While details on AMD’s upcoming RX 9070 XT GPU remain sparse post-CES 2025, a new leak by Twitter user ‘Tomasz Gawroński’ seems to indicate that its newest GPU might just be one of the best price-to-performance options on the market with plenty of headroom for enthusiasts to overclock it based on recent testing on Linux.
While Nvidia’s Blackwell-based RTX 50 series GPUs remain elusive, especially at MSRP, consumers have also had to deal with AMD pushing back the RX 9070 XT GPU to a March launch versus an anticipated Feb 2025 launch as per retailers even as it offers an extremely competitive $750 price tag, pitting it against Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti GPU currently.
This has resulted in a seller’s market where scalpers, and to some extent, system builders benefit the most thanks to low supply and high demand for some of the best GPUs in the market, a situation that AMD’s RX 9070 XT is expected to somewhat improve on upon release.
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AMD’s RX 9070 XT GPU: Limited Details On Offer
Despite this, information on AMD’s 9070 XT GPU has been limited beyond what AMD has already told us: It utilizes the new Navi 48XT core that is based on AMD’s new RDNA 4 architecture, offering boost clocks of nearly 3GHz (2970 MHz to be exact), 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM and 64 RT cores that are expected to be helped by its new FSR4 upscaling solutions to be a powerful contender in 2025 and beyond for Team Red.
The RX 9070 XT might be positioned as one of the best value-centric GPUs under $1000 in 2025 but we do not have performance numbers just yet versus both the RTX 5070 Ti and the RTX 5080 to know how well AMD’s latest (and greatest) GPU stacks against the competition even as its purported March 6th release date edges closer.
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GIGABYTE’s RX 9070 XT Gaming OC Performance Leaks: What Does It Tell Us About AMD’s Latest GPU?
The tweet by known leaker Tomasz Gawroński (x.com/gawroskiT) indicates that the Gigabyte 9070 XT Gaming OC GPU can hit as high as 3250MHz (3.25GHz) running Uniengine’s Heaven benchmark without breaking a sweat.
The leaked screenshot of GIGABYTE RX 9070 XT Gaming OC pictured above running at 3244MHz, consuming 329W of power with a temperature reading of 50 degrees Celsius on Linux indicates that AMD’s RDNA 4 GPU might scale well in terms of boost clocks with higher-end AIB cooling solutions.
The screenshots seem to come from Linux instead of Windows, but there might be a good reason for them: AMD has already shipped out RDNA 4 drivers for the former, making it possible to run the GPU on Linux versus Windows unless one has AMD’s latest (unreleased) drivers for the latter.
AMD’s official numbers are lower than the boost clocks exhibited above (2970MHz) but 3rd party AIB options have previously been shown pushing up to 3.1GHz (based on leaked specs from Amazon).
The leak indicates that users might be able to push AMD’s 9070 XT GPU even further than originally thought possible, something that could make for some serious competition in the $600-800 segment even as Nvidia has reportedly pushed its RTX 5070 launch a bit further to coincide with AMD’s launch later next month.
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