AMD is set to officially unveil the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 in around a weekβs time, which means leaks and rumors aplenty right now. One such leak has provided a clue as to the power draw for these two new graphics cards, suggesting that they might closely match the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070, respectively.
The RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are the first AMD RDNA 4 gaming GPUs to launch and have long been expected to compete with the RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti for places on our best graphics card guide. This latest leak, though, seems to confirm just how closely they will match.
This RX 9070 XT power draw leak comes from regular tech leaker, Hoang Anh Phu, who revealed the figures for the cards via X (formerly Twitter). In a since-deleted post, reported by Videocardz, Hoang Anh Phu suggests that the RX 9070 XT will launch with a 304W total board power (TBP) rating, while the standard RX 9070 will be rated for 220W instead.
The former figure actually puts the RX 9070 XT power at a lower level than suggested by a recent RX 9070 XT benchmark leak, which showed the RX 9070 XT could hit as high as 329W TBP.Β Meanwhile, the recently-released RTX 5070 Ti has a 300W power rating, leaving it just 4W under these rumored RX 9070 XT specs.
As for the RX 9070 non-XTβs 220W power rating, that puts it a comfortable 30W below the RTX 5070βs expected 250W TBP.
Of course, power consumption doesnβt necessarily equate to performance, but on the specs front, weβre still expecting to see AMDβs GPUs compete reasonably well with Nvidiaβs mid-tier cards. Videocardz also shared some specs data to help with that claim, with the RX 9070 XT set to have 64 Compute Units and a 2.97GHz boost clock speed, while the RX 9070 non-XT will ship with 54 Compute Units and a 2.52GHz boost clock instead, according to that site.
Both cards will include 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM, while also supporting a PCIe 5.0 x16 connection. PCIe 5.0 support will offer double the potential memory bandwidth compared to PCIe 4.0 cards like the RX 7800 XT, although this isnβt likely to have any impact on real world performance.
AMD isnβt likely to confirm any of this data before it launches these cards on February 28, so weβll have to wait until then to see what the GPU maker has been cooking up. While you wait, you can check out our RTX 5080 review to get a sense of how a close Nvidia rival card performs in our real world gaming tests.
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