AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Hashrate in Cryptocurrency Mining

At the beginning of 2025, two competing companies, Nvidia and AMD, presented their visions for the next generation of graphics cards. While Nvidia focused on the new GDDR7 memory format and various AI features in its Blackwell series (RTX 5000), it continued to use the same manufacturing process that had been in place since 2022 for the 4000 series. On the other hand, AMD took a different approach by introducing the new N4P process, replacing the N5 process used in RDNA3 cards, but retained the older GDDR6 memory. We will try to determine which of these design approaches, combined with pricing strategies, will be more favorable for cryptocurrency mining today.

It is worth noting that the new N4P process for AMD's RDNA4 graphics cards is an improved 5nm process, similar to the N4 process used by Nvidia. Both of these processes were introduced back in 2022 and have similar characteristics. In other words, AMD has only caught up with Nvidia in this aspect after two years, while still lagging behind in the adoption of modern GDDR7 memory.

Personally, I find this stagnation in the technical development of consumer graphics cards disappointing. GDDR7 has been available since 2023, and the use of a three-year-old manufacturing process in products that are, to put it mildly, not the cheapest, is even more disheartening.

AMD had a chance to repeat its success with the RX 480, when the company offered consumers a new GCN architecture, new GDDR6 memory, a new 14nm process, and a low starting price of $199. The RX 480 was so successful in cryptocurrency mining that even in 2025, nine years later, these cards are still in use in mining farms.

Despite this, the AMD RX 9070 XT has a lower price per unit of pure GPU computing power and a new RDNA4 architecture, which could also significantly impact the card's performance in cryptocurrency mining.

Technical Specifications of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT:

As seen in the table, the RX 9070 XT has only 6% more compute cores, but thanks to a significantly higher GPU core clock speed, its computing power has increased by 30%. There is also a 15% increase in power consumption, but due to the more advanced manufacturing process, the energy efficiency of the card has still improved. The memory subsystem has seen a minimal 2% increase, only due to slightly faster GDDR6 memory at 20 Gbit/s. Therefore, we should not expect any outstanding results in mining algorithms that heavily rely on memory bandwidth from the RX 9070 XT. The results are likely to be on par with the previous generation or even worse initially due to mining software not being optimized for RDNA4.

Hashrate of the RX 9070 XT:

*Power consumption is unknown.

Conclusion: At the moment, the RX 9070 XT is not exactly competing with Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti in mining; in fact, it is significantly behind its predecessor, the RX 7800 XT, in almost all mining algorithms. This behavior can be explained by the introduction of the new RDNA4 architecture, which requires all mining software to be re-optimized. Similar situations have occurred multiple times with AMD's new RDNA architectures. Therefore, it is too early to draw conclusions about the RX 9070 XT and its younger sibling, the RX 9070, until all major mining software for AMD cards, such as WildRig, LolMiner, and SRBMiner, have been updated.