Speedster QICK210 Radeon RX 6500XT Black Gaming Graphics Card with 4GB GDDR6 HDMI, AMD RDNA 2, RX-65XT4DBDQ

I’ve been running the XFX Mercury RX 9070 XT OC Gaming Edition in my new Ryzen 9 9800X3D build for two months now. The card runs flawlessly on factory settings (no manual overclocking), delivering stable, high-end performance across modern titles. Thermals are excellent. Idle temps stay under 40°C, and even in Cyberpunk 2077 (Ultra settings, FSR 3 enabled), it stays around 60°C. The triple-fan cooler and massive heatsink from XFX do serious work here—quiet, efficient, and cool under pressure. The ARGB is clean, syncs easily, and doesn’t require any bloated software. Build quality is solid—this is a beefy card with real thermal headroom and a sturdy feel. It fits well into a high-performance build and doesn’t feel like it’s cutting corners. That said, the price is a real drawback. The MSRP for a standard RX 9070 XT is $599.99, but this OC version comes in at $899.99. That’s a $300 markup for a factory OC, bigger cooler, and RGB. On top of that, I bought through a third-party seller and paid an extra $60 shipping due to demand. While performance is roughly on par with the 5070 Ti, the value just doesn’t hold up at that price point. For contrast, I also picked up an RX 9060 XT (3-fan version) for my 2018 Intel system, upgrading from a GTX 1080. That only cost me $50 over its $349.99 MSRP—and honestly, it felt like a far better value for mid-tier 1440p gaming. Cool, quiet, and perfectly matched for that older rig. And yeah, I now regret skipping the RX 7900 XTX. Back in 2024, it dropped to $799—$200 below its official $999 MSRP. Now, in 2025, it’s floating around $1,200 due to limited supply and rising demand. For what I paid for this 9070 XT OC, I could’ve had a 7900 XTX with better raw performance and more VRAM—and still come out ahead. Sure, I’d be giving up FSR 4 support—but let’s be honest, most current games still run on FSR 3, so I’m probably not missing much. The real loss is just timing. Could’ve had flagship-tier raster performance for less money. That one hurts. At this point, I’m planning to hold out for the 9080 XT/X or 9090 XT/X, once RDNA 5 has matured and pricing normalizes. Maybe around 2027, when the dust settles and the early-adopter tax fades, I’ll make the next big jump. Bottom line: The XFX 9070 XT OC is a strong GPU—cool, stable, and well-built—but its $899.99 price tag drags it down. It pairs well with high-end CPUs like the 9800X3D and delivers smooth gaming out of the box, but performance-per-dollar just doesn’t stack up. If you can wait or catch a better deal, do it. I wish I had. That said, in the context of today’s market, it’s not the worst deal. We’ve seen this trend grow since the “RTX tax” hit with the 2080 Ti—what used to be a $500 premium card in 2012 now easily breaks $1,000. If you're eyeing a 5080 or 5090? You’re looking at $2,000 to $3,000 easily. Against that backdrop, the 9070 XT OC’s $899 doesn’t look quite as insane—just mildly painful instead of laughably brutal.

Yes, It's a 8GB card, so there are some limitations. Knowing this, the cars performs just as expected: powerful at 1080p, just as many video reviews shows online. As to this reference, the built quality is great, runs cool even at high ambient temperature where I live. Always under 70°C at 30ish °C ambient. XFX has done a pretty good job whit this card. Finally, I wish we live in a world where this tier of cards still costs $200 but here we are. The card is the best performer at this price range, so it's definitely recommended at a tight budget.

As the title says. This card is a beast in every which way possible. I upgraded from the EVGA [RIP :< ] NVIDIA 1080Ti, which lasted me a good five years and was still pretty competent in running modern games, but was definitely starting to show its age with a 4K monitor and today's (poorly optimized) games. I decided to go AMD this time around, as the price/dollar ratio with AMD right now seems far better... especially with the 4080 costing on average $300 more, and the 4090 being off into space at double to above double the cost. That's not really cool when this card trades blows with NVIDIA's flagships in raster performance, and the focus of RTX/Radeon is for gaming, not for AI/Compute work. Not that AMD can't do those to be clear... ROCm is a thing, but just needs more developer support for it, and AMD still has some work to do in their drivers to unlock the full potential of these chips. The card itself is quite big, as shown in my photos, but it fits snug with my system configuration, the color scheme matches my system quite nicely, and the anti-sag retention bar is a nice addition to have with the card given its size and weight. Cooling-wise, the card operates at 60C when gaming under full load, with a 75C-80C Hot Spot Temperature, with the fans operating at about 30% duty cycle. The card power draw under full load is approximately 390 Watts. Gaming performance wise, I'm satisfied. Games such as Battlefield 2042 at 4K Native, 100% Render Resolution, Ultra Settings, HDR and Ray Tracing Enabled, push 70-100FPS. BattleBit Remastered does well north of 180FPS. Counter-Strike 2 runs at 170FPS+ at 4K Native, HDR and Max settings. Halo Infinite at 4K Native, HDR, Max settings, pushes approximately 90FPS. Overwatch 2, similar settings, similar frame rates. That's pretty much it. The card performs consistently well, and has the VRAM to handle demanding gaming loads (Halo Infinite for some reason needs 18GB of VRAM?!). I could get higher frame rates with AMD FSR3 or by turning off some settings like Ray Tracing, but, hey... these frames are already a huge upgrade from the 1080Ti, and can only get better in time. Video Performance Wise: Compared to NVIDIA, AMD does have a weaker video engine. This was something which worried me at first based on my past experience with AMD GPUs (The Vega 8 in my laptop, and the previous Radeon HD 5770 I used to have which would downclock the VRAM every time video accelerated content was played). However, it has not affected my day to day. 8K60 YouTube is handled and plays back with the AV1 Codec. VP9, H.264, AVC1, and H.265 decoding are similarly capable of smooth playback, and day to day use I notice no difference between the 1080Ti's NVDEC chip and AMD's VCE in terms of performance. Encoding wise, Handbrake was able to transcode VC-1 video (This AMD GPU does NOT support VC-1 Decoding in the Video engines, so some software limitations are at play!) to H.265 10-Bit with exceptional quality at 130+FPS, and did so without impacting the rest of the card's performance. AV1 Encoding performance is similarly quick, and for live streaming, is phenomenal, with a crisp picture produced at 14Mbps to YouTube at 1440p. The video engine seems to multi-task reasonably well, and I have yet to encounter any artificial limits imposed in the driver, unlike NVIDIA which limits encode/decode streams on their consumer GPUs... a limit I have bumped heads with many times when working with VEGAS Pro, and which has been responsible for NVIDIA's driver crashing. Driver wise: AMD does tend to release more frequent updates to drivers than NVIDIA. This tends to be due to AMD's Driver QA and refinement being less robust than NVIDIA's. I have certainly noticed a few more odd glitches in games like flickering hair or invisible vehicles. Some of these could be game engine bugs. None of these bugs have resulted in games being unplayable. CS2 for example had a stutter bug which specifically affected the 7900XTX and was fixed quickly by AMD, but I really didn't notice this personally. Battlefield 2042 occasionally has a colorful hair issue on some characters, but only at the end-of-game recap. Driver crashes have been extremely minimal - I've experienced one crash which was due to a bug AMD has since fixed with CS2, but that's not to say things have been exceptionally smooth for me. There are definitely some resource scheduling issues to work out in the drivers. When the GPU is under heavy (100%) load, you may find that stuttering occurs in other programs like web browsers and in the mouse when Alt-Tabbing at times. This hasn't resulted in the system being unusable. It's just annoying and is intermittent. I did not encounter mouse stuttering with NVIDIA, so they seem to do a better job with scheduling in that regard, but other programs (hardware accelerated Chromium apps) definitely took their time doing any sort of action with the NVIDIA card under full load. Things with this AMD card remain snappy even with the occasional stutters. The AMD Software suite is overall pretty good. Unlike NVIDIA, AMD includes automatic driver updates, game optimizations, game performance statistics, game streaming (AMD Link), live streaming, game clipping and background recording, performance monitoring as well as overclocking features directly in AMD Software, WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT BEING REQUIRED! That is on top of the usual GPU settings for Display color/resolution, software profiles, and global 3D settings. You just install the software and everything is right there in one control panel. Some settings like monitor arrangement and color calibration, AMD Software will defer to the Windows Control panel, and this seems to be only where Windows will do a better job. I have noticed my system no longer has this strange 3-4 second freeze on boot-up when the driver package loads like I did with NVIDIA when GeForce Experience was loading in, so that's a plus. Now for the fun bits. When I initially installed the GPU, everything was pretty smooth. Run DDU, shut down the system, pull out the old GPU, install the new GPU. Everything worked on the first go. Install the AMD Drivers, Reboot, and all is fine and dandy! Within a few hours however, I started noticing some odd behavior while running games. If I had a game running on my main monitor (a 4K 144Hz HDR display), everything would be fine... until I Alt+Tabbed to use an application on my secondary monitors (two 1080p 144Hz SDR displays), or touched any application based on Chromium (Steam, Discord, Google Chrome...) while a game was running. The driver would hang for a few seconds and then recover, but not hang in the sense that my game or any applications would crash out. My primary web browser, Firefox, didn't cause any sort of problem with the driver. Thinking this was the infamous "Chromium Hardware Acceleration" bugs that seem to plague AMD, I considered disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome, until I considered the fact that Windows itself is not exactly behaving right. My next troubleshooting steps involved disabling Resizable BAR (AMD Smart Access Memory), which was enabled on my Motherboard (ASUS PRIME X370 Pro) as this has been known to cause issues with NVIDIA RTX 3000 series cards, as well as the AMD RX 6000 series GPUs. Also, since I am using a Ryzen 7 5800X3D on an X370 board, it's very possible there's a strange board problem going on causing the driver to hang. So great! I turn off Resizable BAR, and the problems disappear... for about 12 hours. The problems then return with a vengeance! Simple actions like running VLC in Full Screen, full screening YouTube videos, trying to run games, basically anything an average person might do, would cause the driver to hang... and sometimes crash hard. Even more silly - mousing over the display in AMD Software was enough to hang it. To make matters worse, the system got so unstable to the point where simply loading color calibration profiles for my monitor would cause the entire video driver to hang hard just by logging into the PC! As part of troubleshooting with Windows becoming unusable, I continued to mess around in the BIOS by disabling IOMMU, SR-IOV, Resizable BAR at a Chipset level (rather than in AMD Software), and toggled between the two BIOSs available on this GPU using the BIOS toggle switch found towards the PCI Bracket. Nothing! But by chance, I happened across the solution. While troubleshooting, I discovered that the center DisplayPort port was misbehaving. It could detect AND sync my 4K display at HDR, RGB 4:4:4, 144Hz without an issue... as if nothing was wrong. But when I connected my 1080p displays to this same port, the monitors would detect but wouldn't sync (output video). Neither one of my external monitors would sync on this port. ONLY the 4K display. The other thing I noticed is, when I didn't use the center DisplayPort port... the GPU wouldn't hang! Windows would log in! Everything worked! My setup now avoids the use of the center DisplayPort port, with one 1080p monitor connected to the HDMI port, and the remaining two monitors connected to the left-most and right-most DisplayPort port. All of the monitors are being fully driven, and my GPU is now 100% stable... even with Resizable BAR (AMD Smart Access Memory) enabled, IO-SRV, IOMMU, you name it enabled. I don't know at this point if the problem is going to require me to RMA the GPU with XFX, but given the number of complaints I've seen online regarding "a particular port" (like the USB-C port) on other 7900XTX GPUs from other brands, it's sounding more like an AMD Driver bug. Some people were able to temporarily resolve their hanging/freezing problems with "a particular port" by using DDU only to have it crop up a day later. That sounds pretty similar, doesn't it? Since figuring out the initial stability headache, the GPU has been enjoyable to use, and I do not regret the move from NVIDIA (I have been a long time NVIDIA customer FWIW - RIVA 128ZX, GeForce 4400MX, GeForce 8800GT, GeForce GTX770, GeForce 1080Ti) to AMD. The only time the driver has crashed was when I was playing CS2 on launch day, while streaming the game via Discord. I chalked that up to Discord being the problem, as I also experienced similar driver crashes on NVIDIA when game streaming in Discord. Turns out that was an AMD bug which they fixed a week later... Overall, if you're switching from NVIDIA, or are unsure about this purchase, I recommend this card. If you encounter the instability issues I first encountered... definitely think outside of the box. It's rewarding at the end.

So, I am an avid VR player. I love playing VRchat with friends, going to events with 60+ people there, and to say it's GPU intensive is an understatement. My NVIDIA 3060 Ti could not keep up, not with it's 8GB of VRAM, and the only option was either accept hindered visuals and not being able to see everyone's avatar at once...or upgrade. I chose upgrade. It was Black Friday, so all the sales were going on. The question was "Do I wait for the 5000 series by NVIDIA, buy a 4070 Ti Super which is being scalped right now, or do I decide to buy from AMD and take a leap of faith?" I chose to take the leap. AMD has a rough reputation with GPU's, driver issues galore, and they used to be very fickle about working properly. But in the day and age where to get 4080~4090 performance, you need to shell out $1,500 or more, right when a new chipset is also around the corner, there's a reason to look at the competition rather than the "name brand". AMD is not the off-brand parts component supplier it used to be, it is a fighting force, and it has product that rivals NVIDIA at lower prices. The Radeon 7900XTX with 24GB of GDDR6 VRAM absolutely blew my expectations. I need to preface, I did have issues initially. My build is older. I'll give a spec sheet at the end of this, but long story short, I can't overclock my GPU without Blue screening. That's more likely due to my system specs than anything else. But that first night, despite PC crashes, I was capable of loading all 80 players with very poor optimization that VRchat has, while also using Full Body Tracking which also taxes GPU's, and it still had more fight in it. My 3060Ti would have been incapable of even running at 10 FPS, where it was running smoothly at 27~35 FPS with everything I could possibly throw at it to hinder my FPS, and just going to any room with less people instantly got me right back up to 45+ FPS. While it may not seem impressive, with my build, it shows this is putting in incredible work. It never even was using more than 60% of the GPU's utilization, which is either due to my build bottlenecking it, or the game itself. The incredible part of this GPU is that with that much VRAM, you can throw so much at games graphically, that you almost don't even need to worry about it. Almost no games currently run you so close to the limit of your VRAM capacity, unlike with the 3060Ti with only 8GB's of VRAM, where it was a constant limiting factor. Still functional, still can handle VR even, but with hinderances. I feel unhindered with this GPU, and with the black friday sale getting it down to $799.99? It was a steal. Expensive, most expensive computer component I've ever spent, but it was worth every penny. I will go ahead and say, if you have been running small(er) graphics cards like the 3060, you may find you cant fit this GPU in your case. You should double check it can fit before you put it in. Even with my current case I bought, it has enough room, but it's a closer fit. It's big. It's monstrous what it can do. I'm limited by everything else, and I think when I upgrade more, I'll see just how much it's capable of. If you can't or don't want to afford an NVIDIA GPU equivalent between a 4080 and 4090, this is a great card to get. Powerful, enough VRAM that games will take time to catch up with this much VRAM being normal in most computers for years, and I see no reason this GPU won't last me another 3 years easily if not longer. If it's on a substantial sale, or in a year or two you can buy one second hand working well, it's a great option. Even for VR. Drivers aren't bad, they aren't NVIDIA, but they are still responsive about getting them out. AMD is truly a competitor and worth looking into even their GPU's, which for years couldn't be trusted. If anything, while they have that reputation, you should capitalize on the bargain if Intel's new budget offering isn't to your liking. Spec Sheet: MSI Tomahawk B350 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X AMD Radeon 7900XTX EVGA GQ Gold 1000 Watt PSU 32GB DDR4 RAM (Sorry I don't remember specifics on the RAM sticks.) It performs well despite an older CPU and even older Motherboard, and seen 2 different upgrades. Ryzen 5 3600 and NVIDIA 2070 Super to the Ryzen 7 5800X and 3060 Ti, to my current. It performs well for all VR tasks, with nearly if any issues. I run nearly every game on highest settings at 1440p, and desktop games run at stable 60+ FPS, usually higher almost always. It's a fantastic setup that really, I expect can coast me by for a good few years, I may invest more in the motherboard and CPU, go up to DDR5, but really, I'm not hindered by much with my system for my applications I play. This GPU has made a substantial difference, the previous was good, this is another ballpark. This was and is the first PC component I bought and felt excited to see installed, and am still so enthralled with it. I have some deep pride for my AMD 7900XTX.

The general performance of this card has been great, as expected from AMD's most expensive gpu. However, there was some driver crashing issues specifically with Destiny 2 for the first couple weeks of use, but it somehow has stopped happening over time without updating drivers or anything. Those crashes were really concerning for a brand new card and had me panicking due to some bad things I've heard about AMD drivers, but I do not regret switching from Nvidia now that it's sorted itself out. If you don't care for ray tracing and frame gen (not worth imo), this will deliver an outstanding experience. I enjoy many games at 1440p, 240fps on max graphics. Installation with the included "z-bar" support is pretty straightforward, but the support will require two additional gpu mounting screw holes on your pc case, leaving a sizeable gap under the card in rear wall of the pc case. With the support, the gpu sag is pretty mild, which is impressive since the card itself is gigantic (make sure your pc case is big enough). Noise level is generally pretty quiet. However, very high loads will induce a decent amount of whine. Not a problem if you game with headphones, but otherwise could be annoying.

This is my first ever AMD GPU and I am genuinely impressed by how powerful it is. It doesn't falter when maxing out all my settings and handles 4k without a single stutter. I play a lot of Triple A games and a lot of other graphic intensive games, and every single game I have played I have been able to max out settings and still get a solid 70~100 FPS at 4k native. But there are some things to really keep in mind when using this GPU. 1) Installation: It's a simple plug and play like any other GPU, but you REALLY should by a GPU riser/bracket to keep the GPU secured properly, this thing is LONG and almost reaches the fans inside my Corsair 7000D PC case <--- it's THAT long! before I installed my own two gpu risers, this GPU wobbled and sagged like it was about to fall out. I cannot stress this enough, be ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU SECURE THIS GPU IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE. Ensure that it pretty much doesn't move and it should last you a lifetime. The RX 7900XTX comes with its own bracket(if bought new) to secure it to your case so make sure you use it AND use GPU risers just to be sure! 2) Power Draw: The highest I have seen this GPU draw is a colossal 400 watts. at MINIMUM you should have a 800w PSU. I am using a 1000w PSU with this GPU so no issues there. Remember: keep a little headroom just in case and NEVER CHEAP OUT on your PSU. This is the only part of your PC you should ACTUALLY overspend on if you can. 3) Adrenalin Software: It's almost on par with nVidia's offerings, but I don't really use it often so I can't fully vouch for how good it is compared to Shadowplay. Works well enough, dunno about the Streaming feature though. Conclusion: It's quite possibly the best value high end GPU I have used in a long time. It's performance surpassed all my expectations. It's said to be a little better than the RTX 4080, but the 4080 is almost 20% more expensive, has less VRAM and has a smaller memory bus. The other deal breaker is if you need CUDA. I do not use GPUs for 3d Rendering, or Machine Learning, nor do I use it for Crypto. so if the programs you use require the use of that tech I cannot comment on the functionality of this GPU for those purposes.

I've had this for a month now and here's a little review. For my new PC Intel i5 13 gen build (only built it because of an ASUS motherboard and rtx2060s failure at the same time!), it came down to this or the Nvidia 4080. I went with the AMD 7900xtx. Why? 1. It's currently cheaper (it ain't cheap, but cheaper if you know what I mean). 2. The UI and drivers are better (with my rtx2060s, the Nvidia control panel kept disappearing in Windows 10, there's seems to be a conflict there between Microsoft and Nvidia.) 3. I don't care about ray tracing. 4. The way I run my system, with "Radeon Chill" enabled and limited to 60fps the power consumption is much lower than 350w and I can't tell any difference when my Samsung 75" Q85A TV is set to the smoothing "soap opera" effect compared to running it at actual 120fps (it will do about 130-150fps at ultra, FSR on quality and no Chill setting). The end result is a gaming system that runs RDR2 at 4k at about 60% usage and is cool and quiet. Power usage is about 200w with that game. The same goes with a 4k modded GTA5. I play these games A LOT so this matters to me. In the future, this system should scale up nicely to newer games with just more power usage over time as game engines get more complex. So I hope this helps someone. I have watched so many reviews on these video cards and only one Youtuber mentioned this setup. Sorry I can't remember your name as it wasn't the top 3 guys. It's hard to find practical information as most of those guys are always compared FPS charts. Update 08/24/23 ============== I started playing Elden Ring and added some graphic enhancements to really push this card in 4k. The biggest impact was increasing the LOD to maximum and an HDR reshade. It looks incredible! But, after a month I started getting high hot spot temps around 105c and a delta of 30. The fan was getting real loud. This is a big change from when I first got the card. Is this because of thermal paste pump out? I disassembled the card and found this to be true. I saw 1/4 of the GPU was bare with a lot of paste around the edges. This needed to be fixed. PTM7950 to the rescue! I ordered some on Amazon and installed it. Problem solved. With the card being pushed to the max, I haven't seen a hot spot over 90c with a max delta of 15. Most of the time it runs much cooler. Now the card is back to like it was when it was new and I was able to avoid an RMA. I read in the XFX warranty that doing this repaste does not void the warranty. Pretty disappointed that I needed to do this at all, but with the new repaste with PTM7950, I expect to stay fixed. Why isn't this stuff used in the factory? Too hard to install? Too expensive? Whatever.

This card is a monster performer! It's a large card at 344 mm, but much smaller than Nvidia's. And also isn't as wide as the competitor options. This will fit in most cases. The case shown is NZXT H7 Elite (max 400mm card length), and should fit in H5 (max 365mm card length) which would be tight. Not only does this card perform very well! You cannot beat the price for the performance and 24GB GDDR6 VRAM! Ample VRAM for the latest games to achieve the highest frame rates! Because this card is not as long as some of its competitor models, it doesn't have the sag, but to even reduce the minimal say it does have, the Z-Bar is a perfect solution to keep your video card stable and from moving around. The card in that picture is perfectly parallel to the system board. It screws to the end of the card with nice countersunk screws and supports the card with not only the two existing slots that the video card takes up, but the two slots below it just for mounting purposes. Regarding power connectors, this card has three standard 8-pin 12 volt connectors. No funky adapter cable or custom modular cable to PSU. This awesome video card has two video BIOS options with just a flick of the switch. When I first booted system, I kept it in normal clocking, once CPU and RAM were verified to be operating at max performance, then I flipped the switch to get extra FPS by slightly raising core clock and VRAM clock. With this card, switch position left towards the video ports is standard clocking, to the right towards the power connectors is the OC BIOS. The case has sufficient cooling and the video card never gets above 60c with the hardcore testing I had done before giving it to my daughter after she helped me build it. Be careful to pick the correct power supply! The CPU is AMD 7800X3D and they both require at least 850W quality PSU. The supply in this rig, not shown is an EVGA 1000 G5. My general rule of thumb which may conflict with others is that the power supply should be rated 20% more than the max peak load as to not tax the PSU at 100% load. Even though this is a large power supply in a small package, it is very efficient and only draws as much power that is required. Very little wasted energy and heat that I could determine just by putting my hand over the air vents while maxing out CPU and GPU. Having a UPS connected is a good idea to protect your expensive hardware, plus you get a readout of how many watts is being consumed from all devices plugged into it. It's not as accurate as using lab equipment for power supply consumption, but is good enough for getting a good idea how much your rig is consuming. Final thoughts, I would buy this card again! I bought this hardware for my daughter's computer and I am thinking about building a dark gray, all black inside, no RGB for myself with the same video card! Apparently Nvidia is having issues with their latest drivers, they seem to be going backwards while AMD is going forward. Wtf? Thank you AMD for your awesome hardware! Much better bang for the buck going all AMD versus Intel and/or Nvidia. The FPS proves that to no doubt that AMD is superior! My crappy 2017 Alienware 17 M4 portable desktop with lid (as they call laptop) has Intel and Nvidia and that thing overheats all the time. I've repasted that at least three times and is ready for the fourth time. Thank you thermal grizzly extreme!