Power supply for the Radeon RX 9070 XT

How much power the Radeon RX 9070 XT needs

The Radeon RX 9070 XT is rated at 304 W. With Ryzen 5 5600 the whole PC comes to about 482 W under load, so a 750 W power supply gives about 40 percent headroom and a 650 W unit is the least we would use. Across the four processors in the table the recommended size runs from 750 W to 1000 W, which shows how much the processor matters.

For comparison with the neighbouring cards in our list, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super (285 W) needs 650 W and the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (300 W) needs 750 W with the same processor.

Processor by processor

For the Radeon RX 9070 XT, with the Ryzen 5 5600 the load is about 482 W and a 750 W supply fits; with the Ryzen 5 7600 the load is about 482 W and a 750 W supply fits; with the Core i5-14600K the load is about 617 W and a 1000 W supply fits; with the Ryzen 7 7800X3D the load is about 548 W and a 850 W supply fits. The gap between the lightest and the heaviest build is 250 W of recommended supply, which is about the rating of a mid-range graphics card on its own.