Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9070 XT OC, 16GB GDDR6, 2x HDMI, 2x DP, lite retail

Welches Custom-Design der AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT ist das beste? ComputerBase hat ASRock Taichi, Asus TUF Gaming, Sapphire Nitro+ und Sapphire Pure sowie XFX Mercury im Test ausführlich verglichen. Welche hat den leisesten Kühler, welche den höchsten Takt, welche fällt besonders kompakt aus? Hier gibt es die Details.

The NITRO+ series by SAPPHIRE has always been their top line due to superior cooling, build quality and looks but for the Radeon RX 9070 XT they took things a step further by introducing a stealth (as they call it) 12V-2x6 power connector at the rear accompanied by a magnetic backplate. This looks very nice but if I could choose, I’d prefer the power connector to be somewhere easier to reach (not everyone has a new PSU with an 12V-2x6 cable, and we’ve seen quite a few issues with 12VHPWR cables when bend). That aside power consumption is again set quite high at max load, and I do expect some gamers to have a slight issue with that (majority will probably overlook this however). Everything else from performance (RT as well) to noise levels, temperatures and overclocking headroom checks out and so the NITRO+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is probably the best all-around card ever released by SAPPHIRE.

When you think of AMD, your brain more than likely goes straight to Sapphire. After all, they are arguably the go-to brand when it comes to AMD partners, and over the years, they’ve been synonymous with creating some of the best graphics cards released on behalf of the red team, with their Nitro+ range being at the forefront. Now, you may remember when the RX 7000 series launched, that I absolutely fell in love with the Nitro version, and was even bold enough to say that if Apple were to make a consumer-grade GPU, that is how it would look, and whether you like or hate Apple, that’s a pretty big compliment. So now with the RX 9000 series here, how have Sapphire taken that GPU and given it the all-important Nitro treatment? Well, that’s what we’re going to find out!