AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Hacker ApprovedRanked 14 of 42 graphics cards by recommenders
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.
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.
23 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 22
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 96%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 22 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 22 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works well on Linux
“stuff "just works" with AMD because the kernel (amdgpu) and userspace (RADV) drivers are open source”
Comment from 13 May 2026 in “Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features” “Tried again after the Mesa updates got released, and no issues since.”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux” “I would say my 9070XT works better in Linux than it does in Windows.”
Comment from 4 Oct 2026 in “The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux” - Comment from 2 Jan 2026 in “Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it”
- Comment from 4 Oct 2026 in “The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux”
Strong gaming performance
“The 9070XT is easily performant enough for the gaming I'm doing at the moment”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Wayland Nvidia” “it works fine, both functionally and in terms of performance”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution” “The 9070XT has been a decent card for my use cases.”
Comment from 30 Jun 2026 in “Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development” - Comment from 4 Oct 2026 in “The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux”
- Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses”
Good value for gaming
“the 9070XT is the current value king (in this fucked up market) for mid-high gaming and you can actually buy them”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “Nvidia is the central bank of AI” “the performance of an 9070 XT is great while being cheaper than the equivalent 5070 Ti”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Wayland Nvidia” “basically the 3rd fastest gaming GPU money can buy and it's around $700”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI” - Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks”
Good for couch and 4K gaming
“Grabbed a Radeon 9070xt, hook it up to my 4k projector, and get to couch game.”
Comment from 30 Nov 2025 in “Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming” “ARC Raiders does look fantastic on a 1440p ultrawide”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “AMD will bring its "Ryzen AI" processors to standard desktop PCs for first time”
Other graphics cards people recommend
The four most recommended other graphics cards, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | 116 | 21 | 85% | 12 | 5 yrs14 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | 102 | 37 | 73% | 12 | 1 yr3 owners | Approved |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 | 77 | 26 | 75% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Nvidia GPUs | 67 | 67 | 50% | 11 | 6 yrs3 owners | — |
| AMD Radeon RX 9070 XTThis page | 22 | 1 | 96% | 10 | — | Approved |
What people said
27 of the 29 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Tried again after the Mesa updates got released, and no issues since.”
“Yes, raytracing works and it’s performant.”
“I would say my 9070XT works better in Linux than it does in Windows.”
“I bought a 9070 xt shortly after launch and it was already fine”
“I'm running my 9070XT on NixOS and it's working great.”
“It works but there is a significant perf gap vs Windows.”
“the 9070XT is the current value king (in this fucked up market) for mid-high gaming and you can actually buy them”
“from what I've read the 9070xt keeps up well enough”
“this thing is seriously powerful”
“Jesus that page chugs on a 9800x3d + rx9070xt”
“The 9070XT has been a decent card for my use cases.”
“stuff "just works" with AMD because the kernel (amdgpu) and userspace (RADV) drivers are open source”
“basically the 3rd fastest gaming GPU money can buy and it's around $700”
“great performance with paying the Nvidia tax”
“it's been a great value for gaming”
“I’m not really interested in the 9070XT.”
“Is it viable for a hobby? Sure. Is it viable for a serious workload with all the optimizations, CUDA, etc.. Not really.”
“ARC Raiders does look fantastic on a 1440p ultrawide”
“I've had two amdgpu hangs playing The Finals which were a Mesa bug”
“My RX 9070XT is finally running with no issues since 6.16”
“The 9070XT is easily performant enough for the gaming I'm doing at the moment”
“the performance of an 9070 XT is great while being cheaper than the equivalent 5070 Ti”
“it works fine, both functionally and in terms of performance”
“Grabbed a Radeon 9070xt, hook it up to my 4k projector, and get to couch game.”
“I am loving my sapphire 9070xt (pulse). It's pretty decent, and gets me ~100 tokens per second on gpt-oss-20b”
“the RX9070XT works very well”
“It works very well! Admittedly, I just finished the original Half-Life”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.