SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070
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SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.70 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 38.71 TFLOPS.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT has 4096 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.97 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 48.66 TFLOPS.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 4 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT is based on the RDNA 4 architecture and is equipped with 64 execution units.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.518 GHz clocks.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT has a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.518GHz.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 has a turbo clock of 2.700 GHz. The turbo frequency of the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT is 2.970 GHz.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 85 °C.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 92 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT is cooled by a Air cooling.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is 66 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT is 66 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 4 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 was released in Q2/2025.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9070 XT published in Q2/2025 is manufactured with a structure width of 4 nanometers.