XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury OC Magnetic Air

[W1zzard]

The XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Mercury OC comes with a unique capability. Its fans are attached magnetically and will pop out easily, which makes them easy to clean and replace. In terms of performance the XFX card does very well, too, beating the RTX 5070, almost matching the RTX 5070 Ti.

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[Krit]

+200$ for what for air ? Another fake price. There are very big difference between 600$ and 800$ when it comes to RX 9070 XT (massive +33.4% price increase)

Very good review W1zzard but this product is very bad at 800$!!!!

 

[csendesmark]

What happened with the LLM benchmarks on the AMD 9070 reviews?

 

[mb194dc]

The 9070xt only at 4k with upscaling or lower settings, really? Yet many are using cards that are years old at 4k. Surely this card is ideal for 4k?

More so if you take out the super old game engines like counter strike 2 that drag down its relative performance.

This particular card nowhere near worth the extra 200 over basic models. Nearly all of them will hit the same clocks anyway.?

 

[RootinTootinPootin]

Literally stagnation these days, brought by Nvidia..lol..

 

[Macro Device]

It's bonkers how energy inefficient overclocking is. +90 W (over Sapphire Pulse at stock PL) only give +5% performance.

If I ever happen to buy an RX 9070 XT GPU I will definitely buy the cheapest one since going beyond 315 W is of almost no fruit.

 

[Bobaganoosh]

Thanks for doing the variety of reviews on different SKUs! Any chance you got a Red Devil (either 9070 or 9070XT) kicking around over there to tell us about? Not rushing you, just curious.

 

[Scircura]

What happened with the LLM benchmarks on the AMD 9070 reviews?

W1zzard says "No time and lack of software support"

 

[oxrufiioxo]

So the real price finally shows itself....

Good times.

 

[bug]

+200$ for what for air ? Another fake price. There are very big difference between 600$ and 800$ when it comes to RX 9070 XT (massive +33.4% price increase)

Very good review W1zzard but this product is very bad at 800$!!!!

Video cards are simply becoming luxury items, making sense only to those that can spend without thinking about what they get in return.

 

[_roman_]

One of the highlights of this card are the magnetically attached fans. They plop right in, impossible to get it wrong. Removing them is just as easy, the force required is exactly right. With this feature it will be super easy to replace the fans, should they break in the future, also it's extremely easy to remove dust and dirt from the card.

When someone destroys the motor mechanism or the plastics for it - the fan is also broken. It would be better when standard sized fan would be used as it was already in the past for another card modell.

I think the benefit may be in cleaning the fan blades more easily.

This does not really look sturdy and safe for everyone.

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It seems there is no hardware switch to get rid of the rainbow RGB stuff.

the high fan noise and the hdmi connector makes this graphic card sadly a no buy option for myself. I need a graphic card with 4x dp connectors, not usb-c, with low fan noise

edit: I agree the high price modells may not be worth it at all in regards of the surplus price. Some cards are randomly available here with tax for 690€ for the RX9070XT chip.

 

[scooze]

In my country all video cards have become more expensive, while everything else is getting cheaper. I don't quite understand what's going on.

 

[Fonduetime]

Sigh...I miss reference designs.

 

[Macro Device]

In my country all video cards have become more expensive, while everything else is getting cheaper.

Not only in your country. It's a global trend.

I don't quite understand what's going on.

GPUs are one of the most complex pieces of tech to produce in quantities and they're in the very substantial demand. Also NVIDIA are making consumers batshit FOMO horny with their artificial deficites, AI and all that stuff. This is give or take what's going on.

 

[Knight47]

So why is the hotspot so high? On nvidia gpu's it used to be 10-15C, like on my brand new 4070TiS it's 13C running Furmark, anything higher than 20C means paste pump-out.

Here it's 16C on day one, not to speak of the Taichi with 26C difference, I would re-paste at that point, but the use PTM7950.

 

[Daven]

Thanks for doing the variety of reviews on different SKUs! Any chance you got a Red Devil (either 9070 or 9070XT) kicking around over there to tell us about? Not rushing you, just curious.

W1zzard said in another comment for the first 9070XT review that he is working on like 10 or so additional GPU reviews. Give it time. Many are coming.

 

[Macro Device]

So why is the hotspot so high?

I bet it's sensors being more accurate than in previous generations on top of a much higher heat density which makes resistance futile. PTM7950 won't do jack.

 

[Steevo]

Dual BIOS with the same settings and no power limit increase, boost speed increase, nothing a damn thing? Are they planning on releasing an editor that invalidates warranty but allows complete control?

 

[Chrispy_]

It's a shame W1zzard's only been given flagship XT models with inflated price tags.
They're only 4% faster in games than the bone-stock reference card (Pulse/Reaper etc) and those aren't even overclocked.

What exactly, are you paying for, apart from the ability to push the card even further into the diminishing returns of the voltage curve? There's virtually nothing left on the table at 305 Watts and by juicing it to 350W you're getting an overpriced card with pointless beefed-up power delivery and cooling that achieves very little. The extra power draw just costs you in electricity bills, room cooling, case temperatures for other components, and fan noise.

W1zzard said in another comment for the first 9070XT review that he is working on like 10 or so additional GPU reviews. Give it time. Many are coming.

Ah okay, so the "base", uh "MSRP" model reviews can be added to the TPU charts eventually?
That would be good.

 

[EatingDirt]

When do we consider MSRP to be MFRP(Manufacturers Fictional Retail Price)? It's clear all MSRP's are fictional right now.

$800 is crazy for a 9070XT. Worse Performance per dollar than a 7800XTX.

 

[Krit]

$800 is crazy for a 9070XT. Worse Performance per dollar than a 7800XTX.

It's clearly is because at 446€ RX 7800 XT it's way better deal than RX 9070 XT at 800€ (piece of shit) That's a good 79% price increase for only 46% performance boost aka downgrade. And even then right now there are only models for 850-900€+ not for 800€!

 

[Frick]

Not only in your country. It's a global trend.

I really don't think things getting cheaper is a global trend.

 

[BigMack70]

$800 is an insane price for these cards. The 7900 XTX was available for between $850-900 last year before production stopped.

This is just AMD playing "me too" with Nvidia again. If they can't or won't supply cards between $600 and 650, RDNA 4 is just as big a turd as Blackwell.

 

[Krit]

I really don't think things getting cheaper is a global trend.

There are a lot of things that just don't change in terms of price i mean electronics in general for example monitors, audio, PSUs, PC cases, air cooling even CPUs are priced way better than gpus. Only thing that is way more expensive it's gpus.

 

[Baba]

"This is the company's most premium custom-design"
"This BIOS switch lets you toggle between the default performance BIOS and a second BIOS. While other vendors offer a "quiet" BIOS here, XFX is shipping the same BIOS on both switch settings, which feels like a lost opportunity to me."

The most premium price and XFX can't be bothered to put a quiet BIOS in the second BIOS? If XFX wants to cost cut then this belongs to their $600 model. What am I paying $200 extra for? On top of this, this is the worst cooler out of all of the 9070XTs tested so far. This is why I walked out of MC once the $600 models sold out.

This launch is pushing me back towards 5080s. I'd rather get a 5090 even if I ever find one at $2k.