The AMD Radeon RX 9070 Would Be a Great Choice of GPU—If the RX 9070 XT Didn’t Exist

AMD’s latest $550 graphics card is a strange beast, and that’s the fault of AMD. The Radeon RX 9070 is a solid brick of gaming potential that can hold up in some 4K scenarios for your desktop PC, though it truly shines for gamers who plan to play at 1440p. Despite that, the RX 9070’s main competition isn’t Nvidia. AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT at $600 offers a major performance bump above the slightly cheaper card. Unless the XT’s prices inflate wildly post launch on March 6, you should opt for the $600 graphics card without hesitation. On its own, the Radeon RX 9070 is a relatively solid GPU for sub-4K resolution gaming or other intensive graphics rendering tasks. You may have read the same line from reviews of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 that launched on Tuesday. These cards are already equivalent in manufacturer-suggested price. However, in our tests, the RX 9070 has the edge in synthetic benchmarks and in some games. If you want to upgrade your PC and avoid Nvidia’s woeful stock situati ... Read full article.