The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

matty007 · 7 Apr 2025 at 19:35

CoLDAzures said:
Yeah I've seen the shenanigans being reported on my Tech Jesus this week, that looks like bad drivers though to me. Seems people have had joy rolling back to before they pushed a bad deployment out and had success. I did ask about another 9070XT but they're all on pre-order. I can't RMA it til Wednesday anyway as I'm out tomorrow day and evening. I'll check stock tomorrow and consider what I do in regards to being Red or Green. I had a 6800XT before this I absolutely love/loved so I'm not against staying AMD.

Yeah, that’s completely fair, and it sucks you got a dud.

That’s the big issue with lack of stock too. You’re screwed if you RMA it and have to wait again. There should be a way of getting cards faster in this instance, but there isn’t.

I know the 9070/XT has been very popular indeed, but I honestly thought stock would have improved a bit by now. This is exactly why I didn’t mind paying a little over MSRP to save myself weeks or months of waiting. It’s just not worth it imo.

It was similar with the 9800X3D. I paid over MSRP and got one fairly quickly, albeit it was still very difficult. I checked over two months later and there was still no real stock lol. The time it takes to get stock on components nowadays is absolutely ridiculous.

tommills · 7 Apr 2025 at 21:14

My Sapphire pulse 9070xt arrived today. I have just plugged it in and all working. I recieved the updated version with the little metal poles on the heatsink and no foam stuffed in. I haven't touched any overclocking yet, but the adrenaline stress test boosts to 3307mhz up to 240w.
Where should i start my overclock, undervolt testing?

Suggest some benchmarks and good games run for scoring and stability.

CoLDAzures · 7 Apr 2025 at 21:26

MCFC_ANDY said:
not forgetting the ROPS saga, your paying a 3rd more for slightly better raster in a lot of games before uv amd and n oc on nvidia, just makes more sense pay the 2k ish n get a halo, theres a bagain of 2.7k model available on oc now lol

Yeah I'm fully aware, this is why I wanted an AMD but apparently I'm not allowed nice things. :<

In an interesting update to my testing I'm doing I've found the PC only fails to boot when restarted from Windows.. cold boots are always fine.

I'm wondering what could possibly cause that, it seems so odd. Does Windows possibly pass any information to the BIOS? Is that even a thing or a possibility? Like some trigger is passed so the MoBo knows its a reboot?

I also have diagnostic light "BOOT" light up when it fails to post on the EZ LED thing. I also left it a good few minutes today to see if I was being impatient but it never gets there until it's powered off/on with the power button.

IvanDobskey · 7 Apr 2025 at 21:35

matty007 said:
It varies on different builds and other factors, but, the game is a big stutter fest and is well known for it. As said, look on any benchmarks/gameplay online and you will see the same thing.

There is no rig out there that will run it stutter free because the issue is with shader caching and EA never addressed it. Anyone who says they notice no stuttering is either just not sensitive to it, or are overlooking it .

On my 7900XTX, it was stuttering a lot at the start and you could see by the CPU usage that shaders were loading in and tanking the frame time. Further into the game, they eased off a lot to the point they weren’t very noticeable. That’s partly because of less shader caching, and also because I simply go used to it and tuned out.

I’ll try it on my 9070XT because I love the game, but I expect no different. The issue isn’t with setups, it’s with the game itself. Monitor refresh, freesync, CPU, GPU may all influence the severity of it, but, it’s a game inherent issue and certainly not something I’d use as a basis to think my setup is faulty.

Just cleared down the cache on dead space remake and tried again. Problem completely gone, other than the odd slight hitch. No pausing, nothing that makes it unplayable at all. Very odd indeed.

It seems that just changing the video settings screws up the cache. Needs clearing every time you make a change.

matty007 · 7 Apr 2025 at 22:01

tommills said:
My Sapphire pulse 9070xt arrived today. I have just plugged it in and all working. I recieved the updated version with the little metal poles on the heatsink and no foam stuffed in. I haven't touched any overclocking yet, but the adrenaline stress test boosts to 3307mhz up to 240w.
Where should i start my overclock, undervolt testing?

Suggest some benchmarks and good games run for scoring and stability.

1. Download Memtestvulkan , run it, and look at the written and checked speeds. Increase VRAM frequency until the speeds hit a brick wall and stay the same, or get worse. Leave your VRAM at that ideal frequency and forget about it forever. Use Fast Timings if at all possible.

2. Apply a +10% power limit and start at a -30mv undervolt. Put Steel Nomad in loop. If it passes 1 hour without crashing, reduce it by a further 10mv. Rinse and repeat until it crashes and then back off by 10mv

3. Steel Nomad is a good global stable baseline, but then play games and try and reduce the undervolt further. Many games will tolerate a much more aggressive undervolt. Using a per game undervolt is the best way to achieve optimum performance as you can leave performance on the table by using the global stable setting. To set it per game, go into the gaming section in Adrenaline and click on the game, then click ‘Tune Game Performance’ next to Launch Game. This will allow you to set the undervolt settings per game.

matty007 · 7 Apr 2025 at 22:04

IvanDobskey said:
Just cleared down the cache on dead space remake and tried again. Problem completely gone, other than the odd slight hitch. No pausing, nothing that makes it unplayable at all. Very odd indeed.

It seems that just changing the video settings screws up the cache. Needs clearing every time you make a change.

Yeah, it can help, but is simply just clearing the cache. The issue is with shader caching in the game config and it was never fixed.

I suppose you can do it every time you play it, but it’s quite likely it will start up again upon playing for a while due to the caching

Drizmod · 7 Apr 2025 at 22:28

I have the best 3Dmark score for a 9070 with a Ryzen 3600

Thekwango · 7 Apr 2025 at 22:34

GhostDog1981 said:
@CAT-THE-FIFTH could you add me to the TROH please? 9070XT Pulse 6/4/25

Thanks!

Amazing overclocker and cool and quiet.

Maybe a later revision but mine has 2 stand thingys/supports to stop the heat sink bending and didn’t get any foam in mine to remove.

Anyone please recommend any fast and dirty UV and OC settings? Cheers

You’re as mad as The Mad Hatter on St Paddy’s day

(I don’t mean that in a nasty way!)
Didn’t you already order one then cancel/return it?!

matty007 · 7 Apr 2025 at 23:01

Drizmod said:
I have the best 3Dmark score for a 9070 with a Ryzen 3600

God damn, welcome to bottleneck city lol. Seriously hope you’re at least playing at 4K.

Drizmod · 7 Apr 2025 at 23:03

matty007 said:
God damn, welcome to bottleneck city lol.

I'm waiting for an AM5 upgrade

matty007 · 7 Apr 2025 at 23:05

Drizmod said:
I'm waiting for an AM5 upgrade

Nice. Can’t come soon enough lol

Drizmod · 7 Apr 2025 at 23:06

matty007 said:
Nice. Can’t come soon enough lol

At least I'm the best in the world at something

GhostDog1981 · 8 Apr 2025 at 03:49

Thekwango said:
You’re as mad as The Mad Hatter on St Paddy’s day (I don’t mean that in a nasty way!)
Didn’t you already order one then cancel/return it?!

Got this one elsewhere and for under msrp after a hefty discount from elsewhere for being a loyal consumer for the past 20 years… made it worth jumping back on the 9070XT (also Trump tariffs might encourage prices to go up rather than down).

MCFC_ANDY · 8 Apr 2025 at 08:55

matty007 said:
God damn, welcome to bottleneck city lol. Seriously hope you’re at least playing at 4K.

i dont get nomad, i ran my old timespy settings -80mv max power 2800mhz for base score, but whatever i try raising/lowering score decreases :confused:

TK421 · 8 Apr 2025 at 09:19

Just installed the 9070 xt with a 9800x3d, and now looking to upgrade my old 27" 1080p. I was hoping to go a slightly larger monitor ( 32" max) but unsure of resolution to go.. if I went 4k could I run at max settings? Or will I have to go 1440p? I game battlefield and hell let loose at the moment as my previous rig was too old too run modern titles. Any advice would be appreciated.

hornetstinger · 8 Apr 2025 at 09:23

TK421 said:
Just installed the 9070 xt with a 9800x3d, and now looking to upgrade my old 27" 1080p. I was hoping to go a slightly larger monitor ( 32" max) but unsure of resolution to go.. if I went 4k could I run at max settings? Or will I have to go 1440p? I game battlefield and hell let loose at the moment as my previous rig was too old too run modern titles. Any advice would be appreciated.

Personally I wouldn't go for 1440p 32", I have a 27" 1440p and wouldn't want to drop down the PPI.

Pixels Per Inch PPI Calculator

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use that to get an idea

IvanDobskey · 8 Apr 2025 at 09:25

TK421 said:
Just installed the 9070 xt with a 9800x3d, and now looking to upgrade my old 27" 1080p. I was hoping to go a slightly larger monitor ( 32" max) but unsure of resolution to go.. if I went 4k could I run at max settings? Or will I have to go 1440p? I game battlefield and hell let loose at the moment as my previous rig was too old too run modern titles. Any advice would be appreciated.

I think the 9070xt is a fairly decent 4k card, but of course you'd have to upgrade it sooner than if you went 1440p.

Personally I feel 1440p is the best resolution, it's a good upgrade on 1080p, but isn't too stressful on your GPU. I'd say a 9070xt will last you a good 5 years at this resolution.

tommills · 8 Apr 2025 at 09:31

TK421 said:
Just installed the 9070 xt with a 9800x3d, and now looking to upgrade my old 27" 1080p. I was hoping to go a slightly larger monitor ( 32" max) but unsure of resolution to go.. if I went 4k could I run at max settings? Or will I have to go 1440p? I game battlefield and hell let loose at the moment as my previous rig was too old too run modern titles. Any advice would be appreciated.

Go with 4k 27" or 32". It offers more options and is versatile. New games that have low frames you can use FSR4, you can use framegen/lossless scaling if your not over sensitive to latency or set resolution to 1080p if you need really high FPS. All Older games can do high FPS and 4k.

Check benchmarks on YouTube of the games you play most to make your decision. Most games you won't tell the difference between high,ultra,max settings unless you are standing still staring at your screen looking for differences.

exhashdotdot · 8 Apr 2025 at 10:42

TK421 said:
Just installed the 9070 xt with a 9800x3d, and now looking to upgrade my old 27" 1080p. I was hoping to go a slightly larger monitor ( 32" max) but unsure of resolution to go.. if I went 4k could I run at max settings? Or will I have to go 1440p? I game battlefield and hell let loose at the moment as my previous rig was too old too run modern titles. Any advice would be appreciated.

Have you considered an ultrawide monitor? I don't think I could ever go back to 16:9

CaptainRAVE · 8 Apr 2025 at 10:44

TK421 said:
Just installed the 9070 xt with a 9800x3d, and now looking to upgrade my old 27" 1080p. I was hoping to go a slightly larger monitor ( 32" max) but unsure of resolution to go.. if I went 4k could I run at max settings? Or will I have to go 1440p? I game battlefield and hell let loose at the moment as my previous rig was too old too run modern titles. Any advice would be appreciated.

1440p unless you want to upgrade more often. You could run max settings at 4K for the time being.