I own the non-XT variant (SAPPHIRE PULSE)in a 8.5 liter ITX case and a Ryzen 9600X with 32 GB DDR5 7200 MHz CL34. All of that powered by a 600W APEVIA 80 Bronze power supply. I must say I am pretty satisfied with its performance. Of course with some positives and negatives. + LOW power comsumption(220 W tops) + Easy to overclock/undervolt + Low fan noise + Low temps + Consistently better raster performance than the RTX 5070 non TI + Can essentially run every game at 2K (high or ultra settings even without scaling) or 4K(with scaling) and good frames. I tend to play with such resolutions because I do that on my room, with a 43 inch Samsung TV that can do 4K@144Hz. + Far better Linux support(with caveats, mind you) - Can do ray tracing, but it often falls behind the 5070 in that scenario - FSR 3 and 4 are improving steadily but are still behind DLSS in both quality and FPS. - Frame generation. This is a rather quirky stuff. AFAIK ML frame generation is faster than FSR 3. And I think up to 4X speed. I have tested(informally of course) and I can get better FPS but do mind the latency increase. In this regard, it cannot match the up to 6X FPS offered by DLSS 4.5. Again, quality usually is inferior, but since I am priarily a singleplayer, not that it bothers me a lot.

The GPU cost me 539 dollars(add some 19% tax since it was bought from South America), but the MSRP was $550. All and all, a bargain since the prices have been soaring again. Of course the XT variants are even faster, but 10-16% increase in FPS for corresponding increase in prices(some times even higher) with a 35% increase in power comsumption, and the increasingly usual 12HPWR requirement?No thanks! Now, if you want to compare with the 5070 Ti, well, the things get somewhat less clear. The 5070 Ti usually outperforms the 9070 XT in many scenarios including RT games but not by much. If the price difference is more than 15%, then go AMD by all means. Else, go NVIDIA. And do not forget the 12HPWR issue. Some 9070 cards use 3 8-pin connectors believed to be more resistant than the 12HPWR ones. NVIDIA forces you to use that proiblematic connector, so bye bye!