Reviews SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
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Anonymous customer
Rated 13/10/2026, variant SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
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It's a pretty decent card for local inference, but in the end, I never really used it for that because it was my main GPU, and my monitor combination needs up to 10GB of VRAM at idle, so that only leaves 22GB, which simply isn't enough. Completely unusable for desktop use, constant driver crashes, PC sleep mode stopped working, and more. My warranty claim was rejected. I definitely do not recommend buying this, it's a waste of money.
32GB VRAM
The LLM performance is adequate for the price
Basically unusable as a desktop card, had up to 7 driver crashes within 23 minutes, extremely unstable
loudness
High consumption
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Petr, Tišnov
Rated 06/10/2026, variant SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
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I've been using the Radeon AI PRO R9700 for several months now, primarily for AI in ComfyUI under Ubuntu and ROCm. I upgraded to it from a Radeon RX 7800 XT Nitro+ 16GB, which was my starting point for local AI, and the main difference is the 32GB of VRAM. The memory capacity was the main reason for the upgrade – 16GB was starting to be a significant limitation with more demanding models. In my opinion, AMD has hit a real gap in the market with this card. For a still relatively reasonable price, it offers 32GB of VRAM, allowing you to run models and workflows that simply won't fit on standard gaming cards. With NVIDIA, a similar VRAM requirement puts you in a completely different price bracket, often about double the cost. For a home or small work AI workstation, the R9700 is therefore a very interesting compromise between price, performance, and memory capacity. I mainly use the card in ComfyUI, for WanVideo among other things. ROCm works well for me under Ubuntu and the performance is very decent. The efficiency is also interesting – I lowered the power limit by about 50W, which is about a 17% reduction, but the performance in WanVideo only dropped by approximately 6%. I was also pleasantly surprised by the noise level. Before buying, I was a bit worried about a professional card with this type of cooling, but in practice, it's nowhere near as loud as I expected. Plus, the card is relatively compact and, unlike some of today's enormous GPUs, it fits into a normal case without any issues. Overall, I'm very satisfied with it. If you primarily need a lot of VRAM for AI and don't want to pay the prices NVIDIA charges for its cards with 32GB or more, the R9700 makes a lot of sense. In my view, AMD has offered exactly the product that was missing from the market. The only major downside is the current price. I bought the card significantly cheaper shortly after its release, and it's a shame that it has become so much more expensive in just a few months. Unfortunately, this has diminished some of its originally excellent price advantage. Even so, the 32GB of VRAM remains its huge strength – especially when you look at how much comparably equipped cards from nVidia cost.
32 GB VRAM
compact design
acceptable noise level
ROCm support for Linux is still improving
ever-increasing price
ROCm and its Windows support
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Anonymous customer
Rated 24/05/2026, variant SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
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Luxurious price-performance ratio
In games a total asphalt ripper (at UWQHD resolution)
With 32GB VRAM excellent for home applications with LLM
Lez overclock and control the fans
It can be quite noisy in the basic setting; can be solved by manual adjustment via overclocking (lower wattage + fan speed limitation with minimal performance drop)
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Vít, Praha
Rated 11/04/2026, variant SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
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Building a home AI cluster on these GPUs turned out to be a great choice. ROCm is still a bit behind CUDA, but everything is moving forward. The performance and the results with MoE models from 30 to 80 B params in 8bit quantization surprised me very pleasantly. This isn't just a toy anymore, it's really a pro iron for serious work.
Power
Good consumption
Excellent power management in idle state
Two slots
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Anonymous customer
Rated 28/02/2026, variant SAPPHIRE AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB
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Absolutely excellent card for inference and lore. It's not suitable for qlora (but 4 bit is only for home nvidia desperados anyway, I don't know who would want 4 bit [16 level resolution] - it's not for serious work). Traditionally a bit weaker support and driver issues. SW support for new features comes with several months delay. Qwen3 25B Q8 (a3b) gives 70t/s. I haven't tried it in games, but compared to 9060/9070 it should probably be a nose-picker for the same games - it has twice as much of everything (including the price).
performance
silence
2 slots
good consumption
nothing major
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