The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

Jonno19111 · 4 Apr 2025 at 11:18

Kirkatron said:
Doesn't impact you much at all, so no biggie as you said, but I get the feeling.
Have you checked your vram temps?

They top out at 90 after a long period of time.

I did have a little chuckle at some of the irony in someone saying, "When did advising people to just enjoy their GPU and not worry about margin of error" on a site specifically named Overclockers.

hornetstinger · 4 Apr 2025 at 11:21

My vram doesn't reach 90 but I have decent cooling. Think around 83 or so max.

Bit of a concern when we get a heatwave, probably put case fans on performance mode and increase the fan setting on the GPU.

I have set GPU fan always on, I noticed hotspot and VRAM was getting a bit toasty and the GPU was still off. 600rpm or so enough for safe zone to have direct airflow up the gpu

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 11:24

Jonno19111 said:
They top out at 90 after a long period of time.

I did have a little chuckle at some of the irony in someone saying, "When did advising people to just enjoy their GPU and not worry about margin of error" on a site specifically named Overclockers.

Sounds like your GPU is fine, just unlucky with the silicon. It happens.

Street · 4 Apr 2025 at 13:03

I fitted my new 9070XT last night and am impressed! It's a huge jump up from my aging 2080Ti and gives a massive boost in frame rates at higher details. I've not had a chance to play around with under volting yet but I might see if I can tweak it some over the weekend.

ICDP · 4 Apr 2025 at 13:12

Jonno19111 said:
They top out at 90 after a long period of time.

I did have a little chuckle at some of the irony in someone saying, "When did advising people to just enjoy their GPU and not worry about margin of error" on a site specifically named Overclockers.

You are absolutely correct, go ahead and start an RMA on that broken GPU of yours

Disclaimer: The above is meant as a joke and not to be taken seriously… or as being confrontational.

Jonno19111 · 4 Apr 2025 at 13:23

ICDP said:
You are absolutely correct, go ahead and start an RMA on that broken GPU of yours

Disclaimer: The above is meant as a joke and not to be taken seriously… or as being confrontational.

Was more looking for expected behaviour moreso than performance. When it crashes from pushing the clock too far (however small that may be in my case) i've never had a GPU that wouldn't recover from it. I have to hold down the power button and hard reset the PC every time it happens which made testing it pretty irritating.

And dw i took that as a joke. Was just amusing scrolling through replies and seeing something akin to "why do you care, don't worry about your performance" on an overclocking forum.

ICDP · 4 Apr 2025 at 13:30

No worries, as long as you understand I’m only joking.

My own 9070 XT is at best adequate for overclocking it can run Steel Nomad all day at -80mV and 2730 VRAM. Yet some games crash and show VRAM performance drops at anything above 2700 and -45mV.

Though for my failed overclocks it can take about a minute to recover, is yours doing this at every driver lockup?

Jonno19111 · 4 Apr 2025 at 13:41

ICDP said:
No worries, as long as you understand I’m only joking.

My own 9070 XT is at best adequate for overclocking it can run Steel Nomad all day at -80mV and 2730 VRAM. Yet some games crash and show VRAM performance drops at anything above 2700 and -45mV.

Though for my failed overclocks it can take about a minute to recover, is yours doing this at every driver lockup?

Yep, every time it locks up i'm greeted with a black screen, my RGB running through Icue resets to defaults and all the fans in my case begin to spool down.

It's not just the crashes from going "too far" too though, it's the insane flickering i get past ~100mhz. I'm used to seeing performance degradation or artifacting but not this.

ICDP · 4 Apr 2025 at 13:58

I would try with a minimal boot including turning off all the rgb software.

I don’t mean a safe boot but go to task manager and the start up apps tab. Then disable all the extra 3rd party apps to see what happens.

Jonno19111 · 4 Apr 2025 at 14:22

ICDP said:
I would try with a minimal boot including turning off all the rgb software.

I don’t mean a safe boot but go to task manager and the start up apps tab. Then disable all the extra 3rd party apps to see what happens.

Did all that and here's an example of the behaviour i was talking about https://streamable.com/vt8xdr

This is +10% PL, -50mV, VRAM set to 2650mhz without Fast Timings.
Used Furmark just because it's quick and easy but the same thing happens in any game or synthetic.

The flickering gets progressively more intense for every +25mhz over 2550, so this was right on the edge (probably less than +20mhz) of where it would just fully black screen.

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 14:30

Jonno19111 said:
Did all that and here's an example of the behaviour i was talking about https://streamable.com/vt8xdr

This is +10% PL, -50mV, VRAM set to 2650mhz without Fast Timings.
Used Furmark just because it's quick and easy but the same thing happens in any game or synthetic.

The flickering gets progressively more intense for every +25mhz over 2550, so this was right on the edge (probably less than +20mhz) of where it would just fully black screen.

That's strange behaviour for a VRAM issue. Usually you get polygon errors, crash to desktop with driver timeout or performance drop as it corrects for errors.

Have you tried using 25.3.1 drivers? There is a screen flickering issue with 25.3.2 when used with VRR, but that is usually only with certain apps like Edge. I haven't seen anyone reporting screen flicker in games.

See if anyone in the AMD driver thread has experienced what you are.

Jonno19111 · 4 Apr 2025 at 14:37

Kirkatron said:
That's strange behaviour for a VRAM issue. Usually you get polygon errors, crash to desktop with driver timeout or performance drop as it corrects for errors.

Have you tried using 25.3.1 drivers? There is a screen flickering issue with 25.3.2 when used with VRR, but that is usually only with certain apps like Edge. I haven't seen anyone reporting screen flicker in games.

See if anyone in the AMD driver thread has experienced what you are.

This was on freshly installed 25.3.1 drivers.

And that's what i mean haha i've never seen anything like this and the card i had before was a 7900XTX.

MCFC_ANDY · 4 Apr 2025 at 14:39

ppl need to understand sometimes things are not plug n play, sometimes its best detective hat on searching for why my shiny gpu isnt working correctly, took me 2 full days to sort out and get working, the satisfaction you get from that is great, best smug face

but sometimes there are faulty gpu's. but in over 30yrs ive never had one, not saying there wernt issues, but everyone sorted.

i think the term faulty is over used imo

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 15:24

Jonno19111 said:
This was on freshly installed 25.3.1 drivers.

And that's what i mean haha i've never seen anything like this and the card i had before was a 7900XTX.

Does it do the same behaviour on all the output ports of the board too? HDMI and DP?

Jonno19111 · 4 Apr 2025 at 15:27

Kirkatron said:
Does it do the same behaviour on all the output ports of the board too? HDMI and DP?

Yep, iGPU on 9800X3D also disabled.
Thought it could be down to VRR or odd behaviour with mismatched monitor refresh rates (one is 240hz and the other is 144hz) but nope, same thing happens with only one monitor plugged in.

Also wanna be 100% clear that i'm not saying it's faulty. I've just never experienced this behaviour before and wanted to know if anyone else had experienced anything similar.

Funky-Melon · 4 Apr 2025 at 15:31

fs123 said:
You got a different newer version of BO6 in the left screenshot. Maybe the updates caused some performance regression. Seems like other people are also seeing big drops in fps after some patch updates.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops6/comments/1h7g8my/every_major_update_caused_a_2030_performance/

If other games are giving expected results then BO6 itself is the issue, not the 9070XT.

Ah, good spot.

The devs for that game are complete twits and forever breaking things so it wouldn't surprise me if this was the issue.

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 15:46

Jonno19111 said:
Yep, iGPU on 9800X3D also disabled.
Thought it could be down to VRR or odd behaviour with mismatched monitor refresh rates (one is 240hz and the other is 144hz) but nope, same thing happens with only one monitor plugged in.

Also wanna be 100% clear that i'm not saying it's faulty. I've just never experienced this behaviour before and wanted to know if anyone else had experienced anything similar.

Yeah, not saying it's faulty either. As I said I think your GPU is fine. The flickering is definitely a weird behaviour I've never seen before either. Hopefully someone can help.

ICDP · 4 Apr 2025 at 16:45

Make sure you aren’t daisy chaining on a 2x8 pin GPU.

Try different PCIE power connectors from your PSU

Try a different PCIE slot.

Though considering you changed from a 7900 I can’t see it being any of that.

If you have access to another PC try the card in that. If it still happens I would RMA. I know I joked about that earlier but here’s hoping I didn’t actually jinx you!

Jonno19111 · 4 Apr 2025 at 16:57

ICDP said:
Make sure you aren’t daisy chaining on a 2x8 pin GPU.

Try different PCIE power connectors from your PSU

Try a different PCIE slot.

Though considering you changed from a 7900 I can’t see it being any of that.

If you have access to another PC try the card in that. If it still happens I would RMA. I know I joked about that earlier but here’s hoping I didn’t actually jinx you!

3x8 pins are all independent and no daisy chains.

Had a 5700X3D AM4 system before this and used the 9070XT with it for about half a day before my other parts arrived (B650, 6000 CL30 RAM, 9800X3D) so the system is actually brand new. Means i'm 99.9% sure it's none of the other components.

Would test in the AM4 setup but unfortunately sold the parts already so nothing else i can test with.

As i said before though, everything else with the card is immaculate and have no complaints. Just that it feels like this https://i.imgur.com/uLYKSwt.png
I would consider going down the RMA route if it weren't for the fact it's a Gigabyte card.. enough said there.

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 17:41

Jonno19111 said:
Just that it feels like this https://i.imgur.com/uLYKSwt.png

Seriously not missing much, apart from more power usage and a few frames.
I do get it though, I'd feel the same. It's the reason I bought a higher model like you have with the Aorus, to try eek out every last drop of performance. It's all part of the fun.