The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

[michty_me]

Apparently Yeston (the brand) has predicted supply will improve after April. Gonna kick myself if I keep it and prices improve or if I send it back and they don't...
I always seem to do it, I buy something AMD and then a few weeks later it drops in price.

Thanks for your service as always GoogalyMoogaly!
Out of interest, how much over MSRP did you pay? How long do you keep a card normally?

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Thanks for your service as always GoogalyMoogaly!
Out of interest, how much over MSRP did you pay? How long do you keep a card normally?

£65, although it is a Pure which I don't think was available for MSRP, but is also not much different to justify much of a price increase.
Not sure how long I'll keep it to be honest, could be 1 generation, could be 2. Might be more if prices get out of control!

 

[GhostDog1981]

£65, although it is a Pure which I don't think was available for MSRP, but is also not much different to justify much of a price increase.
Not sure how long I'll keep it to be honest, could be 1 generation, could be 2. Might be more if prices get out of control!

I had a 9070XT (£670 so £100 over msrp) for exactly 24hrs and buyer’s remorse kicked in and I returned vowing to make do for a generation but I’ll likely succumb again to my frivolous side if a msrp model comes again for £570.

 

[Phixsator]

I'm using my 9070 with a 5700X3D and it's great, no bottlenecking. Easy to max out the GPU, especially at 4K.

I can't see any reason why it would bottleneck the XT, they're very similar cards.

My 9070 is lightly bottlenecked by my 5800x3D in Cyberpunk 1440P Ultrawide. So I think it's right there on the edge of being enough for the 9070 series. Most other games have been fine however, maxing out my 9070.

 

[michty_me]

Understandable. No one likes taking one in the farter especially when prices could dip in a few weeks/months.
Gibbo has stated he can see some movement in price come April. That's not long away...

 

[WARburton]

My 9070 is lightly bottlenecked by my 5800x3D in Cyberpunk 1440P Ultrawide. So I think it's right there on the edge of being enough for the 9070 series. Most other games have been fine however, maxing out my 9070.

that shocks me a little, what GPU usage do you get in game.
because AMD generally dose better with older/slower CPU's and your 5800x3d should be will upto the job

ive found my 9070 to do much better in games like Squad that are very badly CPU bottle necked then my 4080s
for the first time in a long time im getting upto 165FPs average in a game that my 4080s could only manage 130 average at native 1440p, because AMD is less taxing on the CPU
my average CPU usage used to be 20% im not seeing 35% and all i have done is change the GPU

 

[WARburton]

I had a 9070XT (£670 so £100 over msrp) for exactly 24hrs and buyer’s remorse kicked in and I returned vowing to make do for a generation but I’ll likely succumb again to my frivolous side if a msrp model comes again for £570.

if the 9070xt dropped to £570 id upgrade in a heartbeat, but as it sits price to performance vs Nvidia GPU's there already cheap at £670

EDIT: infact i paid £630 for a none XT and the level of performance im getting, id say im happy with paying that

 

[adidan]

My 9070 is lightly bottlenecked by my 5800x3D in Cyberpunk 1440P Ultrawide. So I think it's right there on the edge of being enough for the 9070 series. Most other games have been fine however, maxing out my 9070.

FWiW I'm running a 5700X with a 9070 in Cyberpunk at ultra/no RT and it's maxing the GPU out but it's just a regular, not ultra wide monitor.

 

[Tythus]

£65, although it is a Pure which I don't think was available for MSRP, but is also not much different to justify much of a price increase.
Not sure how long I'll keep it to be honest, could be 1 generation, could be 2. Might be more if prices get out of control!

yeah pures not an MSRP card you've at most probs only over paid by like £30 tops

 

[WARburton]

FWiW I'm running a 5700X with a 9070 in Cyberpunk at ultra/no RT and it's maxing the GPU out but it's just a regular, not ultra wide monitor.

that should put more load on the GPU not the CPU. the higher the res the more the load moves to the GPU

 

[BhunaGroot]

First post, been lurking for a while.
Got my Gigabyte 9070 xt last week. Loving it so far.

 

[eeii]

For future monitor upgrade, should I stick with 1440p or consider 4K? What if I use FSR scaling to 4K does it have a large hit in performance, or not much? If I go for QD oled people complain that because of the pixel structure 1440p there is purple haze, but 4K won't show that because of the much smaller pixels.

ultra wide is where cool kids play. 3840x1600 not as punishing as 4k but still a good eye full.

 

[WARburton]

ultra wide is where cool kids play. 3840x1600 not as punishing as 4k but still a good eye full.

that completely depends on what you do, in a lot of cases UW is the worst thing you can buy
ill i do is game i grabbed a Samsung UW and 30 days latter i want back to a standard 32"

 

[Fizz]

27" 1440p is where it's at peeps.

Currently have an IPS panel I think my next big buy will be an OLED, not any time in the near future though since I just blew nearly 600 quid on a new graphics card on a whim Definitely worth it though!

 

[ICDP]

if the 9070xt dropped to £570 id upgrade in a heartbeat, but as it sits price to performance vs Nvidia GPU's there already cheap at £670

EDIT: infact i paid £630 for a none XT and the level of performance im getting, id say im happy with paying that

I paid £630 for a 9070 XT Pulse. So not terrible compared to how they are priced now. But just because Nvidia prices are even worse, does not make £670 or higher “good value”.

I do still roll my eyes at the idiots who compare it with the 5070Ti as if they are the same tier of GPU.

 

[hornetstinger]

Gou will be here today

 

[Game]

£65, although it is a Pure which I don't think was available for MSRP, but is also not much different to justify much of a price increase.
Not sure how long I'll keep it to be honest, could be 1 generation, could be 2. Might be more if prices get out of control!

the pure is not a msrp card so would be £50+ over you pay more for white in this world for cpu bits and bobs

 

[adidan]

that should put more load on the GPU not the CPU. the higher the res the more the load moves to the GPU

Yeah it was just posted as a reference point for them really, not seen my GPU hindered by just a 5700X on a 'regular' monitor so not really sure why a 5800X3D on an UW would.

It just confused me a bit. Mind you, that's easily done sometimes.

 

[Phixsator]

that shocks me a little, what GPU usage do you get in game.
because AMD generally dose better with older/slower CPU's and your 5800x3d should be will upto the job

ive found my 9070 to do much better in games like Squad that are very badly CPU bottle necked then my 4080s
for the first time in a long time im getting upto 165FPs average in a game that my 4080s could only manage 130 average at native 1440p, because AMD is less taxing on the CPU
my average CPU usage used to be 20% im not seeing 35% and all i have done is change the GPU

GPU usage is around the 95% most of the time but I do see brief drops to 80ish%. CPU is pegged at 80+ on all cores when this happens and is at times even when GPU util is also maxed. Very scene dependant. Don't get me wrong here. I'm not trying to create drama or paint a bad picture of the 5800X3D. It's still an awesome and capable CPU. It just seems like the minimums are starting ever so slightly to suffer a little. This is a fresh install of win 11, with drivers, discord, VLC, Heroic Laucher, Steam and a browser and nothing else. No 3rd party tools and windows is cleaned for bloat as much as possible.

FWiW I'm running a 5700X with a 9070 in Cyberpunk at ultra/no RT and it's maxing the GPU out but it's just a regular, not ultra wide monitor.

Is this during the benchmark in the game or actual gameplay, cause I see a big difference between the 2.

 

[adidan]

Is this during the benchmark in the game or actual gameplay, cause I see a big difference between the 2.

Gameplay.

Can't remember during the benchmark, can give that a rerun later though.

E: I'll be honest I've not looked in detail into it so although it does max out I can't say how often it does that, or just hit it at a peak on a random point during gaming, for example.

E: E: Couldn't resist and ran a quick benchmark and quickly checked GPU-Z that showed a sustained 99/100% in the benchmark