AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Allegedly Consumes ~260W Board Power, AIBs Up To 330W

Chiphell leaker zhangzhonghao has provided more information on the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU from AMD, this time focusing on power draw and performance. The user claims that the stock version will consume somewhere in the 260W range, while custom variants have significant power headroom available.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT’s Power Draw

In the forum thread, zhangzhonghao provided three pieces of information:

– Base clock is 2.8GHz, boost clock is 3.0-3.1GHz
– Reference (Made By AMD) model will consume ~260W, some third-party AIBs (add-in boards) feature increased TBP up to 330W
– Gaming performance is similar to RTX 4080, within 5% margin

Quite surprisingly, it looks like AMD this time may have given AIB vendors significant leeway on power limits to potentially give third-party cards more performance on tap. It’s hard to say how much an extra 70 watts of power will net in terms of performance uplift, since this can depend on the silicon’s power scaling and several other characteristics, as well as other bottlenecks.

What is known so far, however, is the specs (albeit not officially). The Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to pack 4096 Stream Processors, coupled with 16GB GDDR6 VRAM via a 256-bit memory bus – all in all, modest specs. AMD may announce this card as soon as CES 2025, which kicks off in 10 days at the time of this writing.

Source: Videocardz

Pokdepinion: 27% more power? That’s quite the headroom (puts the AIB coolers to good use too, knowing they’ll be overbuilt for the most part).