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>i have an XFX merc 9070xt and im enjoying it
Merc is not XFX's base MSRP model; the Swift is. You're the one who's making brain-dead comparisons.
This is like some retard saying the ASUS Prime Radeon 9070 XT is bad because it's worse than his 5080 Astral.

XFX can't even optimize the fan & heatsink correctly when their cooler designs are dedicated to Radeon GPUs.
>'Better hotspot temp'
It's one of the loudest 9070 XT cards, and they provide no quiet/dual BIOS.

The build quality of the ASUS Prime card is also different from the Prime motherboards.
ASUS released Prime as the new SFF/base MSRP cards for this gen whilst pushing the TUF a tier higher.