SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT Video Card Review

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Introduction Today, March 5th, 2025, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070 GPUs are launching, and video cards based on these new GPUs will be available March 6th, 2025. In this review, we will take a look at the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT video card. This video card […]

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theblackangus said:
Snagged one this morning from NE.
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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)
 
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.
 
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