Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB

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Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB at a glance

The Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB is a SAPPHIRE retail card of the RX 9070 XT on RDNA 4.0. It is not marked as a factory-overclocked board ; the GPU’s reference boost is 2970 MHz.

Length is 320 mm and it occupies 3.0 slots (320(L)X 120.25(W)X 61.6 (H)mm). Board power is 304 W with 8 Pin x 2. Outputs: 2x HDMI® 2x DisplayPort™ 2.1a . Warranty is 36 months.

Length is in the typical high-end range. Most mid-towers fit it; SFF and some mATX cases will not.

Best fit: Builds prioritizing this card’s price, cooler, output selection, and warranty over a factory overclock.

Inherited GPU performance

Raster scores come from the RX 9070 XT, not from this cooler. At 1440p that is 62.32% of the dataset’s best (mid-range), with 69% at 1080p and 54% at 4K. The chip uses 16 GB GDDR6.

This card’s 1440p value is excellent at 78.1 performance per dollar.

Compare other SAPPHIRE and partner boards of this GPU in the RX 9070 XT retail-card table.