ASRock Taichi AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review: AMD Fights Back , Urdu Wirsa

After years of AMD playing catch-up in the upper midrange segment, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is a clear signal that the red team’s not just competing — it’s swinging for the fences. Based on the new RDNA 4 architecture and built on a refined 5nm process, this GPU crams in 64 Compute Units, 4096 Stream Processors, and 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256-bit bus. It’s a spec sheet that screams smooth 1440p gaming and even dips its toes into 4K territory. But it’s not just about the numbers anymore. AMD has finally thrown in dedicated AI accelerators and a new FSR 4 upscaling engine, which brings it a step closer to matching Nvidia’s fancy DLSS magic.

While the retail pricing in India is still quite absurd, the RX 9070 XT aims to undercut the green team’s 70-class cards while packing enough horsepower to make them sweat. And, that’s not going to be too hard because the 5070Ti itself retails at comedic prices. But, coming back to the 9070 XT, how good of a deal is it for gamers? Let’s find out in this review.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pricing and Availability in India

If you are in the market for the RX 9070 XT, you’ll get multiple options from different manufacturers.

While the official global pricing is around $599, which comes to approximately Rs 51,604 — the Indian prices across retail stores are just bad. That’s pretty much how it’s been in the GPU market for some time now. The Radeon RX 9070 XT’s pricing is all over the place on online retailers such as PrimeABGB, Vishal Peripherals, and MDComputers.

The Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT can be grabbed for Rs 72,500, while the Sapphire Pure will cost you Rs 74,994. Similarly, the ASRock Taichi, the model we are reviewing, will cost about Rs 81,989, but the Steel Legend model from ASRock can be grabbed for Rs 74,899. Coming to Asus’ side, you can get an Asus TUF at Rs 86,158, while Prime will cost you Rs 81,199. None of these numbers are anywhere near what was announced at launch.

AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Specifications

Unlike the Radeon RX 7700XT and 7900 XTX, the newly launched RX 9070XT and 9070 are based on the RDNA 4 architecture. It features 64 CU (Compute Units) and a boost frequency of 2970MHz. It also comes with 128 AI Accelerators and a Stream Processor count of 4096.

The Radeon RX 9070 XT comes with a 256-bit interface and up to 640 GB/s memory bandwidth. While the RTX 5070Ti also comes with the same interface, it offers a higher memory bandwidth of 896.0 GB/s due to the newer GDDR7 memory type. In contrast, the RX 7900XTX comes with a 384-bit interface and a bandwidth of up to 960 GB/s, giving it the edge in workloads that make use of more memory. In terms of power efficiency, both the RX 9070 XT and 5070Ti draw in a similar amount of power from the board. The 5070, on the other hand, consumes about 250W.

The RX 9070 XT brings with it the newer generation of upscaling from the red team, FSR 4 which is currently exclusive to the 90-series siblings. FSR 4 brings together four core technologies — spatial upscaling, temporal upscaling, frame generation, and upgradeable APIs. In simpler terms, the new AMD cards use generative AI to boost gaming resolution and insert extra frames between existing ones, all while keeping the resource usage more or less the same. FSR 4 uses ML-powered upscaling with neural rendering to achieve these.

Our Test Bench

For this review, the Radeon RX 9070XT and RTX 5070Ti have been tested on the same rig to give you a proper head-to-head comparison. As for the rest of the cards, they have been tested with different CPUs, but the remaining components all remain the same.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X is built on the Zen 5 architecture and comes with 12 cores and 24 threads. The processor has a base clock speed of 4.4GHz and a boost of 5.6GHz. It also gets a 64MB L3 cache and a default TDP of 120W. This chip is cooled using the Antec Vortex 360 AIO.

The MSI X670E Gaming Plus WiFi has a very unique finish that sets it apart from most of the other boards in the market. It comes with all the bells and whistles like an extended heatsink design, support for DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0 slot, and a wide array of I/O ports, one of which also includes a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C port.

These were accompanied by Kingston’s Fury Renegade 48GB non-binary RAM sticks running at 5600MT/s. Storage duties were handled by the WD Black SN850X, which is known to be one of the best gaming SSD options in the market.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 1080p Performance

Since AMD does not make any reference cards for the 9070 XT, we have the ASRock Taichi with us. The Taichi gets a new design approach with grey, gold and black shades with a few gear designs on the backplate. The Taichi branding on the left of the card is surrounded by RGB lights, giving it a very subtle and not too much-in-the-face look. You also get a discrete RGB behind the middle fan which helps throw some more light into your cabinet. There’s a very small manual switch just beside the connector to help you turn the RGB off if you don’t want those extra frames.

It’s a triple-slot card that’s chunky, so make sure you’ve had enough lunch before plugging this in. The Taichi gets three DisplayPort 2.1a and a single HDMI 2.1b. The card uses the 16-pin 12V-2×6 power connector which is a common occurrence in recent Nvidia GPUs, like the RTX 5070Ti. ASRock includes a splitter in the box as well, in case you have an older PSU that does not support this connector.

This is not our first rendezvous with the Radeon RX 9070XT — we have done a deep analysis of the Assassin’s Creed Shadows gameplay and compared it with the RTX 5070Ti. You’ll see snippets of that data in this review, but if you want the full copy, head over to this link. All the games in the below tests have been run on a 1080p monitor that maxes out at 180Hz.

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Radeon RX 9070 XT Benchmarks

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The Radeon RX 9070 XT scores about 25,037 in the Time Spy test, falling just short of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. The RX 7900 XT and RX 7700 XT follow suit. The Fire Strike Ultra and Fire Strike Extreme also put the RX 9070 XT in the second spot, just behind the RX 7900 XTX, but it’s also important to note that it comes with 24GB VRAM and a bigger interface. So, it’s not really a fair head-to-head comparison. That said, the 9070 XT surprisingly leads the chart in Time Spy Extreme and Steel Nomad tests, with about a nine per cent difference on the former.

The Radeon RX 9070 XT unsurprisingly comes up with impressive results in first-person shooters like Counter-Strike 2, Apex Legends, and Valorant. As for the rest of the more graphic-intensive games, we have tested them with FSR enabled and disabled. Since FSR 4 is in the early stage of adaptation, it hasn’t rolled out to a lot of games. You can check the current games that support the new upscaling trickery here. So, the below games have been tested on FSR 3 or below.

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In games like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora with the preset on Ultra and Frame Generation, the Radeon RX 9070 XT returned 178 fps. This is higher than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, Radeon RX 7900 XT and the Nvidia RTX 5070Ti. However, one very important thing to note here is that with the RTX 5070Ti, the game did not offer me a chance to enable Frame Generation. With the preset set to Ray Tracing Ultra, CyberPunk on the Radeon RX 9070 XT returned 101 fps using the built-in benchmark. This is with AMD FSR set to Quality and Nvdia DLSS also set to the same.

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Radeon RX 9070 XT HZD Benchmarks

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The difference between the red team and the green team here is 30 per cent. The RX 9070 XT also manages to beat the rest of the cards on the graph. However, the Radeon RX 9070 XT takes a back seat in games like Black Myth Wukong where Ray Tracing takes the charge. The RTX 5070Ti leads the chart with 237fps, 10fps more than the folks on the red team. The narrative is a bit different with Horizon Zero Dawn’s graphics set to Ultimate Quality. Both the RX 9070 XT and the RTX 5070Ti come up with 210fps, while the RX 7900 XTX gave us 217fps, leading the table.

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Coming to more recent games, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a GPU-bound game with both the RX 9070XT and RTX 5070Ti used at 98 or 99% across all the presets. While the game performed well on both the GPUs, it’s worth comparing the lowest 1% fps. With the preset to Very High, the average fps on the 9070XT was around 94 fps, but the lowest 1% dropped to 67 fps, which is a 33% difference. To put this into perspective, the same preset on the 5070Ti caused a difference of 19%.

At Ultra High with Frame Generation disabled, the gap closes with the RX 9070 XT leading with a 1fps difference. The RX 9070XT and RTX 5070Ti are mostly walking hand-in-hand across all the presets, but with frame generation enabled, the Red team takes a considerable lead. The Radeon RX 9070 XT ran above the 3200MHz clock speed in almost all these presets, however, the 5070Ti maintained similar performance at lower clock speeds. The 9070 XT is rated at 304W TGP but was often found wandering above that. AMD needs to work on the efficiency bit for the card.

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In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the 9070 XT once again falls behind the RTX 5070Ti with a 35 per cent gap. With the graphics set to Ray Tracing and FSR/DLSS at Quality, Dying Light 2 returned 129fps on the 9070 XT, but the same preset returned 239 fps on the RTX 5070Ti, creating a major difference of 59 per cent. This is a rather perfect example of Nvidia still having the edge on Ray Tracing, but AMD’s upscaling trickeries have started to catch up with the green team. That’s more evident in the Shadow’s graph with the settings at Ultra High.

Verdict

After lacking for many years, AMD has finally chosen the RX 9070 XT as its warrior to fight back. The card manages to perform similarly to the RTX 5070Ti and the RX 7900 XTX in some of the gaming tests, showing its potential. And once FSR 4 goes mainstream with more games added to the library, the RX 9070 XT will become an excellent choice for gamers looking for a reliable card. While most of my tests involve 1080p gaming, the 9070 XT can easily handle 4K gaming but with different graphics presets and lower frame rates.

As of writing, the pricing in India for the RX 9070 XT cards is absurd and unrealistic. AMD is also partially to be blamed for that because they missed out on making any reference cards.

The post ASRock Taichi AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review: AMD Fights Back appeared first on MySmartPrice.

After years of AMD playing catch-up in the upper midrange segment, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is a clear signal that the red team’s not just competing — it’s swinging for the fences. Based on the new RDNA 4 architecture and built on a refined 5nm process, this GPU crams in 64 Compute Units, 4096 Stream Processors, and 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256-bit bus. It’s a spec sheet that screams smooth 1440p gaming and even dips its toes into 4K territory. But it’s not just about the numbers anymore. AMD has finally thrown in dedicated AI accelerators and a new FSR 4 upscaling engine, which brings it a step closer to matching Nvidia’s fancy DLSS magic.

While the retail pricing in India is still quite absurd, the RX 9070 XT aims to undercut the green team’s 70-class cards while packing enough horsepower to make them sweat. And, that’s not going to be too hard because the 5070Ti itself retails at comedic prices. But, coming back to the 9070 XT, how good of a deal is it for gamers? Let’s find out in this review.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pricing and Availability in India

If you are in the market for the RX 9070 XT, you’ll get multiple options from different manufacturers.

While the official global pricing is around $599, which comes to approximately Rs 51,604 — the Indian prices across retail stores are just bad. That’s pretty much how it’s been in the GPU market for some time now. The Radeon RX 9070 XT’s pricing is all over the place on online retailers such as PrimeABGB, Vishal Peripherals, and MDComputers.

The Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT can be grabbed for Rs 72,500, while the Sapphire Pure will cost you Rs 74,994. Similarly, the ASRock Taichi, the model we are reviewing, will cost about Rs 81,989, but the Steel Legend model from ASRock can be grabbed for Rs 74,899. Coming to Asus’ side, you can get an Asus TUF at Rs 86,158, while Prime will cost you Rs 81,199. None of these numbers are anywhere near what was announced at launch.

AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Specifications

Unlike the Radeon RX 7700XT and 7900 XTX, the newly launched RX 9070XT and 9070 are based on the RDNA 4 architecture. It features 64 CU (Compute Units) and a boost frequency of 2970MHz. It also comes with 128 AI Accelerators and a Stream Processor count of 4096.

The Radeon RX 9070 XT comes with a 256-bit interface and up to 640 GB/s memory bandwidth. While the RTX 5070Ti also comes with the same interface, it offers a higher memory bandwidth of 896.0 GB/s due to the newer GDDR7 memory type. In contrast, the RX 7900XTX comes with a 384-bit interface and a bandwidth of up to 960 GB/s, giving it the edge in workloads that make use of more memory. In terms of power efficiency, both the RX 9070 XT and 5070Ti draw in a similar amount of power from the board. The 5070, on the other hand, consumes about 250W.

The RX 9070 XT brings with it the newer generation of upscaling from the red team, FSR 4 which is currently exclusive to the 90-series siblings. FSR 4 brings together four core technologies — spatial upscaling, temporal upscaling, frame generation, and upgradeable APIs. In simpler terms, the new AMD cards use generative AI to boost gaming resolution and insert extra frames between existing ones, all while keeping the resource usage more or less the same. FSR 4 uses ML-powered upscaling with neural rendering to achieve these.

Our Test Bench

For this review, the Radeon RX 9070XT and RTX 5070Ti have been tested on the same rig to give you a proper head-to-head comparison. As for the rest of the cards, they have been tested with different CPUs, but the remaining components all remain the same.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X is built on the Zen 5 architecture and comes with 12 cores and 24 threads. The processor has a base clock speed of 4.4GHz and a boost of 5.6GHz. It also gets a 64MB L3 cache and a default TDP of 120W. This chip is cooled using the Antec Vortex 360 AIO.

The MSI X670E Gaming Plus WiFi has a very unique finish that sets it apart from most of the other boards in the market. It comes with all the bells and whistles like an extended heatsink design, support for DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0 slot, and a wide array of I/O ports, one of which also includes a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 Type-C port.

These were accompanied by Kingston’s Fury Renegade 48GB non-binary RAM sticks running at 5600MT/s. Storage duties were handled by the WD Black SN850X, which is known to be one of the best gaming SSD options in the market.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 1080p Performance

Since AMD does not make any reference cards for the 9070 XT, we have the ASRock Taichi with us. The Taichi gets a new design approach with grey, gold and black shades with a few gear designs on the backplate. The Taichi branding on the left of the card is surrounded by RGB lights, giving it a very subtle and not too much-in-the-face look. You also get a discrete RGB behind the middle fan which helps throw some more light into your cabinet. There’s a very small manual switch just beside the connector to help you turn the RGB off if you don’t want those extra frames.

It’s a triple-slot card that’s chunky, so make sure you’ve had enough lunch before plugging this in. The Taichi gets three DisplayPort 2.1a and a single HDMI 2.1b. The card uses the 16-pin 12V-2×6 power connector which is a common occurrence in recent Nvidia GPUs, like the RTX 5070Ti. ASRock includes a splitter in the box as well, in case you have an older PSU that does not support this connector.

This is not our first rendezvous with the Radeon RX 9070XT — we have done a deep analysis of the Assassin’s Creed Shadows gameplay and compared it with the RTX 5070Ti. You’ll see snippets of that data in this review, but if you want the full copy, head over to this link. All the games in the below tests have been run on a 1080p monitor that maxes out at 180Hz.

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Radeon RX 9070 XT Benchmarks

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The Radeon RX 9070 XT scores about 25,037 in the Time Spy test, falling just short of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. The RX 7900 XT and RX 7700 XT follow suit. The Fire Strike Ultra and Fire Strike Extreme also put the RX 9070 XT in the second spot, just behind the RX 7900 XTX, but it’s also important to note that it comes with 24GB VRAM and a bigger interface. So, it’s not really a fair head-to-head comparison. That said, the 9070 XT surprisingly leads the chart in Time Spy Extreme and Steel Nomad tests, with about a nine per cent difference on the former.

The Radeon RX 9070 XT unsurprisingly comes up with impressive results in first-person shooters like Counter-Strike 2, Apex Legends, and Valorant. As for the rest of the more graphic-intensive games, we have tested them with FSR enabled and disabled. Since FSR 4 is in the early stage of adaptation, it hasn’t rolled out to a lot of games. You can check the current games that support the new upscaling trickery here. So, the below games have been tested on FSR 3 or below.

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In games like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora with the preset on Ultra and Frame Generation, the Radeon RX 9070 XT returned 178 fps. This is higher than the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, Radeon RX 7900 XT and the Nvidia RTX 5070Ti. However, one very important thing to note here is that with the RTX 5070Ti, the game did not offer me a chance to enable Frame Generation. With the preset set to Ray Tracing Ultra, CyberPunk on the Radeon RX 9070 XT returned 101 fps using the built-in benchmark. This is with AMD FSR set to Quality and Nvdia DLSS also set to the same.

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Radeon RX 9070 XT HZD Benchmarks

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The difference between the red team and the green team here is 30 per cent. The RX 9070 XT also manages to beat the rest of the cards on the graph. However, the Radeon RX 9070 XT takes a back seat in games like Black Myth Wukong where Ray Tracing takes the charge. The RTX 5070Ti leads the chart with 237fps, 10fps more than the folks on the red team. The narrative is a bit different with Horizon Zero Dawn’s graphics set to Ultimate Quality. Both the RX 9070 XT and the RTX 5070Ti come up with 210fps, while the RX 7900 XTX gave us 217fps, leading the table.

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Radeon RX 9070 XT AC Shadows

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Coming to more recent games, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a GPU-bound game with both the RX 9070XT and RTX 5070Ti used at 98 or 99% across all the presets. While the game performed well on both the GPUs, it’s worth comparing the lowest 1% fps. With the preset to Very High, the average fps on the 9070XT was around 94 fps, but the lowest 1% dropped to 67 fps, which is a 33% difference. To put this into perspective, the same preset on the 5070Ti caused a difference of 19%.

At Ultra High with Frame Generation disabled, the gap closes with the RX 9070 XT leading with a 1fps difference. The RX 9070XT and RTX 5070Ti are mostly walking hand-in-hand across all the presets, but with frame generation enabled, the Red team takes a considerable lead. The Radeon RX 9070 XT ran above the 3200MHz clock speed in almost all these presets, however, the 5070Ti maintained similar performance at lower clock speeds. The 9070 XT is rated at 304W TGP but was often found wandering above that. AMD needs to work on the efficiency bit for the card.

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Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming Benchmarks

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In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the 9070 XT once again falls behind the RTX 5070Ti with a 35 per cent gap. With the graphics set to Ray Tracing and FSR/DLSS at Quality, Dying Light 2 returned 129fps on the 9070 XT, but the same preset returned 239 fps on the RTX 5070Ti, creating a major difference of 59 per cent. This is a rather perfect example of Nvidia still having the edge on Ray Tracing, but AMD’s upscaling trickeries have started to catch up with the green team. That’s more evident in the Shadow’s graph with the settings at Ultra High.

Verdict

After lacking for many years, AMD has finally chosen the RX 9070 XT as its warrior to fight back. The card manages to perform similarly to the RTX 5070Ti and the RX 7900 XTX in some of the gaming tests, showing its potential. And once FSR 4 goes mainstream with more games added to the library, the RX 9070 XT will become an excellent choice for gamers looking for a reliable card. While most of my tests involve 1080p gaming, the 9070 XT can easily handle 4K gaming but with different graphics presets and lower frame rates.

As of writing, the pricing in India for the RX 9070 XT cards is absurd and unrealistic. AMD is also partially to be blamed for that because they missed out on making any reference cards.

The post ASRock Taichi AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Review: AMD Fights Back appeared first on MySmartPrice.