The Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) Owners Thread.

ElT · 19 Jan 2023 at 14:47

I decided to take the plunge on a Sapphire 7900XT (not the Pulse).

Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Order Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Gaming 20GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card now online and benefit from fast delivery.

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Just to check, I only have a PCI-E v3 motherboard, not a v4. It'll still be alright wont it? It's backwards compatible and wont be horribly bottlenecked?

Kaapstad · 19 Jan 2023 at 14:59

gupsterg said:
Gotta agree luv the look of Red Devil...

@Kaapstad , another one for TOL, thanks.

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Date 19/01/2023, Make PowerColor Red Devil XTX, gupsterg, Link
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Date 11/01/2023, Make MBA XT, hardkore, Link
Date 07/01/2023, Make PowerColor Red Devil XTX, wookiee87, Link
Date 06/01/2023, Make PowerColor Red Devil LE XTX, [Robster], Link
Date 04/01/2023, Make XFX Merc 310 XTX, PeterNem, Link
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Date 20/12/2022, Make MBA XTX, Mr Evil, Link
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queamin · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:19

eeii said:
Showing my age here, but the last football manager game I played was on the zx Spectrum 48k .

Same, unless it was on amiga.

queamin · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:22

LtMatt said:
I've got no complaints about my 4090 at all, but I do call it as I see it and they all whine to some degree.

Are you sure it not your Wife, on account the amount of cards you brought.

Arx07 · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:30

Higher end model owners, how are your memory junction temps on XT/XTX?

As MBA owner i'm still a bit disturbed as it goes 10C higher than GPU junction...

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:34

Arx07 said:
Higher end model owners, how are your memory junction temps on XT/XTX?

As MBA owner i'm still a bit disturbed as it goes 10C higher than GPU junction...

Memory junction should be the highest temp. Anything under 108c is perfectly fine believe it or not. What temps are you seeing?

Arx07 · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:38

LtMatt said:
Couple

Memory junction should be the highest temp. Anything under 108c is perfectly fine believe it or not. What temps are you seeing?

Up to 96C, when ambient is only 20C. Dunno what's gonna happen in summertime...
But mostly i play with reasonable settings that game most of the time keeps 144 fps cap, then temps are normal. Memory junction 86-90C and GPU junction 76-82.
Tried to put thermal pads under backplate, on VRAM spots. But it decreased temp only by 2C

Anyways i accept that memory temp, but interesting to know what's it like on better models, still quite high?

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:45

Arx07 said:
Up to 96C, when ambient is only 20C. Dunno what's gonna happen in summertime...
But mostly i play with reasonable settings that game most of the time keeps 144 fps cap, then temps are normal. Memory junction 86-90C and GPU junction 76-82.
Tried to put thermal pads under backplat, on VRAM spots. But it decreased temp only by 2C

What card are you using, MBA? I found memory temps got worse on the MBA after taking the card apart. If you do dismantle it, I think you need to do what @gupsterg suggested in this post with the memory putty before reassembly.

Arx07 · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:49

LtMatt said:
What card are you using, MBA? I found memory temps got worse on the MBA after taking the card apart. If you do dismantle it, I think you need to do what @gupsterg suggested in this post with the memory putty before reassembly.

MBA yes.
I was thinking to replace puttys with gelid extreme. But probably not worth the effort...

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2023 at 15:55

Arx07 said:
MBA yes.
I was thinking to replace puttys with gelid extreme. But probably not worth the effort...

Yeah, your temps are warm but well within spec.

sHo0sH · 19 Jan 2023 at 16:06

I think there might be a problem with the Adrenaline drivers and opacity / overlays - I'm in a Teams meeting and the names of everyone that are overlayed on their camera feed are flickering like hell. Anyone else noticed anything like this at all?

Matty8787 · 19 Jan 2023 at 16:28

Missed out on an XT earlier for £725 - I hesitated and should have bit the bullet.

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2023 at 16:31

sHo0sH said:
I think there might be a problem with the Adrenaline drivers and opacity / overlays - I'm in a Teams meeting and the names of everyone that are overlayed on their camera feed are flickering like hell. Anyone else noticed anything like this at all?

Can’t say I have tbf and I use Teams everyday for calls and presentations.

tstng · 19 Jan 2023 at 16:33

sHo0sH said:
Based on looks alone it would be the red devil. Also that Merc card is super long so might have to worry about size a bit more (the red devil is a thicc boy though)

I can confirm the Merc is VERY long. The cooling is good (as a result of the huge heatsink), so overclocking might be a decent, but the fans are extremely loud (they go 3000+ rpm).

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2023 at 16:35

tstng said:
I can confirm the Merc is VERY long. The cooling is good (as a result of the huge heatsink), so overclocking might be a decent, but the fans are extremely loud (they go 3000+ rpm).

That would be my experience of the Merc too.

BHS1975 · 19 Jan 2023 at 17:50

tstng said:
I can confirm the Merc is VERY long. The cooling is good (as a result of the huge heatsink), so overclocking might be a decent, but the fans are extremely loud (they go 3000+ rpm).

Even longer with the sag bracket.

Vimes · 19 Jan 2023 at 18:16

tstng said:
I can confirm the Merc is VERY long. The cooling is good (as a result of the huge heatsink), so overclocking might be a decent, but the fans are extremely loud (they go 3000+ rpm).

With the size of the cooler would the fans necessarily have to be so loud to be effective when the card is being pushed ..?

Grim5 · 19 Jan 2023 at 18:38

sHo0sH said:
Maybe we start an "official MW2 benchmark thread"

Matt would love to

lys1980 · 19 Jan 2023 at 19:00

I have tried to set the maximum GPU frequency at 2750 MHz in Adrenalin software, run Cyberpunk again, but it crashed when GPU clock reached 2875 MHz. So the question is: why Adrenalin can't save my frequency settings?

I'm attaching GPU-Z statistics for reference, where you can notice a spike suddenly before the game crashed

koeiwong · 19 Jan 2023 at 19:09

tstng said:
I can confirm the Merc is VERY long. The cooling is good (as a result of the huge heatsink), so overclocking might be a decent, but the fans are extremely loud (they go 3000+ rpm).

It is longer but thinner. Are you using AMD Wattman fan curve or bios fan settings? I remember mine was max out @ 47% around 2000rpm (even this rpm is very loud) with default bios unless I use the fan curve in WattMan which will push the fan speed to around 90%.

Vimes said:
With the size of the cooler would the fans necessarily have to be so loud to be effective when the card is being pushed ..?

The fan on Merc is terrible, it is loud enough at around 1200-1400rpm. The Aorus I have now is quiet even at 1600rpm.