is this a good 9070 GPU?

[dreamcast4599]

so i managed to find an ASRock RX 9070 Challenger for around 599 new in box having only owned and used the sapphire pulse gpus is this gpu any good? also i see theres a challenger steel legend and taichi set of 9070 gpus how do i know which one is better? i know as far as mother boards go the taichi is considered asrocks top of the line 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asrock-rx-9070-challenger.b12260

[thrasher_565]

i beleave its the cooler how quiet it is and can cool more witch i guess might oc more but how much more...and it it worth $100+ extra for like 3-5 fps?

 

i mean if you want quiet but the cheapest one take the fans off and zip tiy fans too it and it will probably beat the top gpu...

 

or a headphones works too but that's imo

 

but i would buy from a good company first i guess that was evga but there gone so...no idea what i would get now.

 

there are also different sizes coolers too like 2 slot, 2 fan, slim, wide and short and so on. soon a half hight gpu too.

 

some might have some ocing settings that get a bit more power unlock too i guess.

Edited June 13 by thrasher_565

[Eigenvektor]

If you go down to the GPU list on TPU, the ones with a power-icon next to them have reviews by TPU available. The Steel Legend is ASRock's overclocked model. If you look at the Relative Performance page of their review, you can see that it makes virtually no difference, i.e. paying extra for an OC model makes absolutely no sense. So I'd stick to base models like the Challenger.

 

The cooler on the Challenger looks fairly similar to the Steel Legend, so I'd hope it performs equally well. Unfortunately there seems to be no reviews for base models anywhere. All reviewers seems to focus on OC models only

 

Since OC doesn't seem to do anything, I'd say they're all equally good, it just comes down to which cooler is quieter. But without reviews, no way to tell for certain.

[dreamcast4599]

@Eigenvektor how well will this gpu handle 1080p 144hz maxed out on ultra with a 7800X3D

[Eigenvektor]

5 minutes ago, dreamcast4599 said:

@Eigenvektor how well will this gpu handle 1080p 144hz maxed out on ultra with a 7800X3D

Look at any of the reviews on TPU. 

 

They benchmark a fair number of games, so that should give you a good picture of how it performs.

 

There's also an overview at the end:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asrock-radeon-rx-9070-steel-legend-oc/31.html

 

Since the OC models performs virtully on par with the base models, the results should be the comparable.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, dreamcast4599 said:

so i managed to find an ASRock RX 9070 Challenger for around 599 new in box having only owned and used the sapphire pulse gpus is this gpu any good? also i see theres a challenger steel legend and taichi set of 9070 gpus how do i know which one is better? i know as far as mother boards go the taichi is considered asrocks top of the line 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asrock-rx-9070-challenger.b12260

Theres no real reason to go for the top of the line models anyways atleast not on ambient cooling so yeah just sort by cheapest

 

Though id reccomend the gigabyte cards solely because they have dualbios on all their cards which is pretty useful if you want to flash to a 9070xt for the higher power limit if you want to oc your 9070 to match a stock 9070xt in performance

[podkall]

Different GPU models don't get faster, because they all use same RX 9070 chip.

 

Cooler design, brand and customer service is different. Card is almost exactly the same.

[KidKid]

8 hours ago, dreamcast4599 said:

so i managed to find an ASRock RX 9070 Challenger for around 599 new in box having only owned and used the sapphire pulse gpus is this gpu any good? also i see theres a challenger steel legend and taichi set of 9070 gpus how do i know which one is better? i know as far as mother boards go the taichi is considered asrocks top of the line 

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/asrock-rx-9070-challenger.b12260

$599 is a great deal