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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

Kirkatron said:
These cards are good.
The Nitro+ 9070XT is the first GPU i've been really happy with since my Asus ROG 1080Ti. I had a 3090 for 2 years and a 7900 XTX for 2 years after that, but they were like space heaters, and I was never fully happy with either of them. The XTX's main issue being FSR 2, 3 and 3.1 were garbage, and the 3090 just didn't perform anywhere near as well as is its paper specs suggested, with the 3080 being only around 10% behind back then.
I've been looking for something with similar performance, decent upscaling, but less power hungry for a while. This runs so quiet and cool and, when frame capped, uses so much less power than both the previous cards ever did at the same settings and FPS. Its performance for its price is spot on too, I haven't lost out on switching from the XTX like I expected to.
In all honesty, I originally bought it expecting to return it and keep the XTX, the XTX however never went back in my PC and got sold on eBay. I don't think you'll have buyers remorse either.
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Agreed. Nitro is a brilliant, quiet and "efficient" card when tweaked; tweaking is a must.
Drivers are good, but they are not brilliant especially in 2D environment, which is funny really.
ATI used to always be a better "2D driver card" than Nvidia....
My path was similar to yours without XTX.

My impression of 3090 FE was a different. It was a beast. It was the first proper 4K card IMHO and was WAYYYYYY more quicker than just 10% , esp in 4k vs 3080. It had 24GB memory and was a mining king which paid itself off in 6months hence why they kept their price well.

NITRO 9070XT is a great card, but 3090 IMHO was legendary.
 
Dontrocktheboat said:
Agreed. Nitro is a brilliant, quiet and "efficient" card when tweaked; tweaking is a must.
Drivers are good, but they are not brilliant especially in 2D environment, which is funny really.
ATI used to always be a better "2D driver card" than Nvidia....
My path was similar to yours without XTX.

My impression of 3090 FE was a different. It was a beast. It was the first proper 4K card IMHO and was WAYYYYYY more quicker than just 10% , esp in 4k vs 3080. It had 24GB memory and was a mining king which paid itself off in 6months hence why they kept their price well.

NITRO 9070XT is a great card, but 3090 IMHO was legendary.
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I got the FE at launch, purely for gaming, only owned it 2 years but the performance was definitely not legendary.
The 3080 cost £640 and the 3090 cost £1400. The difference at 4k was around 15% for the FE, slightly more than at 1440. But it used so much more power to achieve this.
I always wished I'd bought the 3080 and the 3090 was a mistake.
The 3090, due to it's 24gb VRAM has aged better, but I'd already moved on to the XTX before games required silly VRAM.

I only use the GPU for gaming so it was a definite mistake for me. I can see why people will have loved the card, like you, but they will have used it outside of gaming.

I found this on Techpowerup comparing the higher end Strix to the 3080 at 4k over a big range of games.
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Yeah, I don’t know how anyone can call the 3090 a legendary GPU considering its price to performance ratio. It was a terrible priced GPU compared to an 3080 and will only be remembered fondly among a very blinkered minority.
 
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Kirkatron said:
I got the FE at launch, purely for gaming, only owned it 2 years but the performance was definitely not legendary.
The 3080 cost £640 and the 3090 cost £1400. The difference at 4k was around 15% for the FE, slightly more than at 1440. But it used so much more power to achieve this.
I always wished I'd bought the 3080 and the 3090 was a mistake.
The 3090, due to it's 24gb VRAM has aged better, but I'd already moved on to the XTX before games required silly VRAM.

I only use the GPU for gaming so it was a definite mistake for me. I can see why people will have loved the card, like you, but they will have used it outside of gaming.

I found this on Techpowerup comparing the higher end Strix to the 3080 at 4k over a big range of games.
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Not to mention those cards arrived right around the time Covid hit and was the peak of crypto mining. I had a very similar trajectory to you and ended up buying a 3080 for £960 (this was considered a "good deal" at the time since they were selling for £1750 at their peak) then moving to a 7900XTX and 9070XT as my current.
I distinctly remember 3090's going for £2500+ at their peak too, so i feel bad for anyone that bit the bullet on one of those.

Definitely don't regret going from 7900XTX to a 9070XT either. Seen some people say it's a side-grade but with how god awful FSR 2 - 3.1 is, i think FSR 4 alone makes the switch worth it.
 
anyone with a 9070XT pulse I see the spec says its 320mm long, is this to the absolute extremes of the card or from the i/o plate to the end of the shroud?
 
Jonno19111 said:
Not to mention those cards arrived right around the time Covid hit and was the peak of crypto mining. I had a very similar trajectory to you and ended up buying a 3080 for £960 (this was considered a "good deal" at the time since they were selling for £1750 at their peak) then moving to a 7900XTX and 9070XT as my current.
I distinctly remember 3090's going for £2500+ at their peak too, so i feel bad for anyone that bit the bullet on one of those.

Definitely don't regret going from 7900XTX to a 9070XT either. Seen some people say it's a side-grade but with how god awful FSR 2 - 3.1 is, i think FSR 4 alone makes the switch worth it.
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Yeah FSR 4 is finally something that competes with DLSS and doesn't look like potato vision.
I luckily "only" paid £1400 for my 3090. Still wasn't a good deal. 3080 was a way better buy for my use case at least. I cancelled my 3080 Inno3D iChill x4 for the 3090 FE and to this day still regret doing that. It was because the iChill was about £50 over the FE rrp. Little did I know the price explosion that was about to erupt and the bargain I let slip.
 
Finners said:
anyone with a 9070XT pulse I see the spec says its 320mm long, is this to the absolute extremes of the card or from the i/o plate to the end of the shroud?
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Just measured mine and it's the card length i.e. the length of the backplate is 320mm
 
Kirkatron said:
Yeah FSR 4 is finally something that competes with DLSS and doesn't look like potato vision.
I luckily "only" paid £1400 for my 3090. Still wasn't a good deal. 3080 was a way better buy for my use case at least. I cancelled my 3080 Inno3D iChill x4 for the 3090 FE and to this day still regret doing that. It was because the iChill was about £50 over the FE rrp. Little did I know the price explosion that was about to erupt and the bargain I let slip.
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How much did you sell the 3090 FE for? and the XTX?

3090 FE kept the price so well. I only sold it a month ago for 700quid. That's 600£ loss for 4.5years.
 
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wattsy said:
Okay i decided to come over to the dark side and leave Nvidia for a XFX QUICKSILVER AMD RADEON RX 9070XT, it was too good of a deal to miss as it cost me £605.99
Looking forward to it arriving and seeing how far a can push it :)
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That's a decent deal going at the moment, makes you feel like you aren't being totally ripped off vs MSRP. Looks like a half decent model as well.
 
Dontrocktheboat said:
How much did you sell the 3090 FE for? and the XTX?

3090 FE kept the price so well. I only sold it a month ago for 700quid. That's 600£ loss for 4.5years.
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I paid £100 to change to the XTX and I gained £100 changing to the 9070 XT from the XTX. So I've spent nothing since buying the 3090 4.5 years ago. So similar situation to you.
The 3090 FE didn't actually cost me £1400 out of my pocket though as I managed to get hold of two 3070 FEs at RRP and flip them for around £700 each. I sold my 1080 Ti before the 30 series dropped and ran the iGPU for a bit and just used my Xbox for gaming, that was an awesome timed sale as they dropped like a stone when the 30 series hit.
Despite being lucky I'd have still been better off keeping the 3080 I cancelled. It just never felt like a £1400 card.
 
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Kirkatron said:
I paid £100 to change to the XTX and I gained £100 changing to the 9070 XT from the XTX. So I've spent nothing since buying the 3090 4.5 years ago.
That didn't actually cost me £1400 out of my pocket though as I managed to get hold of two 3070 FEs at RRP and flip them for around £700 each. I sold my 1080 Ti before the 30 series dropped and ran the iGPU for a bit and just used my Xbox for gaming, that was an awesome timed sale as they dropped like a stone when the 30 series hit.
Despite being lucky I'd have still been better off keeping the 3080 I cancelled. It just never felt like a £1400 card.
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I know, i felt the same until I started mining that baby. She started giving rather than taking money from me lol.:D
And in the end she paid for the 685£ Nitro. Maybe I was just lucky - and I looking at it with rose tinted glasses...
 
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