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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

The sapphire nitro uses a 12VHPWR connector, not 3x 8 pin cables.
yes it is true , and also got a splitter to standard 3x 8pin. which You will connect and hide under back metal plate shield.
* all depend what kind PSU got user, old one or new one, and which way is easier for him to connect card. Perspective of thinking about it
 
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I'm still impressed with my Nitro+
Just been playing BF6 with a cap of 144 for my 1440P monitor. It had a GPU temp of 33c and hotspot temp of 37c.
Cranking it up to unlimited fps only took the GPU temp up to 48c and the hotspot to 60.
I'm going to have to put the heating on in this room now I've got rid of the 3080.
 
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2070 to a 9070XT will be an immense upgrade!
My last card was a 980ti, ok I've been using a b580 for a couple weeks, I did intend on keeping it like that, but the 9070xt is such a good card for the money.

Actually my system was an i7 5820k, I bought the b580 as someone reckoned with a modded bios I could enable resizeable bar.
And whilst in gpuz it said bar was all good and active, when I fitted the card back when it came out the computer refused to let me into bios.

So anyway sat on it for a while, until I thought bugger it I'll do a whole system build, went a bit mad with it, but it's sweet as anything.
This was just a couple weeks ago, I pre ordered the 9070xt as cyberpunk looks amazing with rt on so can't wait to see what overdrive is like :D

I wonder if there's a system build thread on here, I'd like to show it to everyone.
 
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My last card was a 980ti, ok I've been using a b580 for a couple weeks, I did intend on keeping it like that, but the 9070xt is such a good card for the money.

Actually my system was an i7 5820k, I bought the b580 as someone reckoned with a modded bios I could enable resizeable bar.
And whilst in gpuz it said bar was all good and active, when I fitted the card back when it came out the computer refused to let me into bios.

So anyway sat on it for a while, until I thought bugger it I'll do a whole system build, went a bit mad with it, but it's sweet as anything.
This was just a couple weeks ago, I pre ordered the 9070xt as cyberpunk looks amazing with rt on so can't wait to see what overdrive is like :D

I wonder if there's a system build thread on here, I'd like to show it to everyone.
You can pop a picture in this thread.
 
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Guys with the 9070XT models, is there much difference in how powerful and how well they perform, like outside a couple of %?
I game at 1440P, no plans to change my monitor for a while.
Currently have a radeon rx580, will i see a vast improvement in what is possible?

noise would also be a consideration, are any of the XT cars known for being much quieter than others, or are they all similar?
TIA
 
Guys with the 9070XT models, is there much difference in how powerful and how well they perform, like outside a couple of %?
I game at 1440P, no plans to change my monitor for a while.
Currently have a radeon rx580, will i see a vast improvement in what is possible?

noise would also be a consideration, are any of the XT cars known for being much quieter than others, or are they all similar?
TIA

My Sapphire pure is silent, in gaming I don't hear it, if I manually adjust it I can just about hear it at 1600rpm
Although it does have coil whine
 
My Sapphire pure is silent, in gaming I don't hear it, if I manually adjust it I can just about hear it at 1600rpm
Although it does have coil whine
same model pretty similar findings
i only hear it if im either running the thing hard AND looking/listening for it
coil whine i dont know ive not noticed any tbh
as a very loose general rule i think its safe to say larger cooling heatsink = cooler/less noise at the same temperature
 
Guys with the 9070XT models, is there much difference in how powerful and how well they perform, like outside a couple of %?
I game at 1440P, no plans to change my monitor for a while.
Currently have a radeon rx580, will i see a vast improvement in what is possible?

noise would also be a consideration, are any of the XT cars known for being much quieter than others, or are they all similar?
TIA
I've just bought a Gigabyte model, and to be honest I cannot be fussed with tweaking anything these days so it's in there straight out of the box. I'm amazed at how cool and quiet it is; whether that comes with a performance penalty I have no idea, but it seems to ruin solid on the free games I've played.
 
Guys with the 9070XT models, is there much difference in how powerful and how well they perform, like outside a couple of %?
I game at 1440P, no plans to change my monitor for a while.
Currently have a radeon rx580, will i see a vast improvement in what is possible?

noise would also be a consideration, are any of the XT cars known for being much quieter than others, or are they all similar?
TIA
Hardware unboxed did a really good video about loads of different models of the 9700xt worth a look.
 
Guys with the 9070XT models, is there much difference in how powerful and how well they perform, like outside a couple of %?
I game at 1440P, no plans to change my monitor for a while.
Currently have a radeon rx580, will i see a vast improvement in what is possible?

noise would also be a consideration, are any of the XT cars known for being much quieter than others, or are they all similar?
TIA

Gigabyte Gaming OC had no coil whine for me, and was fine for gaming.

Taichi OC had coil whine - but coolest 9070xt I used during gaming - joint best performer

Nitro+ No Coil Whine and joint best performer out of the box specs wise

Only owned each once however, so could have just been bad luck with the Taichi.

Nitro+ was best build quality.
 
With the undervolting, i have been super impressed, such an added bonus to this card. What settings do you lot use ? Is there a general rule to follow with it, so to speak. I have run this at -30 power limit and still works fine, but I assume at that point you aren't getting as many frames etc.
 
Are you guys undervolted in adrenanlin or some other way?

I've not tried with this card yet, but when I've tried before the settings wouldn't persist after a reboot?
 
Many many thanks, just finished watching it, didn't know i was that far behind the top settings.
That's not even a particularly good video to use as the CPU is anaemic and bottlenecking the 9070XT. You can see in the video multiple times the 2070 is a 99% whilst the 9070XT is at 60-80% or so, ergo bottlenecked.

The Taichi OC, which is one of the fastest 9070XTs is currently available for sub £600, and is a no-brainer at that price if you can stomach the way it looks :)

I appreciate you've got a 3700X but if you can grab a cheap 5700X3D as well, you'd likely get a very nice uplift with the card across the board, with more CPU IPC and the massive cache boosts as well for whatever you wanted to do, not just gaming. You'd be behind the top end CPUs, but the 5700X3D would be a very noticeable uplift from the 3700X across the board; its a faster, snappier CPU all round; and would tide you well with a newer card. I'd be worried a 3700X would become a fairly hefty bottleneck for a 9070XT at this point.
 
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That's not even a particularly good video to use as the CPU is anaemic and bottlenecking the 9070XT. You can see in the video multiple times the 2070 is a 99% whilst the 9070XT is at 60-80% or so, ergo bottlenecked.

The Taichi OC, which is one of the fastest 9070XTs is currently available for sub £600, and is a no-brainer at that price if you can stomach the way it looks :)

I appreciate you've got a 3700X but if you can grab a cheap 5700X3D as well, you'd likely get a very nice uplift with the card across the board, with more CPU IPC and the massive cache boosts as well for whatever you wanted to do, not just gaming. You'd be behind the top end CPUs, but the 5700X3D would be a very noticeable uplift from the 3700X across the board; its a faster, snappier CPU all round; and would tide you well with a newer card. I'd be worried a 3700X would become a fairly hefty bottleneck for a 9070XT at this point.
Right I See, about the idea - thanks.
I'm a video gamer, and want to start getting into streaming as well.

Thought about a full upgrade for gaming setup, then my current specs to make it a streaming pc.

Thinking about a white RGB build this time around.
Was going to be based on 9800X3D, B850 Aorus Elite Ice, Sapphire Pulse RX 9070 XT .

However, if I keep my current build for both gaming + streaming, then it will be a reduced upgrade. so 5700X3D and Taichi OC - looks fine.
This will keep me on AM4, and prolong my setup. Recently upgraded the ram from 16GB 3000MHz to 32GB 3200MHz with bios flash, since I was having memory issues related to gaming on Linux.
 
I have a white build myself and spent quite some time planning it so I understand your feelings :)
I'd recommend you also look at the more expensive X870 Aorus Stealth Ice, its a reverse connector board, so you need a compatible case but but the White Fractal North XL RC version would do nicely, or alternatively Lian Li's new RC compatible case (the 217); its a very nice board though, and thanks to the reverse connectors gives a very nice look, plus even if you max the nvme drives you dont take any hit to speed on the main pcie gpu slot.

Im using the Nitro+ which is more of a graphite colour but that goes well with the grey black powdercoat interior of the XL RC.
 
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That's what I like about going for a white build, the Nitro+ RX 9070 XT, suits since it is grey.
And tons of planning is needed.

With the case Antec C8 or Be Quiet Light Base 500 LX are my top two choices currently
 
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