Getting more performance out of your graphics card these days is a lot harder than it used to be, as they now overclock themselves and have hard power limits, AMD and Nvidia's latest GPUs are proving to be a big exception to this. Getting around all of that isn't always easy but in the case of one Radeon RX 9070 model, a simple BIOS flash is all you need to turn it into a potential RX 9070 XT beater.
AMD's recently launched Radeon RX 9000-series comprises just two models at the moment: the RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT. The latter is the 'full die' version, sporting 64 CUs (Compute Units), a boost clock of 2.97 GHz, a power limit of 304 W, and 16 GB of VRAM. The RX 9070 is very similar: just four fewer CUs and the same amount of VRAM, but with a much lower 220 W power limit and a boost clock of 2.52 GHz.
