SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Video Card Review

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Test Setup

System Setup Table

We are using an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D for testing. For 2025 we have upgraded our testing PC with completely updated components from top to bottom. We are using the motherboard’s current default BIOS settings on the latest release BIOS. We have enabled PCI-Express Resizable BAR in the motherboard BIOS. We have enabled EXPO I in the BIOS for the memory. We are using a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro with the latest Windows Updates, including the 24H2 update. We have the latest drivers installed including the latest chipset drivers.  We are using the “Balanced” power profile in Windows Settings, Core Isolation/Memory Integrity (VBS) is Enabled.

AMD provided a new press release driver package for this release. This driver has been utilized for each Radeon RX video card used today.

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REVIEW OVERVIEW

Gaming Performance
9
Overclocking
8
Build Quality and Cooling
10
Value
9

SUMMARY

Todays review is evaluating the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC video card. This brand new RDNA 4 card from SAPPHIRE is a premium quality video card. The gaming performance matches the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Founders Edition in many plain rasterized games, but falls short in ray tracing performance. The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT performs much better than the previous generation, but again its Achilles heel is ray tracing. Cooling design is excellent. For non-ray traced gaming the price of this card makes it quite a value as does the overall quality of the build. This is a top-tier, all-in build from SAPPHIRE, they knocked it out of the park with this NITRO+ series in the design.
Rick Patterson
Rick is an avid gamer that enjoys the latest and greatest video cards in his rigs. For the past few years, he's shared that expertise with The FPS Review's audience as a GPU reviewer.

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