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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

ICDP said:
Because setting a frame rate limit that is under the GPUs maximum usage will use almost the exact same power regardless of your power limit or undervolt.

For example

CP2077 Full Ultra RT at 1440p with FSR4 Performance =107 FPS. Stock 9070 XT 304w

Set FPS limit to 60FPS in game and it uses ~115w

Set -30% Power limit and 60FPs in game and it uses ~115w

Set my max stable OC that gives ~10% extra performance bit still limit to 60 FPS. And it uses ~115w

It already set well above the minimum FPS, so power usage is identical. It’s just thermodynamics. Don’t get me wrong there will be cases a max OC is beneficial to keep minimum FPS higher in highly demanding games. But when you are fighting to get 55 FPS and 10% balls to the wall overclock gets you 60 FPS, it kinda becomes moot if you have a VRR monitor.
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I agree that with the same settings the frame cap and equivalent power limit will use the same power.

So what's the advantage of setting a power limit over a frame limit?
 
WARburton said:
do your GPU's run hot? with my 9070 at -75mv +15% i game at 65c with the wife's setting the heating to full as normal
i cant imagine the summer getting much warmer
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Mine is roughly the same. I haven't checked the hotspot temp yet.
But I can feel my 3 120MM AIO top fans kicking out some nice heat during a gaming session that gets thrown at my legs.
So heat has to go somewhere.
 
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you have one of the coolest running cpu's out there, if your AIO is banging out some heat you may need to bump the fans a little bit.
i keep that CPU very much under control with an ITX cooler

i was more refereeing to you saying your will run -10% in the summer, i dont think this is the type of GPU thats going to need it, unless we get another 35c summer
 
hornetstinger said:
Whose 9070 vrm whines or is silent?

Check when disabling sync so goes 500fps
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at insane FPS like running heaven i get a very little buzz if i hug the GPU but fixed at 165hz its silent.
you cant hear it with the side panel on when running heaven

the good old whines test is the first thing i did when getting the gpu
 
WARburton said:
at insane FPS like running heaven i get a very little buzz if i hug the GPU but fixed at 165hz its silent.
you cant hear it with the side panel on when running heaven

the good old whines test is the first thing i did when getting the gpu
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I had heaven in 1080p running at 300++fps couldn't hear a thing over my case fans. My 3090 used to buzz a bit at those speeds.

maybe i am just getting older. :cry:
 
Unsure whether to post this here or in the 9800X3D thread.

I've upgraded CPU to 9800X3D and now getting better scores in Timespy, but not what i was expecting

Overall: 26738
CPU: 15259
GFX: 30832

I've applied undervolts to the CPU and GPU, but looking at some of the scores for my kit on the 3DMark site, i'm not scoring great (our own LTMatt has 30469 for example)

Any ideas how to improve it?
 
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