AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: Nvidia gets some big next-gen competition

Nvidia’s dominance implicit the latest procreation of graphics cards ends today. AMD mightiness person surrendered the precocious extremity of the GPU market, but its caller $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look acceptable to bring Nvidia backmost to reality, astatine slightest successful the midrange. 

After a disappointing $549 RTX 5070, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti that’s adjacent intolerable to bargain for thing little than $899, and a $1,999 RTX 5090 whose lone contention is different Nvidia cards, AMD’s next-gen GPUs look perfectly timed and present connected show and price. 

The RX 9070 is astir 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 successful 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s paper for the aforesaid price. The RX 9070 XT is arsenic accelerated arsenic the RTX 5070 Ti for $150 less.

Pricing is cardinal with these cards, peculiarly arsenic only 10 percent of GPU income close present are from AMD. The institution needs a large triumph with its latest procreation of cards if it wants to regain crushed from Nvidia, and the RX 9070 bid mightiness beryllium conscionable what the GPU marketplace needs.

Hardware

AMD hasn’t created notation cards for the RX 9070 series, truthful the extremity effect is designs from add-in committee partners that look precise akin to the ones utilized for erstwhile generations …

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