Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are AMD's answer to the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 in terms of performance and gaming framerates. But the most important thing for these cards will be the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 price and availability. In this review we test the cards at 1440p and 4K along with creator, STEM and AI workloads to see if they are the best possible GPUs in this price range.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - RX 9070 XT & RX 9070 Pricing, Specs, etc.
1:09 - GOOD Availability?
1:46 - OC Models (45W More!)
2:11 - RX 9070 XT vs RX 9070 Power Consumption
3:17 - Power vs RTX 5070 & RTX 5070 Ti
4:07 - 1440p & 4K Gaming Framerates
10:09 - They NAILED RT Performance!
12:32 - Creator & STEM Application Testing
15:13 - AI Workloads (Llama, Deepseek R1, etc.)
17:54 - Some Driver Issues - Overall Performance
19:32 - Red Flags w/ GPU Compute
20:08 - Putting NVIDIA on Notice
20:31 - Mission Accomplished??

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