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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

jimhaumman said:
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
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sorry I did not get notification
I run it mem 2700
-100 mv
and power limit -15

Power around 260W and core in games 3080-3100 and I would say it is silent
Core temps about below 65 - ram 79-82
 
Andromeda1983 said:
Im debating getting a 9070 non-xt before the prices go up because of the tariffs but I see that there's a lot of talk about the 9070 series having high VRAM temp's. Do you think any of the cards will be viable in a low airflow enviroment ( Fractal Design R6 ) ?
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My non XT Pulse Vram rarely hits low 80's which is of no concern.
 
Andromeda1983 said:
Im debating getting a 9070 non-xt before the prices go up because of the tariffs but I see that there's a lot of talk about the 9070 series having high VRAM temp's. Do you think any of the cards will be viable in a low airflow enviroment ( Fractal Design R6 ) ?
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My 9070 was hitting 88 degrees on vram temps but undervolting it it tops out at around 75 degrees
 
Hi guys,

I was lucky enough to snag myself a 9070XT from OCuk last week. Unfortunately I've had a number of issues with it. Firstly the bracket was oddly aligned and when I screwed it in firmly to my case it lifted the card enough it didn't make contact with the PCIe lane.. not visible with naked eye unfortunately so took a while to diagnose. I got around it by using the anti-sag bracket to lever the card in place as it went over the top of the same screw holes, it hasn't budged an inch since and I've been unplugging/re-plugging screens constantly because of my main problem..

Main issue is I get random black screening when I reboot my PC, it's like the PC is failing to post. It's a white line (like a MS-DOS style cursor) on a black screen. If I button the PC it goes straight off, and if I turn it straight on it does it again but this time after a few seconds proceeds to BIOS splash screen and Windows boots up normally. Once I'm in Windows it's solid. No driver issues, great performance, no crashes. Used it since Thursday like this and it's been great apart from when I need to reboot for a driver or Windows update.

I've updated my BIOS and disabled auto-GPU detection for onboard iGPU (although I don't have one on my 5900x) and also forced the PCIe and Chipset into Gen4 from auto after I read about issues with Auto defaulting to Gen 5 which I don't have. List of specs below. Any advice appreciated, I really, REALLY don't want to return the card but if I can't have a reliable boot.. then guess there's no choice for me.

Specs below:
  1. Manufacturer: Sapphire
  2. GPU: Sapphire Nitro + Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC 16GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card
  3. OS: Windows 11 24H2
  4. The other specs of your machine:
    • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor @ 3.70GHz
    • MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS (Latest BIOS applied)
    • Kingston FURY Beast 32GB (2 x 16GB) 3600MHz DDR4 RAM
    • NZXT C850 850 Watt 80+ Gold PSU
    • 4 x Monitors connected.
      • 2 x LG Ultragear+ 32inch @ 4k/240hz
      • 2 x LG 24BA650 24inch @ 1080p/100hz
 
CoLDAzures said:
Hi guys,

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Main issue is I get random black screening when I reboot my PC, it's like the PC is failing to post. It's a white line (like a MS-DOS style cursor) on a black screen. If I button the PC it goes straight off, and if I turn it straight on it does it again but this time after a few seconds proceeds to BIOS splash screen and Windows boots up normally. Once I'm in Windows it's solid. No driver issues, great performance, no crashes. Used it since Thursday like this and it's been great apart from when I need to reboot for a driver or Windows update.

I've updated my BIOS and disabled auto-GPU detection for onboard iGPU (although I don't have one on my 5900x) and also forced the PCIe and Chipset into Gen4 from auto after I read about issues with Auto defaulting to Gen 5 which I don't have. List of specs below. Any advice appreciated, I really, REALLY don't want to return the card but if I can't have a reliable boot.. then guess there's no choice for me.

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Double check you've disabled Legacy Boot or CSM Boot in the bios, I had weird posting issues with my 9070 before I did that.
 
I picked up a 9070 (non-XT) Powercolor Hellhound this week and finally got a proper chance to play with it today. Very impressed with how it's handled everything I've thrown at it so far, which isn't surprising as it's a massive upgrade from my old 5700xt!

Managed to dial-in an under-volt of -60mv with memory at 2764 and the power target at +10%, along with a slightly faster fan curve than stock; and it's seemed rock solid like that so far.

The temperature discussion is interesting, so I did few test runs to see how mine compared to some of the other numbers being posted. All done with an ambient of 20-21c.

Superposition 8k Optimised Cinematic for ~25mins:
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[ignore the rear fan apparently spiking to 10,000rpm, that is definitely a monitoring glitch, it never actually goes much above 700rpm]

Steel Nomad Stress Test:
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~40 mins of messing about in Cyberpunk (Path-Tracing Off, everything else Ultra):
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I think the most interesting thing about that is the apparent transient power spike to 360w, with the card otherwise running at ~252w the rest of the time. If that's not a glitch in the monitoring, I wonder if it could be the cause of the instablility a couple of people have mentioned? If a non-XT at 250w is spiking to 360, is an XT at 340w spiking to 450w? Could be enough to upset a borderline PSU...

Other than that, I conclude that Superposition is slightly harder on memory than anything else, and even in that 'worst' case memory TJunc stabilises at ~86c. Which I suppose is on the warm side, but seems in line with what others are seeing, and is easily far enough away from TJMax that I'm fine with it; and comfortable enough not to start pulling the card apart looking for improvements.

Just for fun I also locked the GPU fan to 100% (~3200rpm), and re-ran Superposition. That pulled the GPU\Hotspot down about 8 degrees, and the memory by about 4 - not enough to be worthwhile or justify sounding like a jet engine.

Overall, I'm very happy with it!
 
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MCFC_ANDY said:
but one thing I've noticed with AMD over the yrs it's not like green team plug n play
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LOL, what??

AMD drivers haven’t been bad since like 2005. This misconception actually held some weight then. Nowadays, they’re every bit as reliable as NVIDIA, and perhaps more so. That’s before we talk about the software which is light years ahead in AMD’s case.

It’s a bit like when people band around that AMD cards are a lot hotter than NVIDIA. That’s only because NVIDIA removed hotpot sensors in their cards LOL
 
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akamal said:
I think the most interesting thing about that is the apparent transient power spike to 360w, with the card otherwise running at ~252w the rest of the time. If that's not a glitch in the monitoring, I wonder if it could be the cause of the instablility a couple of people have mentioned? If a non-XT at 250w is spiking to 360, is an XT at 340w spiking to 450w? Could be enough to upset a borderline PSU...

Other than that, I conclude that Superposition is slightly harder on memory than anything else, and even in that 'worst' case memory TJunc stabilises at ~86c. Which I suppose is on the warm side, but seems in line with what others are seeing, and is easily far enough away from TJMax that I'm fine with it; and comfortable enough not to start pulling the card apart looking for improvements.
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All cards have transient spikes in wattage. It’s completely normal and isn’t instability. All PSU’s rated to ATX spec can handle spikes up to double their rated wattage (Eg an 800w PSU can handle 1600w micro spikes)

Regarding memory, 86c is completely normal and quite good, especially if it is overclocked. Look on benchmarks on YouTube and a lot of these cards are sitting at 90-95c VRAM temp. GDDR6 is okay up to 105c.

My Taichi had a poor paste job and I replaced it with PTM which brought down the core temp. However, the VRAM running at 2810 fast timings is sitting around 85-87c. Wasn’t worth redoing the memory pads with putty etc because the temps are quite okay and the pads were done well.
 
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