AMD says it's finally catching Nvidia. I checked if that's true for the GPU on your desk
The earnings numbers show real momentum for AMD in AI data centers — the RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5060 Ti benchmarks tell a very different story.
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Ravi Malhotra · Hardware Editor
AMD's Data Center segment hit $6.72B last quarter (+107% YoY, 58% of AMD's total $11.54B revenue) — real, fast growth, but still a fraction of Nvidia's $75B Data Center quarter (+92% YoY).
Anthropic committed to up to 2 gigawatts of AMD MI450 GPUs in AMD's Helios rack system, with the first gigawatt live in 2027 — a genuine enterprise validation, not just a roadmap slide.
AMD's own software stack now runs 3M+ models out of the box with open-source contributions up 10x YoY — real progress against CUDA, though AMD's own materials stop short of claiming parity.
None of that enterprise momentum currently shows up in the consumer comparison that matters for local AI: the RX 9070 XT and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB benchmark within 5–10% of each other despite AMD's 43%…
For most people buying a GPU for local AI today, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB remains the safer pick on cost, power draw and driver friction — the RX 9070 XT mainly pulls ahead for Linux users planning to…
Verdict
AMD's data-center growth is real and its software gap is narrowing, but that trajectory hasn't yet reached the RX 9070 XT's local-AI benchmarks — it still trades blows with, rather than beats,…
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AMD says it's finally catching Nvidia. I checked if that's true for the GPU on your desk