OPEN BOX - Sapphire 11348-03-20G Pulse AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA 4

The item is fine, but it feels very light for some reason, and the box looks very cheap.

Not sure what's going on with gpu prices, but this is around $270 above what the msrp should have been for a "mid range" card in 2025. It's also even more than the 5070ti msrp, the card it's supposed to not only compete with, but also be undercutting. The "value" proposition just is not there if you're charging $1100+.

Other than a price, it work very nicely.

Good video card for the price. Perf $ ratio

I recently purchased the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, and I’ll admit I was initially concerned about whether the card was real, given some online reviews about counterfeit GPUs. However, once the card arrived, I verified the serial number with Sapphire’s support, and everything checked out—it’s 100% authentic, and the build quality feels solid. I installed the card in my system: an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor, 128GB RAM, running Arch Linux with ROCm 6.3.3 for GPU compute support. Setting up the drivers and ROCm took some troubleshooting (mostly due to RDNA 4 being new as of March 2025), but once configured, I ran extensive tests to evaluate its performance. For rendering, I used Blender 4.4.0 with HIP enabled. The BMW27 benchmark scene rendered in just 15.55 seconds, a massive improvement over the 88.29 seconds it took on my CPU alone—a 5.68x speedup! During the render, radeontop showed 99.17% GPU usage, ~3.2GB VRAM usage, and shader clocks hitting 3316 MHz (exceeding the advertised 2970 MHz boost, though memory clock reporting seemed off at 1226 MHz). I also ran Unigine (427-432 FPS) and glmark2 (~16,000-18,000), both confirming the card’s strong performance for gaming and graphics workloads. Overall, the RX 9070 XT delivers on AMD’s promises for 1440p gaming and compute tasks. It’s a powerhouse for rendering, gaming, and potentially AI/ML workloads (with 128 AI accelerators), though initial driver support for RDNA 4 on Linux required some effort. Sapphire’s build is reliable, and the card runs cool and quiet under load. My only concern was the setup process, but once resolved, it’s been a fantastic upgrade. Highly recommend for Linux users willing to tweak a bit—5 stars!