RTX 5070 Ti loses 16% performance lead to RX 9070 XT in Witcher 3 Remastered at 1440p

The RTX 5070 Ti loses ground to the RX 9070 XT in updated gaming benchmarks, which matters to buyers because the newer title version penalizes NVIDIA hardware more severely than AMD's counterpart. At 1440p and 4K resolutions, the remastered game engine reveals a shift in performance hierarchy that highlights specific limitations in the architecture. This means gamers relying on the RTX 5070 Ti for high-refresh-rate 1440p play may need to adjust their expectations for this specific title.

RTX 5070 Ti benchmark results reveal significant performance penalty in remastered game

Hardware Unboxed tested both cards in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered using native rendering and Ultra presets without any upscaling technologies. The test environment isolates raw rasterization performance by disabling temporal upscalers like DLSS or FSR. This approach reveals how each GPU handles the increased computational load of the remastered assets at native resolutions.

• RTX 5070 Ti 1080p Avg FPS (Remastered): 153
• RTX 5070 Ti 1080p 1% Low FPS (Remastered): 121
• RTX 5070 Ti 1080p Avg FPS (Classic): 165
• RTX 5070 Ti 1080p 1% Low FPS (Classic): 141
• RX 9070 XT 1080p Avg FPS (Remastered): 142

At 1080p, the RTX 5070 Ti averages 153 FPS compared to the RX 9070 XT's 142 FPS. The NVIDIA card maintains an 8 percent average frame rate advantage in this resolution. However, the RX 9070 XT shows instability in 1 percent low frame rates due to current driver software defects. Frame rate instability in extreme scenarios impacts smoothness, even though the card achieves higher average frame rates in classic benchmarks.

The performance gap widens significantly at 1440p where the RX 9070 XT averages 118 FPS. The RTX 5070 Ti drops to 102 FPS in the remastered version, suffering a 23 percent performance decline compared to its classic benchmark results. This 16 percent deficit allows the AMD card to take the lead at this resolution. At 4K, the RTX 5070 Ti recovers slightly to average 61 FPS against the RX 9070 XT's 57 FPS. We have been tracking RTX 5070 Ti closely and noted earlier reports on Walmart ships four RTX 5070 Ti.

The RTX 5070 Ti retains a narrow 7 percent advantage at 4K but loses the 1440p battleground entirely in this specific remastered test. Buyers should consider that driver issues currently impact the RX 9070 XT's low-frame stability at 1080p. Benchmark results indicate that game engine updates can significantly change the relative performance rankings of graphics cards.