It appears Asus has inadvertently released a hybrid graphics card into the wild after a Redditor unboxed their Micro Center exchange, only to discover an AMD Radeon RTX 9070 XT graphics card with both AMD and Nvidia branding. How could this happen? Well, it could be due to one simple mistake.
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is the top choice on our guide to the best graphics card, but finding "GeForce RTX" written down the side is certainly not the crossover we were expecting to see. We expect the anomalous Asus card will perform exactly the same as a standard Radeon RX 9070 XT, but the branding mix-up adds bonus charm to one of our favorite cards.
But how did this error come to be? As far as we can tell, the erroneous branding is a simple mix-up between the shrouds Asus uses on multiple GPU models. Both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT use very similar cooler designs, so one shroud can fit both cards. Considering how alike the shrouds are in appearance, save for branding, it's quite possible that someone on the factory floor mistakenly reached for a GeForce RTX-branded shroud when they were putting the 9070 XT together. The happy end result is the odd hybrid we see before us.
Production errors like these are generally very rare, and it's quite possible we won't see another RX 9070 XT quite like it unless an entire batch was shipped with the incorrect shrouds. Either way, Redditor Fantastic-Ad8410 can enjoy owning a rare meme card, assuming they don't take it back to Micro Center for an exchange as they suggested in their post.
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