AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU Review & Benchmarks vs. 5070 Ti, 5070, 7900 XT (Sapphire Pulse)
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Date: 2025-03-05
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BeersYourFriend
Do not purchase this graphics card. I'm not saying it's bad, but what pc gamers need to do is refuse doing business with companies who are 100% trying to take advantage of pc gamers by allowing price gouging. These companies are screwing pc gamers. The greed is on another level and it's disgusting. This might sound crazy, but I would not be surprised if the people you see on eBay scaling these new graphics cards are actually multiple people who are hired to sell these cards to make absurd profits. Think about it... Why is it that some people are able to sell dozens of these cards. Where did they get them I do not believe it's bots buying up all these cards. Sure, there may be some able to get a few, but when you see an eBay seller with a significantly high level of repeated purchases, that is where things start to smell fishy to me. To be honest, it's the perfect plan. It's a genius way to screw their customers hiring people around the world selling these cards via bogus eBay accounts. Until these graphics card companies get their shit together, who actually has stock at launch on day 1 and being sold at MSRP, nobody should be doing business with these companies. I'm telling you guys, if pc gamers unite and say screw you Nvidia and AMD, we no longer are interested and are skipping this generation of graphics cards, I'd bet my life on it that the next generation of graphics cards will have so much stock on day 1 that it would blow peoples minds. The problem right now are the pc gamers who are caving into purchasing these cards for ridiculous prices, who know they are getting screwed, but they just have to have the latest and greatest cards. It's those people who are screwing up the market. These companies are targeting the pc gamers who are rich first, then once the rich pay those big bucks while sales start to settle down, only then will the average gamer finally be able to get their hands on these units. This price gouging money making scheme has got to stop. I know for a fact that there is something we don't know about. These cards should be on store shelves for launch, they are not on store shelves at launch, and that is all it really takes to come to the conclusion that these companies are doing something nefarious. This is just my 2 cents on the current matter. It really unfortunate for people to be getting screwed like this. These shortages should not be happening. Screw you AMD and Nvidia. I'll only do business with you when you finally start treating your customers better.
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Do not purchase this graphics card. I'm not saying it's bad, but what pc gamers need to do is refuse doing business with companies who are 100% trying to take advantage of pc gamers by allowing price gouging. These companies are screwing pc gamers. The greed is on another level and it's disgusting. This might sound crazy, but I would not be surprised if the people you see on eBay scaling these new graphics cards are actually multiple people who are hired to sell these cards to make absurd profits. Think about it... Why is it that some people are able to sell dozens of these cards. Where did they get them I do not believe it's bots buying up all these cards. Sure, there may be some able to get a few, but when you see an eBay seller with a significantly high level of repeated purchases, that is where things start to smell fishy to me. To be honest, it's the perfect plan. It's a genius way to screw their customers hiring people around the world selling these cards via bogus eBay accounts. Until these graphics card companies get their shit together, who actually has stock at launch on day 1 and being sold at MSRP, nobody should be doing business with these companies. I'm telling you guys, if pc gamers unite and say screw you Nvidia and AMD, we no longer are interested and are skipping this generation of graphics cards, I'd bet my life on it that the next generation of graphics cards will have so much stock on day 1 that it would blow peoples minds. The problem right now are the pc gamers who are caving into purchasing these cards for ridiculous prices, who know they are getting screwed, but they just have to have the latest and greatest cards. It's those people who are screwing up the market. These companies are targeting the pc gamers who are rich first, then once the rich pay those big bucks while sales start to settle down, only then will the average gamer finally be able to get their hands on these units. This price gouging money making scheme has got to stop. I know for a fact that there is something we don't know about. These cards should be on store shelves for launch, they are not on store shelves at launch, and that is all it really takes to come to the conclusion that these companies are doing something nefarious. This is just my 2 cents on the current matter. It really unfortunate for people to be getting screwed like this. These shortages should not be happening. Screw you AMD and Nvidia. I'll only do business with you when you finally start treating your customers better.
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gamersnexus
Woah way over sold pol omg yay it competes with a 5070ti so what Lol my buddies got there 5070tis for 825 to 875 and anybody thinking you will get a 9070xt for under 800 is hilarious. So this is actually bad not good.
I love how he words omg it gets close to the 4080super with the 5070ti yet the 5070ti all he did was be negative with the review. Once steve sees the price he may end up taking things back. Because it aint no 600 dollars. Amd qouting aib prices No never. So this is the same situation as the 5070ti vs 4080super. 800 for either. Now that they sold out the 5070ti of course is higher but so what Lol i dont get it oh well its nvidia it shoipd have been s bigger step up! Meanwhile the 7900xtx still out here doing with the 9070xt does yet he didnt once act like amd shouod have done better So its ok for amd to mske small uplifts but not nvidia Thats just pure hateful emotions towards a brand coming out.
Alll i saw here with the 5070ti winning most of the time.
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Woah way over sold pol omg yay it competes with a 5070ti so what Lol my buddies got there 5070tis for 825 to 875 and anybody thinking you will get a 9070xt for under 800 is hilarious. So this is actually bad not good.
I love how he words omg it gets close to the 4080super with the 5070ti yet the 5070ti all he did was be negative with the review. Once steve sees the price he may end up taking things back. Because it aint no 600 dollars. Amd qouting aib prices No never. So this is the same situation as the 5070ti vs 4080super. 800 for either. Now that they sold out the 5070ti of course is higher but so what Lol i dont get it oh well its nvidia it shoipd have been s bigger step up! Meanwhile the 7900xtx still out here doing with the 9070xt does yet he didnt once act like amd shouod have done better So its ok for amd to mske small uplifts but not nvidia Thats just pure hateful emotions towards a brand coming out.
Alll i saw here with the 5070ti winning most of the time.
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Marfig
Please do not promote the cost per frame metric. As an indicator it holds absolutely no value. Allow me... 1) If MSRPs aren't yet a thing of the past already, they are at the very least nearly impossible to come by. 2) Other factors such as CPU and Memory speed can, and will, affect the end user performance in ways that are non linear, making the CPR indicator only valid for the system it was tested and very hard to relate to a different setup. 3) The gaming consumer market does not value financially optimized decisions. We value performance more than we do money. CPR tries to make them both equal in importance, but a consumer will always try to buy the best card with the money they have in hand, not the most cost effective. We don't buy cars based on cost per horse power, nor we buy vacuum cleaners based on cost per vaccum strenght or noise levels.
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Please do not promote the cost per frame metric. As an indicator it holds absolutely no value. Allow me... 1) If MSRPs aren't yet a thing of the past already, they are at the very least nearly impossible to come by. 2) Other factors such as CPU and Memory speed can, and will, affect the end user performance in ways that are non linear, making the CPR indicator only valid for the system it was tested and very hard to relate to a different setup. 3) The gaming consumer market does not value financially optimized decisions. We value performance more than we do money. CPR tries to make them both equal in importance, but a consumer will always try to buy the best card with the money they have in hand, not the most cost effective. We don't buy cars based on cost per horse power, nor we buy vacuum cleaners based on cost per vaccum strenght or noise levels.
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Cadambank
The RX9070 price makes sense if originally the RX9070XT was to sell for $650 MSRP. They reduced the launch price which is miracle to the maximum allowable amount i.e. $600. If they had been really serious to get the market share and the investors allowed a more flexible margin then the ideal price would be $550 for the XT and $450 for the non-XT.
At those prices they could have really stolen a good chunk of market share and then afterwards they could have focused on the profits.
But not knowing the manufacturing cost and Investor demand we wouldn't know which price would suit it best.
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The RX9070 price makes sense if originally the RX9070XT was to sell for $650 MSRP. They reduced the launch price which is miracle to the maximum allowable amount i.e. $600. If they had been really serious to get the market share and the investors allowed a more flexible margin then the ideal price would be $550 for the XT and $450 for the non-XT.
At those prices they could have really stolen a good chunk of market share and then afterwards they could have focused on the profits.
But not knowing the manufacturing cost and Investor demand we wouldn't know which price would suit it best.
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JcsP3D
People are certainly getting sick and tired of Nvidia's BS, AMD will sell few more units due to Nvidia's lack of stock, BUT.... that's until they restock and prices stabilise.
Then people will be back to buying Nvidia again, AMD is still sitting very close to Nvidia's SKUs. Which will probably land at 750-900$.
AMD being scumbags and tier shifting cards as Nvidia did, when in my opinion that 7900XT was a 7800XT, when compared to the 9070XT, performance is mediocre at best.
Give it a month or two, AMD will be back to adjusting prices down. Prices still too high.
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People are certainly getting sick and tired of Nvidia's BS, AMD will sell few more units due to Nvidia's lack of stock, BUT.... that's until they restock and prices stabilise.
Then people will be back to buying Nvidia again, AMD is still sitting very close to Nvidia's SKUs. Which will probably land at 750-900$.
AMD being scumbags and tier shifting cards as Nvidia did, when in my opinion that 7900XT was a 7800XT, when compared to the 9070XT, performance is mediocre at best.
Give it a month or two, AMD will be back to adjusting prices down. Prices still too high.
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Natraj_Chaturvedi
Well even if the announced msrp is on the decent side, availability and the actual price will decide if AMD finally gets some marketshare. One thing not enough people consider is that Radeon Division's distribution network is not that great outside of the USA and western EU unlike Nvidia's. (and unlike AMD's own CPU division which doesnt seem to suffer from the same problem)
At least in my country, prices often get marked up for AMD's cards vs comparable Nvidia cards. Lets see if it happens again.
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Well even if the announced msrp is on the decent side, availability and the actual price will decide if AMD finally gets some marketshare. One thing not enough people consider is that Radeon Division's distribution network is not that great outside of the USA and western EU unlike Nvidia's. (and unlike AMD's own CPU division which doesnt seem to suffer from the same problem)
At least in my country, prices often get marked up for AMD's cards vs comparable Nvidia cards. Lets see if it happens again.
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Sarean1001
Man, I kinda wish AMD had one higher tier offering. I was hoping to replace my 3080 because I built a new am5 platform late last year and I'd love to throw a new card in it (got the 3080 in 2021). I knew the XT wasn't going to be the biggest leap, but getting access to frame gen (for smoothing, i know its not real performance) and new upscaling would make it somewhat reasonable. It looks good for a good price, but I don't know if, on review, its good enough to make me not just sit on the 3080 another gen.
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Man, I kinda wish AMD had one higher tier offering. I was hoping to replace my 3080 because I built a new am5 platform late last year and I'd love to throw a new card in it (got the 3080 in 2021). I knew the XT wasn't going to be the biggest leap, but getting access to frame gen (for smoothing, i know its not real performance) and new upscaling would make it somewhat reasonable. It looks good for a good price, but I don't know if, on review, its good enough to make me not just sit on the 3080 another gen.
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DayleonFefe
With all these cards coming out and under performing, getting scalped, and their prices getting jacked up, honestly iv been reccomending people look into the 7600xt. $315 for 16gb of Vram, with support for modern software Pretty solid, especially for people trying to build a budget PC that can play most games on ultra [My friend with a R5 7600x and a 7600xt is getting like 80fps on ultra, and with frame gen 145fps in MH Wilds on newest drivers]
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With all these cards coming out and under performing, getting scalped, and their prices getting jacked up, honestly iv been reccomending people look into the 7600xt. $315 for 16gb of Vram, with support for modern software Pretty solid, especially for people trying to build a budget PC that can play most games on ultra [My friend with a R5 7600x and a 7600xt is getting like 80fps on ultra, and with frame gen 145fps in MH Wilds on newest drivers]
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frankguy6843
I am still not sure RT is worth the performance hit, I prefer high framerate so much more than technically better lighting, and when our traditional lighting looks almost as good, I don't think losing like 30% of my FPS is worth it at all. I really thought this would be worked out and RT would become more viable but I am beginning to wonder if it was purely marketing and anyone wanting a high framerate experience will simply never use RT.
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I am still not sure RT is worth the performance hit, I prefer high framerate so much more than technically better lighting, and when our traditional lighting looks almost as good, I don't think losing like 30% of my FPS is worth it at all. I really thought this would be worked out and RT would become more viable but I am beginning to wonder if it was purely marketing and anyone wanting a high framerate experience will simply never use RT.
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zookajoetech
These are some great results. NVIDIA can snap their fingers and change the price for sure, but we've seen AMD do it before as well. I've also noticed over the years that AMD cards go on sale a lot more often than the green counterpart, so that may be a huge advantage for AMD to take too.
Let's be honest, if Jensen was convinced that the 5070 was a 4090, I don't think they can be convinced that the cards are a bad price unfortunately.
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These are some great results. NVIDIA can snap their fingers and change the price for sure, but we've seen AMD do it before as well. I've also noticed over the years that AMD cards go on sale a lot more often than the green counterpart, so that may be a huge advantage for AMD to take too.
Let's be honest, if Jensen was convinced that the 5070 was a 4090, I don't think they can be convinced that the cards are a bad price unfortunately.
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jamestaylor6105
I'm seriously considering jumping to team red now.
The only reason I haven't done it because I don't feel the need to just yet. 5800X3D with an RTX 3080, that and I'm a new dad.
The prices for an nvidia card are actually insane.
I hope AMD smash it, gain more of a market share and popularity so games arent focused on using Nvidia tech the entire time. I'll buy in a few years when I'm ready for my next build.
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I'm seriously considering jumping to team red now.
The only reason I haven't done it because I don't feel the need to just yet. 5800X3D with an RTX 3080, that and I'm a new dad.
The prices for an nvidia card are actually insane.
I hope AMD smash it, gain more of a market share and popularity so games arent focused on using Nvidia tech the entire time. I'll buy in a few years when I'm ready for my next build.
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JoePWI
It gets weirder and weirder..the differences between tests from CCs to publications gets more and more distorded. But now the question remains..whos results are the real ones There are publications in germany that testament AMD by far the superior Watt to Performance ratio..yet here it doesnt seem like that at all. So confusing. Ofc, testsuits are always different but does it really make that much of a difference
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It gets weirder and weirder..the differences between tests from CCs to publications gets more and more distorded. But now the question remains..whos results are the real ones There are publications in germany that testament AMD by far the superior Watt to Performance ratio..yet here it doesnt seem like that at all. So confusing. Ofc, testsuits are always different but does it really make that much of a difference
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Veisenberg-VR
So what it really boils down to is, is RT'ing worth all the lies, melting cables, fakery, fires, and ridiculous stock promises and pricing
If you answered no, get the 9070/XT, and we'll see you in the AMD tearoom where we talk about games and cool stuff.
If you answered yes, then get a fake 5070/ti and go meet Jensen, who's waiting for you on the Nvidia KY jelly bus for your daily shafting.
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So what it really boils down to is, is RT'ing worth all the lies, melting cables, fakery, fires, and ridiculous stock promises and pricing
If you answered no, get the 9070/XT, and we'll see you in the AMD tearoom where we talk about games and cool stuff.
If you answered yes, then get a fake 5070/ti and go meet Jensen, who's waiting for you on the Nvidia KY jelly bus for your daily shafting.
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philosoaper
cheapest 9070TX I've seen in my country so far was USD $937 ... but the lack of CUDA means AMD isn't a viable option for me anyway as ROCm is so far behind and AMD needs to reunify their architecture first... the 5090 Flammable Edition is USD $2647 .. not that it's available.. and the cheapest 3rd party 5090 I've seen was USD $3546 and was briefly in stock a couple of weeks ago
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cheapest 9070TX I've seen in my country so far was USD $937 ... but the lack of CUDA means AMD isn't a viable option for me anyway as ROCm is so far behind and AMD needs to reunify their architecture first... the 5090 Flammable Edition is USD $2647 .. not that it's available.. and the cheapest 3rd party 5090 I've seen was USD $3546 and was briefly in stock a couple of weeks ago
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Kn7raider
Yea anything over 600 and the 9070xt would’ve been DOA. Doesn’t beat the 5070ti in anything, and is on average 5-6% worse than AMDs claim of being 2% worse. Plus it’s still horrible in ray tracing compared to nvidia. In addition those efficiency numbers are definitely a boon for nvidia. All it’ll take is for nvidia to reduce the 5070ti msrp to 700 to kill amd.
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Yea anything over 600 and the 9070xt would’ve been DOA. Doesn’t beat the 5070ti in anything, and is on average 5-6% worse than AMDs claim of being 2% worse. Plus it’s still horrible in ray tracing compared to nvidia. In addition those efficiency numbers are definitely a boon for nvidia. All it’ll take is for nvidia to reduce the 5070ti msrp to 700 to kill amd.
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kellyoni6399
Neat, hopefully the grand cheetos tissy fit won't cause prices to keep jumping and AMD can keep at least the low end Nvidia in check for improvement in quality, availability, and pricing. I will still probably buy a 5080 for 1k if I ever get the chance, but I can wait, my 3080ti still working great. Just gotta make sure to keep an eye on the rops.
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Neat, hopefully the grand cheetos tissy fit won't cause prices to keep jumping and AMD can keep at least the low end Nvidia in check for improvement in quality, availability, and pricing. I will still probably buy a 5080 for 1k if I ever get the chance, but I can wait, my 3080ti still working great. Just gotta make sure to keep an eye on the rops.
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mrt3206
So much for AMD only dropping the high end card, didn’t realize they wanted to go from high end cards to only selling the lowest of low
What I got from this video is that while AMD may look like a better value but they are still a significantly worse option, Nice... looks like a generation to skip and just let the scalpers keep all the inventory.
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So much for AMD only dropping the high end card, didn’t realize they wanted to go from high end cards to only selling the lowest of low
What I got from this video is that while AMD may look like a better value but they are still a significantly worse option, Nice... looks like a generation to skip and just let the scalpers keep all the inventory.
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Jackson-ol5xt
I would love to see Valorant included as a benchmark for its super high frame rates (like how CSGO used to be before it became CS2). It’s one of the few games I play, how I determine esports viability, and you could also include latency tests with it since that is equally as important in esports (opposite of single player games).
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I would love to see Valorant included as a benchmark for its super high frame rates (like how CSGO used to be before it became CS2). It’s one of the few games I play, how I determine esports viability, and you could also include latency tests with it since that is equally as important in esports (opposite of single player games).
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gargean1671
Tbh, I (strongly) disagree with inclusion of RE4 Remake into RT testing. It has incredibly light RT workload, it is one of the least visually noticeable RT implementations EVER, and it's on RE Engine, which historically favors AMD. So as a part of RT testing array it completely misrepresents actual AMD performance in RT workloads.
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Tbh, I (strongly) disagree with inclusion of RE4 Remake into RT testing. It has incredibly light RT workload, it is one of the least visually noticeable RT implementations EVER, and it's on RE Engine, which historically favors AMD. So as a part of RT testing array it completely misrepresents actual AMD performance in RT workloads.
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wickeddelight4k
Meanwhile still rocking a 3090ti which is still great with gaming, AI work and unreal engine dev work as well as video editing. Didn't upgrade to the 4x series cause of less vram and definitely holding off on the 5090 because of all the hardware issues Nvidia has had with the launch. Glad to see AMD making inroads on Nvidia.
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Meanwhile still rocking a 3090ti which is still great with gaming, AI work and unreal engine dev work as well as video editing. Didn't upgrade to the 4x series cause of less vram and definitely holding off on the 5090 because of all the hardware issues Nvidia has had with the launch. Glad to see AMD making inroads on Nvidia.
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