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The Radeon RX9070XT / RX9070 Owners Thread

nessunobot said:
I finally got my Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT yesterday!
As I said in a previous post, my current build is really unbalanced right now cause of my old processor (i7 8700k so still PCIE3.0 but I was able to turn on REBAR).
These are the scores I get, with everything set to stock:
Steel Nomad: 6770
Superposition 4k optimized: 18636
Time Spy: 17 678 (CPU:7270, GPU: 23 617)

The GPU is attached with a twin pcie 8 pin connector since it's the only one in my PSU, a Thermaltake Smart RGB 700W.

Are these scores reasonable? I'm mainly trying to find out if my GPU is working as expected while I wait for the rest of the components to get here, but that won't happen until after the return window sadly.
I noticed the Time Spy is significantly lower than expected but I feel like my CPU is limiting me a lot in that benchmark
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I've ran Into massive problems installing my 9070 xt, using AMD clean up to remove the old drivers first, because of the massive POS that win 11 is. It's hung on reboot into safe mode because it can't accept a pin and I don't have a password. ( I didn't want any pin or password when I installed it but it insisted). I've put a thread up in software, if anyone can please help.
I'm stuck in recovery now but nothing is working.
Might have to reinstall windows ( pity it doesn't have the option - revert to win 10)
 
nessunobot said:
I finally got my Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT yesterday!
As I said in a previous post, my current build is really unbalanced right now cause of my old processor (i7 8700k so still PCIE3.0 but I was able to turn on REBAR).
These are the scores I get, with everything set to stock:
Steel Nomad: 6770
Superposition 4k optimized: 18636
Time Spy: 17 678 (CPU:7270, GPU: 23 617)

The GPU is attached with a twin pcie 8 pin connector since it's the only one in my PSU, a Thermaltake Smart RGB 700W.

Are these scores reasonable? I'm mainly trying to find out if my GPU is working as expected while I wait for the rest of the components to get here, but that won't happen until after the return window sadly.
I noticed the Time Spy is significantly lower than expected but I feel like my CPU is limiting me a lot in that benchmark
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Stock graphics score is around 29k
 
As above, it does look like you're losing around 20% due to the CPU bottleneck and maybe a tiny bit of that due to PCIE3 v 4, at least in some stuff but as long as the GPU is clocking up appropriately and staying there, this doesn't look out of the question. If you were roughly half the expected performance I'd be more concerned as the bottleneck shouldnt be THAT huge.
 
Hello Peeps,

I managed to bag a 9070XT Nitro plus at MSRP to replace a 3080 FTW3.

Really good performance on a 1440p OLED. Only downside for me was mine has a silly amount of coil whine. Bummer.

Mine wasn't bought from OCuK and have the option to return it so will see how I get on.

Anyway, the reason for my post.

I wondered if anyone else has monitored the peak watts consumed by the 9070XT?

I haven't read the entire thread so it may have been mentioned already (sorry if it has), but I saw some peaks well over 400 Watts in HWMonitor so jumped into HWINFO64 and saw something similair (unless I'm taking the reading from the wrong sensor reading).

Bare in mind that I have a -70mV offset already.

Normally I just check the "Total Board Power (TBP)" but my attention drifted over to "GPU Power Maximum" when i saw 452.473w which could be transient spikes.

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michty_me said:
Have you tried any stress tests like OCCT? Is this a new thing since the 9070 install?
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Thanks for mentioning this - I was previously unaware of OCCT but in the hour or so I've been using it I've identified that what I thought was a stable CPU undervolt actually wasn't, with the Combined test spitting out CPU errors after about 8 minutes or so - fixed that and am now past 15 minutes and still running.

Will now circle back and redo GPU undervolt testing, as it tended to trip up when running lower resolutions at higher framerates, e.g. when there's more load on the CPU.
 
ChosenName said:
Thanks for mentioning this - I was previously unaware of OCCT but in the hour or so I've been using it I've identified that what I thought was a stable CPU undervolt actually wasn't, with the Combined test spitting out CPU errors after about 8 minutes or so - fixed that and am now past 15 minutes and still running.

Will now circle back and redo GPU undervolt testing, as it tended to trip up when running lower resolutions at higher framerates, e.g. when there's more load on the CPU.
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Excellent! Hopefully it's all resolved for you! Even OCCT can miss things though.
 
So comparing my 9070xt to my 5080...

The 9070xt is behind in performance, certainly in RT. DLSS vs FSR4 is a non-comparison, the latter just needs native game support really. 5080 overclocks a little better. Both use similar amounts of power. Temps are similar.

The big one is the drivers. I've had the 5080 since launch and every single driver release has broken something or introduced a new bug. I've experienced nothing of the sort with the 9070xt in the admittedly couple of days I've had it.

Nvidia are a complete joke. And so am I!
 
Bidley said:
So comparing my 9070xt to my 5080...

The 9070xt is behind in performance, certainly in RT. DLSS vs FSR4 is a non-comparison, the latter just needs native game support really. 5080 overclocks a little better. Both use similar amounts of power. Temps are similar.

The big one is the drivers. I've had the 5080 since launch and every single driver release has broken something or introduced a new bug. I've experienced nothing of the sort with the 9070xt in the admittedly couple of days I've had it.

Nvidia are a complete joke. And so am I!
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the bigger one is the price difference most 5080 are £1200 whereas the 9070xt is generally below £700, so unless the 5080 is giving a 71% uplift in performance (going with 1200 v 700), it's toast in the price/performance department
remember if you use optiscaler you can get fsr4 working on titles that support dlss
 
Craig_d1 said:
the bigger one is the price difference most 5080 are £1200 whereas the 9070xt is generally below £700, so unless the 5080 is giving a 71% uplift in performance (going with 1200 v 700), it's toast in the price/performance department
remember if you use optiscaler you can get fsr4 working on titles that support dlss
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Yes, I didn't mention those because it's obvious :)

The driver thing is the biggest one, and the difference between FSR4 and DLSS. These were previously two things that people buy Nvidia for, yet now AMD offer superior drivers and driver software. The Nvidia App is complete garbage.
 
Bidley said:
The driver thing is the biggest one, and the difference between FSR4 and DLSS. These were previously two things that people buy Nvidia for, yet now AMD offer superior drivers and driver software. The Nvidia App is complete garbage.
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On this subforum it was the reason everyone chose to just buy nvidia even if the price difference was noteworthy. Fortunately we can see that upscaling and RT are not as obvious comparing to the RDNA2 and 3 gens; the gains made this gen has been actually solid. The major thorn in the side for blackwell has been the power connectors, dodgy drivers and the still in alpha "App". For $600 though or below $700 its a great option now, the 5070 and Ti really have competition - so lets see if the market changes their habits...
 
loonyk said:
Looks like nvidia is not a driver company anymore :) bet driver written by ai :)))
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They clearly rushed Blackwell out and it needed more time. I've had Nvidia for years and never had nearly as much trouble as the last couple of months.

AMD absolutely made the right choice by keeping their powder dry. Even if driver improvement wasn't the reason, it's a happy symptom!
 
gpuerrilla said:
On this subforum it was the reason everyone chose to just buy nvidia even if the price difference was noteworthy. Fortunately we can see that upscaling and RT are not as obvious comparing to the RDNA2 and 3 gens; the gains made this gen has been actually solid. The major thorn in the side for blackwell has been the power connectors, dodgy drivers and the still in alpha "App". For $600 though or below $700 its a great option now, the 5070 and Ti really have competition - so lets see if the market changes their habits...
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I couldn't recommend the 5070ti even if it was the same price as the 9070xt, if the issues are the same as I've been having with my 5080.

The latest driver gives me enormous frametime spikes every 60 seconds in Cyberpunk. It's borderline unplayable. I have to disable G-Sync while on desktop or I get white flickering on my displays, which has been a problem since launch. I'd give up 5% performance if it meant these things didn't happen.
 
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Bidley said:
AMD absolutely made the right choice by keeping their powder dry. Even if driver improvement wasn't the reason, it's a happy symptom!
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They need to double down on the software now and show that for the next two years they can be solid.

Bidley said:
I couldn't recommend the 5070ti even if it was the same price as the 9070xt, if the issues are the same as I've been having with my 5080.

The latest driver gives me enormous frametime spikes every 60 seconds in Cyberpunk. It's borderline unplayable. I have to disable G-Sync while on desktop or I get white flickering on my displays, which has been a problem since launch. I'd give up 5% performance if it meant these things didn't happen.
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This is good to hear, only from the sense that if it was the other way round there would be a big song and dance. Now the shoe is on the other foot lets see if its brushed under the carpet.
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
As above, it does look like you're losing around 20% due to the CPU bottleneck and maybe a tiny bit of that due to PCIE3 v 4, at least in some stuff but as long as the GPU is clocking up appropriately and staying there, this doesn't look out of the question. If you were roughly half the expected performance I'd be more concerned as the bottleneck shouldnt be THAT huge.
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Anyone has suggestions on benchmarks or games where I can check that the clocks are staying up as expected with a CPU bottleneck? I’m currently playing at 1080p 144hz so in most games the cpu is being the roadblock and the GPU never boosts up as high.

(Is there any way to run games at higher resolution? That might help to make the GPU work more but I checked in BG3 and I couldn’t)

I’ve seen around 2750MHz during the Steel Nomad benchmark and 2870MHz with a slight undervolt (-70), both with stock power limit (since the first time I tried to increase to +5% and run a benchmark everything froze and I had to restart)
 
nessunobot said:
Anyone has suggestions on benchmarks or games where I can check that the clocks are staying up as expected with a CPU bottleneck? I’m currently playing at 1080p 144hz so in most games the cpu is being the roadblock and the GPU never boosts up as high.

(Is there any way to run games at higher resolution? That might help to make the GPU work more but I checked in BG3 and I couldn’t)

I’ve seen around 2750MHz during the Steel Nomad benchmark and 2870MHz with a slight undervolt (-70), both with stock power limit (since the first time I tried to increase to +5% and run a benchmark everything froze and I had to restart)
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Use the VSR or whatever the name for it is to push the load on to the gpu. See what your fps is after setting it to 1440p.

Ed ok check this page it covers what I described.

When you set this up use AB to display on screen your cpu usage (show single cores), gpu usage. You want to try force the gpu to be close to 100% instead of the cpu using your game settings after.
 
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Fizz said:
Anyone else having issues with the (I assume) latest versions of the chipset drivers?

It just sticks at 0% won't progress any further. Tells me I'm missing files so I download the drivers from the AMD site and then it gives me an error saying this or a similar one saying there is already an install going (but there isn't) I've tried everything.
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Hey, this is an issue mentioned in the release notes of 25.3.2
 
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