Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 16GB Review: Better Pay More

Extra tests, Graphics | | Adam Vágner

Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT OC is Sapphire’s top-tier 16GB RX 9060 XT model. Alongside powerful cooling and excellent operating characteristics, the manufacturer also bets on stylish looks and prominent ARGB lighting—elements that help it fit right into popular PC design cases. If you’re building a PC for gaming at the lower 1080p and 1440p resolutions and care about aesthetics, it’s certainly worth considering.

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If you’d like to use more demanding ray tracing features on lower-end cards, you can enable FSR or DLSS, which renders frames at a lower sample count and reconstructs them to the target resolution using upscaling—better described as super resolution. For Ultra and RT Ultra, we choose the higher-quality Balanced mode; for RT Overdrive with path tracing, we use FSR in Performance mode.

Global settings Ultra

Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Balanced and FSR3 Balanced + Frame Gen

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2560 × 1440

3840 × 2160

Global settings RT Ultra

Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Balanced and FSR3 Balanced + Frame Gen

1920 × 1080

2560 × 1440

3840 × 2160

Global settings RT Overdrive

Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Performance and FSR3 Performance + Frame Gen

2560 × 1440

3840 × 2160


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  1. – It is obvious that a big advantage of this card are its dimensions. This is never mentioned in the review.

    – I always power-limit my GPU during gameplay as a way to optimize (1) fan noise, (2) case temperate, (3) adjust for summer vs. winter room temperature and (4) to lower the electricity bill.

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