NVIDIA just got caught WAITING on AMD! The Radeon RX 9070 XT is here, and it looks like Team Red forced Team Green’s hand yet again. With both GPUs dropping at the same price, did AMD just outplay NVIDIA at their own game? We’re breaking down specs, benchmarks, and what this means for the mid-range GPU market. Plus, NVIDIA finally patches the black screen issue—but still won’t admit 8GB VRAM isn’t enough. And what’s this about a gaming mouse with INFINITE battery life?! Let’s get into it!
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Introduction – 00:00
RX 9070 & 9070 XT Specs, Benchmarks & NVIDIA Showdown – 00:32
RX 9070 & 9070 XT Reviews – Worth the Hype? – 03:01
RTX 50-Series & RX 9000-Series GPU Stock Update – 07:32
Entry-Level GPUs: RX 9060 & RTX 5060 Release Dates – 13:25
Gaming Mouse With Infinite Battery Life?! – 15:18
Sapphire RX 9070 XT – The Coolest Custom Card? – 16:15
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Introduction – 00:00
RX 9070 & 9070 XT Specs, Benchmarks & NVIDIA Showdown – 00:32
RX 9070 & 9070 XT Reviews – Worth the Hype? – 03:01
RTX 50-Series & RX 9000-Series GPU Stock Update – 07:32
Entry-Level GPUs: RX 9060 & RTX 5060 Release Dates – 13:25
Gaming Mouse With Infinite Battery Life?! – 15:18
Sapphire RX 9070 XT – The Coolest Custom Card? – 16:15
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00:00Turns out, we were right.
00:01NVIDIA was just waiting for AMD to announce the RX 9070 price
00:04so that they could play the same, same, but different,
00:08but still same game.
00:09Both cards just dropped, and we're gonna talk about them.
00:11NVIDIA patched the black screen issue
00:13that was plaguing gamers across the world.
00:15And if you thought that was weird,
00:17how about a gaming mouse claiming
00:19to have infinite battery life?
00:20Yeah, we're gonna talk about that on MetaPCs News,
00:23where we break down the tech headlines
00:25into tiny, pre-chewed little bird morsels
00:28so they're easier to digest.
00:29I'm Zach, your mama bird.
00:31Let's eat.
00:34The...
00:35Oh, wow.
00:35It's almost like we called this.
00:37GeForce RTX 5070 is now confirmed for a March 5th launch
00:41with the RX 9070 from Radeon arriving at the same price
00:46the next day.
00:47Sneaky, sneaky NVIDIA.
00:48Sneaky, sneaky.
00:49Radeon RX 9070 announcement was among the most discussed
00:52AMD events on videocards.net.
00:54AMD's RX 9070 non-XT will be exactly the same price
01:00as the RTX 5070 non-TI.
01:02These are cards where you're on a little bit
01:03of a tighter budget.
01:04Maybe you got a little wiggle room to go.
01:05It's meant to replace that line.
01:07So current gen coming out now.
01:09For NVIDIA fans, the choice is much simpler
01:11between the RTX 5070 and the 5070 TI.
01:14So if you're making the decision,
01:15do I go 5070?
01:16Do I go TI?
01:17It's a $200 more expensive card to go to the TI version.
01:20For AMD, the gap is so small
01:22that once you include shipping,
01:24maybe you'll think twice
01:25about whether the XT version isn't worth the extra money.
01:29$50 is $50 so much.
01:30$50, man.
01:31A lot of people are saying,
01:32okay, there's a 9070, woo, great.
01:35But the XT is really what people
01:36have their eyes on right now.
01:38Let's get to the details.
01:39I wanna talk about specs.
01:409070 versus 5070.
01:43AMD, NVIDIA, what are the differences?
01:45If you look here at the boost clock,
01:46exactly the same on both cards.
01:48Big difference on the memory.
01:49You've got 16 gigs of GDDR6 on the 9070.
01:54You have 12 gigabytes of GDDR7 on the 5070.
01:59Some slight differences in the power draw
02:01that we've mentioned before.
02:02You've got 220 watts on the max board power for the 9070.
02:05250 watts for the 5070 on NVIDIA's side of things.
02:08PCIe 5 across the board,
02:10which we already kind of revealed
02:12that that was gonna be a thing,
02:13so that checks out.
02:14Price being the same,
02:15what are the differences between these cards?
02:17What things should we weigh?
02:19One of the biggest things,
02:20and we'll get into this a little bit later
02:21in another story,
02:22is availability is a big, big, big thing.
02:26But for now, let's take a look
02:27at the differences and comparisons.
02:29I did the 9070, 5070.
02:30Let's talk about the XT and the 5070 Ti.
02:32You've got 16 gigs of GDDR6
02:34on the XT variant of the new Radeon card.
02:375070 Ti, 16 gigs, GDDR7.
02:40So on the VRAM side,
02:42different types of VRAM,
02:43amounts being the same.
02:45Also, you have slightly different power draw,
02:47a little bit more on that XT from the 9070,
02:49but all things being equal.
02:51I mean, it's kind of,
02:52it's relatively the same on the power draw.
02:54NVIDIA basically said,
02:55we want faster memory,
02:57and we'll use the software for everything else.
03:03Since they're watching this on Friday,
03:04that means the reviews are out,
03:05and we are going to go ahead
03:07and read the reviews of the 9070 and the 9070 XT.
03:10You wanna take a look?
03:11Boy, I would love to take a look at this.
03:13Check this out.
03:149070 XT and 9070 reviews are out now.
03:18Competition heats up for gamers.
03:20Competition heats up for NVIDIA.
03:22But I wanted to show you,
03:23before we get into the details,
03:24I wanted to show you some
03:25of the other designs that we have.
03:26We've got lots of great stuff
03:28coming from PowerColor,
03:29but check out this,
03:30this Yestin set.
03:31Oh, cool. I hate it.
03:32We got the second row set.
03:33Yeah, that's great.
03:34I would never,
03:35never have this in my PC,
03:36but I'm sure there's something for everybody.
03:39Look at what Yestin's done.
03:40Those are boobs.
03:41Those are,
03:43those are indeed boobs on a graphics card.
03:45Wow.
03:46Actually, you know what?
03:47I was kind of memeing on it,
03:48but will you open up that middle image
03:50there with the white crossover on the card?
03:53That kind of kicks ass.
03:54Now I think I like anime.
03:56Here's the PowerColor cards.
03:58Oh, now here's a,
03:59here's a red,
04:00super vibrant card
04:02that we're looking for.
04:02Look at what PowerColor has done here, guys.
04:05Very nice, very clean.
04:07So that Hellhound white card
04:08is kind of what you can expect on.
04:10This is a 9070 XT, yeah?
04:12Yes, sir.
04:12Oh my gosh.
04:13Beautiful.
04:14You've got your white and black variants.
04:16But let's actually now change lanes
04:18and let's talk about performance.
04:19So 4K, take a look at the 9070 XT.
04:22This is the XFX card.
04:23It's coming in at 71,
04:26almost 72 on average for FPS.
04:28You compare that to the PowerColor card,
04:30about 70.
04:31It's all relatively in the same realm.
04:33And then compared to the 9070,
04:35so you can kind of see what the difference is
04:37between these two new card releases,
04:3865 average FPS with a minimum of 55.
04:40The big comparisons here
04:42are going to be your 5070 to the 9070
04:46and the XT for that matter.
04:47Let's move on to Horizon Zero Dawn.
04:49This is where we get the real kind of shocking stuff.
04:51Because take a look at who's in number one.
04:53AMD.
04:55AMD is in number one with the XFX card at 102.
04:59Wow.
05:00Great job.
05:01Let's go to FSR and all the, you know,
05:04frame gen and stuff.
05:06Now here we're getting 287 with frame gen
05:09and FSR 4 for the 9070 XT,
05:12which is faster by 10 frames than the 5080.
05:16And when we're talking 5070 Ti,
05:18we're talking almost 60 frames.
05:20Wow.
05:20Bonkers.
05:21Dude, AMD crushed it with this.
05:23F124, the Formula One.
05:26It's a racing game.
05:27I know that now.
05:28Yeah, we're seeing a difference of only 12 FPS
05:30between the 5080.
05:31And then as we jump up to DLSS,
05:34we're seeing that 9070 XT once again trounce every card
05:38coming in at 235 FPS.
05:40So the last one in here is Cyberpunk.
05:42Which is a NVIDIA godsend of a game
05:46because it uses all the DLSS, right?
05:49We're seeing the 4080 take over the 5070 Ti Prime at 29.56.
05:54This is pure rasterization.
05:56And then on third place,
05:58we got the 9070 XT at 26 frames,
06:00only three below the 4080
06:02and only two below the 5070.
06:04Ray tracing ultra 4K.
06:07Yep.
06:08Incredible.
06:09Now let's go into the most convoluted chart I've ever seen.
06:13This is DLSS, XCSS, FSR,
06:16and we're also including one, two, three,
06:20and four times frame gen with the NVIDIA.
06:23So I think it's a little skewed towards NVIDIA
06:25because the 5080 is pulling four AI frames
06:29in between each frame to hit the 208 frames.
06:33And we are seeing the 9070 XT at 106.
06:37Still very, very impressive.
06:39Definitely.
06:40For the MSRP, and we joke that MSRP means nothing
06:42because it doesn't right now.
06:44But if you just take those numbers
06:45and you line it up,
06:46this is a great value card.
06:48Zach, they did some overclocking.
06:50Ooh.
06:51And they didn't do anything that you can't do at home
06:53with just drivers.
06:55So the PowerColor Reaper Radeon
06:57comes with the Adrenaline Edition drivers,
06:59which lets you boost that up a little bit.
07:00Oh, cool.
07:01And they didn't show us games.
07:03They show us one game and one benchmark.
07:04If we look at Assassin's Creed,
07:07we've got the 5080 rocking 106
07:09and then right underneath it.
07:11Wow.
07:12The old 9070 XT overclock trick, eh?
07:16600 bucks on one of these cards.
07:17Dude, all day long.
07:19It's a hard argument to make not to do that.
07:22You know what I mean?
07:23It's just such a good value.
07:24You're getting great performance out of it.
07:26This overclock card's performing great.
07:28I think AMD hit it out of the park with this release.
07:33It wouldn't be a $549 price comparison
07:36if we didn't take a deeper look at the RTX 5070.
07:39Now check this out.
07:39This is the Founders Edition RTX 5070.
07:42Great looking card.
07:43They did awesome on these Founders Edition cards.
07:45I'm a big fan of how they look.
07:46The big problem is,
07:47and this is gonna be a recurring theme in this segment,
07:50is availability and price.
07:52What does it all mean?
07:53NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition
07:55has a big hole to fill.
07:57This will be the first true mainstream offering
08:00for the Blackwell RTX 50 series GPUs.
08:02It takes over from the 4070
08:04with the same $549 base MSRP.
08:08Now what does MSRP mean now?
08:10Nothing.
08:11Nothing.
08:11It means nothing.
08:12You're seeing prices all over the place.
08:14The likelihood of you getting one of those for MSRP,
08:17especially right now, is lower than ever.
08:19I would take that $549
08:22with the biggest grain of salt available.
08:24So it's got the same amount of VRAM as the 4070,
08:27this new 5070 card,
08:28but with new Blackwell features.
08:30This is gonna be the big focus of this card
08:31when people are saying,
08:32why would I get a 5070 over a 4070?
08:35It has a lot to do with some of these Blackwell features,
08:37ray tracing, a lot of this stuff.
08:39Getting a faster GPU for less money with new features
08:41should make this one of the best graphics cards,
08:43but there are some concerns.
08:44Spoiler alert, the biggest concern
08:47is availability and pricing.
08:48From what we've seen,
08:49every GPU launch in the past month
08:50sell out almost instantly.
08:52The Arc card came out, the B580, we loved it.
08:54We put in a big PO for a bunch of them.
08:57In December, we still don't have them.
08:59And a lot of people that are looking to build their own PCs
09:01are experiencing the same thing,
09:03whether it's an Arc card, Nvidia card,
09:05or even AMD right now.
09:06Where are these cards going?
09:07Cause like, do we have more gamers now?
09:09Like, are they making less?
09:10Like, why are these so scarce?
09:12If you live in tech news,
09:14like I know a lot of you guys do, I do as well.
09:16You're like, hey, how come they can't just make more?
09:18What's going on?
09:18Let me give you some data.
09:20Stay with me here.
09:20Nvidia posted record earnings of $130 billion recently
09:25on their most recent fiscal year.
09:26That is more than double of the previous earnings.
09:30So where's all this coming from?
09:32Nearly all of the games come from AI
09:34and data center business,
09:35which accounted for 88% of that revenue.
09:38So what about gaming?
09:40How much is Nvidia making on gaming?
09:42Used to be most of their revenue,
09:43but now it's a very, very distant second place
09:46at just 8.6% of total revenue.
09:50Nvidia has said it's no longer primarily a gaming company
09:53and these financials kind of spell that out.
09:55So if you're thinking, when you live in this,
09:57you're like, just make more cards.
09:58You're a gaming company for gamers.
10:00That ain't their main business or their main focus.
10:02What if a GeForce spun off into a separate company?
10:05I'd love that.
10:06So they could focus on the gamer market segment
10:10a little bit more
10:10because Nvidia itself
10:11is always gonna serve shareholders first.
10:13That's just the new-
10:14Is it gonna happen?
10:15No.
10:15Let's look at some of the benchmarks and testing.
10:18This is a 1440p rasterization set on ultra.
10:224070, you've got an average and lows here.
10:24We're gonna go with the averages of 67.5 FPS
10:28on ultra rasterization, 4040p.
10:31Now, where's our 5070 founders edition?
10:3480, touch over 80 FPS.
10:37So you do get a solid boost,
10:39but that again is pure rasterization
10:41that we're talking about here.
10:42Decent boost,
10:43but where it supposedly really shines
10:45is when it comes to ray tracing.
10:47I'm seeing improvements in some areas
10:49and really it's like RAM is really in a couple cores,
10:52but ultimately what I'm seeing
10:53is software improvements with the 50 series.
10:55We've got the 5070 founders edition
10:58coming in at nearly 70 FPS.
10:59This is the average,
11:01but the 4070, about 10 frames less.
11:04So it really does shine
11:05when it comes to some of these software-based technologies.
11:07So when you're seeing the actual specs,
11:09you're going, is this the same card?
11:13Kind of.
11:14Hey Zach, you remember the black screen issues
11:16that we had a little while back?
11:19I think that they rolled out an update.
11:21They did.
11:22They rolled out a solo update
11:24for the black screen updates,
11:25but we will assume that that fix
11:27will also be available
11:29when the 5070 is released
11:31with the drivers that would come with that card.
11:33So it should be more widely available
11:35to everybody through the official NVIDIA driver.
11:38Push through the app.
11:39Great job, NVIDIA.
11:40You're fixing the problem you made.
11:42You know who doesn't make dubious claims online?
11:45Who? I think I know.
11:46You know who actually backs up everything they say?
11:49Who could it be?
11:51I think it's a beautiful company called MetaPCs.
11:53MetaPCs!
11:54It's time for an ad.
11:56My goodness.
11:56You guys have been buying the crap out of these mouse mats.
12:00In fact, I feel like we're selling so many of them
12:03that they're raining from the sky.
12:06Jeez, that nearly killed me.
12:07Listen, the MetaPCs Hyper Beast mouse mats
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12:17And these would look awesome with a brand new PC,
12:19which are available now at MetaPCs.com.
12:21We have ready to ship builds.
12:22We've got the 50 series cards, new AMD stuff.
12:25Listen, all you gotta do is go to MetaPCs.com,
12:27either configure a PC from the ground up
12:29or get a ready to ship build.
12:32What does ready to ship mean?
12:33It's ready to ship.
12:34You nailed it.
12:35Speaking of ready to ship PCs,
12:37I actually got a little news from a little birdie
12:39that says we're gonna have two one-off
12:41ready to ship PCs very, very soon
12:44that people should probably check the website
12:45every single day for.
12:46Do you wanna see one?
12:47I would love to see one.
12:48This is a BTF build.
12:51It is stacked with a gorgeous ASUS TUF 5080
12:57and it is made to look stunning and floaty.
13:01This case looks like a founder's edition card
13:04in and of itself.
13:05Great job, Phanteks.
13:06We love you so much.
13:07Love this build and we have some hitting the site, no?
13:10Yep, we've got one white and one black
13:12and they're gonna show up just at a random time.
13:15So you're gonna have to check every single day
13:16if you do wanna pick this up.
13:18We are not gonna be making more RTSs of this
13:20but we will have the case in stock
13:22for custom configurated builds.
13:24I love it.
13:27What about more entry-level AMD cards?
13:30So we're kind of working our way backwards
13:31as you can tell with these releases.
13:33You start 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti.
13:36What about the 9060?
13:39Well, check this out.
13:40AMD is not slowing down anytime soon
13:42because the RTX 90, excuse me.
13:44I hate that they did this.
13:45The RX 9060 from Radeon is confirmed in Q2.
13:50Not too long ago, AMD held two events
13:52for the Radeon RX 9070 series.
13:54Now at the very end,
13:56they buried a little nugget in there
13:58at the end of the presentation.
13:59And in the second quarter of this year,
14:01we'll broaden the family even further
14:03with the RX 9060 products
14:05which we'll tell you more about later.
14:07A person representing AMD confirmed
14:09that the Radeon RX 9060 series will be coming next.
14:13And here we go, gamers won't have to wait
14:15as long as they typically do
14:17for AMD to launch its next gen GPUs.
14:20The RX 90 series, 9060 series.
14:23Presumably based on the Navi 44 GPU
14:25would compete with the RTX 5060 Ti
14:29and the RTX 5060
14:30which are launching in April.
14:31So they're trying to get ahead of this NVIDIA launch
14:33by saying, look, maybe we can kick this card out
14:36a little bit sooner.
14:37One should expect sub 200 watt GPU designs
14:39and sub $400 cards.
14:42Now we're getting into the more budget range
14:44that real budget gamers are looking for.
14:46So I'm really interested in this.
14:47Perhaps AMD is gonna undercut NVIDIA once again,
14:50assuming that it will be the green team
14:53that launches the card first.
14:55Now these are all rumors, aren't they?
14:58Yeah, we got no specs on the 5060.
15:00They haven't released anything.
15:01But for right now, all we can know is,
15:03hey, we're gonna get cheaper cards
15:04and possibly more available cards.
15:06Yes, we need it.
15:10You know what?
15:10Let's get away from reality.
15:12Reality is just boring.
15:13I hate it.
15:14Let's talk about marketing reality.
15:15Oh no, I hate it even more.
15:17Angry Meow claims that this new gaming mouse
15:20offers infinite battery.
15:21What do you think about that, Zach?
15:22I think that's how.
15:23So we're claiming that there is a mouse now
15:25and this is Angry Mio, Mio?
15:28Meow.
15:28Meow.
15:29There is a mouse that could be a infinite battery.
15:33What they mean by that is instant charging,
15:351.2 seconds to charge this mouse.
15:37So very interesting.
15:38This was created and funded
15:39through a Kickstarter campaign.
15:41However, the explainer missed
15:44its advertised February 26th reveal.
15:47You gotta wait till March 10th
15:48for some of the important information.
15:50So we're gonna be coming back around to this next week.
15:52How is this an infinite battery mouse?
15:54My best guess is that that 1.2 second charge,
15:56they've got an array of capacitors
15:58that are quick charging
16:00and then those either power the mouse
16:03or they trickle charge a lithium battery.
16:05It's a cool marketing term.
16:06My hope would be, yes, you're leading with battery life,
16:09but is it a good mouse?
16:11That's what we need to know.
16:12We're gonna find out on the 10th
16:13when they release more information.
16:17Oh, this is the Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro Plus.
16:2116 pin power connector confirmed.
16:22That is a big card.
16:24That is a big beefy card.
16:25That is a fat card.
16:26That looks like a prison fence.
16:28That does, yeah.
16:29You're not getting out of there.
16:30It's confirmed to have a single 16 pin power connector.
16:32Whoa, Phil just died.
16:34We've killed Phil.
16:36I'm allergic to good news.
16:37He's allergic to good news.
16:38We've been covering so much bad stuff here.
16:40AMD is leveraging the fact that most RX 9070 cards
16:43rely on the older standard as a selling point,
16:44especially given the recent reports
16:46of overheating connectors on the 5090 cards.
16:48Clearly some board partners are tired
16:50of using a triple eight pin layout on their cards.
16:53Competition is strong for the most attractive
16:54and easiest to set up GPU designs.
16:57Hence a single freaking connector.
16:59Now, what I love about this,
17:00and you can see this in this image here,
17:01and this is so intuitive, it makes so much sense.
17:04Thank you, Sapphire.
17:05You can actually hide your power connectors
17:07and all the cables coming to your graphics card
17:09through this little shroud.
17:10Look at this.
17:11It's a magnetic shroud.
17:12So it literally just snaps right on.
17:14Why do we have to wait for AMD to come up with this?
17:17Like this is a beautiful design.
17:18We could have been doing this all along
17:20and said we've had our power connectors
17:21sitting out in the front facing us.
17:23This is a great design idea.
17:24And of course, AMD, they're scrappy right now.
17:27They want to win on the GPU side.
17:29And things like this, I think,
17:30really do add a lot of value to people
17:32that value how their system looks
17:34on the cosmetic side.
17:36Ladies and gentlemen,
17:37that's going to do it for the news today.
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