OcUK RX9070 Series Review Thread

[RavenXXX2]

 

[prav]

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".

Yeah I just watched the same one, his game selection seems to have been really good for the 9700/XT - but even in games which HUB also reviewed he's getting quite a bit better performance - Cyberpunk and Plague Tale for instance, it takes it from tied with the XTX/5070ti/4080 to ahead of them, or from behind to tied

 

[uscool]

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

Hardly anything in it compared to the base pulse model

 

[TrojanWhore]

Hardly anything in it compared to the base pulse model

Yeah, that's kinda what I meant - That Sapphire are prioritising quiet over temps... at the prices as currently listed, I'd definitely be leaning towards the Pulse over the Nitro! (Very happy with my 7900XT Pulse though and won't be changing it out!)

 

[pastymuncher]

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.

If you look at TechPowerUp's review of the Nitro+ they show gpu only power draw and that card pulls a ridiculous 351w while gaming (standadr XT is 330w). That's a lot of power for a high mid range card and 101w more than the 7800XT which I belive this card replaces. I thought my 7900GRE was bad enough but this is getting daft now. I am not crazy about the power draw from any of the new cards from any manufacturer although the 9070 non XT has decent power/performance levels and could be the exception.

 

[Jono8]

If you look at TechPowerUp's review of the Nitro+ they show gpu only power draw and that card pulls a ridiculous 351w while gaming (standadr XT is 330w). That's a lot of power for a high mid range card and 101w more than the 7800XT which I belive this card replaces. I thought my 7900GRE was bad enough but this is getting daft now. I am not crazy about the power draw from any of the new cards from any manufacturer although the 9070 non XT has decent power/performance levels and could be the exception.

Weird. A lot reviews show the non high end cards (IE the pulse etc) only pulling the stated 300 or so watts which isn't far off the 5070ti.