HOLY SH... I thought I was seeing things. is it really you duckie?

 

It is!

Been busy with life so haven't had time to build or mod! Four kids and working in DevOps/Cybersecurity.

 

I think only you could answer that. If it does what you need it to do then no. I have no idea what you are upgrading from but it should be a nice card. There are people playing with better and more people playing with worse. Same as always. Enjoy.

 

Yeah, it just irks me that I'm paying $100 more for 10% less performance (compared to a XT).

Any opinions with pairing it with a 9700X?

 

I'm in the same boat, had a 9070 XT Pulse order in that was canceled by Newegg after payment and then later I managed to snag a 9070 Hellhound from Amazon. At first I was bummed about the price at $630, still kind of am. But the good thing is it's a great overclocker, managed to get it stable at around 3000mhz on the core with 2800mhz on VRAM, it's been rock solid across a range of games and benchmarks. The best part is overclocking and undervolting barely raise the temp at all on any of the 3 measurements, maybe a 2 C difference at most.

Only got my hands on it this afternoon and so far very impressed with what it's capable of, I imagine the Red Devil will be even more impressive.

 

Welcome back. Nah, you got yours. Not optimal, but its better than waiting till who knows when for a possible deal. Game on.

 

If it does what you want it to do, there is no sense in fretting over the possibility you could have gotten a better value.

The 9700X is a rational CPU choice if the 7800X3D or 9800X3D were too pricey. I was fully intent on using mine with an RTX 4090, until I snagged a near launch-day 9800X3D at MSRP. I could probably find CPU limited scenarios with one and an RX 9070, but they would be fairly rare outside of competitive shooters.

 

perhaps it is sub-optimal but you still may be one lucky bastard. I saw zero gaming gpus available at micro enter

 

No, you have a card that many want. If the shortage ever stops, you will always have the option of upgrading to the XT.

 

Not at all! Per watt it's the best there is rn

 

I literally had to rub my eyes—am I seeing things. O__o

Welcome back! ^_^

And to your question: Meh, there’s no need for buyers remorse. You’re already aware that the XT is better for the price, but you paid for the Red Devil branding and premium cooling. It’ll pair fine with the 9700X, and in the grand scheme of things, $100 isn’t worth stressing over. Enjoy your card.

 

I'm in a similar boat and considering doing the same thing. There are no brick and mortar stores near me and I had two separate orders from a minute after launch (early morning) cancelled.

Looking at 9070 non-XTs with some TDP headroom to squeese every little bit out of them. There still isn't much info out there, but it seems that the Red Devil has a higher default TDP and then has the +10% as well? Can you confirm what TDP you can get your card to?

I feel like with an undervolt and max TDP these should be able to clock to about where the XT is? While they might not be benchmark kings, combined with the memory bottleneck and ~ 10% stock difference in reviews, these should end up pretty close to XT real world performance anyway?

 

I actually like the 9070, unpopular opinion. Super efficient, overclocks to match a stock xt for the most part. OC it and you wouldn't notice any difference.
To make you feel better, €750 9070 nitro and €850 9070 xt nitro on order here.

 

I actually do too, mainly for its per watt performance.

 

Wow, haven't see some of you post in forever . Great to see some folks from back in the day!