ASUS Prime -RX9070-O16G-EVO AMD Radeon RX 9070 16 GB GDDR6

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At £676.87 ex‑VAT, this ASUS Prime Radeon RX 9070 is priced like a “proper” mid-to-upper tier card, not a budget option. The main question is whether you’re buying it for productivity/creator workloads (CUDA-adjacent software expectations aside) or for gaming first. If your day is mostly gaming at high refresh (and you have a decent CPU + PSU), this kind of ASUS card should be a solid, sensible pick—ASUS Prime typically means reliable cooling/quiet behaviour and decent out-of-the-box stability, which matters in real office-ish builds where you don’t want to babysit drivers or thermals.

I’d hesitate to recommend it if your software stack is very specific about NVIDIA-only features or you’re expecting value in the strict “best FPS per pound” sense—at this price, the market can be brutal, and it’s easy to overpay if you don’t compare against what competitors are doing right now. It also only really makes sense if your system can take advantage of it (enough PSU headroom and a PCIe-friendly setup); otherwise you’ll end up bottlenecked and feeling silly paying boutique money. If you want a dependable AMD card for general business gaming and occasional creative use—and you’ve checked the going prices against what you can get from the same tier—then it’s a reasonable buy. If you’re NVIDIA-locked or chasing the absolute cheapest performance at this spend, I’d look elsewhere first.