AMD Radeon 9070XT review thread

Paasei said:
I'm considering getting one of these to replace my rtx 3070. Seems like a good 1440p card, if I ever buy a new monitor that actually supports that resolution.
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Its roughly 80% faster from ur 3070 on avg
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About getting 1440p monitor- its great choice coz u can always use res scaling in more demanding games, i do it on my 4k monitor and 3080ti in most demanding/newest games is nowhere near strong enough anymore but count in dlss and it can last me till future 5080ti/super or 60xx cards(or amd's rdna 5, i welcome any great gpu with open mind here).
 
ValiantInstance said:
I guess I got lucky because I was only interested in that model, which meant when orders opened they didn't evapourate in seconds like the MSRP models.

I'm very happy with it yeah, the cable management is genius.

I will probably get another Nitro when I build a new pc in a few years.
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Just checked for stock, saw Pure and Nitro+, and went for it - bough the Nitro+!

Now I need to buy the rest of a new build to match, as it might be a slight bottleneck to put it alongside my i5 4690k from 2013 or whatever it was.
 
Soodanim said:
Just checked for stock, saw Pure and Nitro+, and went for it - bough the Nitro+!

Now I need to buy the rest of a new build to match, as it might be a slight bottleneck to put it alongside my i5 4690k from 2013 or whatever it was.
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Congrats! I'd recommend using a native 12 pin for the GPU. My Corsair PSU predated that power cable but luckily they sold a backwards compatible one that plugs in to two PCI slots.
 
Soodanim said:
Just checked for stock, saw Pure and Nitro+, and went for it - bough the Nitro+!

Now I need to buy the rest of a new build to match, as it might be a slight bottleneck to put it alongside my i5 4690k from 2013 or whatever it was.
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Just a slight one..... and by slight i mean
really fucking huge. In fact I'd bet that GPU is being neutured to 6600 speeds
 
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My local Microcenter got a handful of XFX Quicksilver 9070 XTs in this afternoon and I raced over after work. Apparently unnecessary as I was the first one there, but I wasn't chancing it. Bought above MSRP, of course ($860 pre-tax), but my current rig... has been chugging along in a concerning manner recently, so I'd rather get started on a fresh build sooner rather than later.
 
Paltheos said:
My local Microcenter got a handful of XFX Quicksilver 9070 XTs in this afternoon and I raced over after work. Apparently unnecessary as I was the first one there, but I wasn't chancing it. Bought above MSRP, of course ($860 pre-tax), but my current rig... has been chugging along in a concerning manner recently, so I'd rather get started on a fresh build sooner rather than later.
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It's a nice card. And considering closest alternative in 5070Ti cost around $950-1000 now days, it's a very solid choice.
 
StereoVsn said:
It's a nice card. And considering closest alternative in 5070Ti cost around $950-1000 now days, it's a very solid choice.
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I ordered a 5070ti from Newegg yesterday for $840 which will be here Tuesday, so $900 with taxing and shipping. The 5070ti prices have started dropping. Heck there are $899 versions available now as we speak. At what point does the 9700xt price with markups lose the value at the lower price point? Sure at $599 that makes sense and is a good price. But when you get above $800, I don't know. Bazzite maybe is a justifiable reason? I weighted both options, before jumping on the card. I actually ordered a 9070xt and 5070ti each before cancelling each, finally decided on reordering the 5070ti a couple days later for the same price due to NVidia suite and ray tracing performance delta over the 9700xt. Silly that the 9700xt has ballooned to over 140% over the original msrp. But who knows with the tariffs maybe this will be the norm, as they seem to be going back and forth every other week of what is and isnt excluded.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
I ordered a 5070ti from Newegg yesterday for $840 which will be here Tuesday, so $900 with taxing and shipping. The 5070ti prices have started dropping. Heck there are $899 versions available now as we speak. At what point does the 9700xt price with markups lose the value at the lower price point? Sure at $599 that makes sense and is a good price. But when you get above $800, I don't know. Bazzite maybe is a justifiable reason? I weighted both options, before jumping on the card. I actually ordered a 9070xt and 5070ti each before cancelling each, finally decided on reordering the 5070ti a couple days later for the same price due to NVidia suite and ray tracing performance delta over the 9700xt. Silly that the 9700xt has ballooned to over 140% over the original msrp. But who knows with the tariffs maybe this will be the norm, as they seem to be going back and forth every other week of what is and isnt excluded.
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Yeah, that's the big question, isn't it. If we have a 9070xt and 5070Ti approaching same retail price, the overall choice becomes much more interesting.

Personally I wound up keeping 5080 that I managed to get near MSRP, but a 9070XT would still have been interesting due to better Linux support and much closer performance vs prior gen unless we are talking Path Tracing.
 
Personally I'll lean towards AMD if things continue as they are. It's clear Nvidia don't give a fuck about gaming anymore.

AMD have released some very gamer orientated products in the last few years, particularly the x3D CPUs and RDNA 4. If they show the appetite to fill the void that Nvidia are leaving then I'll support them.
 

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.4.1

  • New Game Support
    • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Remastered
  • Expanded game support for AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4)
    • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Remastered
    • Assassin's Creed Shadows
    • Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
    • Dynasty Warriors Origin Civilization 7
    • Naraka Bladepoint
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[h2][/h2]
  • Fixed Issues and Improvements
    • Failure to apply effects models may be observed while using "Adjust Lighting v1" and "Adjust Lighting v2" features in Topaz Photo AI with Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
    • Flashing or flickering may appear while using AMD Freesync™ technology.
    • Lower than expected performance may be observed while running DirectML/GenAI models in Amuse 3.0 with Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products and Ryzen AITM 300 series processors.
    • Image corruption may be observed while running certain diffuser models in Amuse 3.0 with Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
    • Lower than expected performance may be observed while playing World of Warcraft (western plaguelands) with Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products.
    • Failure to detect integrated camera may be observed after driver installation using factory reset option on some Ryzen™ AI Max and Max+ series products.
    • Added support for Amuse 3 and AMD-optimized models.

Important Notes

  • FSR 4 is not currently supported by Naraka Bladepoint for some users under Windows 10.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing The Last of Us Part 2.
  • System crash may be observed due to a memory leak when using SteamVR on some AMD Radeon™ Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 9000 series. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to turn off Motion Smoothing in SteamVR settings.
  • Installation progress may persistently display 0% while installing AMD Chat within the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition user interface after upgrading to AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics products.
  • Stutter may be observed while playing games with some VR headsets at 80Hz or 90Hz refresh rate on some AMD Radeon™ Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 7000 series. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to change the refresh rate as a temporary workaround.
  • Intermittent system or application crash may be observed while playing Cyberpunk 2077
  • Intermittent system or application crash may be observed during shader compilation while playing Fantasy VII Rebirth during shader compilation.
  • Failure to launch may be observed for Battlefield 1 on Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics products with Ryzen™ 9 9950X integrated graphics. Users experiencing these issues are recommended to disable integrated graphics (iGPU) in system BIOS as a temporary workaround.
  • Intermittent failure to launch may be observed when AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition user interface is launched from desktop context menu or system tray.
  • Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Monster Hunter Wilds with Radeon™ Anti-Lag and Instant Replay enabled.
  • Intermittent system or application crash may be observed while playing Marvels Spiderman 2 with Radeon™ Anti-Lag 2 enabled on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.
  • Artifacts or corruption may appear while playing BattleField on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.
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M1987 said:
FSR4 not working with Game Pass unfortunately.AMD need to find a way to add games to Adrenaline
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Gamepass is always causing problems on PC. I had a ton of them.
Just recently, the Lords of the Fallen patch dropped and people are having problems using DLSS4 with the Gamepass version. But the Steam version works fine.
It's because of things like these, that I will never, ever, buy a game on the Microsoft store.
 
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Currently contemplating an HTPC build in a Fractal Terra. Was about to order a 5080 until i saw the thing is only 20% faster for 60% higher price where i live (compared to the 9070 XT).

Can anyone report how 4K gaming is on this card? Natively with sub Ultra settings, Ultra with FSR4 and so on. Can you get stable 60fps most of the time? Are you satisfied with your purchase?
 
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I currently have a 16gb card. Currently selling used for more than I paid for it. I'm going to get a ripoff 9070 xt now and sit on it. See if this 6800 will be going up to some equally dumb price during the return period. God this is fucking stupid.
 
HerjansEagleFeeder said:
Currently contemplating an HTPC build in a Fractal Terra. Was about to order a 5080 until i saw the thing is only 20% faster for 60% higher price where i live (compared to the 9070 XT).

Can anyone report how 4K gaming is on this card? Natively with sub Ultra settings, Ultra with FSR4 and so on. Can you get stable 60fps most of the time? Are you satisfied with your purchase?
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Rendering native is possible in many Games. But who wants 60fps ?
Using FSR 4 is far better imo. It also has many instances ( for example witcher 3 ) where aliasing is done very poorly and fsr improves image quality alot.

Witcher 3 4K is very playable with my 9070xt. I insert fsr 4 via optiscaler and activate framegen.

For Controller gameplay very Nice. M+KB i Need / want 200fps after framegen. Atleast.
 
MikeM said:
Whats everyone thoughts on their 9070xt? Still loving it?
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I've only played AC Shadows so far, but it was great. Played some Expedition 33 on game pass and it needed some tweaking, but overall looks good. Just wish we had more FSR 4 games out there to try.
 
Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there a good tier list / comparison of the different 9070 XT models?

Can anyone recommend the ASUS Prime 9070 XT model? How does it compare to the Sapphire Pulse?
 
Is there any hope that path tracing might get a decent boost via future improved drivers? The rt performance drop for pathtracing is brutal kind of feels like the hardware should be performing better. Is it a case of amd not developing much software support for pathtraced renderers or is the hardware just not suited for it?
 
MikeM said:
Whats everyone thoughts on their 9070xt? Still loving it?
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Had less than a week using mine but after some finding a stable power limit and undervolt I'm very happy.

To elaborate, full power draw and maxed out fans on the Sapphire Nitro+ is very loud. But it's as simple as putting on the -30% power limit and whatever undervolt you can manage from the silicon lottery and you're good to go. I though -50mv was my stable level but Elden Ring can still crash out so I set a hame profile that is only -40mv and it seems to be fine.

I haven't tried anything new or particularly demanding yet, but so far at 1440p I'm often maxing out my monitor's 180hz, all while being very comfortably quiet.

I need to look into Akuji Akuji 's suggestion of Optiscaler and see how W3 plays with upgraded IQ.
 
Soodanim said:
Had less than a week using mine but after some finding a stable power limit and undervolt I'm very happy.

To elaborate, full power draw and maxed out fans on the Sapphire Nitro+ is very loud. But it's as simple as putting on the -30% power limit and whatever undervolt you can manage from the silicon lottery and you're good to go. I though -50mv was my stable level but Elden Ring can still crash out so I set a hame profile that is only -40mv and it seems to be fine.

I haven't tried anything new or particularly demanding yet, but so far at 1440p I'm often maxing out my monitor's 180hz, all while being very comfortably quiet.

I need to look into Akuji Akuji 's suggestion of Optiscaler and see how W3 plays with upgraded IQ.
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please do and give ur impressions!
 
HerjansEagleFeeder said:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there a good tier list / comparison of the different 9070 XT models?

Can anyone recommend the ASUS Prime 9070 XT model? How does it compare to the Sapphire Pulse?
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The Pulse is very well received. I'd just get that unless you really want a higher wattage OC card.
 
i got the sapphire pure and gotta say its extremly well built and my performance is pretty good. can clock higher then most yt oc videos show. albeit just a tiny bit.
 
Bitstream said:
Damn this card is a beast, I run Cyberpunk Path Tracing at over 40fps. No upscaling, no fake frames, and I can hit a locked 30.
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At what resolution? AMD is still a bit behind when it comes to PT,but there's not enough games with it to really care
 
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Behind to what? To a 5070ti? Yeah maybe a few % average over all games, but the 5070ti is also a few % more expensive.
They are pretty much equal right now if you consider the price. If at all, the 9070xt comes out ahead. Atleast thats what i got from benchmarks.
 
Fun fact: At my local Microcenter, there has actually been halfway decent availability of 5070s and 5070 Tis.

Aside from Day 1, there has been virtually no availability of 9070XTs and none at MSRP.
 
JohnnyFootball said:
Fun fact: At my local Microcenter, there has actually been halfway decent availability of 5070s and 5070 Tis.

Aside from Day 1, there has been virtually no availability of 9070XTs and none at MSRP.
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Yeah, it's kind of strange that 9070xt has been MIA while 5070Ti and 5080 have seen restock at a fairly consistent basis.

And 5070Ti got a bit closer to MSRP as I have seen it around $900 in stock. 5080 has been super expensive though in general, $1500+ lately.
 
JohnnyFootball said:
Fun fact: At my local Microcenter, there has actually been halfway decent availability of 5070s and 5070 Tis.

Aside from Day 1, there has been virtually no availability of 9070XTs and none at MSRP.
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I've noticed this too. Idiots buying the 9070xts to scalp them for prices above 1000, meanwhile 5070tis are going for 800-900.

insane because the 5070ti is the better card if we're going by those prices. They completely missed the point of why people were hyped over the 9070xt in the first place because they know nothing about gaming.
 
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I'm gonna do a microATX build in the Lian Li Dan A3 case, to get a more powerful "console" in my living room to replace the PS5 Pro. Got the 9070XT Prime OC. Looking forward to building my first "console replacement PC"! Will be a good companion for my full tower 5090 rig. And going the AMD route will make it good to get a "bazzite console" going if I want that at some point!
 
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64gigabyteram said:
I've noticed this too. Idiots buying the 9070xts to scalp them for prices above 1000, meanwhile 5070tis are going for 800-900.

insane because the 5070ti is the better card if we're going by those prices. They completely missed the point of why people were hyped over the 9070xt in the first place because they know nothing about gaming.
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FYI, if you have Prime, Amazon has XFX card directly from them for $900.
 
64gigabyteram said:
I've noticed this too. Idiots buying the 9070xts to scalp them for prices above 1000, meanwhile 5070tis are going for 800-900.

insane because the 5070ti is the better card if we're going by those prices. They completely missed the point of why people were hyped over the 9070xt in the first place because they know nothing about gaming.
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Because stuff like this. The value proposition of the 9700xt greatly diminishes above $700, I got a 5070ti this week from Newegg for $840. So yeah the media slamming the Nvidia and celebrating AMD are out of context because the retail msrp launch price of both didn't hold. The education of the PC gaming public isn't what it use to be, IMO. People watch videos, but don't do the proper analysis of the differences vs price points. Now I am not saying that the 9700xt cant be more valuable than the 5070ti, in certain outlier setups, i.e. Bazzite for example in current form, the 9700xt is the way to go. So yeah the flexibility in certain circumstances may be worth more to certain individuals.

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