PowerColor's RX 9070 XT Red Devil Special Edition Features Magnetic Swappable Backplates

[AleksandarK]

PowerColor has introduced a new twist to its Red Devil lineup with the Radeon RX 9070 XT Special Edition, which features swappable magnetic backplates known as "Devil Skins." While the GPU itself remains identical in terms of specifications and cooling design to the existing Red Devil variants, this new edition focuses on user customization by allowing aesthetic changes without altering performance. Customers will receive the "Onyx Devil Skin" with the card, and although no additional skins have been confirmed, more options are likely to follow. Interestingly, these magnetic skins are expected to be compatible with other RX 9000-series Red Devil models, making it an easy and cost-effective upgrade for existing owners. Visually, the card maintains the sharp, angular look typical of the Red Devil line. However, PowerColor has moved toward a cleaner and more uniform finish compared to some of its past, more dramatic designs. Pricing and availability for the Special Edition have not been announced yet. The last picture shows the regular backplate on the Red Devil RX 9070 XT, so you can see the comparison between the two.



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[Chrispy_]

Pfft, looks and sounds really expensive.

With the high-end SKU special edition tax, the raison d'être vanishes in a puff of stupidity.

5070Ti can be found at MSRP now, and it is slighly faster, with better API support, uses less power, and dominates in path-tracing. There's zero reason for a 9070XT to exist if it's a premium model that costs more than any 5070Ti. Also, the 9070XT undervolts impressively, but the efficiency absolutely tanks with these factory-overclocked cards and unless your electricity is basically free you're going to be paying twice for these factory-OC'ed special edition flagships.

FWIW I have both the 9070XT and the 5070Ti at home and at price parity I'd not touch the AMD card with a ten-foot pole. It's fine, if you're saving money and ONLY if you're saving money. For whatever reason, the 9070XT is still overpriced and unobtainium at MSRP, whilst MSRP 5070Ti cards can be found quite easily in most regions now.

Vote with your wallets people, corporations deserve no loyalty.

 

[Hecate91]

The AIB's need to be making more cards closer to MSRP, not fancy high end or limited edition cards.

 

[PixelTech]

Heard the 9070 XT overclocks well. Wonder where it falls in performance after an OC. And I think the Red Devil is highest overclockable model in the past compared to even other brands.

 

[kami1337]

"What is wrong, son? You almost didn't touch your RX 9070 XT Red Devil Special Edition with Youtube Play Button backplate"

 

[Chrispy_]

Heard the 9070 XT overclocks well. Wonder where it falls in performance after an OC. And I think the Red Devil is highest overclockable model in the past compared to even other brands.

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Chugging down 404W it is maybe 8% faster than my modestly undervolted Sapphire pulse that's pulling 264W. The overclock probably makes it closer to a stock 5070Ti than it is out of the box, but the 5070Ti can also be overclocked, so it's not really a win for the 9070XT.

The problem with overclocking RDNA4 seems to be that it already has more compute/shader power than it can use, the bottleneck is elsewhere. My reasoning for this is that people have BIOS-modded vanilla 9070 cards so that they have the power budget of a 9070XT and that basically returns near-identical performance to the genuine 9070XT, despite that having 15% more cores/shaders. The similarity hints that something identical between the two models is the limiting factor, and the only thing that really fits that bill is bandwidth, since both cards come with the same amount of cache, and the same 20Gbps GDDR6 on the same 256-bit bus.

I'm running my VRAM at 21.5Gbps, using the fast timings since it's stable and it seems to add no significant increase in power consumption or VRAM temperatures.

 

[blacksea76]

What an ugly duck....... They thought: we restricted the airflow with that unnecessary devil logo, now let's put another obstacle for the hot air to go around. Plain stupid.

 

[Event Horizon]

Form over function. PowerColor thinks they're Apple.

 

[Chomiq]

The AIB's need to be making more cards closer to MSRP, not fancy high end or limited edition cards.

But this is not how you make big profits.

 

[Chrispy_]

But this is not how you make big profits.

If the cards don't sell you don't make big profits either.

The reality is that the 9070XT is a cheaper, not-quite-as-good alternative to the 5070Ti in a world where "buy the Geforce" is the standard behaviour. Powercolor won't sell $800 ultra-premium Radeons when the price is supposed to be somewhere around the $600 mark and $750 buys you the objectively better Geforce product.

Don't get me wrong, I like my 9070XT a lot and I think it's a great card, but for the love of god do not overpay for it just to support a brand out of misplaced loyalty. Buy it only if the aesthetics of the card matter more to you than price, performance, and API support.

 

[Chomiq]

If the cards don't sell you don't make big profits either.

The reality is that the 9070XT is a cheaper, not-quite-as-good alternative to the 5070Ti in a world where "buy the Geforce" is the standard behaviour. Powercolor won't sell $800 ultra-premium Radeons when the price is supposed to be somewhere around the $600 mark and $750 buys you the objectively better product.

I thought that sarcasm was implied in my post.

 

[Chrispy_]

I thought that sarcasm was implied in my post.

Sarcasm is rooted in truth, like all the best satire

You can't blame Powercolor for trying the upsell - it's like F2P game developers targeting the whales - but the 9070-series was supposed to be a midrange launch, with AMD explicitly saying they weren't trying for the high-end market, yet here we are with $729 MSRP cards that are on store shelves for $800+

We don't know what the MSRP of this particular card is yet, but the regular Red Devil is sat on shelves at newegg for $900 right now, and this is one SKU up from that. $1000 for a 'midrange' card that's supposed to be $600 and outclassed by a $750 card....

 

[_roman_]

A really beautiful drawn anime, anime girl, anime themed AMD 9070 XT card could really be the motivation to buy such cards. Assuming it's sapphire, but i prefer powercolor.

Yeston and Colorful won't sell stuff here.

 

[The N]

Swappable backplate, that no one asked for. We need GPUs in justifiable prices or atleast close to MSRP.

 

[Veseleil]

Baboon's ass styled card.