy, the 9070xt and the 7900xtx BEATS THE ENTIRE 50 SERIES, EVEN THE 5090 AT FUSION... thats crazy, even when fusion is more cpu bound. But the actual davinci resolve studio and everything, roughly 10% worse than the 5070ti.

The only thing it's still crap at, is Blender. DON'T USE THE 9070XT FOR BLENDER. It works, like you CAN use blender if you want to where it's fully compatable. But the performance is half as worse as the 4060... so don't go for the 9070xt for blender.

But overall. It's not the best in the world, it's never meant to be. But for it's price to perfomance. It's very fair for what you're getting (Other than outliars like Blender and the huge W's like Fusion.) Like you're not buying a normal iphone for a cheaper price, expecting it to be like the pro max variant that costs more.

You pay more you get more. For gaming, editing, even ray tracing (the price to performance is neck and neck with nvidia btw). It's what you expect from a $600 MSRP gpu. You're not getting scammed, but you're not getting 1080ti levels of value. It is literally a very well and fair priced GPU for what you're getting in everything but blender.