While the more powerful GeForce RTX 50 models face no direct competition, AMD has positioned two strong contenders against the RTX 5070—the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT. Both offer slightly better value and more memory. Your choice depends on whether you need a graphics card purely for gaming or also for professional applications, and how reliant you are on Nvidia’s broader, more polished ecosystem with proprietary technologies.
Cyberpunk 2077, RT Medium, 3840 × 2160, BIOS Quiet
The next set of tests runs with the same settings on the secondary BIOS. Again, this is Cyberpunk 2077 with RT Medium settings at a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels. With this setup, the GPU is fully loaded. This involves eight consecutive benchmark runs.
With the quieter BIOS, it’s clear that the loss compared to “P mode” is only about 12 MHz, which has such an insignificant impact on performance at an average clock speed of 2802 MHz that even a normal measurement deviation can make a bigger difference—the average frame rate came out 0.1 fps higher than with the supposedly higher-performance BIOS.
The GPU clock speed ranges between 2812 and 2782 MHz, with an average of 2802 MHz.
Power consumption is again near the 250 W limit.
The dark color represents the total PC power consumption measured with a UT71E multimeter.
Even though the fans run about 600 RPM slower, the average temperatures are still at excellent levels. This is also thanks to the case’s system cooling, which features 140 mm fans running at 800 RPM. While the card itself is inaudible, the same can’t be said for the system cooling.
In a quieter setup with lower airflow, the temperatures will be higher.
At this point, it’s hard to ask the fans to run any slower.
