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AMD RX 9070 prices rise to over £600, over £700 for RX 9070 XT models

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Par :Matthew Wilson
6 mars 2025 à 16:49

AMD's RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards officially hit store shelves today but it appears that demand is astronomically high. Due to the sheer number of people trying to buy one of these graphics cards, OCUK has had to put a queue system in place just to access the storefront. 

Currently if you go to the OverclockersUK website, you will be placed in a queue due to “high volume of traffic”. For an idea of how high demand is, I've been sat in the queue to get onto the store for around 30 minutes at the time of publishing and my wait time just shot up from two minutes to an hour and 30 minutes – chances are, there'll be no graphics cards left by the time I am able to get onto the store to assess the pricing situation.

Alternatively, you can get straight onto the SCAN UK store and find RX 9070 XT graphics cards available. However, they are all going for well above the £599 MSRP set by AMD. The closest we can find in stock is a Gigabyte RX 9070 XT Gaming GPU at £570, but from there, prices for other models shoot up to £670 and some models are going for more than £700.

We have had better luck on Scan with the standard RX 9070, with several PowerColor listings to be found around the £525 mark, but other models are going for over £600, which puts it well into RX 9070 XT pricing territory. Be sure to double check you are ordering the correct version, as we would hate for any readers to spend £100 over MSRP just to get the standard, non-XT version of this GPU.

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KitGuru Says: Have you been looking to pick up an RX 9070 graphics card today? What do you think of the pricing situation, and have you had any luck placing an order? 

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AMD RX 9070 Review ft. Sapphire

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Par :Dominic Moass
5 mars 2025 à 15:00

Launching alongside the RX 9070 XT, today we also have a full review of the slightly cheaper RX 9070 (non-XT). This cut-down Navi 48 GPU targets a $549 MSRP and, as such, is going head-to-head with Nvidia's RTX 5070 which we reviewed only yesterday. But with just a $50 gap between the RX 9070 and the XT model, does AMD's own product positioning make sense? All that and more is explored in this analysis.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:41 Recap and spec overview
01:48 Test setup
03:02 Alan Wake 2
03:41 Black Myth: Wukong
04:11 Cyberpunk 2077
04:14 Final Fantasy XVI
05:14 Forza Horizon 5
05:47 Ghost of Tsushima
06:21 Horizon Forbidden West
06:54 The Last of Us Part 1
07:20 Plague Tale: Requiem
07:42 Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
08:09 Starfield
08:36 Total War: Warhammer III
08:55 12-game average results
10:57 Cost per frame analysis
11:55 RT Alan Wake II
12:28 RT Black Myth: Wukong
12:57 RT Cyberpunk 2077
13:19 RT F1 24
13:40 RT Ratchet & Clank
14:00 RT Returnal
14:12 RT Shadow of the Tomb Raider
14:23 RT Star Wars Outlaws
14:43 RT 8-game average
15:18 FSR 4 analysis
18:56 Meet the Sapphire Pulse & ASRock Taichi
20:19 Thermals and acoustics
21:24 Power draw and efficiency
23:18 Closing thoughts

In lieu of an official AMD reference (or MBA) card, today we are using the Sapphire RX 9070 Pulse for our testing. This card still comes at reference specifications, however, while there's a range of factory overclocked models set to launch at retail tomorrow.

It's also worth noting that while this is a standalone review for the RX 9070, we do have a day one review for the RX 9070 XT, and you can find that HERE.

RX 9070 XT RX 9070 RX 7900 GRE RX 7800 XT RX 7700 XT
Architecture RDNA 4 RDNA 4 RDNA 3 RDNA 3 RDNA 3
Manufacturing Process TSMC N4 TSMC N4 TSMC N5 GCD + N6 MCD TSMC N5 GCD + N6 MCD TSMC N5 GCD + N6 MCD
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 53.9 billion 57.7 billion 28.1 billion 28.1 billion
Die Size  357 mm² 357 mm² 300 mm² GCD

220 mm² MCD

 200 mm² GCD

150 mm² MCD

 200 mm² GCD

150 mm² MCD
Compute Units 64 56 80 60 54
Ray Accelerators 64 56 80 60 54
Stream Processors  4096 3584 5120 3840 3456
Game GPU Clock 2400 MHz 2070 MHz 1880 MHz 2124 MHz 2171 MHz
Boost GPU Clock Up to 2970 MHz Up to 2520 MHz Up to 2245 MHz Up to 2430 MHz Up to 2544 MHz
ROPs 128 128 192 96 96
AMD Infinity Cache 64MB 64MB 64MB 64MB 48MB
Memory 16GB GDDR6 16GB GDDR6 16GB GDDR6 16GB GDDR6 12GB GDDR6
Memory Data Rate 20 Gbps 20 Gbps 18 Gbps 19.5 Gbps 18 Gbps
Memory Bandwidth 645 GB/s 645 GB/s 576 GB/s 624 GB/s 432 GB/s
Memory Interface  256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 192-bit
Board Power  304W 220W 260 W 263W 245W

First, let's take a quick look at the specs. The RX 9070 is built on the new Navi 48 die, measuring 357mm², and it's worth pointing out this is a monolithic chip, so AMD is not using a chiplet-based design as per RDNA 3. In total, Navi 48 silicon packs in 53.9 billion transistors.

While a full Navi 48 GPU packs in 64 Compute Units, the 9070 is cut down to 56 CUs, and each CU houses 64 Steam Processors, for a total of 3584 shaders. There's also 56 Ray Accelerators – one per CU – and 128 ROPs.

As for clock speed, the RX 9070 runs notably slower than its sibling, the RX 9070 XT, and instead it sports a rated game clock of 2070MHz and a boost clock of up to 2520MHz.

The memory configuration is the same between both GPUs though, with 16GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 20Gbps, operating over a 256-bit memory interface, for total memory bandwidth of 645 GB/s. 64MB of Infinity Cache is also present.

Power draw for the RX 9070 rated at 220W Total Board Power (TBP), but we are using our updated GPU power testing methodology in this review, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.

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Radeon RX 9000 series, un PCs UEFI est recommandé !

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Par :Jérôme Gianoli
4 mars 2025 à 14:31

Radeon RX 9070 XTSi vous utilisez encore un PC fonctionnant en mode BIOS classique ou avec le module de compatibilité CSM, il est temps de reconsidérer votre configuration avant d’acheter une carte graphique Radeon RX 9000 séries. AMD annonce que seul le mode UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) sera officiellement pris en charge pour les cartes graphiques Radeon …

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