The begin of a brand new GPU technology is rarely fairly, however this time round, issues have felt additional bleak. From AMD’s seeming unwillingness to be forthcoming about its new GPUs at CES to astronomical Nvidia 50-series pricing, an RTX 5070 that’s—sorry, not sorry—really laughable, and nearly instant launch day GPU sell-outs… yeah, this gen has been so much to take care of.
So pinch me and color me translucent as a result of there will not be solely RX 9070 gaming PCs in inventory however some which can be really fairly priced. I’m this Skytech Shadow specifically, which is at present going for $1,350 at Newegg.
I used to be maintaining a tally of GPU shares and costs throughout the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT launch day, and the only factor that stored my spirits intact as graphics card after graphics card slipped into ‘out of inventory’ territory was the presence of gaming PCs like this one. After witnessing such unstable shares, they supplied a glimmer of hope for the PC gaming market within the first half of 2025.
Why this one specifically, although? If I have been in the marketplace for a brand new gaming PC on some semblance of a finances, that is the construct I’d be . That’s primarily as a result of, with the assistance of some overclocking, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 on the coronary heart of this construct is inside vary of its greater ‘XT’ sibling, as our Dave came upon in his AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT overview.
With a -140 mV undervolt and +10% energy, the RX 9070 non-XT clipped on the heels of the RX 9070 XT and even beat the RTX 5070 Ti in some video games. And positive, you are not getting Nvidia’s fancy new Multi Frame Generation, however you’re getting stellar machine learning-powered FSR 4 upscaling and body gen plus (shocker for AMD) really respectable ray tracing efficiency.
The remainder of this Skytech construct is not precisely something to write down dwelling about, nevertheless it is sufficient to preserve the RX 9070 fortunately chugging alongside, offered you do not run a great deal of background apps whereas gaming and you do not prefer to preserve a large recreation library put in. But reminiscence and storage is straightforward (and will be fairly low cost) to improve, so that you should not be caught on this entrance.
You will not be desirous to do heavy productiveness duties on this factor both, as a result of that’s solely a less expensive Core i5 processor it is rocking. But for gaming with a midrange GPU, that will not have an effect on issues too a lot.
The easy truth is, with this construct, you are getting a stellar current-gen GPU plus the opposite {hardware} that retains it working for simply $1,350. For 1440p gaming (and even some gentle 4K gaming), you’ll be able to’t ask for way more for the cash.
