AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Graphics Cards on 5 March 2025 at 09:00 AM EST. Page 2 of 7. 102 Comments.

For this initial round of Radeon RX 9070 series Linux testing, the following graphics cards were recently (re)tested:

- RTX 3070
- RTX 3070 Ti
- RTX 3080
- RTX 3090
- RTX 4070
- RTX 4070 SUPER
- RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
- RTX 4080
- RTX 4080 SUPER
- RTX 4090
- RTX 5080
- RTX 5090
- RX 5700 XT
- RX 6750 XT
- RX 6800
- RX 6800 XT
- RX 7700 XT
- RX 7800 XT
- RX 7900 GRE
- RX 7900 XT
- RX 7900 XTX
- RX 9070
- RX 9070 XT

This was based on the recent graphics cards I had available. Unfortunately I hadn't received any NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review sample. And then for lack of the GeForce RTX 5070, as mentioned in yesterday's GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute testing, I am waiting on a new Linux driver release from NVIDIA for supporting the graphics card. It works fine for compute (and in the RTX 9070 compute article are results) but no gaming-ready Linux driver release yet.

The latest NVIDIA Linux drivers as of testing were used and then on the AMD Radeon side was their open-source and upstream driver state using the Linux 6.14-rc4 kernel and Mesa 25.1-devel via the Oibaf PPA.

All tests were carried out on the same Intel Arrow Lake system. In this article is just the gaming/graphics benchmarks while the other article today is focused more on GPU compute (AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance).

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