The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

WARburton · 19 Mar 2025 at 23:02

jimhaumman said:
I assume I've got the worst 9070 out there

what card did you have? and what games did you test with?
my 9070 Nitro will boost to 3200 is squads with no real changes

Fizz · 19 Mar 2025 at 23:04

Bidley said:
They have done that for FSR3.1.

Indeed, I didn't think they had released the FSR4 DLL files though have they?

Fizz · 19 Mar 2025 at 23:05

WARburton said:
for got all about this

@CAT-THE-FIFTH
9070 Nitro+

Beast!

mite_jan · 19 Mar 2025 at 23:25

Fizz said:
For sure, I hope we get mass implementation of FSR4 in games sooner rather than later, maybe they'll be more compelled to push it out sooner considering the huge success of the 9000 series.

I wish they would have made it like XeSS where you could just replace the lib files and hey presto you're now running 1.3 or whatever. Idk, maybe that wasn't an option but OptiScaler works great for now.

did you managed to get fsr4 with rise of the ronin , optiscaler worked fine on ninja gaiden 2 but not on that one , although latest nightbuild lets me enable dlss and the difference in quality is much better than fsr3

Fizz · 19 Mar 2025 at 23:27

mite_jan said:
did you managed to get fsr4 with rise of the ronin , optiscaler worked fine on ninja gaiden 2 but not on that one , although latest nightbuild lets me enable dlss and the difference in quality is much better than fsr3

I haven't tried it with that one.

prav · 19 Mar 2025 at 23:55

Thanks to the various people (@Kirkatron is who I saw but lots of people seem to have mentioned it now I search) who suggested Steel Nomad for exposing undervolt instability. -115mV seemed completely stable in all the games I'd played (in fact -130 had seemed stable but I didn't run it at that for long, even -150 could run Time Spy), but I had to go down to -95 to never crash in Steel Nomad.

jimhaumman · 20 Mar 2025 at 04:59

WARburton said:
what card did you have? and what games did you test with?
my 9070 Nitro will boost to 3200 is squads with no real changes

Sapphire Pulse 9070.
I'm going to contact Sapphire support.

Squakingcow · 20 Mar 2025 at 06:26

Phixsator said:
I see. Doesn't explain the 99th% though. It would explain the 90%ish GPU utilization. To make matters worse, it seems a lot of people are having issues with helldivers 2 so no point in wasting hours on it as it could also just be a game issue. WTFK

I've got a 5800x3d +9070 xt as well, Helldivers 2 will end up hitting a CPU bottleneck, especially if there's a lot of fog around.

I also initially had loads of stuttering, and turning off anti-lag sorted that.

Have you got HT enabled on your CPU? HD2 seems to like threads so if you've got it off that could make the bottleneck worse potentially.

Kirkatron · 20 Mar 2025 at 06:59

prav said:
Thanks to the various people (@Kirkatron is who I saw but lots of people seem to have mentioned it now I search) who suggested Steel Nomad for exposing undervolt instability. -115mV seemed completely stable in all the games I'd played (in fact -130 had seemed stable but I didn't run it at that for long, even -150 could run Time Spy), but I had to go down to -95 to never crash in Steel Nomad.

It has negligible impact in game performance changing from -115 to -90 luckily. All my games bar Space Marine 2 seem to handle the lower setting of -115.

WARburton · 20 Mar 2025 at 07:19

jimhaumman said:
Sapphire Pulse 9070.
I'm going to contact Sapphire support.

thats one of the lower end card with lower power limit its recomander game clock is only 2000mhz

GPU: Boost Clock: Up to 2520 MHz
GPU: Game Clock: Up to 2070 MHz

if you have it in budget, return it and get a better one, i know my card will do 3100mhz in game, thats a big differance

Tejstar · 20 Mar 2025 at 08:29

For those with the Nitro cards, do you need to install the ARGB cable if you want to control colours / turn RGB off via the STRIXX software?

I forgot to install that cable...

Phixsator · 20 Mar 2025 at 08:34

Squakingcow said:
I've got a 5800x3d +9070 xt as well, Helldivers 2 will end up hitting a CPU bottleneck, especially if there's a lot of fog around.

I also initially had loads of stuttering, and turning off anti-lag sorted that.

Have you got HT enabled on your CPU? HD2 seems to like threads so if you've got it off that could make the bottleneck worse potentially.

All 8 cores and 16 thread are enabled. Never seen more than 50% CPU utilization in Helldivers 2. Anyway, I installed my trusty linux distro and now without any faffing about Helldivers 2 are running completely smooth, with a higher stable base framerate than my win 11 install. No weird 99th% drops.

WARburton · 20 Mar 2025 at 09:01

Tejstar said:
For those with the Nitro cards, do you need to install the ARGB cable if you want to control colours / turn RGB off via the STRIXX software?

I forgot to install that cable...

no you link the cable if you want the RGB controlled by your motherboard.
if your going to let the card run the RGB you use the trixx software, the good thing is you dont need to install it.
download the program and it will open without install yoiu can then chouse to install it or just set the RGB setting and close the program

Game · 20 Mar 2025 at 09:01

Phixsator said:
All 8 cores and 16 thread are enabled. Never seen more than 50% CPU utilization in Helldivers 2. Anyway, I installed my trusty linux distro and now without any faffing about Helldivers 2 are running completely smooth, with a higher stable base framerate than my win 11 install. No weird 99th% drops.

which linus do you use

Craig_d1 · 20 Mar 2025 at 09:19

Tejstar said:
For those with the Nitro cards, do you need to install the ARGB cable if you want to control colours / turn RGB off via the STRIXX software?

I forgot to install that cable...

WARburton said:
no you link the cable if you want the RGB controlled by your motherboard.
if your going to let the card run the RGB you use the trixx software, the good thing is you dont need to install it.
download the program and it will open without install yoiu can then chouse to install it or just set the RGB setting and close the program

you still need to hook up the cable though. i had no spare header on my mobo so had a splitter on my air cooler and plugged cable in there...there is within the trixx software(i downloaded it) a tick box which then links the rgb to mobo...so mine is now controlled by armory crate on my strix board

hornetstinger · 20 Mar 2025 at 09:23

Are there any PCI-E cables for my corsair PSU with 90 bend, I'm having some issues with the side mounted case fan.

unless I use a narrower 8cm-12cm fan adapter.

Phixsator · 20 Mar 2025 at 09:45

Game said:
which linus do you use

I'm running the distro called CachyOS so Arch. As I'm no Linux connoisseur I find it(CachyOS) easy to work with and get started. Latest ISO already comes with the required Kernel and Mesa to use the 9070. I would just recommend getting the latest linux firmware git installed from AUR as well. Lact for basic GPU voltage and power controls. All i really need

.

For clues on what you might need if your interested, take a look Wendels thread from levelonetech

WARburton · 20 Mar 2025 at 09:53

Craig_d1 said:
you still need to hook up the cable though. i had no spare header on my mobo so had a splitter on my air cooler and plugged cable in there...there is within the trixx software(i downloaded it) a tick box which then links the rgb to mobo...so mine is now controlled by armory crate on my strix board

Tejstar said:
do you need to install the ARGB cable if you want to control colours / turn RGB off via the STRIXX software

if you want to use the TRIXX softwear the cable is not needed, obtusely if you want your board to control it you need the cable

Glanza · 20 Mar 2025 at 10:33

Tejstar · 20 Mar 2025 at 12:35

WARburton said:
no you link the cable if you want the RGB controlled by your motherboard.
if your going to let the card run the RGB you use the trixx software, the good thing is you dont need to install it.
download the program and it will open without install yoiu can then chouse to install it or just set the RGB setting and close the program

Craig_d1 said:
you still need to hook up the cable though. i had no spare header on my mobo so had a splitter on my air cooler and plugged cable in there...there is within the trixx software(i downloaded it) a tick box which then links the rgb to mobo...so mine is now controlled by armory crate on my strix board

Thanks for the replies both. It's a good thing that I don't need to properly install TRIXX either. I did't want to install the cable as I'm not big into RGB, but it might be nice to change the timing of colour changes, or just to turn the RGB all off!