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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Software could also mean software support, as in 3rd party applications that make use of CUDA cores (for example) to accelerate their workloads.

It really is a shame that AMD can't find this performance sooner, like before the reviews are done. I guess these drivers might get used if a site/channel reviews the refresh cards (such as the SUPERs or whatever AMD may have).

This generation more than ever you have to wonder if Nvidia are getting the most out of their cards or if their drivers are just continuously poor and leaving performance on the table on top of the other issues they have.

Although I will admit regardless of which brand I own I don't tend to update drivers once I've found something that seems stable (unless a driver fixes a specific issue I have).
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Oh for sure CUDA is utterly dominant and i don't think there is much AMD can do about that and they are trying, ROCm translates a lot of CUDA code and it works well but this is AMD admitting CUDA is everything.

Another mistake they made was with RDNA, (1, 2 and 3) don't have 'Tensor Cores' and what you now have in RDNA 4 are Tensor Cores, those are needed for the kind of DLSS that Nvidia have been doing for years, this is why FSR 4 is such a big leap to catch up with Nvidia, its now the same thing, Tensor Cores were reserved for CDNA (Workstation GPU's)
That changed with RDNA 4 but will more so with UDNA, this is AMD accepting they gone and ******* up with this.

UDNA is the one to lookout for...
 
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Oh I was talking about the software/driver optimisation side for ray-tracing, sorry for the confusion @humbug.

DLSS and FSR? I personally couldn't care less for such tech, never plan on using it. I grew up playing plain old native, I wouldn't have it any other way :cry:

Previously I didn't care about ray-tracing either, but after playing through Ghostrunner with everything turned up to max ...I can't deny it does add something worthwhile. I just hope it's well optimised in future games to use a mixture of raster & RT for good image quality.

More RT cores? Fine, just don't simultaneously give us lackluster increases in raster hardware like Nvidia. AI cores for stuff like DLSS/FSR add no value to people like me. I'd prefer they do variants with less of those for those of us who don't need them. Either drop prices accordingly or put the silicon back onto raster/RT core instead.
 
Has anyone confessed to owning one of the Acer cards yet? Some comparatively sensible prices being offered on those but can't find mention of anyone on here owning one, nor can I find any hands-on video reviews, just a load of people reading out the Acer website.
 
Here's a question, what's everyone's experiences been like regarding coil whine on these?

I did have much worse coil whine on this Sapphire Pulse 9070XT (paired with that Corsair RM750X PSU) compared to the MSI GTX 970 I upgraded from, even capping framerate at 144 to match the monitor's refresh rate. I can't completely eliminate it, but reduced a lot through undervolt, power limit reduction and slight underclock and I barely hear it over game sound and such now.

My cousin's Sapphire Pulse 9070 non-XT (paired with a Seasonic Focus 750W) is apparently far worse on the coil whine, even with the various potential fixes, though I've not heard it running in person.

I hear this generation, the Sapphire's tend to be the worse with coil whine, but of course hearing that folks also get bad coil whine on other models too.
 
mahius said:
Here's a question, what's everyone's experiences been like regarding coil whine on these?

I did have much worse coil whine on this Sapphire Pulse 9070XT (paired with that Corsair RM750X PSU) compared to the MSI GTX 970 I upgraded from, even capping framerate at 144 to match the monitor's refresh rate. I can't completely eliminate it, but reduced a lot through undervolt, power limit reduction and slight underclock and I barely hear it over game sound and such now.

My cousin's Sapphire Pulse 9070 non-XT (paired with a Seasonic Focus 750W) is apparently far worse on the coil whine, even with the various potential fixes, though I've not heard it running in person.

I hear this generation, the Sapphire's tend to be the worse with coil whine, but of course hearing that folks also get bad coil whine on other models too.
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I have a 9070 non XT Sapphire Pulse and haven't noticed any.

Then again I only hear it when I take my headphones off and if a game's running at the time the case fans make more noise.
 
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mahius said:
Here's a question, what's everyone's experiences been like regarding coil whine on these?

I did have much worse coil whine on this Sapphire Pulse 9070XT (paired with that Corsair RM750X PSU) compared to the MSI GTX 970 I upgraded from, even capping framerate at 144 to match the monitor's refresh rate. I can't completely eliminate it, but reduced a lot through undervolt, power limit reduction and slight underclock and I barely hear it over game sound and such now.

My cousin's Sapphire Pulse 9070 non-XT (paired with a Seasonic Focus 750W) is apparently far worse on the coil whine, even with the various potential fixes, though I've not heard it running in person.

I hear this generation, the Sapphire's tend to be the worse with coil whine, but of course hearing that folks also get bad coil whine on other models too.
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Since locking frame to 144hz it's sorted it.

I might have to try to get it to squel to see if VRM coil whine has reduced.

What tests show it up the most?

Worst was I think FF7 rebirth shaderbuild, but I don't have that installed anymore.
 
mahius said:
Here's a question, what's everyone's experiences been like regarding coil whine on these?

I did have much worse coil whine on this Sapphire Pulse 9070XT (paired with that Corsair RM750X PSU) compared to the MSI GTX 970 I upgraded from, even capping framerate at 144 to match the monitor's refresh rate. I can't completely eliminate it, but reduced a lot through undervolt, power limit reduction and slight underclock and I barely hear it over game sound and such now.

My cousin's Sapphire Pulse 9070 non-XT (paired with a Seasonic Focus 750W) is apparently far worse on the coil whine, even with the various potential fixes, though I've not heard it running in person.

I hear this generation, the Sapphire's tend to be the worse with coil whine, but of course hearing that folks also get bad coil whine on other models too.
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I get a little on mine when loading into a game but then it seems to settle down, hopefully it will go away. I always has on other cards that I have owned.
 
mahius said:
Here's a question, what's everyone's experiences been like regarding coil whine on these?

I did have much worse coil whine on this Sapphire Pulse 9070XT (paired with that Corsair RM750X PSU) compared to the MSI GTX 970 I upgraded from, even capping framerate at 144 to match the monitor's refresh rate. I can't completely eliminate it, but reduced a lot through undervolt, power limit reduction and slight underclock and I barely hear it over game sound and such now.

My cousin's Sapphire Pulse 9070 non-XT (paired with a Seasonic Focus 750W) is apparently far worse on the coil whine, even with the various potential fixes, though I've not heard it running in person.

I hear this generation, the Sapphire's tend to be the worse with coil whine, but of course hearing that folks also get bad coil whine on other models too.
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My Sapphire Pulse is completely silent fortunately
 
mahius said:
Here's a question, what's everyone's experiences been like regarding coil whine on these?

I did have much worse coil whine on this Sapphire Pulse 9070XT (paired with that Corsair RM750X PSU) compared to the MSI GTX 970 I upgraded from, even capping framerate at 144 to match the monitor's refresh rate. I can't completely eliminate it, but reduced a lot through undervolt, power limit reduction and slight underclock and I barely hear it over game sound and such now.

My cousin's Sapphire Pulse 9070 non-XT (paired with a Seasonic Focus 750W) is apparently far worse on the coil whine, even with the various potential fixes, though I've not heard it running in person.

I hear this generation, the Sapphire's tend to be the worse with coil whine, but of course hearing that folks also get bad coil whine on other models too.
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I'm 2 our of 2 for bad coil whine on sapphire pulse. Sent the first back and the replacement is the same maybe slightly better. Still the worse I've ever had.

Both mine were like your cousins.
 
another one flashed :D


Finners said:
I'm 2 our of 2 for bad coil whine on sapphire pulse.
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ive now had 3 nitro+'s had zero wine.
there is not many cards out there that dont have a little in benchmarks as your pushing there limits, i assume your is in game?


When people say this is so bad... i remember having 2 x 7950's in Xfire that both had super bad wine, i used to game with headset so i didnt care but the now wife used to complain from downstairs.
i don't believe this generation as really experienced coil wine :cry: :cry:
 
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WARburton said:
another one flashed :D



ive now had 3 nitro+'s had zero wine.
there is not many cards out there that dont have a little in benchmarks as your pushing there limits, i assume your is in game?


When people say this is so bad... i remember having 2 x 7950's in Xfire that both had super bad wine, i used to game with headset so i didnt care but the now wife used to complain from downstairs.
i don't believe this generation as really experienced coil wine:cry::cry:
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Yeah, even in games if it's flat out the coil whine is loud. I've always gamed with a headset so I don't hear it but it's still not nice when you spend the type of money you have to these days on a GPU. I'm sure the coils could be glued solid during production for about 50c, not sure why it isn't done.
 
Finners said:
Yeah, even in games if it's flat out the coil whine is loud. I've always gamed with a headset so I don't hear it but it's still not nice when you spend the type of money you have to these days on a GPU. I'm sure the coils could be glued solid during production for about 50c, not sure why it isn't done.
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out of interest do you have Vsync on, i see a few people with 120hz screens complaining about wine when there pushing 200+ fps...
when a card pass's 200fps unless you have a super high refresh rate screen you basically benchmarking it.

my sone as a 260hz 1080 screen and my old 4080s as a little wine on his screen but on my 165hz 1440 i never got any
 
WARburton said:
out of interest do you have Vsync on, i see a few people with 120hz screens complaining about wine when there pushing 200+ fps...
when a card pass's 200fps unless you have a super high refresh rate screen you basically benchmarking it.

my sone as a 260hz 1080 screen and my old 4080s as a little wine on his screen but on my 165hz 1440 i never got any
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Yes I limit frames to 170 on my 180Hz screen. So for a lot of older games there isn't noticeable coil whine as it's not flat out.

But a new game where it's using 100% power but only getting say 90FPS, the coil whine is loud.
 
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