AMD RX 9070 Reddit Verdict: Efficient Beast or Overhyped Mid?

Getting one of those at MSRP is a deal. I'm very happy with my Sapphire Pure that I got at UK MSRP.

Most RX 9070 XT models tested by Hardware Unboxed perform within about 5% of each other. XFX cards run cooler but use oversized coolers with higher fan speeds. The top performers were XFX Mercury, PowerColor Red Devil, Sapphire Nitro+, Sapphire PURE, and ASRock Taichi. The recommendation for the most reasonably priced RX9070XT was the PowerColor Hellhound as the best balance of size, noise, and performance.

I mean, you did not say anything about your experience using the card. Are you having any issues? There's no right or wrong on buying these GPUs. It's a matter of the what's a better deal given the current prices, your budget and your needs.

It was a fake MSRP all along. AMD gave rebates to retailers during the initial launch, after those ran out, we now see the real price. AMD never misses and opportunity to miss an opportunity.

Easily my best PC purchase ever

I bought the 9070 for $580 when the cheapest 9070 XT was still selling for $700+. The price discrepancy has, historically, been a lot more than $50 for these cards.

the 9070 is superior to the 5070 so don't even consider that. only 9070 xt and 5070 ti are the better options, but for 100€ more you would only get 10-15% extra performance at the most, its up to u if its worth the extra.

It's the best value for money gpu

As much as people like to knock the 9070 in favor of the XT, I like it. I game on a 1080p at 60fps. The 9070 seems plenty powerful enough for that. Video suggests it's one of the top power-efficient GPUs on the market. It fits my current 650W power supply with only two 8-pin plugs. I'd have to spend $150+ more on another to use the XT.

I undervolted 9070XT (-60mV right now, so far so good) and power limited to 165. Lost only 5 - 7% performance in Kingdom Come. Seems to depend on the game a bit.

Got a 9070XT on Black Friday, now that they're so cheap I couldn't resist. Really impressed with it, performance is great, runs pretty cool and Adrenaline is really nice to play around with undervolting and overclocking. Got a real nice undervolt on it.

'MSRP' 9070/XT existed for about 3 minutes on launch day. They handed out rebates to retailers to offer a small number of the cards at a fake price which is also the price they told reviewers it would be. Pretty shitty behaviour all around this gen.

Bought an XT last week cause stock has largely been sorted in the last few months and quite a few models have been under MSRP and that situation could change in the coming months because of the DRAM situation. I also wanted to go AMD since I moved to Linux so I've been pretty pleased. For as much as we complain this isn't really a bad time to buy a gpu.

I'd still pick and recommend the base 9070 OC over the XT variant just because the 9070xt is a power hungry card at 330w at full load. Yes, you can do power limit to up to 220w but the 9070 can also do that at 170w which makes it the best price to performance + power efficiency. And if you overclock the 9070, it can rival the base 9070xt in terms of performance with less power consumption.

The fact that AMD is still getting a pass for the fake MSRP thing is really disgusting to me. Yeah GPUs often get marked up and stuff but this gen had an explicitly fake price just to get reviews. I remember all these reviews for 5070 Ti being like 'An amazing card, but you'll only be able find it for $1000' and the same people about 9070 Ti were like, 'almost as good as 5070 Ti, but only $600!' Then I go to the shop and all the 5070 Ti models are $750 meanwhile the 9070 is $900.

I love my 9070! I'm in the third world so pricing is a bit funny here: I got my 9070 for cheaper than a 5070 so it was a no brainer for me. The xt and 5070ti were just too much for me. The 9070 landed up being a perfect sweet spot for the price and performance I got. I also would have needed a new PSU to go for more than the 9070.

I tried to get an XT but they sold out quickly, 9070 was going in and out of stock a lot and then I saw the price jump from £525 to £539 and they came back in stock and I said, F it, and pulled the trigger. Close enough to MSRP to be happy, like under 15 quid difference. Had been wanting a 7800 XT or 7900 GRE for a while now which the 9070 handily beats both of and if I got the XT version I would have probably had to upgrade my PSU too which I really wanted to avoid.

As a day 1 RX9070 owner, I can say I'm quite happy with it. I had some stability issues in windows early on, though those went away with driver updates and probably would've been completely avoided if I did a clean install, and it does suck when games only support the Nvidia features even though AMD has an alternative. Aside from that, performance has really solid. I play at 1440p, so regardless of the game I'm playing I know I can crank basically all the settings to the max, not bother with any upscaling.

Got a basically new xfx mercury mag 9070xt for 580 dollars. Did some tweaking and this thing is an absolute beast and the temperatures are absolutely amazing.

Love my Hellhound, clean design, super quiet. I was actually about to go with XFX until I saw some reviews showing the fan speed much higher than I would like, I ended up getting the Hellhound and no regrets.

I managed to grab a Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 Gaming OC from OCUK at MSRP today. Very much looking forward to receiving it. Was originally planning on getting a 4070 super but they have never come back down. It's by far the most energy efficient 16GB card on the market.

Best graphics card for linux.

I adore mine. Got it under MSRP and I feel like I robbed Microcenter.

I upgraded from a 3080 to a 9070ti and for me the performance boost has been well worth the price I paid. I bought it for $650. Went from 10gb of gpu memory to 16. All the games I play on it perform better at higher graphical settings. Was well worth it for me. It's not the most powerful card on the market but for the price it's better than what I had.

Just bought the XT version of this card for 4K gaming on my TV and it's an absolute beast. Loving it, especially with a slight Undervolt to lower to power consumption.

9070 and 9070xt are 2 of the most misunderstood products, the first is a very efficient, cool and quiet GPU, the second is a more power hungry, hotter, noisier and bigger GPU, for people who want to squeeze any extra performance. You decide which one is the better choice, even if both had same price. The choice shouldn't be made only by raw performance.

Currently rocking the XFX Swift version.. no complaints. No coil whine. Cool runnin' and decent frames!

No you did not make a mistake, i have rx 9070 and its a blast, 4k gaming its soo good and easy with this card and temps are low like crazy low. Enjoy m8

The 9070 is a perfect middle ground for price to performance when it comes to 1440p gaming, it surely is a lot better than the 5070 having only 12GB of VRAM which later on will start to struggle at 1440p. At 1440p you will only see 7fps to 10fps difference between the 9070 and 9070xt and exact same 1% lows.

Computerbase say 9070 is the most efficient GPU in existence when used within a 144fps limit.

The 9070 is the best. You could find them MSRP even early on because everyone was trying to get the XT version and they can be OCd well, run much cooler and you can convert it to almost XT performance with a bios mod pretty easily.

I made the decision to go for the 9070 as opposed to the xt variant. It was because i was building is sff. My rx 9070 sapphire, is almost silent and doesnt go over 54 degrees under full load. The sound was big for me as i often hook it up to a tv and it will never thermal throttle.

Upgrade from 1070ti to 9070xt a couple months ago and I felt like I could see the future.

I got the regular 9070 and it's superb!

I sold my 4.5 years 3080 for 300 and got me a new Mercury OC 9070xt for 470 and i thinks It was a great upgrade

Got the Asrock steel legend from microcenter for $700 and it's been great. Haven't noticed a single issue.

Runs pretty well overall with good performance and no major issues. I did have a few crashes caused by in-game FSR settings, but aside from that everything's been fine so far. Still, I personally prefer Nvidia for maximum comfort the Nvidia control panel and settings feel clearer and more straightforward, like just enabling DLSS Quality / RTX instead of tweaking a bunch of Adrenalin options but for the price it's really good.

Bought a 6800 reference card back in December 2020 and just got the 9070 today to replace it. For me the biggest draw was power to performance 220W vs 304W of the XT

Finally riding the Red Train being in the Green Train for a while and for whats happening to NVIDIA gpu lately, Bought the 9070 Sapphire cant get lucky to get my hands on the XT model. Very happy with my purchased card is quite during games and benchmark.

Yeah I got a 9070 for this reason, for my TV attached pc. 88% of the XT performance for 66% of the power budget.

Absolutely not. The difference between the 9070 and the XT is way, way, way less than the difference between the 5070 and the 5070ti. I'd be hard pressed to find any gaming scenario where something is playable on the XT but not on the 9070. Just turn down a setting or two, and you can make up for the difference. I got a 9070 on launch day at MSRP and have been extremely satisfied. I'm big on card efficiency, which is why I didn't go for the XT.

Actually just built the same PC, rx9070 and Ryzen 9600x. I am very impressed with the performance. 1440p counterstrike 2 on high runs me about 350fps in game, 250 at ultra everything. Borderlands 4 runs pretty steady at 1440p no upscaling (gets smooth 100fps with upscaling on quality, looks good too).

I bought it recently for about 600 before tax. It's a beast. I did a lot of research first.

This graphics card is dogshit. It has the highest annoyance to cost ratio. Every single game that you play you will have to do some bullshit to prevent it from crashing. Don't even think about running two monitors on this. The AMD software if horrendous. Anything above 50% utilization, it crashes. Constantly having to enable it in device manager to prevent crashing. God forbid you update the driver, because it just bricks everything and you will have to reinstall the old drivers to play any game.

i bought mine a month ago, its a good card but the software is pure dogshit

Been having driver problem lately with my Rx 9070. :/

The problems are two: drivers and long term support. You'll only use it for gaming and probably drivers will be eol'd in 3 years, as already happened with the previous ones.

After going from AMD to Nvidia, raw perf doesn't really mean anything to me anymore. Transformer DLSS is so good it beats AMD at native res.