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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

Bit weird how much higher the temps were on the Pulse vs the Pure ?

Different fan speeds ? A bad day built Pulse or poor core seems a bit odd to have that much difference ?
Weird fan curves at stock on both, Pulse runs quieter but fans aren't going above 1200rpm. Pure is going straight to 1500rpm.

It's definitely worth dialling a custom fan curve if you own either, worth finding a balance of noise vs. thermals that suit you/your case etc. as it seems at noise normalised they were both near the top.
 
Sapphire Pulse scoring the hottest on average GPU temps, compared to the other models... damn. Thought it'd be at least a bit cooler than some of the models.

FWIW, I have a Pulse 9070 and I do get around those temperatures too, so seems right on first glance.
Around 60 degrees is nothing though, and this is easily the coolest card I have ever had
 
I picked up the Sapphire Pulse 9070XT last week when it was on sale at OcUK for £559 (I'm sure somebody at OcUK made a mistake there) When I checked in GPU-Z this was also had the Samsung memory, which some people seem to prefer.

On the topic of temps I've found the hotspot hits 82, but everything else stays around 60 which if fine by me. The fans are pretty quiet and are clearly doing their job, although I'll probably tinker with them at some point.
 
I adjusted fan curve so in most games/benchmarks sits at 1750 or so which to me is near inaudible

Big difference in temps after hours of benches etc memory max temp 74c, GPU 52c hotspot 72c
 
Nah, not a mistake. OCUK had a sale last week, was the best time to buy the 9070XT.
Thats good to know, I was a little worried somebody was going to get into trouble.

But, you should have seen the panicked look on my face, trying to get through the checkout process before somebody changed the price to what it should be.
 
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How are you lot finding the stock temps?
No cheating with undervolting/underclocking :P
Is it the usual 90C+ hotspot like the 6/7 series cards?
 
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I did a few Heaven benches yesterday afternoon while it was still pretty hot.. (glad its cooled down today though :p )

-100 UV with 2700 memory, maxed the fan speed to be safe :)

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Same UV but added 50Mhz on the memory, just as the result was going to load up the damn driver crashed but salvaged the GPU Z stats..

I saw Max FPS was 502 and Avg FPS was 220ish before it crashed but wtf is with that core clock? 3339MHz :eek:

On another run I saw Max board power at 330w lol Not doing that again :D

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I did a few Heaven benches yesterday afternoon while it was still pretty hot.. (glad its cooled down today though :p )

-100 UV with 2700 memory, maxed the fan speed to be safe :)

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Same UV but added 50Mhz on the memory, just as the result was going to load up the damn driver crashed but salvaged the GPU Z stats..

I saw Max FPS was 502 and Avg FPS was 220ish before it crashed but wtf is with that core clock? 3339MHz :eek:

On another run I saw Max board power at 330w lol Not doing that again :D

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When the driver times out the GPU frequency temporarily ramps up to over 3.3GHz with the low load before the application crashes. You'll see the same in the 3dmark benches. Just means you had too much of a UV usually.
 
I picked up the Sapphire Pulse 9070XT last week when it was on sale at OcUK for £559 (I'm sure somebody at OcUK made a mistake there) When I checked in GPU-Z this was also had the Samsung memory, which some people seem to prefer.

On the topic of temps I've found the hotspot hits 82, but everything else stays around 60 which if fine by me. The fans are pretty quiet and are clearly doing their job, although I'll probably tinker with them at some point.
Samsung memory runs slightly cooler but as a trade off performs slightly worse, so it may be preferred in hot climates, small form factor builds or on more budget cooled cards. Although you need to hit 108 degrees before the thermal throttling kicks in.
Where heat isn't an issue, I.E. your not going to hit the thermal limit, then Hynix is the preferred memory.
 
When the driver times out the GPU frequency temporarily ramps up to over 3.3GHz with the low load before the application crashes. You'll see the same in the 3dmark benches. Just means you had too much of a UV usually.
Cheers, -80 UV was stable in testing so I might stick to -75 for gaming just to be safe from any crashes, been running it at -50 for gaming which seems really stable.

Dont wana crash in DayZ to log back in and find the 'You Are Dead' screen :( or even worse, find myself stuck in Lantia on the DayZ Namalsk map :eek: :cry:

Also, I figured out that the driver software does tuning profiles for each game which is why I thought it was resetting (surprised nobody here pointed this out to me! :cry: ) Now I've got my head around how that works I've created the global profile for desktop use with power slider down a little, running 4 displays adds to the power/heat so I'd like to keep that down in this weather.

Starting to really like this 9070, still some random stutters in DayZ but it aint half as bad as it was years ago.

Using my old in-game settings for the 3060 Ti I got 200-250 FPS, now with the same settings on the 9070 I see up to 500 FPS but sod that, can max the game out now and still get over 120 FPS though thats what I frame limit at anyway.

Just needs tweaking now to eliminate the random stutters but maybe its just the game :rolleyes: Also AMD's overlay still thinks the DayZ API is DX9 :D

I've been playing around with AMD Fluid Motion Frames etc and this does help :)

Thanks again for all the tips and tweaks I see posted here, like I said before, my last AMD GPU was a Vega 56, I did buy a 5700XT years ago but that got sent back due to artifacts and bugs etc which was when I switched to Nvidia (1660 Super > 3060 Ti)

Its nice have an All AMD rig again :)

Anyway I appreciate the info from you all ;)
 
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Thats good to know, I was a little worried somebody was going to get into trouble.

But, you should have seen the panicked look on my face, trying to get through the checkout process before somebody changed the price to what it should be.
I nearly missed the £559 offer… By the time I got my act together it was out of stock. I clicked around a bit and then suddenly it was back in stock so I bought it super quick. By the time I finished checkout the price had increased to like £629 or something. I think I managed to thread the needle between the stock being refreshed and the price being increased.
 
I'm now in the 9070XT club thanks to a B Grade deal from Gibbo & Robbie (came from a 7800XT) so... what do I do first apart from UV by 30mv ? :)
 
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I'm noticing text isn't quite as clear on this (ClearType has been setup, rebooted, monitor .infs installed, resolution & refresh rate checked) has anyone noticed similar?

Opened up Starfield and the fans went nuts, upto about 2400RPM even though GPU was at 52C (Hotspot 71C) the fan curve set in Adrenaline doesn't seem to match what they actually do, had to drop the 'higher' temp curve down and it settled a bit. I'll try the other BIOS and tinker a bit incl;uding uninstalling/reinstalling drivers.
 
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I'm noticing text isn't quite as clear on this (ClearType has been setup, rebooted, monitor .infs installed, resolution & refresh rate checked) has anyone noticed similar?

Opened up Starfield and the fans went nuts, upto about 2400RPM even though GPU was at 52C (Hotspot 71C) the fan curve set in Adrenaline doesn't seem to match what they actually do, had to drop the 'higher' temp curve down and it settled a bit. I'll try the other BIOS and tinker a bit incl;uding uninstalling/reinstalling drivers.
First time you go into starfield it wacks the cpu to compile shaders. If you had msi afterburner installed it might be over riding your fans. Worth a check.
 
I'm noticing text isn't quite as clear on this (ClearType has been setup, rebooted, monitor .infs installed, resolution & refresh rate checked) has anyone noticed similar?

Opened up Starfield and the fans went nuts, upto about 2400RPM even though GPU was at 52C (Hotspot 71C) the fan curve set in Adrenaline doesn't seem to match what they actually do, had to drop the 'higher' temp curve down and it settled a bit. I'll try the other BIOS and tinker a bit incl;uding uninstalling/reinstalling drivers.
Stock fan curve seems pretty OTT for the Pulse (if you have that model?)

I just run a custom curve removing the zero RPM mode - fans spin at 25% (basically silent) which keeps the card around 25-35 deg at idle up to 60 deg when fans go to 40% speed. In most instances I'm never going above 62/63 degrees on my GPU and the fans never really make any huge amount of noise.


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It was the GPU fans, no afterburner.

Card is the XFX Swift.

Have switched the bios switch and will try again in a bit, tweaking the fan curves does help and the temp barely changes so i assume it's just set too aggressively at stock.
 
I'm noticing text isn't quite as clear on this (ClearType has been setup, rebooted, monitor .infs installed, resolution & refresh rate checked) has anyone noticed similar?

Opened up Starfield and the fans went nuts, upto about 2400RPM even though GPU was at 52C (Hotspot 71C) the fan curve set in Adrenaline doesn't seem to match what they actually do, had to drop the 'higher' temp curve down and it settled a bit. I'll try the other BIOS and tinker a bit incl;uding uninstalling/reinstalling drivers.
Apart from running cleartype setup there isn't much else to try. As long as the resolution and refresh rate are correct / native, and you're not running an old, cheap, long cable then there shouldn't be an issue. Only other thing is check colour format and bit depth are correct. Uninstall/Reinstall worth a go, as well as making sure you don't have any 3rd party apps that could interfere.
 
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