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XFX AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Swift Triple Fan Gaming Edition 16GB GDDR6 GPU $869 Delivered @ Mwave
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I'm using Corsair RM750X, no issue at all
Perfect, pairing with a 5800X3D
you'll be fine mate
Got the same PSU. What CPU do you have? Gets nowhere near the limit of it with 7800X3D.
Same CPU and GPU combo runs great. Maybe not if you have an i9
I wouldnt. These new cards have high transient voltage spikes.
An ATX 3.0 compliant PSU is required to be capable of delivering 200% of its rated capacity over transient spikes. So a good quality 750W PSU will easily handle 9070XT spikes as it has 1500W transient spike capacity.
Running mine on a 750w Corsair SFX with a Ryzen 7 7700 just fine.
I had no problem using 9070xt with SP750 for now
I've got the sapphire pure 9070xt and 5800x3d. I think you can easily get away with a good 550W or 600W PSU.
The GPU with OC pulls max 350W and that's just occasionally. The CPU will be 100W, worst case, Mainboard maybe 50W. Everything else doesn't really count.
They only give such absurd recommendations to cover their asses in-case someone decides to pair it with some OC'd 14900k and a very shitty no-name PSU. Though I have to wonder if setting it to 800w actually ends up scaring away a large amount of buyers who'd otherwise be nowhere near close to having PSU issues.
As long as your PSU is decent quality and has a single 12v rail it will be totally fine. People run into problems when they use a PSU with two 12v rails (like some of the cheap Gigabyte models).
What's the biggest 9070xt?
probably the XFX Mercury, its a big unit
Not this one, but it's still a chunky boi:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/1j1ejs3/physical_dim…
I got five years out of my last two GPUs, I think I'll be fine with "resale".
Yeah I just got $500 for my 3080 which I thought was pretty good.
I’m holding mine for another few months, I think the 9070XT may go back up around mid year
Hopefully it's a small price to pay for a lesson well learnt.
why not just enjoy the card that is more than capable of playing anything you can throw at it… and then wait until next gen consoles to even think about upgrading? buying a 5070ti which is more of a side-grade if anything is literally a waste of time and money lol.
I would have but I didnt realise the ecosystem was a complete mess, people running optiscalering etc
I just want something to carry my 5 year old 5800x system for another 2+ years until next gen consoles and GPUs arise then do a full upgrade of the PC.
The last straw was trying to play cyberpunk with PT and FG on, was running well and lookedgreat but then it crashes after 10 mins or so.
9070 XT is a raster beast for the money, but the feature set and RT/PT is very lackluster.
Getting Crimson desert free with the card will soften the hit a little anyway.
Final straw was a game crashing, probably nothing to do with the GPU or it's drivers?
Seems a bit silly, but yeah if RT is very important to you and you are willing to pay for it then Nvidia makes sense.
@Aureus: Its a common problem, apparently a know n issue and people suggest some mod to fix it by turning off some internal setting. I havnt got time for this rubbish and things like optiscaler.
its not that capable actually. It gets a little more frames than a 5070, but its a mess while doing it. stutters, jitters, drops, weird artifacts.
Take COD for example, 170-190fps max settings @ 3K res using 9-10gb vram. not smooth at all. Im not sure how to explain it but when you look around, its very jittery like there is a 0.0001 sec pause between every frame and then a small stutter every 2 seconds.
Whereas the same settings on a RTX 5070, only switching from FSR balanced to DLSS balanced, it gets 130-150fps but everything incredibly smooth. not jittery when looking around, Identifying targets in the periphery is so much easier to notice and the smoothness makes it so much easier to track and process as if time has slowed down.
That sounds like a sucks to be you kind of situation, and nothing to do with the card itself
GPUs shouldn't be seen as an investment. Or any PC parts for that matter. Just use what you've got, buy what you can afford, and enjoy life.
I'll take the 5070ti for $600 if you don't want it, knowing the 9070 XT is better of course.
I have a 9060 16GB, came from 5070ti, using FSR 4.1 and honestly I'm literally blown away with performance even at 4K resolution and getting consistent approx 60 frames on max settings, quality, ultra quality. None or barely any at all ghosting, shimmering, nothing noticeable when playing, or that I'm bothered with etc.
I can hardly find justification paying 9070/9070xt prices when 9060 is honestly this great, not to mention 5070/5070ti prices.
Uses unreleased version of FSR, does not mention which game has 60FPS. Great way to support your argument…
Tetris buddy, Tetris. Oh yes, arrest me please! How dare I use it! 🚓
Silent Hill 2 remake, epic settings with reduced shadows, no motion blur. I'm pretty sure with bit of minor tweaking can get most games running at consistentish 60 frames.
@MaximusMilkshake: Nah, was just making sure his argument is proper supportive, not just another opinion blurb.
I have a 9070XT as well.
I think in this NV vs AMD battle there is a lot of people with opinions and brand boners so just making sure people actually get relevant info when deciding. Many times OzB saved me from a stupid purchase.
you went backwards from a 5070ti to a base 9060? why?
Eh, I had another 5070 Ti, aero with vapour chamber cooling, brand new that I wanted to swap with my 5070 Ti. But got a good offer for aero and sold it, and put my 5070 Ti in another build I've sold and in meantime came across a 9060 for $450, played around with it a bit and can make it work for me so honestly for now don't feel the need for the 5070 Ti what it offers, happy to companste the difference using FSR 4.1.
Was looking at 5060 Ti 16GB and DlSS 4.5, end of March release of Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and 6X Multi Frame Generation, will see if it justifies the price difference between 9060 and 5060ti 16GB. But I think for now I'll stick with 9060, it's enough for my needs.
Yeah man.. New tech is both a boon and a crutch..
It means they can get away with worse hardware utilising software tricks…but if the software tricks are so good and are close to (or completely) seamless. So be it.
I've got a 7800x3d and a 9070 non xt, 3440p ultrawide, and I don't see myself upgrading for many years. (5+) by which point, honestly, I'll probably be on whatever beefed up steamdeck exists and use it as my primary PC/docked! I think the age of full custom pc builds is slowly dying.. The steam machine will shake up the market (price pending lol).
For a lot of people, a 'good enough' experience (basically equivalent to a ps5/equiv console) is more than adequate to enjoy games without major hitches or issues.
I'm definitely gonna fall into that category in the next decade after building custom (or modifying) since uh.. 2007? Or so. I'm already in an ITX build, so portability/space saving is big for me!
9060 16GB costs $529, so the 9070 XT is 66% faster but costs 64% more, making it the much better purchase (usually $/fps goes down with performance).
5070 Ti is EOL so will only keep going up in price. But it's the minimum card that anyone wanting usable heavy 4k RT, not to mention DLSS is far more widely supported than the newest FSR.
It's all well calculated these days, the entire fps per dollar. It comes down to what can you squeeze on the longer run better and who will offer you better fake frames unfortunately as game optimisation by most developers these days has gone through the window. So there's pros and cons of both amd and Nvidia. Amd is better priced raw fps per dollar while Nvidia costs more, has probably better resell value, better fake frames software support and updates but worse in raw performance considering the price.
This is true, nvidia got me on g-sync with a g-sync monitor. Otherwise I would have switch to amd lately.
Beware these guys packed a box damaged 9070xt and shipped to me.
It wasn’t Australia post you think? Or the courier?
I think he's saying that the gpu box was damaged, and like that placed in the postage box, not that both boxes were damaged. That's why he's saying it about mwave, that they've sent him an already damaged gpu packaging.
Not aupost , their box was intact ..It was mwave who deliberately loaded a damaged box 9070xt inside.
More than likely the box damage happened after Australia Post got their hands on it lol.
Logic is hard sometimes.
HODL until $800?
Make sure you use your Amex - spend 300 get 30 cash back with mWave.
Brings it down to $839.
wondering if we can split payment online…
Must resist, my 5700x3D and RX6800 still fine. Especially my 650w PSU needs upgrade as well.
i recently found out that radeon gpus cant run local ai, they are purposely built for nvidia and apple silicon, yo ucan still run it in a rebuilt environment but it performs so much worse at unusable speeds with lots of headaches in the process
I'm running local ai just fine on my 9070xt via llama.cpp, operationally it's not as nice as an nvidia, but I can run local ai.
Running Qwen 2 (Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-Q6_K_L.gguf) gives me responses at 70t/s, far better than my old 3060.
It used to be radeon's were trash (like when I tried to run it on my 6600) and didn't work but amd have picked up their act and atleast made it usable.
if all else fails llama.cpp still has the Vulkan backend which will work even without rocm and hip.
i tried to run a simple qwen 3 tts on my 6600 8gb, i tried to trouble shoot and fix it for 2 days with no success, the programs keep defaulting to running it on cpu, i tried every fix in the book, used pro gemini to trouble shoot, ran some terminal copy paste code, didnt fix, game up and uninstalled it
With zero experience, I just set up Ollama + Qwen 3.5 including ROCm support.
Detected my 9070 first try and is firing back answers way faster than I can read them. 3 commands got me from zero to "ask me something"
@Erwark: you are talking about a chatbox llm, ive already done that, thats easy, im talking about tts, its completely different. text to speech to create jarvis style llm
I have had no issues.
Buy AMD GPU for gaming. If your primary use case is AI then AMD is probably not the right choice.
That's not accurate. Anything with ROCm support is fine.
lmstudio works out of the box on AMD 9070xt (just tried it myself). Same as llama.cpp (according to @glass2k comment). Sure, about 20% lower tokens/sec than 5070ti, but the 5070ti costs 50% more than the 9070xt.
Got this for my first build any advice would be great!
We keep on hearing about ram and chip shortages well into 2027, so why in the world are there even discounts for pc parts
No-one is building new gaming PCs because ram is so expensive. Gaming GPUs are sitting on shelves.
Supply demand.
That's not how it work though. Companies like micron stopped caring about consumer demand.
So if your costs just went through the roof, you're still not going to drop prices because there's less demand.
Unless there's something happening in the background that we don't know about
When you factor in these gpu and CPU deals popping up, its actually about the same price to build now as before the rampocolypse could be way less even, unless you are getting a 5090.
Good deal, but I'm holding on to my 7900XTX until RDNA5. No point getting an RDNA4 GPU if it's all going to start from scratch again with RDNA5 IMO.
I know the recommended PSU is 800w but surely it will be ok with my Corsair RM750x?