Radeon RX 9070 XT
The best raster value in the current generation. The card NVIDIA has to price against.
Average in-stock listing $1,121 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $780), 1.9 times the $599 launch MSRP. See its price history. The links open live listings. Amazon links may earn us a commission.
Will it run your models?
VRAM meterLocal AI fit: up to low-20B class models. Rule of thumb for 4-bit quantized models; context length and other apps eat into the same memory.
Open models that fit comfortably at Q4
- gpt-oss-20b 21B · 11.7 GiB · headroom 2.8 GiB
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 6.2 GiB
- Qwen3 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 6.2 GiB
- Phi-4 (14B) 14.7B · 8.2 GiB · headroom 6.3 GiB
- Gemma 3 12B IT 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 7.7 GiB
- Mistral NeMo 12B Instruct (2407) 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 7.7 GiB
- Qwen3.5 9B 9.65B · 5.4 GiB · headroom 9.1 GiB
- Gemma 2 9B IT 9.24B · 5.2 GiB · headroom 9.3 GiB
Tight but possible: Codestral 22B v0.1, Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct (2506), Gemma 4 26B-A4B IT.
What it costs to run
304W of board power, 4 hours a day under load, priced at the residential electricity rate where you live. Pick a state and the numbers update.
Board power is the rated maximum; real gaming load usually sits below it and idle is a few watts, so treat this as the ceiling. Rates: EIA residential average, May 2026. See every card ranked by running cost →
Why you buy it
- Outstanding price to performance
- 16GB VRAM
- FSR 4 upscaling is genuinely competitive
Why you hesitate
- ROCm AI tooling still trails CUDA in support
- 304W under load
The editor's take
The value pick of this generation: near 5070 Ti performance, 16GB, and a lower sticker. FSR 4 closed most of the upscaler gap. The honest caveat is software ecosystem: if your workflow touches CUDA-only tools, the discount evaporates in lost time. For pure gaming, this is the card to beat.
Decided?
Live listings for the Radeon RX 9070 XT, straight from the retailers.
Average in-stock listing $1,121 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $780), 1.9 times the $599 launch MSRP. See its price history. Amazon links may earn us a commission.