AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review

[pio]

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review - IGN

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The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is a $599 graphics card that trades blows with the $749 GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. That alone sets it up as one of the best GPUs on the market today – but AMD further sweetens the deal with FSR 4, finally bringing AI upscaling to an AMD graphics card for the first time. Simply put, this is the graphics card to get for 4K gaming, especially if you don’t have $1,999 to mindlessly blow on the RTX 5090.

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First time in a long time I've seen reviews favorable towards AMD.  Let's see if they can keep up the steam.

[LabRat]

Edit: Newegg will have the RX 9070s for sale @ 6AM 3/6/25 Pacific Time US.

 

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ Review - Beating NVIDIA

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AMD's new RDNA 4 GPUs are launching today. The Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ is a fantastic custom design with powerful cooling and whisper-quiet fans. In terms of FPS, the RX 9070 XT offers...

 

ASUS Radeon RX 9070 TUF OC Review

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AMD's new Radeon RX 9070 launches today. It comes at the same $550 price point as NVIDIA's RTX 5070, but offers a 16 GB VRAM size while the 5070 has only 12 GB. The new RX 9070 also managed to catch up...

 

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 review: Excellent value, if supply is good | Tom's Hardware

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Big AI and ray tracing improvements, but questions about retail supply remain.

 

AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: back to winning ways

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DF tests the RX 9070 and 9070 XT. On this page: we introduce our test system, benchmarking methodology and initial impressions.

 

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT And 9070 Review: Competition Heats-Up For Gamers

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AMD's RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9070 Series has launched and based on our tests, the PC gaming landscape just got very interesting.

 

XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury Magnetic review

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Explore our thorough review of the XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury Magnetic OC—a powerhouse featuring 64 RDNA 4 compute units, 64 RT accelerators, and 128 AI accelerators. Discover how AMD’s...

 

SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 9070 XT NITRO+ review

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We review the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 9070 XT NITRO+, this model has drawn significant attention among tech gurus for its technical design and distinctive features. The card’s design includes a mesh while...

 

Radeon RX 9070 XT (ASUS TUF OC) review

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We review the Radeon RX 9070 XT (ASUS TUF OC). The most striking improvement lies in the number of AI and ray tracing (RT) accelerators, which have seen a noticeable boost compared to previous...

 

Radeon RX 9070 (ASUS TUF OC) review

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The Radeon RX 9070 is engineered for high-performance gaming and content creation, featuring an advanced RDNA 4 architecture optimized for modern graphical demands. With a boost clock of 2.54 GHz and a...

 

Summary:
The RX 9070 > RX 7900 GRE
[7900 XT-like raster, 7900 XTX parity in RT]

The RX 9070 XT > RX 7900 XT
[9070 XT trades blows w/ the 7900 XTX in raster-only, Typ. w/in 3% +/-. Superior RT performance to the 7900 XTX]

Notably, the 9070 XT reliably beats the 7900 XTX in RT, regardless of resolution. (Even, with only 16GB of virtually the same GDDR6 that's been on the 7900s.)

 

[LabRat]

[VideoCardz/BestBuy] XFX Radeon RX 9070 (XT) pricing emerges at BestBuy: up to $849 for flagship Mercury model
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&qp=category_facet%3DGPUs %2F Video Graphics Cards~abcat0507002^gpusv_facet%3DGraphics Processing Unit (GPU)~AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT^gpusv_facet%3DGraphics Processing Unit (GPU)~AMD Radeon RX 9070&st=rx+9070

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XFX Radeon RX 9070 pricing (BestBuy prelaunch)
XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC 16GB Black: $549.99
XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070XT 16GB Black: $599.99
XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC 16GB White: $649.99
XFX QuickSilver AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC 16GB Black: $649.99
XFX QuickSilver AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC 16GB White: $669.99
XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070XT 16GB White: $749.99
XFX Mercury AMD Radeon RX 9070XT OC 16GB White: $819.99
XFX Mercury AMD Radeon RX 9070XT OC Magnetic Air Edition 16GB – Black: $829.99
XFX Mercury AMD Radeon RX 9070XT OC Magnetic Air Edition 16GB RGB – White: $849.99

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[Slaughtahouse]

The lesser of two evils I guess?. Curious to see how bad it gets, especially as tariffs go into play. 

[Sir Beregond]

Local Micro Center supposedly had 700+ units today. By comparison each 50-series launch has been maybe 100ish units.

 

Honestly looking great. 20-25% better in raster s my 3080 Ti. RT seems about on par with 3090-3090 Ti-ish levels. FSR4 is looking to be better than DLSS CNN models but behind DLSS4 transformer models. Huge improvement over FSR3. And 16GB.

 

5070's are sitting on the shelves at my local MC.

[Slaughtahouse]

  On 06/03/2025 at 21:20, Sir Beregond said:

Local Micro Center supposedly had 700+ units today. By comparison each 50-series launch has been maybe 100ish units.

 

Honestly looking great. 20-25% better in raster s my 3080 Ti. RT seems about on par with 3090-3090 Ti-ish levels. FSR4 is looking to be better than DLSS CNN models but behind DLSS4 transformer models. Huge improvement over FSR3. And 16GB.

 

5070's are sitting on the shelves at my local MC.

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Good, let those 5070s rot. Nvidia should recall, relabel as 5060 or 5060 Ti and drop the price to $400.

[SoloCamo]

Might finally make me upgrade my 6900XT.  Don't care about RT but more games are basically building around it.  Also FSR4 (again not a fan of upscaling) looks promising at least.

[Slaughtahouse]

Retailers Anticipate Increased Radeon RX 9070 Series Prices, After Initial Shipments of "MSRP" Models

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Over the past month and a half, PC hardware retailers have tasked themselves with sharing of all sorts...

 

 

[Snakecharmed]

It appears that the RX 9070 XT is sold out at the two Micro Centers closest to me, with limited stock remaining of the RX 9070. They supposedly had hundreds in stock on launch, but I didn't bother to check yesterday since I wasn't planning on getting one.

 

The 3080 Ti lives on due to me making no time to play games in the last two years. Even when I do get back into it, I've got a backlog of older games to go through that pose no challenge to the 3080 Ti at 4K. It's a lot less stressful not being on the cutting edge because it really sucks out there right now if you are.