It feels so refreshing to see some genuinely great Prime Day deals on PC hardware this year, following all the doom and gloom recently, and this Gigabyte GPU deal is a prime (pun intended) example.
If you get in quick, you can currently bag yourself a Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC graphics card for just £547.99. That’s not only the lowest price ever for this overclocked premium card on Amazon, which has been hovering around the £679.99 mark lately, but it’s also a great deal on this GPU anyway.
Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC
£679.99 £547.99
“There’s a new mid-range marvel in town, and its name is Radeon RX 9070 XT. This is the competition that consumers have craved over the past several years.” – Read our review.
It hasn’t always been easy to buy a 16GB graphics card for a reasonable price lately, which makes this deal all the more tempting. In fact, at £547.99, this card is even a good £21 cheaper than the original MSRP for AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT.
The underlying chip is also one of the favourites on our best GPU buying guide. In our 9070 XT vs 5070 Ti feature, we found that it even outperformed the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti in some games, such as Assassin’s Creed Mirage, as shown in the graph below. That’s not bad for a GPU that currently undercuts the 5070 Ti by around £270.
This isn’t just a basic card at the start of the range either – it has a hefty triple-fan cooler, and an overclock to boost performance further. As standard, the 9070 XT has a game clock of 2,400MHz, but Gigabyte has increased that frequency to 2,520MHz on this card.
There’s loads of cooling power on tap as well, with three Gigabyte Hawk fans fitted to the front of cooler, and a chunky plate on the back. You even get a dash of RGB lighting across the top of the card.
What’s more, unlike some overclocked 9070 XT cards, this model has three old-school 8-pin PCIe power sockets, rather than a 16-pin 12VHPWR connector. This means you don’t need to worry about adaptors and extension cables if you don’t have a PSU with this socket, and there’s minimal risk of your cable melting too.
Given the current crisis surrounding DRAM prices, we’re not expecting 16GB graphics cards with this level of performance to be available at these prices for much longer. At the time of writing, AMD says that 26% of the stock has already been claimed.
If you’re in the market for a mid-range GPU upgrade, and you’re a Prime member, we’d grab one of these cards while they’re hot.
