RX 9000 series GPU Owners Club

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Some people have reported errors when running memtest_vulkan https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan/releases on stock/OC settings when the VRAM gets over 95°C, so I'd check to verify your temps in that test.

 

[glife4me]

Wow, that GPU clock is really spinning for a 9070 card!

That was stock settings after reading other peoples experiences with undervolting and lots of playtesting. It actually got better! I ended up purchasing a larger case and some new fan arrangements helped temps a decent bit, plus some adjustment of the stock fan curve did wonders.

Edit to include: Im in the US and tax was not in my 659.99 that was list price. Total after tax was 707.84

 

[SirKeldon]

That was stock settings after reading other peoples experiences with undervolting and lots of playtesting. It actually got better! I ended up purchasing a larger case and some new fan arrangements helped temps a decent bit, plus some adjustment of the stock fan curve did wonders.

Great VRAM temps by the way, and even running at a high top of 2686MHz. I'll have to check mine, but I'm 95% sure it tops out at 2505. From what I've seen, your temps are among the lower ones, if not the lowest. That middle case fan blowing directly into the GPU is probably helping, at least that would be my guess. Anyway, congratulations!

Also, fill in your system specs in your profile if you can, that's a clean and solid-looking rig! Enjoy it!

 

[Bobaganoosh]

I got some info from my brother on testing his new Red Devil 9070.

The rest of his system:
5800X
MSI B450
16GB DDR4-3200
Red Devil RX 9070 (replaced an RTX 3070)

He's due for a CPU/Motherboard/Memory overhaul at some point as he's completely bottlenecked at 1080p now, but the benchmark performance was still really impressive.

Stock Steel Nomad:

Doing an under-volt and power increase:

3D Mark shows that his GPU got to 50C during this run. A nice 10.8% increased score over stock.

He said the benchmark crashed if he dropped the undervolting any more than that. He just has the free 3DMark Demo, so no RT benchmarks yet. He said his games have been only drawing about 80-150W from the GPU and he seems pretty bottlenecked at the moment. He's going to be upgrading to 1440p soon, which will shift some load away from his CPU, but the uplift from 3070 is apparently still huge.

Some feedback on FSR4: he said that CP2077 with FSR4 was giving him some huge results, but with frame gen it was jumping from 100-180 with max settings, even ray tracing, and the jumping around was a little jarring. I think he'll end up running the quality FSR setting without the frame gen. He did say that it looked surprisingly good, even with frame gen on, and way better than he expected. A couple little things noticeable here and there, but really not bad.

Also, all marketing silliness aside, the "Hellstone" looks really good and is actually cool. It's a great looking card and even came with a nice little adjustable support brace.

 

[DankyYanks]

I purchased an XFX Quicksilver 9070XT in white at msrp, it just arrived yesterday. No problems getting it up and running on Arch Linux. I need to run some benchmarks and see how it does. Heck, maybe I'll look into LACT and see if I can undervolt / OC.

Cheers!

 

[glife4me]

Great VRAM temps by the way, and even running at a high top of 2686MHz. I'll have to check mine, but I'm 95% sure it tops out at 2505. From what I've seen, your temps are among the lower ones, if not the lowest. That middle case fan blowing directly into the GPU is probably helping, at least that would be my guess. Anyway, congratulations!

Also, fill in your system specs in your profile if you can, that's a clean and solid-looking rig! Enjoy it!

Its not obvious cause its not RGB, but there is a black fan blowing up directly under the card too. The triple intake on the side has mirrors in the center but i had to turn them for this case config. I ended up ordering 5 reverse fans 3 for the side and two for directly under the card. I think it made an impact. Fresh air from outside the case blowing directly into the card. I could have put another where the Sith holocron is but then where would i display that at . I actually adjusted my ram down to 2666mhz....figured hellstone and all that would be a missed oppurtunity. 2700 yielded decreasing results so i figured split the difference and leave a margin. Also updated my pc info

3DMark seems to sit just over 2800mhz for core. But Black Myth and Red Dead both show 3300 mhz most the time.

 

[glife4me]

He said the benchmark crashed if he dropped the undervolting any more than that. He just has the free 3DMark Demo, so no RT benchmarks yet. He said his games have been only drawing about 80-150W from the GPU and he seems pretty bottlenecked at the moment. He's going to be upgrading to 1440p soon, which will shift some load away from his CPU, but the uplift from 3070 is apparently still huge.

Some feedback on FSR4: he said that CP2077 with FSR4 was giving him some huge results, but with frame gen it was jumping from 100-180 with max settings, even ray tracing, and the jumping around was a little jarring. I think he'll end up running the quality FSR setting without the frame gen. He did say that it looked surprisingly good, even with frame gen on, and way better than he expected. A couple little things noticeable here and there, but really not bad.

Also, all marketing silliness aside, the "Hellstone" looks really good and is actually cool. It's a great looking card and even came with a nice little adjustable support brace.

About the same, 85 seemed to be best. Beyond that didnt yield good results. The uplift from 3070 was very noticeable. I also agree with the opinion about fsr4 and frame gen. Im getting 90-95 ultra in red dead and tried the fsr and frame gen and was around 175 fps but also some slight ghosting around the character in fast moving scenes. Im probably overly sensitive to it cause once i notice it i cant ignore so i turned it off. Indiana Jones also yielded huge results compared to my 3070. I also loved the brace. Its magnetic on the ends which is pretty cool! The included plastic raised sticker was also pretty neat.

 

[LabRat 891]

Soon to be a member, but dunno how long I'll stay (as a current 7900 XTX owner).

 

[AusWolf]

I purchased an XFX Quicksilver 9070XT in white at msrp, it just arrived yesterday. No problems getting it up and running on Arch Linux. I need to run some benchmarks and see how it does. Heck, maybe I'll look into LACT and see if I can undervolt / OC.

Cheers!

Nice!

Make sure your OS has Mesa 25, otherwise it won't run any games. The only thing I can run on my card with Mesa 24.3 is a Superposition benchmark.

Still waiting for Bazzite to update Mesa.

That was stock settings after reading other peoples experiences with undervolting and lots of playtesting. It actually got better! I ended up purchasing a larger case and some new fan arrangements helped temps a decent bit, plus some adjustment of the stock fan curve did wonders.

Edit to include: Im in the US and tax was not in my 659.99 that was list price. Total after tax was 707.84

3.4 GHz looks great! It much be catching the tail of the XT.

At first, I thought the non-XT wasn't a great buy, but looking at some OC/UV results here, I changed my mind completely.

 

[tpa-pr]

9070 XT owners, would one of you be so kind as to run Portal RTX briefly and see what framerate you get with the rendering quality (in the Alt+X menu, not the Source menu) set to "High"? I'm curious as to how well RDNA 4 will perform compared to my RDNA 3 card.

(@AusWolf If you end up being the guinea pig, be aware that alt-tabbing from the game causes amdgpu driver timeouts in fullscreen mode, so enable borderless first).

Here's a couple of screenshots from my 7900XTX for comparison. This is running at 1440p. Best fps I can get is ~25fps.

 

[cinemaware]

Played some games like a bit of CP2077, about 1 hr of RE4 (@4K) and the recorded VRAM temp was nearly-steady 102C.

I found this on HWinfo saying that TJmax for memory is set at 108C but I wish there was also some official word somewhere stating "this is fine" (but seriously).

 

[AusWolf]

9070 XT owners, would one of you be so kind as to run Portal RTX briefly and see what framerate you get with the rendering quality (in the Alt+X menu, not the Source menu) set to "High"? I'm curious as to how well RDNA 4 will perform compared to my RDNA 3 card.

(@AusWolf If you end up being the guinea pig, be aware that alt-tabbing from the game causes amdgpu driver timeouts in fullscreen mode, so enable borderless first).

Here's a couple of screenshots from my 7900XTX for comparison. This is running at 1440p. Best fps I can get is ~25fps.
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I'm not sure if I'm the perfect guinea pig for this test, because I'm on Linux and my main distro (Bazzite) is still lacking the necessary Mesa v25 to run the card. All I can do is desktop/video and a bit of Superposition.

But I do have Nobara installed on an external SSD, that has all the drivers, so I'll check for you.

Keep in mind that games usually run with a bit of a performance penalty on Linux due to DXVK / Proton, and other stuff.

 

[remekra]

Played some games like a bit of CP2077, about 1 hr of RE4 (@4K) and the recorded VRAM temp was nearly-steady 102C.

I found this on HWinfo saying that TJmax for memory is set at 108C but I wish there was also some official word somewhere stating "this is fine" (but seriously).

Give it a bit of time, bit of dust build up and thermal cycles and I can bet it will get to that 108. That temp is too high. I would RMA it sooner or later.

 

[pppiiiter]

sapphire pulse 9070XT. msrp or nothing, 728€ inc. VAT. not willing to pay single penny above msrp.

 

[ixi]

sapphire pulse 9070XT. msrp or nothing, 728€ inc. VAT. not willing to pay single penny above msrp.

Where?

 

[AusWolf]

9070 XT owners, would one of you be so kind as to run Portal RTX briefly and see what framerate you get with the rendering quality (in the Alt+X menu, not the Source menu) set to "High"? I'm curious as to how well RDNA 4 will perform compared to my RDNA 3 card.

(@AusWolf If you end up being the guinea pig, be aware that alt-tabbing from the game causes amdgpu driver timeouts in fullscreen mode, so enable borderless first).

Here's a couple of screenshots from my 7900XTX for comparison. This is running at 1440p. Best fps I can get is ~25fps.
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Bad news, it doesn't (currently) run even on Nobara Linux.

The furthest I could get to is the main menu. There, at 3440x1440, with rendering quality at high, I got 37 FPS with TAA-U Performance, and 10 FPS with TAA-U disabled.

As soon as I started a new game, the game froze. More OS updates are needed.
(No, I'm not switching back to Windows, sorry)

 

[SirKeldon]

Played some games like a bit of CP2077, about 1 hr of RE4 (@4K) and the recorded VRAM temp was nearly-steady 102C.

I found this on HWinfo saying that TJmax for memory is set at 108C but I wish there was also some official word somewhere stating "this is fine" (but seriously).

What's your ambient temp, by the way? According to the software and GPU sensors, yes, the limit is 108°C, and it's probably showing some kind of VRAM junction temperature, not the chip's surface temp. Why do I suspect that? Because according to Micron, the max operating temp for GDDR6 chips is 95°C, so my guess is the reading comes from a hotter point, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, 102°C is quite high. The highest I've seen on mine is 86°C. I've seen other users reporting temps in the low to mid 90s, but no one past 100. Could you try improving the airflow a bit around the card? Have you played with the card's fan curve? On my 7800XT I had to tweak it a little and saw a memory temp drop of up to 10°C — definitely worth a try. You can do it in Adrenalin -> Performance -> Tuning -> Manual (on the card) -> Fan tuning.

If nothing helps, I'd definitely contact the vendor or retailer and let them know about the situation. Maybe they can provide more clarity about the limits and give everyone some proper feedback.
Best of luck!

PS: Hello there, staff member! If you're reading this, it would be great to have 'Edit' access to the first post in this thread so I can add and update the owners table there. Thank you very much in advance!

 

[68Olds]

PS: Hello there, staff member! If you're reading this, it would be great to have 'Edit' access to the first post in this thread so I can add and update the owners table there. Thank you very much in advance!

Go to your first post and click the Report button, then ask for extended editing rights from there.

 

[the54thvoid]

OP edit time unlocked

 

[SirKeldon]

OP edit time unlocked

Really appreciated!!! Thank you very much @the54thvoid

Go to your first post and click the Report button, then ask for extended editing rights from there.

Thanks @68Olds, never used the "Report" button in these 17 years lol, felt like a newb, now I know how it looks like

 

[Epaminombas]

Guys, you need to update your motherboard BIOS to receive a new GPU that has just been released.

You also need to use Windows 11 24H2 for better compatibility.

Intel, AMD, and Nvidia recommend Windows 11 24H2 for any and all CPUs and GPUs released from 2021 onwards.

Using Windows 10 with new hardware will only bring you headaches with random bugs.

 

[SirKeldon]

Guys, you need to update your motherboard BIOS to receive a new GPU that has just been released.

Is it about the AMD AGESA 1.2.0.3a Patch A? I recently updated my BIOS a few days ago, which includes it. That particular BIOS version was released on Feb 21st, just a few days before the GPU launch, also including "PCIe Gen Compatibility improvements". As far as I've read through, AGESA updates are mostly related to CPU, chipset and memory initialization. They rarely impact GPU compatibility directly, but can sometimes improve PCIe link stability on new devices or help with new platform-level features right? Asking sincerely here

Intel, AMD, and Nvidia recommend Windows 11 24H2 for any and all CPUs and GPUs released from 2021 onwards.

Using Windows 10 with new hardware will only bring you headaches with random bugs.

So far I haven’t experienced any weird issues related to drivers or system instability on Windows 10 since I upgraded my rig a couple of months ago, at least not yet. Anyway, thanks for the heads-up, I wasn’t aware of the vendors' recommendation.

 

[Epaminombas]

So I've already updated many BIOSes of acquaintances and friends to make the RAM or SSD OR GPU recognized or to fix some bug in the new GPU.

Windows 10 22H2 only received DirectX updates until 2023.

Windows 11 24H2 has DirectX updates from 2025.

Windows 10 22H2 is for old hardware and works very well for hardware released until 2020.

 

[SirKeldon]

So I've already updated many BIOSes of acquaintances and friends to make the RAM or SSD OR GPU recognized or to fix some bug in the new GPU.

Yeah, of course, I totally get that, a BIOS update can definitely solve recognition or compatibility issues with new hardware. I wasn't questioning that at all. I was specifically referring to AGESA itself, just wondering if it could have any particular impact on GPU behaviour other than improving PCIe gen compatibility/stability at the BIOS since it's basically AMD CPU/Chipset related as far as I've read. It's just that I’ve been away from "Red Team" for about ~15 years, so I’m still catching up with how things work nowadays

Windows 10 22H2 only received DirectX updates until 2023.
Windows 11 24H2 has DirectX updates from 2025.

I wasn't aware of this either, thanks again for the heads-up. I had considered installing Windows 11 for this new setup, especially since Windows 10 is losing official support by the end of this year… but I wasn't fully convinced. Thanks for giving me some valid and compelling reasons to go for it. I might rethink it.

I purchased an XFX Quicksilver 9070XT in white at msrp, it just arrived yesterday. No problems getting it up and running on Arch Linux. I need to run some benchmarks and see how it does. Heck, maybe I'll look into LACT and see if I can undervolt / OC.

Cheers!

Sorry I missed your message, added you to the list right now! Really nice build, looks gorgeous in white, love the B&W scheme also, welcome to TPU!!!

 

[glife4me]

So I've already updated many BIOSes of acquaintances and friends to make the RAM or SSD OR GPU recognized or to fix some bug in the new GPU.

Windows 10 22H2 only received DirectX updates until 2023.

Windows 11 24H2 has DirectX updates from 2025.

Windows 10 22H2 is for old hardware and works very well for hardware released until 2020.

Wow I too was not aware of this! I guess I will be taking the free upgrade soon. I hate updating the OS though...Direct X is always why i end up leaving an OS...seems to be a pattern