Team red’s best mid-range graphics card is the most affordable its been in months

Is now really the time to upgrade anything in your gaming rig, let alone your beloved-but-creaky GPU? Well, our Nick always has at least one eye on GPU deals, updating our graphics card price watch every week. Having followed his work for some time and seen just how many GPU prices are still cruising above the MSRP mark, this here representative from the peanut gallery recommends you don’t crack just yet—unless you have room in your budget for one of the best value GPUs.

The Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT is at its lowest price point in easily over three months. $720 is still a lot of moolah (not to mention above MSRP), but lean in close and I’ll tell you about a special discount. To get the Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT for $670, you’ll need to click the red text under the GPU’s name on the product page, and then enter the email address you use for all of your purchases from Newegg—that’s it. Not bad for a $50 discount!

That discount makes this RX 9070 XT only about $50 more expensive than its RX 9070 sibling. More impressively, it’s about $300 cheaper than the current going rate for the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti—you’ll see from Dave’s AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review that these two cards are mighty close in terms of performance. But is it worth switching allegiances for that $300?

For that price, I’d say ‘Oh, hell yeah.’ As Dave explains in his review, the RX 9070 XT “represents the sort of generational improvement we’ve been craving; actual rendering performance dropping down a full GPU tier, and not just being propped up by (admittedly very effective) frame generation trickery. Compared with the similarly priced RTX 5070, you’re looking at a card that is over 20% faster on average.”

All of that grunt is why the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT currently holds the crown of ‘Best mid-range graphics card’ in our best graphics cards guide. Tinkerers keen to play with their RDNA 4 GPU can end up with an even greater performance boost just by undervolting this bad boy. Undervolting RX 9070 XT frees up some of the card’s thermal headroom, ushering in higher clock speeds and more frames along with them.

The performance boost from undervolting is just as well, as otherwise the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is pretty power-hungry, with a TGP of about 304 Watts. That’s ever so slightly more than team green’s RTX 5070 Ti 300W TGP, but in terms of overall power efficiency Nvidia’s offering still has this AMD card beat.

While we’re discussing such practical things, it’s also important to note that size matters and the Radeon RX 9070 XT is definitely a chunky card. It’s chiefly the length of this graphics card that makes it an awkward beast to seat, but generally I wouldn’t recommend picking this GPU up if you have your heart set on a small form factor gaming rig. Size aside, I hope I’ve convinced you there’s nothing subtle about this graphics card from a price or performance perspective either.

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