I'm suspect about this. I'd love a formal confirmation but obviously not going to get one. I'd much rather it show 16gb like every other card on they planet and just utilise/protect an amount in that, rather than eat 0.5gb and just deduct it from the overall.
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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread
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Finally got round to dialing in some nice settings for my Steel Legend 9070XT. I wasn't looking to go for any leader board scores in Nomad or Time Spy but wanted to tweak ever so slightly whilst also disabling 0RPM mode as I found it would just be silent for ages, then ramp up to 40% speed for 5 minutes then back down again. The consistent speed helps a lot with avoiding that.
Currently running -55mV, VRAM at 2614 (default timings as fast timings would crash every so often), PL at -10 and then a consistent fan speed of 27% (around 1250RPM, so pretty much inaudible) where it only ramps up to 35% if the GPU exceeds 68 deg.
Ran a 2 hour full stress test this morning, GPU never went above 63 deg and didn't crash once which was ideal!
Currently running -55mV, VRAM at 2614 (default timings as fast timings would crash every so often), PL at -10 and then a consistent fan speed of 27% (around 1250RPM, so pretty much inaudible) where it only ramps up to 35% if the GPU exceeds 68 deg.
Ran a 2 hour full stress test this morning, GPU never went above 63 deg and didn't crash once which was ideal!
tbf you seem to have selectively only showed part of the memory usage in task manager.
Here's mine...
.. 139MB - reserved by hardware
.. 307MB - approx. in use as shared memory. (0.3 x1024)
15,872MB - approx. memory left over as available dedicated. (15.5 x 1024)
= 16,318MB (/1024 = ~15.9GB)
(16 x 1024=16,384MB)
So really not that far off, especially when not knowing exactly how/what this is reporting and what base unit they are using (B,KB,MB,GB) and then how they convert to other units.
Basically like how a 100GB drive is never exactly 100GB usable.
The GPU memory showing as 31.5GB in my screen snip I'm guessing is to do with ReBar and it allowing it to address 16GB of ram?
You can also view the sensors tab in GPU-Z to see the stats for 'Memory Used (Dedicated)' and 'Memory Used (Dynamic)' to see how these two pools are utilised when the card is in use.
tbf you seem to have selectively only showed part of the memory usage in task manager.
Here's mine...
.. 139MB - reserved by hardware
.. 307MB - approx. in use as shared memory. (0.3 x1024)
15,872MB - approx. memory left over as available dedicated. (15.5 x 1024)
= 16,318MB (/1024 = ~15.9GB)
(16 x 1024=16,384MB)
So really not that far off, especially when not knowing exactly how/what this is reporting and what base unit they are using (B,KB,MB,GB) and then how they convert to other units.
Basically like how a 100GB drive is never exactly 100GB usable.
The GPU memory showing as 31.5GB in my screen snip I'm guessing is to do with ReBar and it allowing it to address 16GB of ram?
You can also view the sensors tab in GPU-Z to see the stats for 'Memory Used (Dedicated)' and 'Memory Used (Dynamic)' to see how these two pools are utilised when the card is in use.
I got a formal response from AMD
"I can answer this one. This observation is a result of the way we report usable VRAM in the RDNA4 generation. GPUs have always reserved a portion of VRAM for critical functions, and the way we report this to the OS in RDNA4 makes it appear that there is approximately 500MB missing in total VRAM. We are exploring changing this behaviour in the future, as it’s understandably confusing to the end user"
Ooh nice, that's interesting to know and great work getting a response from AMD! All my bug reports get ignored.
But yeah, I've just been doing some reading and my post above is wrong.
Mainly because 'Shared GPU Memory' is not GPU VRAM but system RAM, so that shouldn't be in my calculations.
Did a quick search and found this from MS...
GPUs in the task manager - DirectX Developer Blog
The below posting is from Steve Pronovost, our lead engineer responsible for the GPU scheduler and memory manager. GPUs in the Task Manager We’re excited to introduce support for GPU performance data in the Task Manager. This is one of the features you have often requested, and we listened. The...
devblogs.microsoft.com
It's a v.old article but explains what TM is doing from the MS side and though old and possibly out of date does show my post to be wrong.
I also found some of my old TM screens from posting in the AMD driver thread when I had a 6700XT and 16GB system RAM (Have since gone to a 9070XT and 32GB RAM) that also contradict what I said above and show the difference in reporting.
If you hear any more from AMD please report back, I'm interested to learn more.
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Looking forward to getting my Red devil and tinkering I remember AMD cards love a good UV
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I have been looking at RX9070xt's for several hours and to be honest most of the pricing is shocking, way over rrp. Not as shocking as Nvidia though.
Look at this post and try to find the place where he bought his Red Devil 9070XT. That is very much a bargain if you can get the 25% off.
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its a very good store for new 20% off customer deals, have used it many times in past, sign up buy and cancel account for about a year and do it againI’m looking to get back into my PC so I’ve just treated myself to a Red Devil 9070 Xt for £591.20 (to be precise) from an well known online store where it’s already £50 off (£739.99) with 20% off first credit order on 12 months BNPL and with payday I’ll just pay it off in onethis will be the fastest card I’ve ever had my 9900k will definitely be sweating but it’ll give me an excuse towards end of the year to upgrade my mobo/cpu
in fact i still have a 20% off as they gave me another one and just tried it on a devil and works, but i have the reaper
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has anyone here got any ideas how much of a bad idea attempting to vertically mount a 9070xt would be?
it would allow me to access and thus do somethign about cooling my nvme drives and it would allow me to use a pcie slot [literally my card covers all my available unused slots lol]
it would also look cool and be a learning experience
but i think i heard someone say the vapour chamber might be negatively effected?
it would allow me to access and thus do somethign about cooling my nvme drives and it would allow me to use a pcie slot [literally my card covers all my available unused slots lol]
it would also look cool and be a learning experience
but i think i heard someone say the vapour chamber might be negatively effected?
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would depend on the cooler.
specifically how the heat pipes are arranged to the front and rear of the card.
it has some effect, but probably not a great deal according to gamers nexus.
www.corsair.com
specifically how the heat pipes are arranged to the front and rear of the card.
it has some effect, but probably not a great deal according to gamers nexus.
Is vertically mounting a GPU bad for thermals?
Vertically mounting a GPU looks cool, but is it actually cool?
www.corsair.com
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i have a second spare case [was cheaper to buy a used spare than sourcing the windowed side panel for this old define s lol] so worst case [pun not intended but hey] i can always just swap back but i think it might solve some non existent [other than in my head lol] problems lol
it would look cool and allow me to use my other pcie slots though
got a mount on its way il report back with my stupidity when i make a mess of it soon lol thanks again
it would look cool and allow me to use my other pcie slots though
got a mount on its way il report back with my stupidity when i make a mess of it soon lol thanks again
My white steel legend is vertically mounted in my O-11 Dynamic. No problems at all. Not great angles, sorry, the only ones I could find on my imgur account.
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It's only comedy if you aren't selling a GPU. Earlier gen GPU 2nd hand prices are also comedy so the relative price difference is maintained. I think a lot of people forget this. CEX's prices are hilariousStill waiting for shorter versions to fit in my case
Still laughing at the comedy pricing.
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yeah I went in a few days ago, I think pretty much RRP new. What's the point.
Also second hand game controllers for not much less than new. All covered with strangers sweat...ewww
Never understood the second hand controllers. Personally not a fan but obviously there are people who dont care.
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Depends, if it was a mate and you know he's just had a it month or so...fine.