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.
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49 Comments on XFX Radeon RX 9070 Series Graphics Cards at 2025 International CES

#1
Scotter008
They better release magnetic fan models later on. Those are beautiful cards with such a cool gimmick!
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#2
Macro Device
Honestly, these GPUs share the same vibe with such type of cars (price, too).
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#3
Chaitanya
Hate that all GPU makers are just providing 2 slot brackets while coolers are extending well beyond that and many this time around are 4 slot thick.
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#4
TumbleGeorge
When installed normally in the PCI slot, the card is visible(through the transparent wall of the case) its upper part. In this cause, the card is especially ugly from above.
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#5
sepheronx
Does these 9070xt's really need to be this massive in terms of heatsinks?
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#6
3valatzy
sepheronxDoes these 9070xt's really need to be this massive in terms of heatsinks?
They do, because the TDP is north of 300W, towards 350W. Hot hell.
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#7
Dr. Dro
Sorry XFX. This is the absolute ugliest design I have ever seen in a graphics card. No one would complain if you kept the last generation's heatsink, those were pretty alright
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#8
notanin
3valatzyThey do, because the TDP is north of 300W, towards 350W. Hot hell.
Better don't look TDP of 5090 then :)

Such an ugly card here..
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#9
AusWolf
That's a thick sandwich! Definitely a no-go for me.

Anyway, it's good to see XFX at least showing up with something.
3valatzyThey do, because the TDP is north of 300W, towards 350W. Hot hell.
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.
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#10
Yashyyyk
Can someone @ me if there's a both 2 fan 2 slot 9070?
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#11
3valatzy
XFX is about to exit the business with Radeon, it seems :kookoo:

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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#12
AusWolf
YashyyykCan someone @ me if there's a 2 fan 2 slot 9070?
The AMD reference 9070 (non-XT) seems to be exactly that.
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#14
Dr. Dro
3valatzyXFX is about to exit the business with Radeon, it seems :kookoo:

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.
Nah, XFX is and will stay an AMD only AIB for the foreseeable future. And one of the better ones I might add. I just think these cards are fugly. I can say the same about more than half of the GeForce models, like, personally I don't dig the Palit Gamerock cards or most of PNY's. There's one specific design being sold by PNY, Manli and a few others that are the reason I have a 4080 instead of a 4090, its how much I hate it

www.pny.com/pny-geforce-rtx-4090-24gb-xlr8-gaming-uprising-epic-x-rgb-triple-fan
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#15
3valatzy
Dr. DroNah, XFX is and will stay an AMD only AIB for the foreseeable future. And one of the better ones I might add. I just think these cards are fugly. I can say the same about more than half of the GeForce models, like, personally I don't dig the Palit Gamerock cards or most of PNY's. There's one specific design being sold by PNY, Manli and a few others that are the reason I have a 4080 instead of a 4090, its how much I hate it

www.pny.com/pny-geforce-rtx-4090-24gb-xlr8-gaming-uprising-epic-x-rgb-triple-fan
This PNY is a beauty and an interesting design compared to that XFX :kookoo: That XFX is the worst graphics card design ever. I had never seen something similar before.\

Just stay with Sapphire, ASRock.
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#17
Macro Device
Dr. DroThis is the absolute ugliest design I have ever seen in a graphics card
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/inno3d-gtx-1070-x2.b3725

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.
Dr. Drowww.pny.com/pny-geforce-rtx-4090-24gb-xlr8-gaming-uprising-epic-x-rgb-triple-fan
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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#19
ZoneDymo
could not care less about how a card looks, its important it cools well and does not take up too much space.

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.
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#20
Jtuck9
ZoneDymocould not care less about how a card looks, its important it cools well and does not take up too much space.

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 "Supplemental PCIe power" that MSI were advertising?
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#21
Neo_Morpheus
Personally, i have zero issues if they reused this design:

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#22
Jtuck9
Non RGB would be nice, otherwise I'm going to have to start describing my case in terms of nits :/
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#23
rlifeh
wow! the black one is so ugly !!
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#24
Chaitanya
Neo_MorpheusPersonally, i have zero issues if they reused this design:

Their new Magnetic Air series with easy swap fans is also pretty good. Not sure why 719, Merc and Magnetic Air were ditched this time around.
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#25
ZoneDymo
Jtuck9Like "Supplemental PCIe power" that MSI were advertising?
I guess kinda, reading up on it, to me, its kinda vague.

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.
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