Monday, January 13th 2025
PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil & HellHound Reportedly Boost Beyond 3.0 GHz
AMD enforced strict conditions upon its manufacturing partners at the recently concluded CES trade event—various custom Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 (non-XT) models were showcased, but technical details were not revealed. The TechPowerUp team had a hands-on look at PowerColor's selection of Red Devil, Hellhound cards and newly debuted Reaper design—certain information could be pertained from labels and stickers (cough: 16 GB VRAM) yet brand reps remained tight-lipped about technical nitty gritty under-the-hood. News outlets have relied upon less-than-official sources—such as the Chiphell forum—to obtain performance figures. VideoCardz's working weekend session has produced alleged details about PowerColor's planned boost clock speeds—the headline being that a 3.0 GHz barrier has been broken.
The site's insider network proposes that PowerColor's top-flight Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil model is ready for launch with an OC BIOS set to boost matters up to 3060 MHz, while the silent performance mode shaves off fifty—bringing things down to a (still impressive) 3010 MHz. The more middle-of-the-pack Hellhound design is reported to achieve a 3010 MHz boost via its OC BIOS mode, and its silent operation is reported to be 2970 MHz. Additionally, a VideoCardz source reckons that game clocks are somewhere in the region of 2460 to 2520 MHz for both models. The "more affordable" PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT Reaper variant seems to lack BIOS switching, so its single operational mode is allegedly capable of boosting up to 2970 MHz.
VideoCardz also mentions boost clock information regarding PowerColor's Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT) offerings. Industry moles posit that the non-XT Red Devil and Hellhound cards can boost "up to 2590 MHz and 2700 MHz." The non-XT Reaper could be assigned a game clock of 2070 MHz, and a boost clock of 2520 MHz.
Other leaks have revealed supposed core counts—4096 for XT, 3584 for non-XT—yet VideoCardz is hungrily pursuing further details, including TBP info.
Sources:
VideoCardz, Eteknix
The site's insider network proposes that PowerColor's top-flight Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil model is ready for launch with an OC BIOS set to boost matters up to 3060 MHz, while the silent performance mode shaves off fifty—bringing things down to a (still impressive) 3010 MHz. The more middle-of-the-pack Hellhound design is reported to achieve a 3010 MHz boost via its OC BIOS mode, and its silent operation is reported to be 2970 MHz. Additionally, a VideoCardz source reckons that game clocks are somewhere in the region of 2460 to 2520 MHz for both models. The "more affordable" PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT Reaper variant seems to lack BIOS switching, so its single operational mode is allegedly capable of boosting up to 2970 MHz.
23 Comments on PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil & HellHound Reportedly Boost Beyond 3.0 GHz
The 7800XT defaults to 263W TDP but when I crank the power slider all they way down to 210W and drop about 200mv off the core voltage, it benchmarks at the same speed, within margin of error.
That's how I daily-drive it....
I'd love to see undervolted cards with much smaller wattage/heat sinks, and a tiny bit lower fps, than these OC'd cards
Burn it...
Churn it....
'nuff said :D
Especially one that can suddenly pull over 2x speed comfortably. Waterblocked cards may go higher.
Lose 1% performance with the power slider down from 230 to 206W
Gain back 1-2% performance using the -100mV curve
OC the VRAM for another 1-2%
-10% power for higher fps.
I do about 17M PPD if I let it run.
If these rumours of 330W TDP are accurate, that means that -10% is still basically 300W and even with -20% we're still looking at a minimum power draw of ~265W which is likely still above the efficiency sweet-spot.
But we know that AMD never hears - someone must tell them that 3 GHz won't help, actually it will make the matters much worse. The market needs very fast 150-200W cards, not shitty clocked monsters which barely achieve 5 FPS more than the 100 W lower cards.
This means - vote with your wallet.
You can get similar-esque results with clock restriction (I prefer this on Nvidia GPUs and most Radeons to be fair) but I'd like the option to use either.
Intel don't have anything above the entry-level right now, They desperately need B580's success in the next performance tier up, but it's not even close to release yet!