Power and Temperature
Power
Above, we see that by default, the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT uses the highest amount of power for the default benchmark run-through compared to the other cards. We see anywhere from 5 to 14% more power utilized. It also runs right at the TBP listed at 330W. When overclocked and pushing the power limit to +10%, the card uses every bit it can; in fact, pushing to some pretty high power usage for very little performance gain.
Temperature
In HWInfo64, our card shows the same maximum temperature whether at default or overclocked. The fans were left on the default curve, so all the card does is spin up the fans from 34% to 41% to manage the heat increases in overclock. That’s pretty good right there and says a lot about the heatsink for this video card, SAPPHIRE did a great job with the cooling on the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT; it works well.
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →SON OF A BITCH will these AHOLES figure it out. LAUNCH IT AT MSRP AND YOU WILL DESTROY NVIDIA!!! Well at this tier.
Snagged one this morning from NE.
I was very impressed with the Sapphire 9070XT. The build quality is top notch and innovative. It ran so quiet. Also is pretty strong in every game at 1440p. Ray Tracing is still a little weak but AMD is inching closer......they need to fix that and then they will own the 600-1000 dollar GPU market.
Here, 6 or 7 years later, I'm still not convinced the Ray Tracing performance is a good metric to base my video card purchase decision on. I'm still considering it in the same vein as I am upscaling, frame generation, "AI", and proprietary feature sets: nice to have, but not worth spending extra money on over traditional rasterization performance and video memory capacity.
Sure, it's nice. And it may be the future. But I can upgrade again when that happens.
Not even the latest Indy Jones game with "required" ray tracing sways me on that, and it's what, the ~first~ game to have some level of ray tracing that isn't optional -- and even then, it just requires the feature set, not like the entire game is 100% ray traced. It still performs well on AMD and older RTX hardware (and even runs on some hardware without dedicated RT support)
Yup. Remind me again how mandatory PhysX is these days?
Going by support in the 5000 series... good point.
You should run the Half-Life 2 RTX demo and then tell me how you feel. Seeing a 20 year old game look entirely new is pretty amazing.