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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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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.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
