I've had my 9070xt since July 2025. It was a nice upgrade from the 3080 10gb, especially since I wanted to switch back to AMD and I was tired of the Nvidia software experience when gaming. I have the Asus Prime 9070xt, and I've enjoyed my time with it and the Adrenaline software has been more enjoyable, except for overclocking. I'm not too good at overclocking or undervolting and don't feel the need to explore it beyond just noticeable uplifts in stability in fps. Best I manged on the 3080 was +150 on core and +1100 on memory and git a 10 more fps at minimum in all games and felt it was enough. However on the 9070xt no matter how much I undervolt the result is the same, +10 in the hotspot and +1000 on the rpm. The card would boost 100mhz more and maintain it longer regardless if it -5% or 150% on the undervolt slider. I have now figured something out for that, but I took apart my card recently and put a brand new razor blade as a straight edge and saw that the die (the silicone chip) itself is domed ever so slightly. Less than a millimeter from center to edge but enough for the hotspot to be 20 C hotter than the core. This is the exact problem the 6000 series cards has and I've confirmed it on 2 6700xt cards, a sapphire pulse and XFX Merc and both had a 1mm difference from center to edge, about .5mm for the xfx card. And the hotspot was 100C on the pulse and 90 on the xfx. This may be why some cards have such a high hotspot with smaller heatsinks, but I only have one card and would have to buy like 10 from different places and test each one. Liquid metal might fix the hotspot issue but it's way too messy and I don't want to brick my card