AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: Nvidia gets some big next-gen competition

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange. After a disappointing $549 RTX 5070, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti that’s near impossible to buy for anything less than $899, and a $1,999 RTX 5090 whose only competition is other Nvidia cards, AMD’s next-gen GPUs look perfectly timed and deliver on performance and price. The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s card for the same price. The RX 9070 XT is as fast as the RTX 5070 Ti for $150 less. Pricing is key with these cards, particularly as only 10 percent of GPU sales right now are from AMD. The company needs a big win with its latest generation ... Read full article.