Published: March 16, 2025 | Source: Powercolor | Author: Tom Logan

PowerColor RX 9070 XT Hellhound Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Introduction

It’s been a tumultuous time in the graphics card world. Whether it’s the incredible performance, insane pricing and absolute impossible-to-attain nature of the Nvidia flagship cards, or the performance, price and, most importantly stock, from the newest AMD cards. We made a big show of how pleased we were with AMDs initial RX 9070 launch. After the problems of the Nvidia stock and subsequent price scalping, to have a card which was on shelves and at a promised price was wonderful. Performance was also great. Whilst we felt the vanilla RX 9070 was lacking a certain something, the XT variant tick a lot of boxes. Much of the AMD Radeon weakness has been addressed. A testament to the hard word put in by the AMD R&D team.

A famous name in the Radeon world are PowerColor. From their Devil 13 cards of yore, to their current line up, if it’s from the Red side of the hardware world, they’ve got a version. Logistical issues meant that we didn’t have a PowerColor card for launch. That has been rectified and in a huge way. Not only have we the latest model of their Hellhound range, but we’ve got the Spectral White variant too. Bring it on.

Now the subsidies AMD brought in that meant the cards were super-affordable at launch are starting to ebb away, this might be the perfect time to get on board the Radeon 9070 XT train. After all, we don’t just want to spend more because a factory is underproducing against demand. The AMD Radeon RDNA 4 cards are most definitely in demand, and we can’t imagine this beautiful PowerColor Hellhound will change that. Let’s take a closer look.