AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 review: Excellent value, if supply is good

Big AI and ray tracing improvements, but questions about retail supply remain.

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 Full RT and FSR 4 Testing (Coming later...)

As we've said in other recent reviews, there's a lot of other testing we want to conduct, but we've been short on time for the past month or more it feels like. AMD has some games already available with FSR 4 support, and Nvidia has games with DLSS 4 support, but doing the additional testing for all of that can be a massive time sink and we just don't have the time right now.

We'll certainly be revisiting this subject in the coming days, and we'll update this page when we've got some hard data. For now, just know that FSR 4 is something we intend to investigate, sooner than later. We'll discuss things in more detail once we have some actual numbers.

More to come....

Jarred Walton
Jarred Walton

Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.

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  • Crazyy8
    I don't have much money, but I might have just enough for the 9070 XT. I might finally be able to say I have high end hardware! :smile:
    Look forward to release, hope it isn't scalped!
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  • cknobman
    I'll be online super early to try and snag a $599 9070xt.
    Count me in the market share shift over to AMD.
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  • Gururu
    Very nice review although the setting feels like a time warp to Dec 2022.
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  • palladin9479
    Now it's all down to availability and how much product AMD can pump into the channel. Anyone trying to buy a dGPU is left with almost no real options other then to pay ridiculous markups to scant supply. If AMD can pump enough product into the channel, then those prices will go down cause well, that's how the supply vs demand curve works.
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  • Elusive Ruse
    Thank you for the detailed review and analysis as always @JarredWaltonGPU I’m glad that we finally have a proper offering at the midrange. AMD dealt a powerful blow to Nvidia, maybe a bit late but better than never.
    The ball is now in Nvidia’s court, let’s see how much they care about the gaming market, I also believe this is a matter of brand image as well; losing to AMD even if it’s not at the high end still hurts.
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  • JarredWaltonGPU
    Gururu said:
    Very nice review although the setting feels like a time warp to Dec 2022.
    Seriously! Well, more like late 2020 or early 2021. Everything is basically sold out right now (though 5070 has a few $599 to $699 models actually in stock right this second at Newegg).
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  • Colif
    They are nice cards but I will follow my own advice and not buy a card this generation and see what next brings. Xt beats mine in some games but not all, and since I don't play RT games anyway, I don't think its worth it
    I am saving for a new PC so it wouldn't make sense to buy one now anyway. Maybe next gen I get one that is same color as new PC will be...
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  • SonoraTechnical
    Saw this about the Powercolor Reaper in the article:

    PowerColor takes the traditional approach of including three DisplayPort 2.1a ports and a single HDMI 2.1b port. However, the specifications note that only two simultaneous DP2.1 connections can be active at the same time. Also, these are UHBR13.5 (54 Gbps) ports, rather than the full 80 Gbps maximum that DisplayPort 2.1a allows for.

    So, 3 monitors using display port for FS2024 is a non-starter? Have to mix technologies (DP and HDMI?) Is this going to be true for most RX 9070 XT cards?
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  • JarredWaltonGPU
    baboma said:
    I watched the HUB review, since it came out first. The short of it: 9070XT = 7900XT (not XTX), both in perf and power consumption. So if you think Nvidia (Huang) lied about 5070's perf, then AMD also lied.
    Not by my numbers. AMD said the 9070 XT would be about 10% slower than the 7900 XTX in rasterization and 10% faster in ray tracing. Even if that were accurate, it would still make the 9070 XT faster than the 7900 XT.

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  • Colif
    The low stock and things being OOS the same day they released reminds me of the 7900 release day. I was too slow to get an XTX but I was happy with an XT.
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