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*** The AMD RDNA 4 Rumour Mill ***

michty_me said:
Thanks for the feedback. Seems a hungry card! I may look further into this card...
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Board power draw 388W maks in metro.
mountaincow said:
The card has dual bios doesn't it? Have you tried it and if so can you report on the differences?
This is the card I was able to order and glad to see someone has one to show off :D
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No I haven't. Only performance :cry:
Undervolting the card is the best solution for silent mode:)
 
Thekwango said:
I’m pretty sure that’s approaching or even exceeding it’s thermal limit so does appear more like a dud I’m afraid.
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well the fan curve didn't do much apart from completely throttle the card down to 1200-1500 clock speed whilst still slamming the fans. Anyway its been taken out as the system hard powered off three times in 20mins and I figured that was about as much of a sign as I need. Fortunately I managed to get one of the power-off events on video and I have screenshots of the temps and such like.

Its boxed up and ready for RMA refund. This was the first AMD card I have bought in 20years after getting sick of issues on ATI cards. Not the best welcome back experience but also understand that these things happen.

While I wanted to buy from OC the card the only place I managed to get an order in was from ***NO COMPETITOR MENTIONS*** - I raised an RMA just before 17:30 and they told me those are normal temps and they can't offer RMA, but then said to call back Monday to discuss. Another fine customer service experience incoming I suspect. sigh.
 
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I’ve got an XFX 9070 XT Mercury on order for £680 and an XFX 9070 Swift OC for £525.

Is the XT worth the £155 uplift? I’m thinking possibly not especially with how power efficient the 9070 is. Upgrading from a 1080ti.
 
Sumanji said:
This does sound a bit too good to be true...
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Cyberpunk - Optiscaler @ 3440x1440 FSR4 set to performance mode



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I haven't tested it myself since I don't have a 9070XT but on their discord some people have FSR4 working in Optiscaler.
If you have a 9070 series card then go ahead and get the appropriate files.

The latest nightly build of Optiscaler is needed : https://github.com/cdozdil/OptiScaler/releases

and the amdxcffx64.dll which can be downloaded from https://download.amd.com/dir/bin/amdxcffx64.dll/67A4D2BC10ad000/ or copied from your Windows/system directory.
 
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Murphy said:
For 30% more money you'd be getting something like 9-11% more performance so probably not.
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So is the general concensus that the regular 9070 is the best option and not the xt? Looking to buy one for my family as an upgrade to his 1080ti too.
 
Nersha said:
I’ve got an XFX 9070 XT Mercury on order for £680 and an XFX 9070 Swift OC for £525.

Is the XT worth the £155 uplift? I’m thinking possibly not especially with how power efficient the 9070 is. Upgrading from a 1080ti.
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Not at those prices no, but one of the cheaper 9070 XT models at £569 it would be. Though the 9070 is very good at that price.

It should be possible to get your 9070XT to run a lot more efficiently and still be faster than a 9070. In order to lower voltages you need to set a lower power target in Adrenalin.

1. Lower power limit to minus 10% (my 7900 XT has no option to go lower)
2. Set an undervolt of as much as you can until it becomes unstable, then raise it a bit.
3. Set your desired core and VRAM overclock until it becomes unstable (then lower it a bit)
4. Save the profile.
5. Set this to apply on startup (note, that any system crash will reset profile to default)
6 If you want you can apply it just for certain games in the game profile settings.

Using this method on my 7900 XT gets me ~5% better than stock and uses 287w instead of 320w. Obviously silicone lottery applies
 
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Nersha said:
I’ve got an XFX 9070 XT Mercury on order for £680 and an XFX 9070 Swift OC for £525.

Is the XT worth the £155 uplift? I’m thinking possibly not especially with how power efficient the 9070 is. Upgrading from a 1080ti.
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Stick with 9070 for 525.
Performance uplift from 1080ti will be crazy anyway.
 
Richdog said:
So is the general concensus that the regular 9070 is the best option and not the xt? Looking to buy one for my family as an upgrade to his 1080ti too.
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No, it depends on the price.

If you have to pay £155 more to buy an XT the extra 9-11% performance it offers probably isn't worth a 30% increase in price.
 
jimhaumman said:
Which model do you have?
Vrams/hot spot temps with OC?
Mine is fine on -150mV 3330-3420mhz
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I've updated my sig. Powercolor Hellhound 9070XT. All thermals are good.

Can you pass AMD's stress test? One thing I noticed about the test is the fans don't spin up like other tests.

I'm going to switch over to the owner's thread.

*****CORRECTION. I/you can change the power limit. It's moved in the window from where I remember it.*****
 
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Some really interesting results in here so far.

I don't normally follow releases too closely as tbh I never have money on release day to buy a card lol.

But I have been watching this and nearly bought on twice! Looks like an absolutely top card and love the designs of the cards. Big fan of the steel legend as have a white theme. (Anything be got one?....would love to see it in a system)

I managed to have pulse XT in my basket just before 2pm on launch but it failed for over an hour then the site wouldn't load for me to even empty basket, so hopefully the basket cleared and gave stock back!
 
Be interesting to see what happens to the 9070 price eventually.

Loads in stock still everywhere for around £600. If they can't shift them all after that ridiculously hyped/frenzied launch, they are really going to struggle as time goes on.

Especially so when the 5070 is more abundantly in stock.
 
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Jono8 said:
Be interesting to see what happens to the 9070 price eventually.

Loads in stock still everywhere for around £600. If they can't shift them all after that ridiculously hyped/frenzied launch, they are really going to struggle as time goes on.
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Yeh this is where I am with regard the 9070.

As in that will do me if it goes south of £500 by the end of the year.
 
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