AMD's $629 card just quietly beat Nvidia's $900 one on paper — and on VRAM

The plain, non-XT Radeon RX 9070 just hit its lowest price yet on Amazon, and the math against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 honestly isn't close. Aliteq Nadia Rahman · Deals Editor

The Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT) hit $629.99 on Amazon — 16% off its usual $750, and the card's lowest tracked price.

That's above the card's original $549 MSRP, but well under where an RTX 5070 — which launched at the same $549 — is currently trading.

The RX 9070 ships with 16GB of VRAM against the RTX 5070's 12GB, at a lower street price this week.

It's not the XT: this card runs 88% of the XT's stream processor count, so it's a real step down in raw horsepower, not a rebadge.

At $629.99, the Asus Prime RX 9070 is a legitimately good buy against a shortage-priced RTX 5070 — more VRAM for less money, in a market where that combination has gotten rare. It's not…

I wouldn't buy this card for 4K, and Club386's own testing bears that out — its strongest numbers came in esports titles, not demanding AAA settings. But for 1080p and most 1440p gaming, paying $630…

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