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00:00Thank God

00:01This is like the last launch for a little while when it comes to GPUs

00:05What you see on this table is not even a third of all the GPUs. We've retested in the last month and a half alone

00:13Anyway, this is a twofer. You're getting 9070 XT and

00:199070 from AMD in one video because there's just no point in splitting them into two

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01:19Okay, so 9070 and 9070 XT it's interesting this time around because as you can see by some of these other reference cards on the

01:26table from AMD

01:28There is no reference card for the 9070 series cards from AMD this time around

01:35So all of the AIB partners kind of have carte blanche to do whatever they want

01:39In terms of the designs and such. In fact, even the reference spec is almost more or less a suggestion

01:46We'll talk about that a minute. So if you haven't seen one of our reviews before thanks for coming by. I'm JST sense

01:51We're gonna talk about performance power draw temperature generational

01:53actually, you know, we're not gonna talk about generational performance uplift because this is technically I don't even know exactly which card it would

02:01Compare to if you want to know the truth

02:03because the previous naming scheme was like 7900 XT XT X and then 7800 and then

02:117700 and the 9070 does not tear up with a

02:1677 so the sevens don't match if you will

02:19So essentially all we're gonna do today is just here's where it landed on the charts and you can see how depending on the title

02:24It's very it very much impacts which cards it sort of lands against now cards

02:29You're gonna want to kind of pay attention to on the charts as we talk about them

02:32It's gonna be like the 7900 XT the 7900 XT X the 5070 TI from NVIDIA

02:39Which is very close in terms of price parity to the 9070 XT, but then obviously the 5070

02:46When we compare it to the 9070 you see why they named it that way and they did that on purpose

02:50They even admitted it. So that's at least that sort of makes sense

02:54Anyway, 5070 FE on our chart, which is an MSRP card versus the 9070 Quicksilver here, which is not an MSRP card

03:02So let's talk about the cards that we have real quick

03:04We've actually received a few of them

03:05But the only two that have like finished validation and testing for us is the XFX variants here

03:10Which I'm kind of okay with even though they're gonna be some of the more expensive models on the market

03:15The white one right here. This is our 9070 XT

03:19that is the

03:20Mercury or Merc and it is the magnetic air version and I was like what the heck is magnetic air when I first heard about

03:26It well as you can see you can just pop the fans off

03:29They're just magnetic actually and then the pogo pins is contact to a 360 pad that's on the GPU

03:35You might be asking yourself. Why would anyone want to do this?

03:38Well, I honestly firmly believe it to be just the ease of cleaning your fans getting it out getting more the dust out

03:46It's actually a nice feature to have also to it

03:48if they continue to

03:49manufacture these and make parts and replacement parts for them if you have a fan that starts to wobble or a bearing that starts to

03:54Go bad or any sort of fan

03:56Chatter noise that happens over time. You can replace the fan. So I've never seen a graphics card do this before

04:02I'm not saying it hasn't existed. I just personally haven't seen or touched one. It's a pretty neat feature

04:07In fact, it's pretty nice to wear it because it's magnetic

04:09It literally just indexes and puts itself work back where it wants to it's a very strong

04:14magnet this particular card is also a higher than reference spec what I mean by that is the

04:209070 XT is a 304 watt TVP not 300 not 305

04:27304 I mean that is oddly specific

04:31anyway, the 9070 is a

04:33220 watt card, but I point this out because the AI B's are actually allowed to go all the way up to 340 watts

04:40On their out-of-the-box specs and we do have a 10% additional power limit available to us as well

04:46But all the testing was done out-of-the-box settings with fan curves and power limits

04:50No rage mode or any of that stuff just out-of-the-box on the test bench install the drivers and off we go. No tuning

04:56No, nothing. Okay, so key specifications here 9070 both cards are obviously on RDNA 4. We've got

05:033584 stream processors the 9070 XT has

05:074096 stream processors

05:09So obviously 512 more that's that's how numbers in arithmetic work

05:14Anyway, when it comes to RT accelerators are the same as RT cores if you will

05:1956 on the 9070 and 64 on the 9070 XT and then AI processors or like tensor cores

05:25Which is for like upscaling and such you have 112 on the 9070 versus 128 and the 9070 XT and both of them are listed

05:32at having 128

05:34ROPs

05:36I'll admit I didn't actually verify that all 128 are there

05:40Sucks that I have to do that

05:42But what were the performances landing? I'm gonna assume they're all there

05:46That sucks that I forgot to do that, but just being fully transparent with you guys

05:49I'm not in the habit of testing the fact that we're are all the cores and stuff there that were promised

05:54Thanks Nvidia when it comes to frequencies, though

05:57The 9070 has a 2070 megahertz game clock and a 2520 megahertz boost clock on a 220 watt TVP

06:03Recommending a 550 watt PSU or higher 9070 XT is a 2400 megahertz game clock

06:112970 megahertz boost clock with that 304 watt TVP recommending a 700 watt PSU

06:17But since most cards are gonna actually probably be about 340 watts

06:21It's probably recommended to just move that number to 750 watts when it comes to recommended PSU

06:25Now when it comes to pricing this is where I say

06:27It's a little bit of like Wild West slash carte blanche when it comes to the AIBs

06:32SAP are suggested detail price, which is recommended by an almost at Nvidia AMD is set at

06:39$549 for the non XT and then the XT being at

06:43$599 only $50 of variance between the cards most people in the announcement video felt that that was too close together

06:50Given where a lot of the spec differences are between the two cards spec wise

06:55They're actually very similar as you saw both cards are featuring 16 gigabytes of GDDR6

07:01In fact, they're the exact same memory configuration on both cards

07:04I want to point that out like neither one gets any sort of a speed bump or a spec bump when it comes to the

07:09Memory, they're both 256 bit memory buses with a throughput of six hundred and forty four point six gigabytes per second

07:16Exactly the same on the memory

07:17so the only difference is like I said as core clock and then 512 additional stream processors found on the XT and then obviously a

07:25handful of more AI and

07:28Raytracing cores that are on there. So

07:31The prices are going to be kind of all over the place though because cards can play around with the 40 watt

07:35Well 36 watt additional power limit available to it the white card that I have right here

07:41Which is the like I said the magnetic air 9070 XT from XFX the mercury card comes in at seven hundred and sixty nine

07:47Dollar MSRP. This is the first time in a review though. I've actually had a brand tell me what the

07:53worldwide

07:54SEP is versus the United States

07:57Manufacturers suggest retail price because of either tariff or no tariff. So

08:02769 for the white 749 for the black. It's $20 more for the white. So that puts it at about let's just say black

08:08I don't I don't think 20 extra bucks for white is obviously worth it unless you're building a white build

08:14So let's just say 749. Okay for pricing that makes it one

08:19$150 more expensive than

08:21SCP if you compare like the NVIDIA 5070 TI at a

08:28$749 MSRP but most cards are actually up over

08:31$900 that's actually a closer to SCP price for one of the most custom cards on the market

08:37Which actually is a nice thing that that's kind of sucky to have it cost so much more

08:42But there are obviously other versions that exist like the quick silver

08:45The black we have here is a five hundred and eighty nine dollar and ninety nine cent worldwide

08:50MSRP so that's making it about

08:52What 40 bucks above MSRP that's about the kind of stuff we normally expect to see with so that's a custom card believe it

08:59Or not versus the reference design supplied by AMD

09:02So that's a more reasonable like cost lift for a custom model with a giant cooler on here

09:09Anyway, when it comes to the estimated shelf price after tariff, which is the first time I've ever had this figure

09:16Eight hundred and forty nine dollars and ninety nine cents for this white one right here and

09:21$649 and 99 cents for the 5070 quick silver

09:26damn it and

09:28$649 and 99 cents for the 9070 quick silver right here. So

09:34There's that when it comes to pricing so

09:38Take that as you will

09:41Anyway

09:42AMD does say there'll be plenty on shelves. I guess we'll find out tomorrow

09:47Moving on to performance because none of that pricing matters if you don't know how it performs

09:52So in Speedway, which is an RT test

09:54Remember, we've got third-gen RT cores now on 9070 versus second-gen RT cores found on 7000 series the 9070 quick silver comes in

10:03just ahead of the 4070 TI tough and

10:07Literally 13 points behind the 5070

10:09So not bad at all when it when it comes to the performance there the mercury coming in ahead of the 4070 TI super tough

10:17Not a lot but ahead and a fair ways behind the RTX 4080

10:22Not surprising when it comes to a pure RT test

10:25There is an entire generation gap between the two now if we move on to rasterization performance in our synthetic here in times by extreme

10:32The quick silver comes in ahead

10:34By 30 points of the 7900 XT at a 12,000 987 and

10:41losing to the 5070 TI prime by a few percent and then the mercury coming in way ahead of the prime at a

10:5114,703 even ahead of the 4080 super and pretty much matching the 7900 XT X don't forget that was a thousand dollar card

10:59this is a

11:01$700 or $600 card 599 so

11:04Except that one's a little bit more obviously

11:07Moving on to f1 and 1440 all of my gaming charts. We're gonna talk about personally are in 1440

11:12I think that's where the card is an absolute beast

11:15Obviously the charts that we will show that you guys can look at as you pause and go forward

11:21What have the other resolutions here?

11:22but our discussion here is gonna talk about 1440 9070 quick silver coming in ahead of the 4070 TI and

11:28Landing just behind the 4070 TI super tough such a stupid name

11:32Anyway moving on the 9070 XT mercury coming in ahead of the 5070 TI prime by 3 FPS and

11:40Losing to the 4080 super by 3 FPS not bad if you consider the fact that this card

11:46Technically its MSRP is only 70% of the MSRP of the 4080 super

11:53Although remember this card is a custom model. So it does carry a

11:56Premium for that moving on to the next title here. Let's talk about black myth

12:01Wukong black myth Wukong 1440 P. This is a title that does not favor AMD

12:06I mean you can see that by the throttle the bottom three cards being a 7800 XT a 7900 XT and a 7900 XT X

12:13Something about the RDNA 3 architecture and black myth Wukong do not get along

12:18however, RDNA 4 has entered the chat and you can see there is a a

12:23bit of an uplift in performance versus previous gen for sure the 9070 quick silver is

12:29Just edging out the 3080 and

12:32Losing to the 3090 by a little bit

12:34That sounds pretty disappointing when you'll see what this these cards do to those particular cards of 30 series in other games

12:40It's just something about black myth does not like AMD cards

12:45But it's nice to see this huge gain between RDNA 3 and 4

12:49When it comes to this title and then the 9070 XT mercury about three and a half FPS behind the 4070 FE

12:57But about 2 FPS ahead of the RTX 3090 so not bad right there

13:03If we're going to talk about Borderlands 3 badass settings here, we know Borderlands 3 loves AMD cards

13:09That's why there should be no surprise that the XFX 9070 quick silver

13:14comes in right in the middle of the chart ahead of the 4070 TI super tough and just behind the

13:207900 XT and then the mercury is actually ahead of the RTX 4080 and

13:27Just behind the 4080 super so not bad at all when it comes to that generational uplift

13:32Although 7900 XT X is still king when it comes to Borderlands 3

13:37avatar frontiers of Pandora

13:39Another title that doesn't really seem to favor AMD a whole lot

13:43But that's why we have our suite that we do because it does really show the strengths and weaknesses of certain

13:48architectures in certain titles

13:49so the 9070 quick silver is way well ahead of the

13:544070 and just behind the 3090 the mercury

13:57However is just ahead of the 90 or 7900 XT and just behind the 4070 TI

14:03Tough you can see that 4070 TI tough. It seems to trade blows with quite a bit

14:08It kind of makes me wonder when they said they were

14:11naming these

14:134070 series cards so that it was less confused confusing for consumers to figure out what card it's designed to really compete with on team

14:20green you can see 4070 was definitely a card that they were

14:25checking out when they were kind of testing stuff out because of the fact that

14:295070 wasn't out yet when they announced all this sort of stuff

14:32But if you pay attention to to where the 5070 is on these charts and the 5070 TI

14:36You can see it's still holding its own pretty well against those cards

14:39Mostly because Nvidia did not give a huge generational uplift that we're used to seeing so it actually fared well for AMD

14:45For Nvidia to have such a lackluster uplift from generational improvements. So I guess that was sort of fortunate for them

14:52anyway, Horizon Forbidden West a title that is heavily favoring AMD and we have seen this across the board the

15:009070 quick silver is just behind the 5070 TI prime and a fair amount ahead of the 7900 XT and the

15:089070 XT Mercury is literally exactly the same 0.1 FPS

15:12And we know that 0.1 FPS is sometimes the make-or-break of whether or not a game is playable

15:17But it is 0.1 FPS behind the RTX 5080 FE in Forbidden West

15:23That I that was unexpected and it is a fair amount a bit ahead of the 4080 super now the quick silver lands

15:29Just under the 5070 TI prime and just ahead of the 7900 XT

15:35The the engine that is used in horizon

15:38Definitely likes AMD cards cyberpunk. This is gonna be a good one. We start our tests up to have a mixture of RT

15:44No upscaling so it's no RT reflections either. It's all lighting global illumination shadows that sort of stuff

15:51No actual reflections and then we do not do an upscaler

15:54So it's really a horsepower test between the like RT cores and then the CUDA core stream processors to figure out the generational or

16:02Comparative uplifts versus other cards. So a pretty decent jump for the 70 series cards coming from AMD

16:09So the XFX 9070 quick silver is above the middle half of the chart

16:13Coming in just behind the 4070 TI super tough by less than 1 FPS behind

16:19and just ahead of the 4070 TI tough

16:22so literally just splitting the hairs right there and then the

16:26Mercury card

16:28Coming in ahead of the 4070 TI tough and just behind the 4080 FE

16:32So in the top half of the card or the chart for AMD for the first time to be honest

16:39When it comes yeah, if you look at the 7900 XT X it's just under the bottom half of the card

16:43So that shows you generationally when it comes to like the RT or the rate the ray acceleration ray tracing accelerators and the AI

16:49Accelerators it bumped it up into the second half of the chart, which is good to see

16:53Stalker 2 last title we'll talk about here

16:57Kind of nothing exciting to talk about. It's just ahead of 70 the 9070 quick silver is just ahead of 7900 XT

17:03just behind 4070 TI super tough and then the Mercury XT is just ahead of the 7900 XT X and

17:12About 6 FPS behind the 5070 TI prime stalker definitely does favor in video graphics cards

17:19But there's more to talk about here than just average FPS

17:22You'll notice if you look at these charts closely the 1% and 5% lows are higher than Nvidia's parody cards

17:30price parody cards on average now, I started doing some digging for that and to try and figure out why and

17:38There's quite the story to tell here

17:39If we look at f1 2024 1440p ultra high preset with ray tracing and no upscaling if we look at frame times alone

17:47You can see here the yellow line, which is

17:50Pretty much covered by the teal line, which is the 5070 TI showing that an average frame time

17:56At least the median if you draw an average line through the frame times

17:59For those two cards are nearly identical in f1 and the FPS sort of showed that but if you'll notice

18:05These spikes and peaks that are in the teal line

18:08The 5070 TI shows huge fluctuation between that average frame time and then the transient spikes or or lows to be honest

18:17I would even so the lows are the lower the lowest frame time to meet back to the average you have highs and lows

18:24Those differences right there can perceive be perceived as jitter stutter

18:29Hesitation pauses depending on how long that spike stays. I like it takes to draw that one frame

18:35So if you look at even the pink line

18:38Which is the 9070 non XT. You can see there's a lot less of those

18:43In fact, if you want to know what really consistent frame times look like we'll take the NVIDIA 5070 TI

18:50Prime from Asus off the chart and this is what you get

18:54You can literally count the spikes like the big spikes

18:58by hand, there's two for the 9070 and

19:02Technically, there's three for the 9070 XT, but the ones at the start of the game

19:06That's f1 when the when the race actually starts. There's a spike on every card right there

19:11There's something to do with the game and the way it runs. So ignoring those is one per card and they're very very consistent. So

19:19Having even those lows come up to the average is better

19:24than having a whole bunch of lows compared to your average because again the difference between the lowest or the fastest time to draw a

19:30Frame in the average that distance is the same as having it above the average

19:35But if you take away the average now and you just compare that gap

19:39That's now the perceived stutter and frame time jitters and stuff that people report when they talk about smoothness of gaming

19:45So I have to say this

19:47there has been an

19:50extremely noticeable amount of smoothness with this generation of AMD graphics card

19:55I also have to say

19:58this is the first and

20:00This is the first time I have had an AMD review with more than one card even one card or not where I didn't have

20:08Some weird game that crashed or some weird game that wouldn't launch for some reason or have to reach out to AMD for help on

20:14why I'm getting some anomalous behavior in some certain title or

20:19So the game just refusing to launch entirely like this is the first time I have had some of the most

20:27Pleasant review experience of a graphics card and this is not just AMD

20:32This is including Nvidia and I'm not just including this generation which we know for it for Nvidia has been a shitshow

20:39I'm going back to the beginning of starting YouTube. I have never had such a smooth

20:45Experience when it comes to AMD graphics cards now

20:49I wanted to make sure that this wasn't just like a cherry-picked title like oh

20:52F124 is just super favoring the Nvidia or the AMD cards and for some reason having all these transient spikes and dips on the AMD

21:00Card, so I went ahead and loaded up cyberpunk 2077 in 1440p. So all the same settings we do our benchmarks with in fact

21:06These are the benchmark runs right here that you're seeing by the way. This isn't a separate test

21:10These are the actual benchmark runs that I've turned into the frame time charts for you guys

21:15But this time I just did 90 70 XT versus 50 70 TI

21:18But again with the exception of like right in the middle there that one really big spike which could be

21:23Anything those types of transient spikes happen in every game. It could be something started in the background of the of the test bench

21:29Just about anything could have caused that and it's really hard to figure out what causes one transient spike

21:34It's when it happens all the time that you have a problem. You got to figure it out, but I want you to notice that

21:39even

21:40The Nvidia card that has a lower average frame rate still has a lot of fluctuation on the lows as well as some of the highs

21:46So myself personally I would prefer to have a more squished average frame time

21:52That's slightly higher than another graphics card that might have a median line drawn through their frame time

21:57That's lower over the bigger range of variance because that range of variances. Like I've said, I'm a broken record

22:04That is what proceed gives you the perceived stutter enos or inconsistency in the frame rate the graphics card

22:10the 90 70 XT in the 90 70 truly felt

22:13like it was a higher frame rate than it was and that's because of the higher 95th and

22:19First or 99th percentile or first first 1% low and 5% low frame type rates

22:25Being higher if you look at the chart

22:28Also to one other thing to note. I don't have a way to really present this to you

22:32I I don't want to have this turn in to be 50 different charts per review

22:37It is the most consistent

22:39The 90 70 XT specifically too is the most consistent run to run

22:44Consistency in terms of the frame rates that we see when we do our testing out of all of the cards

22:50It's not uncommon to see one two, three, sometimes maybe even four

22:55FPS variation run to run or to have one card have a better fit percentile or one run have a better fit percentile than the

23:01Other and then another one has a better first percentile and they just kind of like whack-a-mole which one has the worst one

23:06I'm telling you right now. The AMD card was like within one FPS every single time

23:12In fact so consistent

23:14I found myself actually running the tests

23:16More than our typical three runs and some of them in the beginning when I was validating anywhere between six to seven runs

23:23Just because I was concerned that for some reason I was

23:26Writing the same number and not actually opening the correct test

23:29So I would throw them away and start over and get the same consistency

23:34Sometimes only the difference is being noticeable in the tenth of a frame which we do measure down to we measure down to the tenth

23:40of a frame

23:42It is consistent. It is actually amazingly consistent in that arena. Anyway, here's one other title. I figured okay f1

23:48We know it does really well cyberpunk

23:50We know that that's a there's an RT discrepancy

23:53What about a title that we know doesn't like AMD so black myth Wukong is back up

23:58Here's the frame times between the 9070 XT Merc and the 5070 Ti Prime

24:03You can see right here

24:05If you again, there's only a few of them

24:07But if you compare although it is a a fair amount of average frame time

24:12Which also mathematically turns into frame rate is lower and more consistent like straight line across the board

24:20For the 5070 Ti. I want you to notice though. There is actually

24:25Less transient spikes on the 9070 XT Merc. Okay. So last but not least. It's going to talk about power draw and

24:32Temperatures and frequencies so in Furmark at 4k, which is a very difficult stress test the XFX 9070 XT

24:39Is pulling about 350 watts across the board through our hardware measurement device. That's including PCI Express

24:45Although it's not really pulling any power from PCI Express

24:48That's not surprising considering I told you it's a 340 watt card and there's some heat and efficiency loss through

24:55The operations of making frames happen. So that is what the actual power draw is from the PSU

25:01350 watts so it's it's a bit of a

25:05Increase over say the 5070 Ti. So if you are like the ultra cons like I want to conserve all power at all costs

25:13The obviously just over 300 watt more or less 310 watt

25:185070 Ti Prime is going to be the more efficient card and then

25:22Unless you're like, you know what screw that I want to save you the more power the 9070 Quicksilver comes in at about

25:29228 watts drawn from the wall or from the power supply directly now that's in Furmark

25:34Which is a less than realistic scenario when it comes to gaming obviously games fluctuate a lot

25:39So when we move over to Cyberpunk 1440p

25:42You can see the 9070 XT still draws 350 plus watts. It's about 352 watts on average

25:49Actually, it's pretty consistent for all three of these cards pulling the same amount of power between Furmark and

25:55Gaming so this is one of those few times

25:57We actually see the the figures just carry over to the other chart

26:00Usually we'll see some sort of a drop but that's on the higher-end cards to be honest

26:04But you don't have to go like full tilt to give you their max FPS

26:06Depending on whether or not there's any sort of CPU bottleneck or it's fully GPU bound

26:11but again, just over 300 watts for the 5070 Ti Prime and then hovering around

26:18225 to 300 or 230 watts for the 9070 Quicksilver

26:23So it's a big power discrepancy between the not XT and the XT

26:29Sorry about temperatures real quick in that same Furmark test

26:32There's something interesting with the temperature sensor in the 9070 and 9070 XT. It doesn't seem to update quite as often

26:39You'll notice if you look at the teal line here, which is the 5070 Ti Prime. There's lots of input

26:44There's lots of data points that will give you a very jiggly line, right?

26:50That's because of how quick the card is responding back to the polling software saying what's your temperature?

26:54The 9070 as you can see is slightly warmer than the 9070 XT. Although the cooler is like a very similar size

27:00It's just not nearly as dense to be honest. I have no idea what the thermal interface material is or any of that stuff

27:07I'm not doing a teardown on these cards, but even though it's a much lower power card

27:11it is warmer than the 9070 XT averaging about

27:1553 C I say warmer and 53 which is funny

27:18But that's because the 70 the 9070 XT is reporting a max temperature of 47 degrees

27:25Now this cooler is as big as a 5090

27:30That's why the 5090 is on the table. It is a bit overkill

27:36600 watts

27:37540

27:39600 watts

27:41340 I'm inclined to believe it's actually 47 degrees

27:44I have not put any sort of temperature probes on there to verify that

27:47But I'm inclined to believe it just based on the weight and density of that card alone

27:51Which is why it is coming in at a max of 47 degrees in gaming exactly the same story

27:56but again

27:57You can see what I mean about the update

27:58The amount of data points you get with the temperature sensor on the Nvidia cards versus this family of card

28:04That's why it just it's like

28:05Boop-boop like a little heartbeat and then flatten a little heartbeat

28:08But that is the way that the sensor reports when we export the CSV data. So take that information as you will now before we move

28:16On to frequency here. I want to talk about the fan designs here

28:19I will say this the 9070 XT and the mag fans that are found on here

28:25Actually have a fairly pleasant sound by pleasant

28:28I mean

28:29They sound like bigger fans than they are to me

28:31It sounded like I had an air purifier sitting on my desk when it was at full speed the 9070

28:36Quick silver fans definitely had a more turbulent kind of a choppy weird sound to them

28:41like almost like the blades were moving in some way like it had a

28:45I don't know how to describe it

28:47We have some sound profiles here that you can hear at both 150%

28:50But I do I do feel like the XT with the mag air fans are the magnetic fans or magnetic air

28:55Weird thing to call it sounded better

29:26So

29:28Frequencies if we look at f1 20 24 14 40 P again RT high

29:33You can see that we're definitely fluctuating quite a bit on the 9070 XT, but between 2800 and 2900 megahertz

29:41I didn't put the Nvidia cards on here because the architectures are so different

29:451 megahertz on one is not equal to 1 megahertz on another so just be comparing apples and oranges

29:50So I just wanted to compare the 9070 and 9070 XT versus the numbers that they say are the base numbers

29:56so as we said on here the 9070

29:59has a

30:012520 megahertz boost clock and we were actually landing just hovering over the line of 2500

30:07So we were actually getting the full boost clock the game clock. I hate the fact they call it game clock

30:11I just ignore game clock. It goes to boost clock

30:14Anyway, don't waste your time worrying about what game clock is to be honest and the 9070 XT

30:18Has a 2900 and 70 megahertz boost clock

30:22Did not really ever hit that it actually barely crossed 97 or 2900 at all

30:29It landed more or less around 2800 and 70 megahertz, but again, that is the boost clock

30:34That is the max up to and I'm they were hitting it was hitting power limit long before that

30:38I think if I put the additional 10% slider, I'd probably be able to hit that but with the game clock being 2400 megahertz

30:43We were significantly above that over 2800 the entire time

30:47So kind of surprised at how cool it ran that team

30:50That means we have to be power limited on what's allowing that frequency to not quite hit that max up to

30:55but if there's one thing we've ever learned about AMD cards is

30:58They definitely lean into the up to figure when it comes to all of their like clocks and stuff

31:03All right, final thoughts now that we have everybody's cards on the table

31:07The 9070 9070 XT are very strong competitors

31:12the the the old adage of

31:15AMD is good, but it's got bad drivers, whatever. It's got I

31:22Guess just insert whatever complaint you have here. I've heard them all. I

31:26Don't think they hold up this time around. I think what's happened here is Nvidia has made such terrible

31:34Backward strides in things like reliability

31:38mostly

31:39Computation amongst consumers right missing ROPs

31:42Melting connector still which really is only a 50 80 50 90 40 80 40 90 problem

31:47It's not gonna be a problem in any of these cards, especially since with the exception. I think the sapphire card

31:51They're all still standard 9 or 8 pin

31:53PCI Express cables

31:56None of the other cards from Nvidia are pulling enough power to melt the connector. So that aside though

32:00There's still a just there's still a fear of that connector being

32:03unsafe, right

32:06The

32:07The incredible tax if you will the the

32:11team green tax that kind of is carried now on the Nvidia cards, it's hard for me to recommend a

32:175070 FE or anything in the 5070 range or even 5070 TI

32:22when I know these cards are in the the price parity and cheaper and

32:27Performing just as good if not better in just our titles alone

32:30And obviously there's tons of titles out there that would that would paint a huge story

32:33So I'm curious as to honestly what some of the other reviewers are saying because I haven't talked with any of them about their

32:39Opinions on this sort of stuff, but I think the 9070 XT

32:42Specifically is a very strong competitor

32:45It's hard to recommend the 9070 though when technically it's only $50 less expensive now when you talk about features like this

32:52This is what drives the price of a card up these kinds of features

32:55Find yourself as close to SCP 6 6 or 7 599 price point that you can find on a 9070 XT

33:02And don't look back like when it comes to RT performance when it comes to upscaling when it comes to FSR improvements

33:09The gap is narrow and to be honest

33:12I

33:13Think AMD is kind of doing the right thing by sort of focusing on a smaller family of graphics cards that are as as strong

33:19As they can make them rather than trying to follow

33:21The leader when it comes to Nvidia and say how big and expensive can we make shit, but I'll be honest

33:26I do wish there was a 9080 XD because I do feel like that would be some fun

33:31Competition if you could launch that card at like

33:34749

33:35MSRP somewhere around there that could truly cause some disruption

33:39But it doesn't sound like AMD has any interest in that this time around

33:43All right guys sound off down below and this was kind of a long one

33:45There were two cards to cover but this is like the grand finale of graphics card q1 of 2025

33:52It just sort of sucks

33:53It's the first time I've actually had to talk about what a tariff and pre tariff and post tariff and worldwide

33:58MSRP versus US MSRP is and you know what that sucks big fat donkey

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