The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT delivers better price-to-performance than competing GeForce cards and 4 GB more memory than the RTX 5070. The Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16G is the more affordable of Gigabyte’s two RX 9070 XT models. While it doesn’t match premium variants in overall performance, it offers more capable power delivery, a higher power limit for factory overclocking, and greater overclocking headroom than base models.
Fan behavior, noise level
The fans are smaller than what you’ll find on most cards today. The minimum performance that can be set in the fan control is 20%, at which they run at around 850 RPM, and the measured noise level is below 30 dBA. They start to become audible somewhere around 1600–1700 RPM.
Even in silent mode, after prolonged load, they exceed 1800 RPM, where the measured noise level of the card is around 39.7 dBA. The reason is mainly the higher hotspot temperatures of both the GPU and memory, which force the regulation to push the fans to higher speeds. The card can no longer be called quiet, but the noise level still doesn’t bother much.
In Performance mode, the temperatures are lower, but this comes at the cost of higher fan speeds, which reach around 2000 RPM. This corresponds to a noise level of 42 dBA, at which point the noise can be considered average. You’ll encounter similar values with base models across the entire lineup.
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. In the first run, the test likely ran with active framegen (despite being inactive in the config).
The GPU clock speed ranges between 2709 and 2871 MHz, with an average of 2767 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 (practically right at the 330 W limit), 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 average chip temperatures aren’t a problem, but the hotspot and memory temperatures are quite high.
After warming up, the fans ramp up to nearly 2000 RPM.
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I simply love your review format, now back to these cards…
In this day and age is shameful that (both Ngreedia and Amd) charge this much for this level of performance but here we are. I won’t buy one until the price comes down a lot.
Really makes me think about switching to a console or a Steam deck if they keep it up.
In my opinion you really need to introduce an UE5 game in your reviews just to see how bad performance is in those.
Robocop Rogue City, Stalker 2, Black myth Wukong etc.
Thanks for your work, keep it up.
Thanks. I am already testing Black Myth: Wukong and Satisfactory, I just need to retest some cards to add charts. More games will follow as soon as I will have time to play them for a few hours and find optimal locations for testing.
I am able to test Stalker 2, Robocop, Hogwarts Legacy, Frostpunk 2, Fornite, God of War Ragnarok, Gray Zone: Warfare and some other games, the only thing I don’t have is the time to play it and prepare for testing. :(.
When it comes to performance, I assume that developers already rely on TSR/FSR/DLSS and this shift is now irreversible.