Strong and weak With the two new cards, there are also two new versions of the popular RX 9070 XT. AMD's current top GPU remains well cooled here too, but suffers from a high VRAM temperature, as with all the custom designs we are currently testing. In the Asus model, the latter is still within a tolerable range, while the Acer model goes a little overboard...

With the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming 16 GB, AMD is launching a powerful upper-class GPU based on the new RDNA-4 architecture. When tested, the card impresses above all in WQHD and Full HD with high frame rates - even demanding games such as Cyberpunk 2077 or Far Cry 6 run smoothly at maximum details...

The Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ impressed in the test with consistently high speeds, even in 4K resolution with ray tracing effects. Overall, it was almost as fast as Nvidia's Geforce RTX 5070 Ti (1100 euros). The speed of the Sapphire RX 9070 Pulse was on a par with the Geforce RTX 5070.