The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

doody · 24 Apr 2025 at 12:11

nelbert said:
I usually test every 6-9 months and this time I installed Bazzite Home Theatre PC version to a usb nvme drive for testing. I've been using it on my Legion Go and is closest to how I want my PC to run out the box. It boots straight into the SteamDeck interface rather than a desktop. My Windows install is just a way for me to run the steam client, I don't use my gaming PC for general use.

If I was wanting a desktop based PC, then I'd probably use Fedora. While I prefer OpenSuse Tumbleweed (installed on my laptop), Fedora supports the xbox wireless adapter more simply. My use of Fedora/Tumbleweed is more one of familiarity and they keep upto date with the latest stable drivers than any other reason.

Apart from CyberPunk all the games I actually play are in my steam account, so even though I have more in other stores (gog/epic) due to the freebie codes, I don't actually play them. The few I did, such as mass effect legendary edition, Immortals Fenyx, Forza, Subnautica I picked up cheap in one of the many steam sales.

There is a community website which tracks anti-cheat status and which games with it work on linux and which don't, so if there are particular games with anti-cheat you regularly play you can have a quick check. https://areweanticheatyet.com/

The main differences for me between Windows and Linux have been:
- AMD means no hdmi 2.1, so no vrr, no 4k/120 because the PC is attached to an AVR & TV so can't use display port. People have experimented with adapters but it's messy and maybe works rather than an always works solution.
- No Atmos, only 2.x/5.1/7.1 sound options. Atmos is nice to have, but not critical and until the patents expire I doubt it will ever be supported.
- HDR is work in progress. It doesn't work directly from the desktop atm, only via gamescope/steamdeck mode. The steam deck interface makes it easy to set per game profiles to enable HDR. HDR is hit and miss in PC games anyway so I don't usually enable it.
- No option to force the video mode to be RGB444(full) or 10bit mode. In windows I have to set it via the AMD Adrenaline settings, but with Linux it's an autodetect feature with no simple way to override it. It is a long standing issue (years) so I don't expect it to be resolved anytime soon and only appears to affect AVR/TVs.

Gamewise my only issues so far have been the usual Bethesda Skyrim & Elder Scrolls online need the sound changing to 5.1 or lower so they don't play static on cutscenes.

Ok thanks mate :cool:

Kirkatron · 24 Apr 2025 at 15:54

BS Dave said:
I've posted this in the game thread as well, but why FSR no worky in Ghost of Tsushima? It's an FSR 3.1 game so should just work right?

Anyone else got it working - I thought with these Sony games it would be a shoe in...

I'm actually quite peed off about this

Did you ever solve this?

BS Dave · 24 Apr 2025 at 16:49

Kirkatron said:
Did you ever solve this?

I used Optiscaler, and it seemed to work. Everything seemed much darker than on my 3080 though so I swapped back to that, basically because most of the games I wanted to play didn't support FSR4. Nvidia 5000 series have visual corruption in the game too so I'm stuck on my 3080 for now

Kirkatron · 24 Apr 2025 at 17:34

BS Dave said:
I used Optiscaler, and it seemed to work. Everything seemed much darker than on my 3080 though so I swapped back to that, basically because most of the games I wanted to play didn't support FSR4. Nvidia 5000 series have visual corruption in the game too so I'm stuck on my 3080 for now

That sucks. I'm extremely lucky that I'm playing games that really like the XT and have FSR4, but I knew this before I changed. I would have been very stupid to change from an XTX if I wasn't playing the supported FSR4 games.
The only Nvidia card I'd want is last gens 4090, but it's way overpriced due to lack of competition. Shame the 5080 only came with 16gb at its £1k price point.

BS Dave · 24 Apr 2025 at 17:59

Kirkatron said:
That sucks. I'm extremely lucky that I'm playing games that really like the XT and have FSR4, but I knew this before I changed. I would have been very stupid to change from an XTX if I wasn't playing the supported FSR4 games.
The only Nvidia card I'd want is last gens 4090, but it's way overpriced due to lack of competition. Shame the 5080 only came with 16gb at its £1k price point.

Yeah to a lot of those. I've got until May to send the card back so if AMD can pull something out of bag by then maybe i'll keep it. I've had a 9700pro, 800xt, 4890, 4890 crossfire, 5850, 290x 4Gb too so I really wanted to go back to AMD this time. Maybe I just wait for a 5080 24gb but i don't think it will come

hornetstinger · 24 Apr 2025 at 18:08

BS Dave said:
Yeah to a lot of those. I've got until May to send the card back so if AMD can pull something out of bag by then maybe i'll keep it. I've had a 9700pro, 800xt, 4890, 4890 crossfire, 5850, 290x 4Gb too so I really wanted to go back to AMD this time. Maybe I just wait for a 5080 24gb but i don't think it will come

Just tried it, works fine

With FSR FG off and on. No FSR image scaling on either. This is with built in FSR in the game not optiscaler.

adidan · 24 Apr 2025 at 19:33

Back to VRAM manufacturer talk, my release day purchase is Hynix.

I slightly tweaked the fan profile to kick in a bit earlier as the GPU barely breaks a sweat to force it to start much so the VRAM now rarely hits 80.

Then again it's a non-XT, no doubt is a contributing factor.

Jamie Gilbert · 24 Apr 2025 at 19:35

Jamie Gilbert said:
Flashed an RX 9070 XT Hellhound bios on to my 9070 Reaper, previously clocks were 2800 mhz tops, now 3200-3300 mhz , took it from 240 watts to 300, gets very unhappy at 330 (tested for a few seconds out of curiosity)
Interestingly even at 240 watts cap with the hellhound bios the clocks are much higher than before, depsite being stable, odd!

Don't have Windows at the moment but will install for some 3dmark fun soon.

Finally got around to putting Windows on since the BIOS flash, Timespy, now position 8th, stiff competition!
Still a respectable score for a 9070, probably beating some XT's now?

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/131912137?

Nomad 7k
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/131912659?

Kirkatron · 24 Apr 2025 at 19:57

BS Dave said:
Yeah to a lot of those. I've got until May to send the card back so if AMD can pull something out of bag by then maybe i'll keep it. I've had a 9700pro, 800xt, 4890, 4890 crossfire, 5850, 290x 4Gb too so I really wanted to go back to AMD this time. Maybe I just wait for a 5080 24gb but i don't think it will come

I think they will do a higher memory version. Just may have to wait for the Super range, unless they do a Ti.

Kirkatron · 24 Apr 2025 at 20:02

Jamie Gilbert said:
Finally got around to putting Windows on since the BIOS flash, Timespy, now position 8th, stiff competition!
Still a respectable score for a 9070, probably beating some XT's now?

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/131912137?

Nomad 7k
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/131912659?

I think that is around stock XT territory. So very good numbers for a 9070.
i think it was @WARburton who hit 7k in Nomad with their 9070 but with stock bios. Not sure what their UV and OC was to hit that with stock Bios.

An OC and UV XT is closer to 8k in Nomad and 34k in Timespy GPU score for comparison.

Jamie Gilbert · 24 Apr 2025 at 20:21

Kirkatron said:
I think that is around stock XT territory. So very good numbers for a 9070.
i think it was @WARburton who hit 7k in Nomad with their 9070 but with stock bios. Not sure what their UV and OC was to hit that with stock Bios.

An OC and UV XT is closer to 8k in Nomad and 34k in Timespy GPU score for comparison.

for a reaper is good because stock power limit is 220-240

I imagine nitro should score similar !

BS Dave · 25 Apr 2025 at 10:34

hornetstinger said:
Just tried it, works fine

With FSR FG off and on. No FSR image scaling on either. This is with built in FSR in the game not optiscaler.

This is FSR4 turned on within the AMD drivers? Did you get the little red dot in the top right of the screen to say it was working?

henson0115 · 25 Apr 2025 at 10:38

BS Dave said:
This is FSR4 turned on within the AMD drivers? Did you get the little red dot in the top right of the screen to say it was working?

you can also look in the overlay, on the game page and see if its working or not too just in case you werent aware

BS Dave · 25 Apr 2025 at 10:40

henson0115 said:
you can also look in the overlay, on the game page and see if its working or not too just in case you werent aware

When i tried it before, there was no toggle in the drivers next to it, and if I applied it globally it still didn't work

henson0115 · 25 Apr 2025 at 10:43

BS Dave said:
When i tried it before, there was no toggle in the drivers next to it, and if I applied it globally it still didn't work

i noticed it appeared for me in the latest optional just released for example in kcd2, where it wasn't previously there. im talking about the actual game profile in the overlay for kcd2 whilst in game too

threebagsfull · 25 Apr 2025 at 10:53

russell664 said:
My Hellhound 9070xt has Samsung Memory - I got it on release.

Out of curiosity what's the easiest place to find that out?

henson0115 · 25 Apr 2025 at 10:57

threebagsfull said:
Out of curiosity what's the easiest place to find that out?

gpu-z should tell you on the main page

NutritioN · 25 Apr 2025 at 11:14

Hynix in my Sapphire Pulse 9070XT, ordered 13th March from OcUK.

adidan · 25 Apr 2025 at 11:27

mmj_uk said:
From what I've now gathered memory temperature will vary between games depending on how demanding they are and thus how much the fans ramp up, so it's going to need some kind of standardised test to see if there is a signifant difference between memory brands. I've now seen my Samung creep into the 80's on a not very demanding game where the fans hardly spin up.

That's why I slightly tweaked the fan profile to kick in a bit earlier.

The problem, and benefit, being due to the GPU running so cool it just wasn't needing to kick in.

TBH before tweaking it the VRAM was only in low 80's anyway after several hours of Cyberpunk, which isn't an issue but a number beginning with a 7 pleases me more.

The biggest noise isn't from the GPU in my case, but then I wear headphones so none of it really matters.

Finners · 25 Apr 2025 at 14:43

Anyone tried thermal pads on the back of the card under the backplate on a pulse? Assuming the backplate is metal of course.

Remember this dropped RTX 3090 memory temps by a decent amount.