{"slug": "r9700-and-9070xt-is-there-a-good-way-of-combining-them", "title": "R9700 and 9070XT, is there a good way of combining them?", "summary": "A Level1Techs forum user asks whether to keep both an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and an AMD Ryzen 9 9700X (R9700) for AI workloads, noting that with llama.cpp split-mode layer they could run models like Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL with full 256k context, but most advice suggests selling the 9070 XT to recoup costs.", "body_md": "[aram](https://forum.level1techs.com/u/aram)\n1\n \nHi there,\n\nI have been playing with a 9070XT until recently, but had some money saving and saw an R9700 at a not completely crazy price in the UK and got it.\n\nNow I am wondering if it is worth it to keep both (will need a new PSU). Or if I am better off selling the 9070XT to recoup some of my expense.\n\nI have had a look around and in Reddit and mostly I get the impression that selling and recouping is my best option, but there’s been enough videos about the R9700 in the youtube channel that I thought “Maybe someone in the forums has a good idea?”\n\n \n\n \nwith llama.cpp you can use split-mode layer to run models that are 32+16 GB\n\nYou could fit [Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF?show_file_info=Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf) with the full 256k context windows and MTP", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/r9700-and-9070xt-is-there-a-good-way-of-combining-them", "canonical_source": "https://forum.level1techs.com/t/r9700-and-9070xt-is-there-a-good-way-of-combining-them/255210#post_2", "published_at": "2026-09-06 22:34:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-06 23:30:52.016240+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Level1Techs", "AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT", "AMD Ryzen 9 9700X", "llama.cpp", "Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/r9700-and-9070xt-is-there-a-good-way-of-combining-them", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/r9700-and-9070xt-is-there-a-good-way-of-combining-them.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/r9700-and-9070xt-is-there-a-good-way-of-combining-them.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/r9700-and-9070xt-is-there-a-good-way-of-combining-them.jsonld"}}