SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 Benchmark and Specs

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is equipped with 56 execution and 3584 shader units. With single precision, a theoretical FP32 computing power of 38.71 TFLOPS is achieved.

Based on

AMD Radeon RX 9070

GPU Chip

Navi 48 XT (RDNA 4)

Streaming Multiprocessors

56

Shader

3584

Render Output Units

128

Texture Units

224

Raytracing Cores

56

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 has a 256 bit wide memory interface, with which a memory bandwidth of 645 GB/s is achieved. In total, 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory is available for the graphics card.

Memory Size

16 GB

Memory Type

GDDR6

Memory Clock

2.518 GHz

Memory Speed

20.1 Gbps

Memory bandwidth

645 GB/s

Memory Interface

256 bit

The manufacturer specifies the memory clock of the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 with 1.330 GHz (base clock) or with 2.700 GHz (turbo clock). If overclocking is supported (see below), the clock rate can be increased even further.

Base Clock

1.330 GHz

Boost Clock

2.700 GHz+7 %

Avg (Game) Clock

2.210 GHz+7 %

Overclocking

Yes

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 has 1 x 12-Pin plugs, which supply the graphics card with energy. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 85 °C.

TDP

245 W+11 %

Tjunction max

85 °C

PCIe-Power

1 x 12-Pin

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is equipped with 3 Axial main fans, which are used to cool the graphics processor and graphics memory.

Fan-Type

Axial

Fan 1

3 x 100 mm

Cooler-Type

Air cooling

Noise (Idle)

0 dB / Silent

Up to 4 screens can be connected to the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070, whereby the backward-compatible HDCP copy protection is supported in the 2.3 version.

Max. Displays

4

HDCP

2.3

HDMI

2x HDMI 2.1b

DisplayPort

2x DP 2.1a

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels and the DirectX standard version 12_2 (Ultimate).

Max. resolution

7680x4320

DirectX

12_2 (Ultimate)

Raytracing

Yes

DLSS / FSR

Yes

LED

Addressable LED

Here is a list of which video codecs can be decoded / encoded by the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 in hardware in order to minimize the processor load.

h264

Decode / Encode

h265 / HEVC

Decode / Encode

VP8

Decode / Encode

VP9

Decode / Encode

AV1

Decode / Encode

The dimensions of the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 are 331 mm in length, 129 mm in height and 66 mm in width. Thus 4 PCIe-Slots are needed in a case.

Length

331 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

66 mm

Width (Slots)

4 PCIe-Slots

SFF-Ready

No

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is manufactured in a structure width of 4 nm and has a PCIe 5 x 16 lanes interface. The graphics card was released in Q2/2025.

GPU Interface

PCIe 5 x 16

Release date

Q2/2025

Launch Price

549 $ (Reference)

Structure size

4 nm

Part-no

11349-01-20G

Documents

data sheet