OcUK RX9070 Series Review Thread

McPhee · 2025-03-05T18:41:54+0000

The difference from review to review is incredible in some cases. I'm just watching the KitGuru review & in raster the 9070 XT is ahead of the 5070 Ti and 4080 Super in raster (and only trailing the 7900 XTX by a slim margin). The 5080 is only 7% or 9% ahead (1440p/4K), which is incredible considering these cards are "£569" and "£979".

Looks like I might need to spend the evening combing reviews. At £569 instead of £629, I'm somewhat tempted again. I still wish the regular 9070 was priced according the the performance it offers though. I'd be quite happy with that. I'm just not happy with it for £40 less than a 9070 XT...

Meaker · 2025-03-05T18:43:04+0000

Debauer was mentioning the clocks varying between 3000 and 3300Mhz between different retail cards.

kieran_read · 2025-03-05T18:48:31+0000

uscool said:
I would also say the 5070ti RT is also sub par , guess we ain't ready for decent RT for the so called mid range

That's what i've noticed on pretty much all of the reviews i've just finished watching, the general view for RT is that for games that use a blended approach (I.E most RT games) the 9070XT is very comparable to the 5070ti, for games that use the full feature set of RT like Black Myth then the 5070ti pulls away, however at higher resolutions both cards are still unplayable, so it doesn't really matter if a 5070ti is better when neither can run it well, and for the games where it can be run well, both are good.

Actually very exciting launch for someone will on a 1000 series card, I was looking at the Nitro X but I think ill go for the Pulse if I can get lucky on the MRSP price tomorrow.

Gonna log in and get the account ready with my updated details in advance!

uscool · 2025-03-05T18:51:37+0000

kieran_read said:
That's what i've noticed on pretty much all of the reviews i've just finished watching, the general view for RT is that for games that use a blended approach (I.E most RT games) the 9070XT is very comparable to the 5070ti, for games that use the full feature set of RT like Black Myth then the 5070ti pulls away, however at higher resolutions both cards are still unplayable, so it doesn't really matter if a 5070ti is better when neither can run it well, and for the games where it can be run well, both are good.

Actually very exciting launch for someone will on a 1000 series card, I was looking at the Nitro X but I think ill go for the Pulse if I can get lucky on the MRSP price tomorrow.

Gonna log in and get the account ready with my updated details in advance!

From 10 series it will be noticeable jump , I don't think the nitro is worth the extra premium if you can get pulse at MSRP , it's like few FPS in it and the temps don't look like anything special either

kieran_read · 2025-03-05T18:52:45+0000

uscool said:
From 10 series it will be noticeable jump , I don't think the nitro is worth the extra premium if you can get pulse at MSRP , it's like few FPS in it and the temps don't look like anything special either

Yeh that was my logic, the Pulse is going to be 630 when they sell through, at that price a £70 premium isn't too bad, but if i can get it for MRSP the 130 premium is harder to justify.

Freddie1980 · 2025-03-05T18:54:59+0000

McPhee said:
Why?

The 7900 XTX is holding up pretty well considering we have now seen all of the higher end 50-series and 9070 series cards. It's still one for the top 5 cards on the market in terms of raster performance. Usually the expectation would be that a new generation would relegate the performance of old high-end cards to the mid-range...

7900 XTX are retailing for £900 now you can get the same performance for less.

arc@css · 2025-03-05T19:07:02+0000

I've only watched one review so far (HUB), but my takeaway so far is:

+ Better performance than I expected/greater uplift over the 3070 than I anticipated — sometimes quite a bit more.

+ If available at MSRP or close to it, then good value in today's climate.
+ Surprisingly better in RT than the 7900 series of GPUs.
+ Although higher power draw than I would like to see, it clearly is more efficient than the 7900 series — especially the 7900XTX.

— Power draw at just north of 300w concerns me a little (energy prices due to go up again soon),
though how much of a difference this would make on my bill, I don't know (some gaming and Adobe Creative Cloud suite).
— If not possible to purchase one at the MSRP or close to it, then I may as well forget it and wait,
though, one can keep waiting forever, especially when we consider the GPU market over the last few years.
— Not as much of an uplift in Stalker 2 than I hoped for, though, to be honest I'm hardly playing that at the moment.
Besides, IIRC, most cards running it at full settings do see relatively modest performance anyway.

All in all, I am on the fence about this, but I am leaning more towards getting one than not (not had an AMD GPU since 2015).
On one hand, it seems like a sensible option to purchase as maybe aside from second-hand, there's nothing on the green team that seems relevant at the present;
the 5070 generally delivers too little of an uplift in performance while only having 12 GB of VRAM, and the 5070Ti is priced at the next tier up. :/

If I can't grab one at the MSRP or near it, then maybe I should wait. I don't see the non-XT variant being worth it for only $50 less.
It's likely to show more of a performance loss in relation to the slightly lower price, though it does suck a lot less juice!

Overall, it just seems about like the best option that we've seen for a while, so perhaps a no-brainer after all?

McPhee · 2025-03-05T19:20:14+0000

arc@css said:
— Power draw at just north of 300w concerns me a little (energy prices due to go up again soon),
though how much of a difference this would make on my bill, I don't know (some gaming and Adobe Creative Cloud suite).

It's almost meaningless in terms of power cost.

Using KitGuru's results (as I happen to have them up at the moment), the 9070 XT Taichi used 54W more than the 5070 Ti Ventus across the 12 games they tested. The current energy price cap is 24.86p per kWh. So for 10 hours of gaming the extra cost is 13.42p.

YMMV but I'd be surprised if the extra power draw would even cost me £1/month with the game time I can find as a working adult (and even then, a chunk of that time is on Steam Deck).

Game · 2025-03-05T19:25:15+0000

~>Dg<~ said:
thing is if it runs fine at that temp and dont cause a issue it aint that bad. i remember a older amd card i had back in the day never missed a beat and that ran at 105c for three years on all day.

also where is all the 9070 benchmarks ? they all seem to only be benching the XT version.

my r9 390 used to heat the kitchen for a good 4-5 years excellent card

gpuerrilla · 2025-03-05T19:26:48+0000

Your also bound to be able to undervolt these to knock off 50w. Its so simple to do in the adrenaline software plenty of coverage on how to do it.

pastymuncher · 2025-03-05T19:30:13+0000

I don't understand the pricing, especially on the 9070. Going with OCUK's pricing there are only two cards for £529.99 then it's £569.99+ and you can get a XT for the same price so who is going to buy a non XT at that price and more? Performance of both cards look good but the XT pulls a hell of a lot of power for what is basically a high mid range card. I also notice that some cards use that bloody awful 16 pin connector as well and the Sapphire Nitro+ XT has the socket in a ridiculous place.

KiNgPiN83 · 2025-03-05T19:43:11+0000

uscool said:
From 10 series it will be noticeable jump , I don't think the nitro is worth the extra premium if you can get pulse at MSRP , it's like few FPS in it and the temps don't look like anything special either

I'm really tempted to retire my 1080 with one of these..

Jono8 · 2025-03-05T19:47:04+0000

pastymuncher said:
I don't understand the pricing, especially on the 9070. Going with OCUK's pricing there are only two cards for £529.99 then it's £569.99+ and you can get a XT for the same price so who is going to buy a non XT at that price and more? Performance of both cards look good but the XT pulls a hell of a lot of power for what is basically a high mid range card. I also notice that some cards use that bloody awful 16 pin connector as well and the Sapphire Nitro+ XT has the socket in a ridiculous place.

Is it that bad power wise really?

Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

AMD pulls off an upset in the battle of the midrange GPUs

uk.pcmag.com

The power section of this review for gaming has it pulling the same as the 5070ti pretty much.

arc@css · 2025-03-05T19:50:58+0000

Looking at the PSU cable, it seems that I only have an 8 + 6 pin cable.
I'll have to check to see if I have a 2 x 8-pin lead.

Edit: nope, it's a 2 x 8-pin.

Jono8 · 2025-03-05T20:09:55+0000

Some very odd results in some of these reviews

Hogwarts for example here

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review

AMD's Radeon 9070 GPUs have been the subject of much speculation, but now we finally have the hardware in hand. Let's put the 9070 XT to the test to...

www.techspot.com

Trails the 7900XT and XTX in 1440p by a lot, but beats them handily in 4k?!

Makes no sense. Something very weird happening there.

Wery odd bottlenecking on AMD cards in War Thunder at 1440p, but not at 4k as well.

michty_me · 2025-03-05T20:13:00+0000

Has there been any further power colour red devil or hellhound reviews other than the Swedish one listed in the OP?

Mainly looking for if the UV/OC well really.

RavenXXX2 · 2025-03-05T20:13:25+0000

I reckon these will get better with driver updates. Might jump on the XT pulse if OCUK does not BSOD.

Minstadave · 2025-03-05T20:14:14+0000

FSR4 is looking pretty solid looking at the DF review. Card looks like a solid purchase.

TheRealDeal · 2025-03-05T20:22:03+0000

Jono8 said:
Some very odd results in some of these reviews

Hogwarts for example here

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review

AMD's Radeon 9070 GPUs have been the subject of much speculation, but now we finally have the hardware in hand. Let's put the 9070 XT to the test to...

www.techspot.com

Trails the 7900XT and XTX in 1440p by a lot, but beats them handily in 4k?!

Makes no sense. Something very weird happening there.

Wery odd bottlenecking on AMD cards in War Thunder at 1440p, but not at 4k as well.

I think they still test War Thunder in dx11 so favours Nvidia in this regard as they are much better in dx11 with the cpu. I have seen a few games where performance is not where it should be comparing to other games. Maybe some driver quirks going on in these games. Overall it's a good release.

TrojanWhore · 2025-03-05T20:32:30+0000

On the subject of temps, as far as I can tell (assuming TPU results are accurate) it seems the cores run pretty cool, which coupled with a BIOS tuned for quiet on the Sapphires is making the memory temps look bad.
Default fan profile here is hitting around 25dB under load... that's whisper quiet!
Normalised to 35dB the temps seem good or at least fine

Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ Review - Beating NVIDIA

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.

www.techpowerup.com