Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+

AusWolf · Mar 21, 2025

In case anyone was wondering, the 9070 XT does compute in BOINC (at least under Windows).

I've just completed an Einstein@Home work unit in 9 and a half minutes, during which the card ate 80-85 W on average, running at around 1600 MHz on the core.

In comparison, the RDNA 2 iGPU in my 7800X3D progressed around 7% with the work unit that it started at the same time.

I'm not sure if it's ROCm, or just OpenCL, though (or are they the same thing? I'm not an expert on compute).

wheresmycar · Sunday at 1:42 AM

Back to this review!

I'm in search of my next upgrade and i think this is the one! Not just a great GPU from a technical aspect but the best looker of a GPU i've seen in some time... thats grille, grillorious!!

I wander if Sapphire will be releasing this in white? We want options Sapphy..

AusWolf · Sunday at 4:58 AM

wheresmycar said:
Back to this review!

I'm in search of my next upgrade and i think this is the one! Not just a great GPU from a technical aspect but the best looker of a GPU i've seen in some time... thats grille, grillorious!!

I wander if Sapphire will be releasing this in white? We want options Sapphy..

I doubt it, but they've got the Pure in white. I think it has a white PCB, too.

Hereticbar · Sunday at 8:03 AM

AusWolf said:
I doubt it, but they've got the Pure in white. I think it has a white PCB, too.

Nope, the Sapphire RX 9070 XT Pure has a black PCB. I think only the Yeston cards, Powercolor Red Devil Spectral and Hellhound Spectral have white PCB.

wheresmycar · Sunday at 5:56 PM

AusWolf said:
I doubt it, but they've got the Pure in white. I think it has a white PCB, too.

Last night i was checking 'completed builds' at PCPP with all 9700 XT's in white filtered... unfortunately, for me, none of them were visually appealing as the Nitro+. If no white is on the horizon, i guess the grey works too.

Hereticbar · Monday at 2:19 AM

The only good looking white RX 9070 XT card is the Powercolor Red Devil Spectral Edition. Or I would like to call it, the "White Devil".

Everything on that card is white, PCB, power connectors, fans, backplate and even the heatsink.

System Name	My second and third PCs are Intel + Nvidia
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	MSi Pro B650M-A Wifi
Cooling	be quiet! Dark Rock 4
Memory	2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance EXPO DDR5-6000 CL36
Video Card(s)	PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT
Storage	2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 4 TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	Dell S3422DWG 34" 1440 UW 144 Hz
Case	Kolink Citadel Mesh
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones
Power Supply	750 W Seasonic Prime GX
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 2S
Keyboard	Logitech G413 SE
Software	Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE Plasma

System Name	❶ Oooh (2024) ❷ Aaaah (2021) ❸ Ahemm (2017)
Processor	❶ 5800X3D ❷ i7-9700K ❸ i7-7700K
Motherboard	❶ X570-F ❷ Z390-E ❸ Z270-E
Cooling	❶ ALFIII 360 ❷ X62 + X72 (GPU mod) ❸ X62
Memory	❶ 32-3600/16 ❷ 32-3200/16 ❸ 16-3200/16
Video Card(s)	❶ 3080 X Trio ❷ 2080TI (AIOmod) ❸ 1080TI
Storage	❶ NVME/SSD/HDD ❷ <SAME ❸ SSD/HDD
Display(s)	❶ 1440/165/IPS ❷ 1440/144/IPS ❸ 1080/144/IPS
Case	❶ BQ Silent 601 ❷ Cors 465X ❸ Frac Mesh C
Audio Device(s)	❶ HyperX C2 ❷ HyperX C2 ❸ Logi G432
Power Supply	❶ HX1200 Plat ❷ RM750X ❸ EVGA 650W G2
Mouse	❶ Logi G Pro ❷ Razer Bas V3 ❸ Logi G502
Keyboard	❶ Logi G915 TKL ❷ Anne P2 ❸ Logi G610
Software	❶ Win 11 ❷ 10 ❸ 10
Benchmark Scores	I have wrestled bandwidths, Tussled with voltages, Handcuffed Overclocks, Thrown Gigahertz in Jail

System Name	My second and third PCs are Intel + Nvidia
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	MSi Pro B650M-A Wifi
Cooling	be quiet! Dark Rock 4
Memory	2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance EXPO DDR5-6000 CL36
Video Card(s)	PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT
Storage	2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 4 TB Seagate Barracuda
Display(s)	Dell S3422DWG 34" 1440 UW 144 Hz
Case	Kolink Citadel Mesh
Audio Device(s)	Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones
Power Supply	750 W Seasonic Prime GX
Mouse	Logitech MX Master 2S
Keyboard	Logitech G413 SE
Software	Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE Plasma

System Name	Bargain System
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus
Cooling	Deepcool LT720 360mm
Memory	32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 3600Mhz
Video Card(s)	Zotac RTX 4080 AMP Extreme AIRO White Edition
Storage	Western Digital SN850X
Display(s)	Acer Nitro 34" Ultrawide \| Samsung Odyssey G5 27"
Case	Lianli O11 Dynamic Evo White
Audio Device(s)	HiVi Swans OS-10 Bookshelf Speakers
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime GX-1000 80+ Gold
Mouse	Razer Ultimate \| Razer Naga Pro
Keyboard	Razer Huntsman Tournament Edition

System Name	❶ Oooh (2024) ❷ Aaaah (2021) ❸ Ahemm (2017)
Processor	❶ 5800X3D ❷ i7-9700K ❸ i7-7700K
Motherboard	❶ X570-F ❷ Z390-E ❸ Z270-E
Cooling	❶ ALFIII 360 ❷ X62 + X72 (GPU mod) ❸ X62
Memory	❶ 32-3600/16 ❷ 32-3200/16 ❸ 16-3200/16
Video Card(s)	❶ 3080 X Trio ❷ 2080TI (AIOmod) ❸ 1080TI
Storage	❶ NVME/SSD/HDD ❷ <SAME ❸ SSD/HDD
Display(s)	❶ 1440/165/IPS ❷ 1440/144/IPS ❸ 1080/144/IPS
Case	❶ BQ Silent 601 ❷ Cors 465X ❸ Frac Mesh C
Audio Device(s)	❶ HyperX C2 ❷ HyperX C2 ❸ Logi G432
Power Supply	❶ HX1200 Plat ❷ RM750X ❸ EVGA 650W G2
Mouse	❶ Logi G Pro ❷ Razer Bas V3 ❸ Logi G502
Keyboard	❶ Logi G915 TKL ❷ Anne P2 ❸ Logi G610
Software	❶ Win 11 ❷ 10 ❸ 10
Benchmark Scores	I have wrestled bandwidths, Tussled with voltages, Handcuffed Overclocks, Thrown Gigahertz in Jail

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+

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Hereticbar

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