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Radeon RX 9070 XT - Sapphire, ASUS and XFX Review
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
I'd love to get my hands on that Sapphire 9070XT Nitro+ 
KingNosser
Well-known member
As would i or even the mid level red devil looks like just clock bump on the 800 one but same cooler so unless mechanical different you could clock it or bios it, someone will try 
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Remember the days when AMD cards were super hard to keep cool? Now they rule the charts. And the performance per watt of the 9070 is quite good. It draws way less power than the XT. Very impressed by that.
KingNosser
Well-known member
Amd cards are very efficient even mine fully overclocked only hits 320 watt they have been viable decent cards since the 6k series.
Interesting that yesterday there were warnings that the 9070s had problems with memory temps (Wccftech). There was also something on Threads about excess power usage and lack of efficiency. Tomshardware was complaining that the FSR not being up to Dlss quality. So that is 2 sites and an influencer spreading FUD on the day before launch. Cards marked.
I watched Tom first, then Tech-Jesus, half paid attention to Jay2c and there is serious gaslighting going on if I'm looking at the spread of results across the vast majority of games. When they start calling out percentages in single / low double digits then look closely at the graph. A card that scores 33fps is 10% faster than a card that scores 30fps, in reality, it means f all and could have cost you 750 of your favourite currency.
First of all you have to remove the x090s as anyone looking a 9070 series can't or won't pay for a 1500-3000 card. 5080s sit in the 1200-1500 bracket, again not an option, even if you can find one.
That leaves the prev gen 7900xt(x)s, 5070(ti)s, 4080s and 4070s all in the same ballpark. Ray Tracing and AI inferencing is where the development bucks are being spent, f all improvement in Raster gen on gen and if measured on raster only across a selection of 50 AA(A) games with outliers removed, I suspect that 10% covers all of them. Soooo...
If you're a RT fan with 1000-1200 burning a hole in your pocket, get a 5070ti, if you're into AI inferencing get a 16GB Nvidia card or for 50% of the performance for 50% of the cost get a 9070XT. Raster fan? bang for buck seems to be the 9070 which has killed the Nvidia 070 market as priced yesterday.
Being an optimist, I'm seeing 25% less cost for better performance gen on gen AMD side with a good uptick in AI / RT performance. Too early to tell if it will adjust the marketplace but it can only help.
I watched Tom first, then Tech-Jesus, half paid attention to Jay2c and there is serious gaslighting going on if I'm looking at the spread of results across the vast majority of games. When they start calling out percentages in single / low double digits then look closely at the graph. A card that scores 33fps is 10% faster than a card that scores 30fps, in reality, it means f all and could have cost you 750 of your favourite currency.
First of all you have to remove the x090s as anyone looking a 9070 series can't or won't pay for a 1500-3000 card. 5080s sit in the 1200-1500 bracket, again not an option, even if you can find one.
That leaves the prev gen 7900xt(x)s, 5070(ti)s, 4080s and 4070s all in the same ballpark. Ray Tracing and AI inferencing is where the development bucks are being spent, f all improvement in Raster gen on gen and if measured on raster only across a selection of 50 AA(A) games with outliers removed, I suspect that 10% covers all of them. Soooo...
If you're a RT fan with 1000-1200 burning a hole in your pocket, get a 5070ti, if you're into AI inferencing get a 16GB Nvidia card or for 50% of the performance for 50% of the cost get a 9070XT. Raster fan? bang for buck seems to be the 9070 which has killed the Nvidia 070 market as priced yesterday.
Being an optimist, I'm seeing 25% less cost for better performance gen on gen AMD side with a good uptick in AI / RT performance. Too early to tell if it will adjust the marketplace but it can only help.
KingNosser
Well-known member
You’re correct in your thinking here it very much depends on what you want and how important them things are to you personally i find the balance fine had no issues myself on my 6800xt this will be 50% better for very similar cost all the point you made but ill take raw performance vs ai straight away cause ai is algorithms software and when i got my 6800xt amd have improved in a big way even on my card in 5 years where as nvidia will lock you out and force the upgrade with less vram and there is no way id ever go less than 16gb at 1440p and that is what still makes the xtx of interest as 24gb see how it pans out over the month or so.
You’re right though it depends on what you prefer but at them prices nah no chance I’ll stay amd 100%
You’re right though it depends on what you prefer but at them prices nah no chance I’ll stay amd 100%
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
I had the 6950XT Toxic from Sapphire with built in AIO, Brilliant card, Sadly I didn't have room for it.
AlienALX
Well-known member
I have the 6900XT and yeah, it's a pain. Still mine was so cheap I didn't mind getting a new case.
