Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+

W1zzard · 2025-03-05T13:59:37+0000

AMD's new RDNA 4 GPUs are launching today. The Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ is a fantastic custom design with powerful cooling and whisper-quiet fans. In terms of FPS, the RX 9070 XT offers competitive performance with similarly priced NVIDIA options in both raster and ray tracing.

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Darkholm · 2025-03-05T14:01:57+0000

Fak yes

MSV198 · 2025-03-05T14:02:16+0000

Considering all the previous leaks, the performance is pretty much as expected.
If they manage to keep the list price, this is a big win for AMD.

Daven · 2025-03-05T14:03:46+0000

The original leaks were right: 5% slower than the 4080.

_JP_ · 2025-03-05T14:04:04+0000

Within one-digit percentage consolidated performance difference of the 5070Ti, for less cost. Win.

wolf · 2025-03-05T14:04:11+0000

Banger of a card. If everyone that wants one get get an MSRP model this is a runaway success. Heck f**cking yes AMD.

Denver · 2025-03-05T14:04:29+0000

Holly f... N48 is a bad boy. A high-end RDNA4 would be insanely fast.

Only crazy people would buy the 5070 Ti/5080 for $1,000–$1,500 now. XD

Chrisy · 2025-03-05T14:04:33+0000

Near 7900XTX speeds in raster, way faster in RT.
And cheaper than 7900XTX.

This is how a generational improvement looks like :toast:

Corvette987 · 2025-03-05T14:05:54+0000

hell of a good price/performance ratio. Hopefully AMD can pick up some market share and put even a tiny bit of pressure on Nvidia

Mr. Perfect · 2025-03-05T14:07:50+0000

Sapphire is pricing the Radeon RX 9070 XT NITRO+ at $730, a $130 premium over the $600 starting price for the RX 9070 XT.

This generation is so frustrating. No MSRP cards for the Radeons either huh?

BlaezaLite · 2025-03-05T14:08:31+0000

I may have just soiled myself... "UNGH" and again...

AMD well done, now get that pricing right!

Shou Miko · 2025-03-05T14:09:09+0000

Thanks @W1zzard for another great review, I can see only title that the RX 9070 XT ain't performing in so far is CS2 but I do not play that so that's fine with me :lovetpu:

theouto · 2025-03-05T14:09:39+0000

Here's to hoping that there's an ample selection of models found at MSRP. Good job amd, good job.

Legacy-ZA · 2025-03-05T14:10:11+0000

Magnificent AMD, well done. Hopefully people can buy these at non-scalping prices. :love:

rsouzadk · 2025-03-05T14:10:18+0000

AMD delivered. Great review!

TumbleGeorge · 2025-03-05T14:13:08+0000

So bad CS2 FPS, why?

csendesmark · 2025-03-05T14:14:56+0000

Looks like a bombshell went off!!
Can't wait to see a 20+GB version!

Legacy-ZA said:
Magnificent AMD, well done. Hopefully people can buy these at non-scalping prices.

If the market is wide, then the scalping is harder!
This is great!

TumbleGeorge said:
So bad CS2 FPS, why?

Wait for the new drivers,
it should be fixed soon!

alwayssts · 2025-03-05T14:16:57+0000

Like I said yesterday, but the opposite. There's a formula to it; balancing a video card is possible. Look at this:

This is what being fair to your customers looks like. And it'll scale, like it does here...across generations and games consistently...because that's what they do. You can literally count on it and predict it.
Hence look at my post in the 5070 review yesterday, where you could be guaranteed nVIDIA would never let that card do 60fps mins in Wukong, and is just massively overcome by Outlaws due to not having enough everything (compute/ram). Here you see they gave you exactly what you needed, and it can do both at 60fps mins. AMD needed to do that and they did.

Add a ~10% oc on top of this...not bad...not too bad at all.

Chaitanya · 2025-03-05T14:17:11+0000

Wont be shocked to find these as well going out of stock like Intel's Battlemage and AIB starting to scalp.

Edit: Apart from presence of stupid power hazard of power connecter atleast someone at Sapphire had common sense to put a pair of fuzes near that power connector unlike nGreedia engineers who went one extreme penny pinching.

Chrispy_ · 2025-03-05T14:17:31+0000

Good news for the 9070-series as a whole, though this particular Nitro+ is extra hungry when it comes to power consumption.

What is less impressive is the Nitro+ premium. A $130 premium on a $600 card is an extra 22% to pay for something that has boost clocks that are likely within 3% of the $600 MSRP models like the Pulse.

The 9070XT Pulse is a day-one buy for me tomorrow but I'm going to be trying to undervolt it immediately - I'm generally not interested in GPUs that use more than 250W and I doubt I'll be able to bring the 330W down as far as 250W given how limited the power slider was for RDNA3 cards.

Gameslove · 2025-03-05T14:17:33+0000

Chrisy said:
Near 7900XTX speeds in raster, way faster in RT.
And cheaper than 7900XTX.

This is how a generational improvement looks like

But only 16 GB VRAM, will be limited at 4K resolution...

Hecate91 · 2025-03-05T14:17:46+0000

Awesome, hopefully these will be in stock at MSRP.

Asni · 2025-03-05T14:18:50+0000

Does these cards have some issues going into full low-power mode? I see x16 3.0 instead of x16 1.1 in the OC page.

W1zzard · 2025-03-05T14:20:22+0000

Asni said:
Does these cards have some issues going into full low-power mode? I see x16 3.0 instead of x16 1.1 in the OC page.

No issues, check the idle power numbers

dir_d · 2025-03-05T14:21:24+0000

This is exactly what we needed. I will be buying one.

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