The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

[matty007]

I've noticed that Adrenaline has started forgetting my settings after a reboot. Im pretty sure it was remembering them previously?

Is this normal?

Disable fast boot in Power Options. Fixes it for most

If that still doesn’t work -

Download Vivetool from GitHub
Unpack to C:\Vivetool
Start PowerShell as Admin
Type ‘cd c:\vivetool’ and hit enter
Copy and paste (including the .) ./vivetool /disable /id:44774629,44776738,44850061,42105254,41655236
Hit enter
Reboot

The second one fixed it for me personally. If it still doesn’t work it’s either an unstable UV/OC (if that applies to you) or Adrenaline being Adrenaline.

 

[Phixsator]

Disable fast boot in Power Options. Fixes it for most

If that still doesn’t work -

Download Vivetool from GitHub
Unpack to C:\Vivetool
Start PowerShell as Admin
Type ‘cd c:\vivetool’ and hit enter
Copy and paste (including the .) ./vivetool /disable /id:44774629,44776738,44850061,42105254,41655236
Hit enter
Reboot

The second one fixed it for me personally. If it still doesn’t work it’s either an unstable UV/OC (if that applies to you) or Adrenaline being Adrenaline.

It's odd that some people have this issue. Wonder why. I've never had it in the many years of using the Adrenalin driver package. Only if the system doesn't shut down cleanly would it reset.

 

[matty007]

It's odd that some people have this issue. Wonder why. I've never had it in the many years of using the Adrenalin driver package. Only if the system doesn't shut down cleanly would it reset.

For most, it will be an unstable OC/UV. Not enough to crash the driver, but it will reset settings. The majority of the remainder will fix it by disabling Fast Boot as Windows often flushes cache on startup with it enabled and it will cause Adrenaline to reset.

In my case, Vivetool fixed it. The only time it resets now is if the system is shutdown uncleanly .

But at the end of the day, Windows and Adrenaline act differently on every system and some people keep getting resets despite trying everything.

 

[matty007]

I believe someone was working on a script to force auto apply settings on startup to avoid this issue, but don’t think it’s been released yet.

Adrenaline is vastly superior to GeForce and the settings reset issue is really the only thing I can fault with Adrenaline now. Despite me fixing it on my system with Vivetool, I personally know a LOT of people with AMD cards even running at stock who keep getting settings resets despite disabling Fast Boot and using Vivetool etc.

It’s far from a severe issue and more of a minor annoyance, but it does need to be addressed. I still check OC/UV settings are applied in Adrenaline before I start every game out of pure habit lol

 

[matty007]

Just tried GOW Ragnarok with FSR4. Absolutely incredible. A solid 85-90fps at 4K maxed with FSR4 ultra quality. Looks completely indistinguishable from native. Quality looks virtually the same at over 100fps.

Performance setting still looks vastly better than 3.1 Ultra Quality and is perfectly satisfactory even to my very picky eyes. On performance I can nearly max out my 65” S95 OLED at 135-140fps.

 

[jimhaumman]

XFX fitted - roughly 2x performance of 3060ti I had before

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Hi mate.
Happy with you new gpu?
What sort of temps,gpu clocks are you getting? Is it quiet, fan speed?
I think about buing one.
Thanks

 

[AWardy]

Seeing boost of upto 3090 on the GPU and Memory Temps of 82 on the Sapphire Pule 9070XT after a breif glance with no tinkering. Decent boost speed, memory is a tad warm, will see if it hits 90 after a prolonged session.

 

[matty007]

Seeing boost of upto 3090 on the GPU and Memory Temps of 82 on the Sapphire Pule 9070XT after a breif glance with no tinkering. Decent boost speed, memory is a tad warm, will see if it hits 90 after a prolonged session.

Umm, that’s quite hot memory temps running at stock. Mine running at 2824mhz and fast timing sit around 82-85c.

It’s still within spec comfortably (105c limit) but I’m surprised it’s that hot at stock. What’s your case/airflow like?. Although memory temps are usually influenced by the pad application rather than cooling.

I’d keep an eye on it if you overclock the memory as you’ll get very toasty.

 

[ezekial]

Mine is in and going nicely, over 1k frmes in the Rocket League menu which is amusing, went from 55 frames to 299 in Helldivers 2 on the same settings vs the 6700.

What cpu do you have and what settings are you using on helldivers?

 

[matty007]

I just got RDR2 working with Optiscaler and FSR4 (you can’t use Rockstar Launcher and have to use the game without it which you can only do in certain ways wink wink).

It is frankly amazing to finally see RDR2 sharp and with good aliasing. RDR2 usually either looks too blurry, too many jaggies etc. It never looked right despite all the aliasing options. On FSR4 ultra quality I’m getting over 110fps maxed out.

I am also pulling around 10fps more than my 7900XTX (native vs native) which is quite surprising. Likely due to my much better UV/OC on the 9070XT

 

[Kirkatron]

I just got RDR2 working with Optiscaler and FSR4 (you can’t use Rockstar Launcher and have to use the game without it which you can only do in certain ways wink wink).

It is frankly amazing to finally see RDR2 sharp and with good aliasing. RDR2 usually either looks too blurry, too many jaggies etc. It never looked right despite all the aliasing options. On FSR4 ultra quality I’m getting over 110fps maxed out.

I am also pulling around 10fps more than my 7900XTX (native vs native) which is quite surprising. Likely due to my much better UV/OC on the 9070XT

I've not played a game where my 7900 XTX did better yet and that had a decent UV and was running at 1090mV. They are pretty much identical but I now have the bonus of FSR 4. This card punches above its weight.

 

[new boy]

After setting up my new monitor a few days a go, I started crashing to a grey screen on the desktop whilst browsing the internet etc. games were always fine, but then after I stop playing and mess about on the internet, grey screen.

New screen is 360hz old screen is 165hz.

I lowered my (quite aggressive) vram OC by 50MHz and then no more issues.

I wonder if the card is not giving the memory enough juice at idle to run the monitor at 360Hz?

Not the end of the world, and if it proves stable for a few weeks I'll try to bump it up a little bit more

 

[AWardy]

Umm, that’s quite hot memory temps running at stock. Mine running at 2824mhz and fast timing sit around 82-85c.

It’s still within spec comfortably (105c limit) but I’m surprised it’s that hot at stock. What’s your case/airflow like?. Although memory temps are usually influenced by the pad application rather than cooling.

I’d keep an eye on it if you overclock the memory as you’ll get very toasty.

Yeah I was planning to see what it's doing at stock then adjust the fan curves, can't see any sign of any updates from manufacturers adjusting stock fan speeds to cool the memory more. Decent boost and at least the memory isn't in the 90s yet.

 

[ICDP]

I've not played a game where my 7900 XTX did better yet and that had a decent UV and was running at 1090mV. They are pretty much identical but I now have the bonus of FSR 4. This card punches above its weight.

I think the basic takeaway is the upper mid range GPU from AMD meets or exceeds last gens high end. So in effect AMD delivers what is expected, about 25% - 30% better performance than a where a GRE was. Hardly spectacular when looked at it from that perspective and right around the lower end for a node increase.

Where AMD really upped their game was in upscaling and RT. So on its own merits it really does look good overall.

It’s also helped that Nvidia Lackwell delivered well below even these average expectations of gen on gen improvements.

 

[AWardy]

What cpu do you have and what settings are you using on helldivers?

7800x3d, the 6700 was on medium settings, I think it was classified as custom at 1440p mind. I've swapped to Ulta settings now

 

[matty007]

I've not played a game where my 7900 XTX did better yet and that had a decent UV and was running at 1090mV. They are pretty much identical but I now have the bonus of FSR 4. This card punches above its weight.

100%. And that’s with these cards being power limited too. My 7900XTX drew 485W, this draws 370w.

Imagine what these cards could do near 500w with a 15% power limit…

 

[matty007]

Yeah I was planning to see what it's doing at stock then adjust the fan curves, can't see any sign of any updates from manufacturers adjusting stock fan speeds to cool the memory more. Decent boost and at least the memory isn't in the 90s yet.

Fan curves won’t really make a difference to memory temperature in my experience. A little, but not much. Cooling can help, which is why I asked about your case cooling, but most of it comes from pad/paste application.

I’ve had some cards that got to insane memory temperatures/hotspots despite optimum case cooling. Only way to fix it really was redoing thermal pads.

I mean, if it’s in spec, it’s fine. But you could quickly run out of thermal headroom if overclocking the memory.

 

[matty007]

After setting up my new monitor a few days a go, I started crashing to a grey screen on the desktop whilst browsing the internet etc. games were always fine, but then after I stop playing and mess about on the internet, grey screen.

New screen is 360hz old screen is 165hz.

I lowered my (quite aggressive) vram OC by 50MHz and then no more issues.

I wonder if the card is not giving the memory enough juice at idle to run the monitor at 360Hz?

Not the end of the world, and if it proves stable for a few weeks I'll try to bump it up a little bit more

The VRAM is stressed more and differently at higher refreshes. Quite common for a VRAM overclock to become unstable when increasing refresh rate. Nothing to do with the power.

 

[new boy]

The VRAM is stressed more and differently at higher refreshes. Quite common for a VRAM overclock to become unstable when increasing refresh rate. Nothing to do with the power.

But for me the issue is that it only falls over at idle. Looking at HWinfo now, my mem clock is currently 909MHz and it is in that state that it is crashing. My overclock is irrelevant as its only ticking over.

I guess when you overclock the memory by say 200MHz you are not only increasing the max frequency by 200MHz but also the lower power state frequencies by 200MHz which is unfortunate if true as doing so is kinda pointless and limits what you can achieve where it matters.

 

[matty007]

Hardly spectacular when looked at it from that perspective and right around the lower end for a node increase

That’s entirely by choice though..

Reducing to a 4nm node allowed them to get comparable performance (with UV/overclock) to a 7900XTX, drawing 100w less. That’s actually quite significant.

Give these cards 100w more and a higher 15% power limit and they would absolutely breeze past a 7900XTX with ease. These cards are insanely power limited and there’s loads left under the hood. When someone manages to unlock the power limit and get a faster bios, it will be very interesting with these cards.

AMD are at upper midrange this gen entirely by choice. Mostly because that’s where most of the money is, and secondly because they know how good FSR4 is and that these cards are able to get very high frames at 4K with FSR4 and very little degradation in picture quality.

I’d argue that a 9070XT with a strong overclock is high end though. And, if AMD wanted to, they could have easily made a 9090XTX with this node and a higher power limit which would have been an absolute monster.