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.
Fan behavior, noise level
The fans are low-profile, making them quieter even at higher speeds compared to taller coolers. The minimum performance that can be set in the fan control is 30%, at which they run at around 700 RPM, and the measured noise level is below 30 dBA. They start to become audible around 1400 RPM.
During normal daily operation, you’ll notice them at a distance of one meter somewhere between 1500–1600 RPM. In quiet mode, you’ll likely only hear them during nighttime silence in a highly perforated case with system fans at minimum speeds, and you’ll hear the power coils more than the cooler itself. But it’s still better than with higher power consumption cards.
In performance mode, the fans reach just under 1600 RPM. The measured noise level at a distance of about 25 centimeters from the sound meter is 37–38 dBA, which can’t be considered completely silent cooling, but it’s still significantly better than the cheapest card variants, which usually hover around 40–43 dBA.
Cyberpunk 2077, RT Medium, 3840 × 2160, BIOS Performance
The first set of measurements comes from the Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark 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.
The graph always shows the last run, from which the average value for the warmed-up card is calculated.
The GPU clock speed ranges between 2805 and 2820 MHz, with an average of 2814 MHz.
The card’s power consumption is a few watts below the power limit set in the BIOS. Green represents the card’s power consumption according to HWiNFO monitoring, and blue is the CPU’s power consumption according to monitoring (read via HWiNFO).
The dark color represents the total PC power consumption measured with a UT71E multimeter.
The chip and memory temperatures are perfect with the performance BIOS, though unfortunately, unlike Radeons, we can’t see the hotspot temperatures.
The low temperatures are partly due to the higher fan speeds. The noise level would benefit if Asus shifted the curve down by about 200 RPM, and it wouldn’t significantly affect the temperatures.
