ASUS Prime Radeon™ RX 9070 XT OC Edition Graphics Card (PCIe 5.0, HDMI/DP 2.1, 2.5-Slot Design, axial-tech Fans, Dual Ball Fan Bearings, Dual BIOS, GPU Guard)

Good performance, good value
Early Q2 2025 update: AMD’s 9070 XT (note: NOT the 9070, sans XT) are hitting shelves today. As I do not have one, I don’t have any benchmarking results to share. However, the results from other people’s benchmarks look very positive. The 9070 XT has an MSRP of $600 and punches with NVIDIA’s 5070 TI (which has an MSRP of $750, but due to extremely poor availability has not been available for less than $1000). Both of these cards lead the performance of the 7800 XT by 40-50%. GPU prices are all over the place right now. At the right price, any card can be good. If you can find a 7800 XT for $400, dollar-for-dollar, it is good value. If the 9070 XT availability is as poor as NVIDIA’s 5000 series cards, you may not have a choice. In the past we had the luxury of knowing the price of a product. Today, prices are constantly in flux. Instead of being tied to a particular model, be open minded and prepared to any card that satisfies your needs when it drops into a sensible price bucket (and know that it will likely not stay at that price for long).=== Original Review ===If you want to play modern titles at 4K/60 in ultra, the 7800XT is the currently the best mix of performance and value available.That being said, 2024 has been a pretty bad year for GPUs, and the 7800XT is not really an exception to this. I paid $440 for my card and comparisons are relative to that. Written Jan 2025, and prices referenced are the lowest I could find at time of writing.** Compared to current generation cards:- 15% faster than the 4070 (~$450).- 10% slower than the 4070 SUPER (~$550).- More VRAM than both the 4070/4070 SUPER (12GB vs. 16GB. Some modern titles use more than 12GB of VRAM at 4K ultra, and in this case the NVIDIA cards will be bottlenecked.- Under load, ~25% more efficient than the 4070 SUPER and ~20% more efficient than the 4070. Pulls half the power (15w vs. 30w) when idle and computer is not asleep.** Compared to last generation cards:- Similar performance to last generation’s 6900 XT (~$400). ~10% lower power draw under load, similar power draw at idle. No longer being manufactured so availability is bad.- 5% better performance than the 3080, ~15% lower power draw under load. Pulls half the power at idle.** Miscellaneous:- Temps hit 80C under sustained load on the bench with no overclocking.- Fits nicely into my SSF case.- Performance/eco hardware switch is a nice feature that adds a bit of value.- FSR (AMD’s upscaling technology) looks a little worse than DLSS (NVIDIA’s upscaling technology) IMO, but I think this is probably preference.- ROCm (AMD’s challenge to CUDA) works well on native Linux, but does not work well on Windows (including WSL2). AI performance is much worse than all of NVIDIA’s cards in terms of absolute performance and is slightly worse in terms of dollar-for-dollar performance.** Final thoughts:Overall, it’s a fine card.If you are OK with downgrading, Intel’s B580 ($250) is currently the value king and is capable of playing most titles at high in 1440p. If you are set on gaming in ultra at 4K/60, then the 7800XT is probably the way to go.The current generation of cards are not great (the fact NVIDIA has released the 4070, a 4070 SUPER, a 4070 TI, and a 4070 TI SUPER instead of adding a new SKU should be some indication of this), so being the best of the generation isn’t exactly the highest praise. New cards are likely going to start hitting the market in early Q2 2025, so hold out for a few months if you can.But if you need a new GPU and can’t wait… well, then you take what you can get.5 stars only because it’s the best compared to it’s competition, and not because it’s a card that will be remembered fondly in 10 years time.

Fast, Quiet, Stable
Great card, if a bit more expensive than I would like. I replaced an Nvidia RTX 3070 blower-style card with this, and the difference is night and day. Perf is way up, noise is way down, and graphics driver issues are (to my pleasant surprise) way down too.I’ve been running Nvidia on Linux since ~2011, and finally got fed up with the driver issues. I’m currently running the new card in “quiet” mode on Linux Mint 22.2, and everything worked right out of the box; swapped cards, booted up, done. I can play Satisfactory and Witcher 3 at 4k, ultra, and no up-scaling via Steam Proton at a steady 60+ Hz, and the the card is virtually silent. Freesync works perfectly, where as the previous Nvidia would always tear. Perf does take a pretty big hit with ray tracing and/or global illumination turned on though. They would probably be fine with up-scaling or frame-gen, but I prefer native res.

Very good graphic card. It stays cool and quiet. I’ve downvolt to -50 and power to -10. Getting 270-280 Watt maximum at 100% gpu and most of the times, the fan don’t even spins. The only problem is the size of the card. It’s really big and needs a big casing.

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