# AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

22 Hacker News commenters recommended AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a strong, good-value gaming GPU with solid open-source Linux driver support. The common caveats are weak fit for CUDA-based serious workloads and a performance gap versus Windows.

## Why people recommend it

- Works well on Linux (5 comments): "stuff "just works" with AMD because the kernel (amdgpu) and userspace (RADV) drivers are open source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125968)) "Tried again after the Mesa updates got released, and no issues since." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49962493)) "I would say my 9070XT works better in Linux than it does in Windows." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956915))
- Strong gaming performance (5 comments): "The 9070XT is easily performant enough for the gaming I'm doing at the moment" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193697)) "it works fine, both functionally and in terms of performance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46103947)) "The 9070XT has been a decent card for my use cases." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728177))
- Good value for gaming (4 comments): "the 9070XT is the current value king (in this fucked up market) for mid-high gaming and you can actually buy them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674132)) "the performance of an 9070 XT is great while being cheaper than the equivalent 5070 Ti" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193579)) "basically the 3rd fastest gaming GPU money can buy and it's around $700" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053181))
- Good for couch and 4K gaming (2 comments): "Grabbed a Radeon 9070xt, hook it up to my 4k projector, and get to couch game." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46092588)) "ARC Raiders does look fantastic on a 1440p ultrawide" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276238))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090.md): 116 recommend
- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090.md): 102 recommend
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000.md): 77 recommend
- [Nvidia GPUs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-gpus.md): 67 recommend
- [AMD Radeon GPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-gpus.md): 48 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=AMD+Radeon+RX+9070+XT+graphics+card&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Official site](https://www.amd.com/en.html)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT", https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).