Saturday, January 11th 2025
XFX Radeon RX 9070 Series Graphics Cards at 2025 International CES
XFX at the 2025 International CES showed off a pair of Radeon RX 9070 series custom-design graphics cards. The company will keep these designs common to both the flagship RX 9070 XT, and the RX 9070. Both board designs were shown off at AMD's RX 9070 series booth. The premium custom design is being referred to as "Black." There are actually two sub-variants of this card, one called Black, which lacks any RGB LED lighting, but a second more premium one where the top of the card has an RGB LED diffuser spanning the entire top-front edge, including the triangular ends with the XFX and Radeon logos. This card wasn't shown to use, but is part of AMD's CES pre-brief.
The premium Black card features a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink, along with a trio of what look like 100 mm and 90 mm axial airflow fans. The metal backplate has a ridged pattern. The PCB underneath appears to be about three quarters the length of the card, with a large cutout in the backplate letting much of the airflow from the third fan go through the heatsink and out the back. This card draws power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, for a total power input configuration of 525 W, which is obviously high for what is expected to be a 300 W-class GPU, but this isn't the only card with an over-the-top power input configuration. The ASUS TUF Gaming has three 8-pin PCIe power, while the ASRock Taichi uses a 16-pin 12V2x6. Most RX 9070 series cards we've seen have just two 8-pin power connectors.The presence of these high-power input configurations could hint that the RX 9070 XT likes to overclock, and since it is the top SKU in the RX 9000 series, AMD will allow board partners to go to town overclocking it, even if it takes dialing up the power limits by a fair bit. This way they get to justify pricing these cards north of $600, given that we're hearing that custom-design RX 9070 XT typically starts at $550, and the baseline price for this SKU could be as little as $480.Back to XFX, and we spotted their second custom-design. This card will be fairly premium although not as over the top as the Black. It is built around a white color scheme, and featuers a triple-slot cooling solution, compared to the 4-slot cooler of the Black. The PCB is less than 2/3 the length of the card, so all the airflow from its third fan goes through a large cutout. The card draws power from two 8-pin power connectors.
The premium Black card features a large aluminium fin-stack heatsink, along with a trio of what look like 100 mm and 90 mm axial airflow fans. The metal backplate has a ridged pattern. The PCB underneath appears to be about three quarters the length of the card, with a large cutout in the backplate letting much of the airflow from the third fan go through the heatsink and out the back. This card draws power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, for a total power input configuration of 525 W, which is obviously high for what is expected to be a 300 W-class GPU, but this isn't the only card with an over-the-top power input configuration. The ASUS TUF Gaming has three 8-pin PCIe power, while the ASRock Taichi uses a 16-pin 12V2x6. Most RX 9070 series cards we've seen have just two 8-pin power connectors.The presence of these high-power input configurations could hint that the RX 9070 XT likes to overclock, and since it is the top SKU in the RX 9000 series, AMD will allow board partners to go to town overclocking it, even if it takes dialing up the power limits by a fair bit. This way they get to justify pricing these cards north of $600, given that we're hearing that custom-design RX 9070 XT typically starts at $550, and the baseline price for this SKU could be as little as $480.Back to XFX, and we spotted their second custom-design. This card will be fairly premium although not as over the top as the Black. It is built around a white color scheme, and featuers a triple-slot cooling solution, compared to the 4-slot cooler of the Black. The PCB is less than 2/3 the length of the card, so all the airflow from its third fan goes through a large cutout. The card draws power from two 8-pin power connectors.
49 Comments on XFX Radeon RX 9070 Series Graphics Cards at 2025 International CES
Such an ugly card here..
Anyway, it's good to see XFX at least showing up with something. Look at Powercolor, then. Both their Reaper and Hellhound 9070 XT are actual dual-slot cards.
And there is no confirmation on TDP. Stop the shitposting, please.
The design is really poor, on the scale between 0 and 10 it is a 0. Those colours are extremely strange and inappropriate. The blades colours which are the same colour as the shroud - pathetic.
The shape of that shroud with those edges is also quite meh.
Overall, XFX will receive 0 sales.
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Just stay with Sapphire, ASRock.
Used this GPU personally, ended up removing the whole cooling system altogether and installing some Gigabyte GTX 660 Ti (IIRC) cooler instead because it not only was fugly, it also was far from efficient. Themal throttling pissed me off completely. A tad over the place but I wouldn't mind having that as my GPU. At least it's not gonna trouble me in terms of thermals (idgaf about acoustics).
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that 3x 8pin connector though....
said it before and ill say it again, can we PLS update the pci-E spec so it can carry more then 75 watts? I mean its been like that for what? two decades?
make that like 300 watt if possible, so many cards would not even need extra connectors.
Like AMD when they released the RX480 it had a 6 pin connector but the card would often jump over 150 watts putting out of spec strain on the pci-e slot.
They got flack for that and did an update that fixed it.
With this MSI system claiming to be able to provide 168 watts from the slot alone...would that mean you can install an RX480 on there and just leave out the 6-pin connector?
It seems to me the boards of gpu's are made to expect power from certain regions...but either way, its nice that MSI makes some noise about this, but again, I just want the official PCI-E spec to change and be updated to deliver more power, so GPU's can be made with that in mind and just ship without extra connectors (or atleast that youdont have to hook those up to anything if you have a newer motherboard/psu etc.