If you decided to hold off on Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs to see if AMD’s new offerings were up to snuff, then you made the right choice. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards are the new mid-range champions of this generation. Both cards offer phenomenal performance while undercutting their Nvidia competition in price.
Right now, Amazon has one 9070 XT GPU in stock, and it’s shipped and sold by Amazon instead of a marketplace vendor, so it’s legit. Note that Powercolor is charging a $100 premium over the $599 MSRP.
Powercolor Reaper AMD Radeon RX 9700 XT GPU in Stock
We reviewed both AMD graphics cards
We rated the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT a “perfect” 10/10. Even though it costs $150 less than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, the 9070 XT beats it out in several of the games we tested. In a few benchmarks, the results aren’t even close. The 9070 XT also has 16GB of VRAM, the same as the 9070 and 5070 Ti. On the flip side, it does draw more power and get hotter on average compared to the RTX 5070 Ti.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review by Jacqueline Thomas
“PC Gaming has been in a decadent spiral since 2020, and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is a reminder that it doesn’t have to be that way. This graphics card has no problem maxing out any game you throw at it at 4K, even with ray tracing enabled, and does so at a price that makes the competition look downright greedy. I can’t predict the future, so only time will tell if the launch price holds up. What I do know is we need more graphics cards like the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT.”
We rated the AMD Radeon RX 9070 an 8/10. It costs the same as the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 but it performs better in the majority of games we tested and also includes more VRAM (16GB vs 12GB), which should supposedly make it more futureproof. From our tests, it draws about the same amount of power as the RTX 5070.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Review by Jacqueline Thomas
“The AMD Radeon RX 9070 is an excellent 1440p graphics card that makes the competition all but irrelevant. It brings excellent 1440p performance, often breaking into high-refresh territory, even without frame gen, and even brings an AI upscaler to the table for better image quality. The only thing that holds this graphics card back is how close it is to the Radeon RX 9070 XT.”
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