Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT

Even before getting into testing, I had high expectations for the Sapphire RX 9070 XT Pulse. The previous 9070 XT Steel Legion that I took a look at was good but Sapphire has always done a great job of being a step ahead and we see that here with the RX 9070 XT Pulse. Like we have seen with past Pulse cards, the RX 9070 XT Pulse keeps things very simple with a focus on performance and no flashy aesthetics like RGB lighting. That said, the basic black cooler design looks good and gets the job done without being too flashy. While having the same stock clock speed, it stood out in a majority of our tests sometimes with more of a lead than we would see with an overclocked card. Sapphire did that with impressive cooling performance with the only exception to that being memory temps a little warmer than I would like to see. But still better than the memory temps on the Steel Legion. Even with the cooling performance, it was also impressive in our noise testing across the board. The RX 9070 XT GPU was once again impressive with its raster performance. AMD has come a long way with AI and Ray Tracing performance as well, but that is the one area where we see Nvidia cards still leading the way. It's impressive that Sapphire did so well with the RX 9070 XT Pulse even at stock clock speeds and with that this is technically an “MSRP” card with its MSRP being $599. Of course, we all know that video card pricing right now has been crazy across the board, and finding them at MSRP is basically impossible. In the case of the Pulse, they are at Newegg and Micro Center for $849.99. You can at least currently get the Steel Legend and a few other cards closer to the $700 range and that would be the only reason to not be looking at the Pulse when shopping for an RX 9070 XT.

Welches Custom-Design der AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT ist das beste? ComputerBase hat ASRock Taichi, Asus TUF Gaming, Sapphire Nitro+ und Sapphire Pure sowie XFX Mercury im Test ausführlich verglichen. Welche hat den leisesten Kühler, welche den höchsten Takt, welche fällt besonders kompakt aus? Hier gibt es die Details.

The NITRO+ series by SAPPHIRE has always been their top line due to superior cooling, build quality and looks but for the Radeon RX 9070 XT they took things a step further by introducing a stealth (as they call it) 12V-2x6 power connector at the rear accompanied by a magnetic backplate. This looks very nice but if I could choose, I’d prefer the power connector to be somewhere easier to reach (not everyone has a new PSU with an 12V-2x6 cable, and we’ve seen quite a few issues with 12VHPWR cables when bend). That aside power consumption is again set quite high at max load, and I do expect some gamers to have a slight issue with that (majority will probably overlook this however). Everything else from performance (RT as well) to noise levels, temperatures and overclocking headroom checks out and so the NITRO+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is probably the best all-around card ever released by SAPPHIRE.

When you think of AMD, your brain more than likely goes straight to Sapphire. After all, they are arguably the go-to brand when it comes to AMD partners, and over the years, they’ve been synonymous with creating some of the best graphics cards released on behalf of the red team, with their Nitro+ range being at the forefront. Now, you may remember when the RX 7000 series launched, that I absolutely fell in love with the Nitro version, and was even bold enough to say that if Apple were to make a consumer-grade GPU, that is how it would look, and whether you like or hate Apple, that’s a pretty big compliment. So now with the RX 9000 series here, how have Sapphire taken that GPU and given it the all-important Nitro treatment? Well, that’s what we’re going to find out!

Asus BTF („Back to the Future“) umfasst alle Ansätze, um Kabel im PC zu verstecken. Der neueste Bestandteil ist der extra GPU-Stromanschluss „GC-HPWR“. Sapphire hat ihn als erster Hersteller mit „PhantomLink“ übernommen. Wer will, kann entsprechende Mainboards und Grafikkarten von Sapphire und Asus jetzt mischen, zeigt der Test.