XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 OC Review

I want to say about the Navi 48 AMD graphics card that you should not worry if you missed the RX 9070 XT, because RX 9070 is an excellent medium -range card, it has almost the same goodness Radeon, but with a slightly lower price of the sticker. What we know is a witty thing to say in Wan’s featherlight after the day after starting.

Because, although RX 9070 is nominally cheaper than its siblings, the reality of the current price of the GPU means it XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 It is actually replaced for 50 USD more than the original MSRP RX 9070 XT. And I encourage you to wait for literally every other XT version that appears on sale for the same price of 650 USD or below, because it will be Always Be better than this impressive card.

This is a huge shame because AMD has several winners from these middle -class graphic chips. It surprised everyone, striking lower than expected price tags on two novel GPU, and even during the premiere we were all taken by price/card performance indicators.

And if they remained around their relevant 549 USD and 599 USD MSRP, we would still praise them on high heavens. But XFX noticed me during the pre -release review process, the price of it earlier $ 549 9070 $ Swift will escalate when the premiere day is over on March 6. And so now, even when it is not yet in stock, it is replaced for USD 650.

This certainly extends the gloss of this secondary RDNA 4 card. Sure, RX 9070 XX cards also had their own price increases after acquittal, but there will still be cards in the reference price floating around/if AMD can start normalizing reserve levels.

But let me park my grinding of teeth in the GPU valuation of malaise from 25 years, because this is our first taste RX 9070, so let’s go a bit into what we are talking about here.

This is a continuation of the rules inspired by the Siths two for the highest novel generation graphics cards. This means that it provides two GPU too close to prices and specifications to really make sense. Like Vega cards, long, long, we look at a pair of GPU with 64 and 56 calculation units (CUS) respectively. The Navi 48 RX 9070 chip simply received a bit of NIP and hugs to offer something different in common with the GPU, which fell from the TSMC N4P production line, which is a few points without a full matrix.

This is not an euphemism for some Dummkopf AMD-I am now writing that I definitely saw, as it was said about Raja in Fallout after Tega-but it definitely makes sense to have something to do with graphic silver, which would not be able to get cutting as a full RX 9070 X system.

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When the initial specifications were given, in combination with the announcement that there were only USD 50 between the two cards, many of us were worried about what a particularly worse graphics card, which the RX 9070 looked like compared to the XT card. The price difference of 9% between non-TX cards and RX 9070 XX cards caused a 14% escalate in the number of shaders and a huge clock speed. By accepting evaluated clocks to the nominal value, the RX 9070 is about 450 MHz behind more siblings.

Lay the clock speed escalate and an increased Cu and Shader, and you have a graphics card in RX 9070 XT, which is certainly worth more than another 50 USD. And vice versa, RX 9070 looked like a terrible offer so close to the XT version.

But these clock speed figurines would always be quite arbitrary, and everything else on the board is essentially a self-repair card with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory operating at a speed of 20 Gb / SW 256-bit memory bus-all comes down to how much differences actually make these 512 shadows.

The eight, which they fold, is a novel RDNA 4 variety, which looks powerful to elderly RDNA 3, but as Andy notes in his review of RDNA 4 architecture, there is also a novel engine-compatible-second-generation matrix-generation matrix engine-and dramatically improved core. Of course, there is also a robust part of pure improvement in raster performance.

In total, this core difference translates into 10% of the delta between cards at 1080p, 13% at 1440p and 16% in the occasional air of 4K games.

You buy RX 9070 for another USD 50, right?

But you remember when I said that the clock speeds would be arbitrary? Yes, that. According to one graphics card theme in 2025, which has nothing to do with prices, RX 9070 is more than a talented overclocker. Thanks to AMD cards, it is more about solving the GPU processor and enabling it to have a larger capacity of the clock speed. On the XFX RX 9070 Swift means dropping it to 140 mV with a power shift +10% and observing the clock speed escalate.

Because the NAVI 48 system now works with a much more impressive 2734 MHz in our improved Metro Exodus tests, unlike 2349 MHz, has previously hit, Delta’s performance narrows almost nothing.

Now you look at the 2% difference between two AMD cards, which suddenly has a question, which card to buy a more intriguing puzzle. This is especially true when you look at the green team in comparison.

RTX 5070 dropped the day before these cards, with the same nominal price of USD 549 as this RX 9070. At the speeds of the AMD, the second pregnancy AMD card is about 7% faster than the NVIDIA GPU, but although both are very talented overrust cards, if they are imposed to their appropriate boundaries that stretch.

In the fastest I could start both cards, now I see a 10% difference at 1440p and 11% difference at 4K.

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Yes, the NVIDIA card has the magic of the generation of many frames to call in some games, and this is definitely inverting, but it will be more arduous sales now, when AMD can call FSR4, it has its technology to generate frames and almost adjust the NVIDIA TOE-TO-TOE on RAY. AMD cards also have more VRAM, and this will certainly be a balance sheet factor when players weighs where to spend money.

DLSS 4 and related functions of generating frames are still more effective for me than raising and interpolation AMD, but on the other side of this sheet lies an improved versatile experience from GPU NAVI 48 games. This is particularly versatile gambling Experience, because despite the larger capacity of the memory bus and VRAM, the NVIDIA card is a better plant for creation. The mixer performance is significantly before AMD, as is its Gen-Ai chops.

But in RX 9070 there is a lot to like, and only a frustrating increased price after starting is fighting for the recommendation of it. This XFX RX 9070 Swift is a filled version, despite the fact that its frequency looks much lower than the assessed 2700 MHz top -up clock, and I think it will be a way to justify its increased cost. While the white cover is quite pleasant in its pure simplicity, it is also rather basic, although it maintains the GPU extremely nippy, even if I can speed up its clock beyond this initial rating.

It is also very huge. The XFX does not play here with a chance for excessive heating, because it is a triple mesh design, even if a double tension bracket sways. Make sure you can fit it in the chassis before you buy, that’s all I will say.

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But, if he hopes, AMD is able to normalize deliveries and encourage AIB to get more 600 $ RX 9070 XT. Or if Nvidia can do the same and squeeze more 549 $ RTX 5070s from factories. It was not a well -received GPU GeForce, but if it slightly cuts RX 9070, and the XT version in many can still find a place for himself.

If the price of RX 9070. falls towards the original MSRP level, or if no RX 9070 XT cards return to its own IAS, then I will feel more positive in the RX 9070 generation recommendation.

But while AIB and retailers intend to squeeze as much cash as possible from a strictly restricted GPU market, it is probably the RX 9070 is not the only card offered at a reasonable price, it is a challenging card for love.