Radeon RX 9070
The 5070's direct rival, with the 16GB the 5070 should have had.
Average in-stock listing $915 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $570), 1.7 times the $549 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
220W 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
- 16GB at $549
- Efficient 220W board power
- Trades blows with the RTX 5070
Why you hesitate
- The 9070 XT is close in price and clearly faster
- FSR adoption in games still trails DLSS
The editor's take
Same money as the RTX 5070, more memory, very close performance, and 220W efficiency that makes it easy to cool. The XT is only $50 more and meaningfully faster, which is this card's biggest problem. If the budget stops precisely here, it is still a fine buy.
Decided?
Live listings for the Radeon RX 9070, straight from the retailers.
Average in-stock listing $915 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $570), 1.7 times the $549 launch MSRP. See its price history. Amazon links may earn us a commission.