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For our testing, AMD sent over XFX's Swift Radeon RX 9070 GRE. This is XFX's most straightforward family of graphics cards, and the 9070 GRE version features a clean, reserved design without any kind of RGB or accent lighting whatsoever. If you like stealthy builds, this card would be a fine pick for the purpose.
This card is already listed at Best Buy in the USA for AMD's $549 MSRP, so we'll have to see whether that price holds and whether you can actually buy it from stock.
At least according to retail specs, XFX rates this card for the same 2790 MHz boost clock and 220 W TDP as AMD's reference spec, so its performance in our test suite should be representative of what a 9070 GRE "reference" card would deliver, even though no such actual product exists.
While this isn't a fancy RX 9070 GRE, it doesn't feel cheap or insubstantial. The backplate is made of sturdy metal, and the heatsink proper is well-finished and features a dense nickel-plated fin stack for plenty of surface area.
We weren't able to perform formalized noise testing on this card before we had to leave for Computex, but the large heatsink and trio of fans mean that its noise signature is quiet and pleasant under load. You likely won't be able to hear this card over other components in a gaming PC when it's running full tilt.
As is common nowadays, XFX cuts a vent in this card’s backplate to allow air from the forward portion of the fin stack to escape directly upwards into the case’s airflow path.
Around back, you'll find three DisplayPort 2.1 connectors and a single HDMI 2.1b port.
The RX 9070 GRE relies on two eight-pin PCIe connectors to fuel its 220W TDP, so unless you do something really stupid, you won't have to worry about potential 12V-2x6 meltdowns.
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