At CES 2025, we went hands on with PowerColor's new Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards. These include the RX 9070 XT and the RX 9070. PowerColor will keep custom board designs common for both SKUs as they're both based on the 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon. We get the general feeling that these cards aren't designed as over-the-top as the RX 7900 series custom designs; since the GPUs are positioned in the performance segment, and AMD's board partners would ideally like to give themselves room to price-wars against NVIDIA's products from the RTX 5070 series.

The PowerColor RX 9070 XT Red Devil features a triple-slot cooling solution. It is a fairly long card, with an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that's ventilated by a trio of fans. The large, rhomboid vent on its backplate gives you the impression that the PCB inside is just two-thirds the length of the card—it's not, it's closer to 80% its length. There is an elaborate LED-illuminated decal at the tail end of the card. The Red Devil gets a few premium features, such as dual-BIOS, and the company's highest factory overclock. The lighting on this card is RGB and controllable via software. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. The 375 W of power on tap should be sufficient for a performance-segment GPU.Next up, is the RX 9070 XT HellHound. This card features a much simpler design, with a die-cast metal top-plate for the cooler. The card is strictly 2 slots-thick. It features axial airflow fans, just like the Red Devil. You also get some premium touches, such as a factory overclock, and dual-BIOS. The factory OC isn't as high as the Red Devil, though. There is a fixed color LED illumination, with a physical switch on the card. Much like the Red Devil, the HellHound draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors.Lastly, there's the RX 9070 XT Fighter. This line of graphics cards from PowerColor form the company's baseline, which is priced close to the AMD MSRP for a given GPU. It features the simplest board design among the three, with a dual-slot cooling solution that uses a trio of axial airflow fans, a more compact aluminium fin-stack heatsink, which gives it standard height. For this card, the PCB is 2/3 the length, and so all the airflow from the third fan flows through the heatsink and out a large cutout on the backplate. The Fighter sticks to AMD reference clock speeds.