So I just got this 9070XT and man is it huge. It came in an Amazon box which has a crease on it. I noticed that the main box and the inner box has a crease. The anti static bag also has some tears which looks like the cause is the metal edges. I have never received a damaged box like this and I am afraid that it’ll mess up my GPU. I obviously spent a lot of money on this and I am not sure if I should return it or keep it.

Edit: The amazon box merely had a few layers of brown paper that didn’t really help.

As the title says, I'm struggling to find the ideal settings for Cyberpunk. I'd like to push the 9070XT as far as possible, ideally with some raytracing while maintaining a steady 60fps, but I'm feeling like I'm chasing my own tail switching back and forth between different compromises. I land on some good settings and then either hit a big frame drop or spot some ugly artifacting that I can't live with.

I'm curious what settings others are using to hit the sweet spot between best quality image and steady 60fps. Also, how are people's experiences with PinkStone or Ultra Plus with the 9070XT, especially on Bazzite?

Specs:

• Powercolor Hellhound 9070XT
• Ryzen 5 9600X
• 32GB DDR5 RAM
• I'm running Bazzite and have Optiscaler installed for access to FSR4

I got a 9060 XT for $460 which was pretty much the best price I could find at the time. A few weeks later I seen Microcenter had a Powercolor 9070 GRE for $479. Seemed like a no brainer to return the 9060 XT and pay $20 for a lot more performance.

I see a lot of hate for the card pretty much everywhere. Maybe it's the 12GB VRAM. The next absolute cheapest 9070 is another $140 which I can't justify.

The instant replay is turned on in settings, but nothing saves when I hit the hot keys during gameplay (Battlefield 6). The only way I can seem to get it to temporarily work is to go into my game audio settings and switch the microphone from "default" to the direct "microphone" setting or visa versa. Then jumping straight back into game, testing it, and it seems the replay only buffers from when I changed the mic settings.
However, this is a temp fix, as it stops working again sometime after, often after loading into a new round or map.

I found one thread from a few years ago, saying to change your mix quality settings in windows from DVD quality to CD quality. I tried it, but no cigar.

Anybody got an idea or fix for this, or just experiencing this as well?

Edit: Specs

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
GPU: XFX 9070XT Swift
Mobo: B850 Aorus Elite Wifi7
RAM: 1x16Gb Crucial Pro DDR5 Overclocking 6000
Case: Lian-Li V100
Cooler: ID-COOLING Frozn A620 Pro SE ARGB
PSU: Cooler Master Elite Gold 1000

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It keeps crashing while I am playing, idk I feel like all drivers havebeen bad for over a year now.. For reference my GPU is RX 7700 XT

I bought 9070xt gigabyte GAMING non oc version and it has HYNIX memory chips.

Any good soul willing to share their GAMING OC 9070xt stock PERFORMANCE bios?

I would like to flash it on mine gaming and compare performance with oc TDP range.

screen from my card

Hi everyone so this is my first PC build and I’m curious about the last bit of wiring, that being the psu that is rated at 1200w by be quite to my gpu and that 3 to 1 cable apparently I can run the wire from the psu straight to the gpu with no issue instead of using the 3 to 1 connecter it came with. Does anyone one here know or have ran the power came straight to their gpu?

The 9070 XT would stretch the budget a bit, is the better performance worth it at 4k?

So this is just a appreciation post for the regular RX 9070 and how cool it is tough still very powerful.

I just built a PC a week ago and being 37 years old with a family I felt that things like low temperatures and quiet fans are more important than maximum performance.

Therefore I picked the non-xt regular rx 9070 because I had heard good things about it.

And it is so good. Still powerful but runs so cool that the fans never need to work basically.

Playing Baldurs Gate 3 at maximum settings in 1440p with fps capped at 120 I get core temp of mid 50s and hotspot and memory never goes above 65 C.

Same for clair obscure on high settings with fsr on quality and fps capped at 90.

Like coming from a nvidia 1060 this performance is so insane to me and The computer is still so quiet and comfy to sit at.

Dream gpu for me.

The only other time I ever attempted this was on my HIS HD 6870, but the screws were rusted in place, and i couldn't get them off. So that repasted failed right there. I think this time will be different.

Changes

• Manual Add game manually now opens a searchable game picker when the selected executable is ambiguous or unmatched, instead of silently failing. Fixes God of War (2018) and other titles whose folder name is a prefix of multiple compatibility entries (#7), and adds a full-list fallback for games that work but are not auto-matched (#5).
• Verified install, detection, and add-on handling against OptiScaler 0.9.4 (FFX 2.3 SDK / FSR 4.1.1); the bundled-Fakenvapi log now recognizes fakenvapi.dll.
• Repurposed the FSR4 INT8 tab for RDNA2 and unofficial APUs. Since OptiScaler 0.9.4 auto-enables FSR 4.1.1 INT8 on RDNA3 desktop cards (Fsr4Update=auto) and RDNA4 uses native FSR4, the tab now shows GPU-generation-aware guidance, adds an Fsr4ForceEnableInt8 toggle, and warns before applying a redundant manual package.

Download: https://github.com/Wimukthi/OptiScalerInstaller/releases/tag/v1.1.7.0

Or update via the in app updater

CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X

GPU: XFX Quicksilver RX 9070 XT

Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 AORUS ELITE AX ICE

RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR5

SSD: WD Black SN7100 1TB

PSU: ASRock Steel Legend 850W ATX 3.1

AIO: Thermalright FW360 Ultra LCD

Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic Mini V2

Fans: Thermalright C12CW-S RGB 120mm 3 Pack x2

Hey guys, I'm planning to buy an ASRock RX 7700 XT on Amazon.

Overall reviews are great (around 86% 5-stars), but I noticed a couple of 1-star reviews claiming the card died after 2 to 4 months of use.

For those who own this specific model (Challenger): How has your experience been so far? Is it worth grabbing, or should I look into another brand like Sapphire/PowerColor? Thanks!

I built my PC 2 months ago and initially everything was running smoothly.

Since a couple of days I occasionally do have issues when booting up the PC. I shut down Windows at night and when I want turn the computer on the next day my PC boots up but I don't have a signal on my monitor and the screen just stays black.

Booting into Windows seems to be OK since my keyboard lights up, the mouse LED is on and case fans and LEDs are on.

Since I don't have any video output I shut my computer down with the power button and after re-booting I end up in Windows with 720p resolution and an error message from the AMD Bug Report Tool telling me that a driver timeout has occurred.

The first time this happened I simply ran the AMD Adrenalin Driver setup and re-installed the driver and everything was good for a while.

The next few reboots were without issues until one day when I shut down Windows again at night time and then the same thing happened again the next morning.

This time I couldn't re-install the driver and the AMD Adrenalin installer gave an Error 207 telling me that Windows detected a potential issue with my graphics device. I opened the device manager and saw that the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT display adapter was disabled. I enabled it in the device manager and I could then successfully re-install the ADM Adrenalin software again.

This whole thing happened a handful times now and it is really inconsistent. The past two days I had no issues - the PC booted up fine when I turned it on in the morning until today when this shit happened again.

My rig:

Powercolor Reaper 9070 XT

Ryzen 7 9850X3D

MSI Pro X870E-P Wifi

Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000

Crucial T705 2TB SSD

Windows 11 26H2

I de-activated the iGPU in the BIOS because I'm reading everywhere that the iGPU may cause issues. Other than that I'm a bit lost - especially since I cannot reliably reproduce this issue - it just happens once in a while.

Has anyone changed the thermal pads on an RX 7800 XT reference card from Sapphire? I want to know what thickness or brand works best.

A little backstory:
I bought my 7800 XT back in 2024 about 5 months after release, It's been a great card for 1440p gaming at 144 FPS for most games but 6 months ago I ran into a really weird issue where my PC would smoothly shut off after 2 hours of gaming.

I couldn’t figure out why until I realized my hotspot was probably the reason, At stock tuning it was reaching 110°C which led to thermal throttling and eventually shutting down to protect itself (at least I think so, because 110°C is definitely not healthy for the card but it still confuses me that it literally turns my entire pc off as if it lost power instantly) That's when I learned about PTM7950.

I researched it extensively and tried my best to find a teardown guide for my specific card with no success. However the 7900 XTX reference card teardown by Gamers Nexus was really helpful and identical to the 7800 XT from what I experienced. I applied the PTM and my hotspot went from 100°C–110°C down to anywhere between78°C-88°C, Unfortunately a new issue occurred with the VRAM temps.

Before I opened my card the VRAM was running chilly at 82°C max. Now on stock settings it can spike up to 100°C, but after undervolting and adjusting the fan curve it sits consistently around 92°C–94°C.

I recognize this probably happened because the thermal pads on the VRAM got moved or stretched when I separated the PCB from the heatsink, even though I tried my best to keep them looking normal and they looked okay to me. (Sorry I have no pictures because I was streaming the teardown on Discord and the footage is really low res.)

Memory manufacturers do say GDDR6 is expected to run between 0°C and 95°C, but it's still frustrating that I went from great memory temps with a dangerous hotspot to a great hotspot with mediocre memory temps. Feels like I killed a snake only to end up with a scorpion.

I'm considering buying the Arctic TP-3 (1.5mm) and applying it, but online it seems that it needs to be 1.20mm when screwed down? Arctic says their pads can compress slightly but it still bugs me because I can't be sure they'll shrink down to 1.20mm. Once I remove the factory pads I'm stuck if the fit isn't near-perfect.

It’s really making me question whether I should just accept the new memory temps for the next 2.5 years of using this card, or if I should take a minor risk and try the thermal pads by Arctic, i did think of buying two size (1.0mm and 1.5mm) but money and time are not on my side currently (im outside of NA so shipping costs add 2 to 3 times the price of the pad itself).

I did consider thermal putty but trying to guess how much to apply to each VRAM chip introduces a whole separate kind of guesswork so its not that different from getting thermal pads.

Sorry for the long post, it’s just something I'm struggling with and wanted people’s opinions or experiences to help me out.

TL;DR: Repasted my Sapphire RX 7800 XT reference card with PTM7950 to fix a 110°C core hotspot (now down to ~88°C). However, stretching the stock VRAM pads during teardown pushed VRAM temps from 82°C up to 92°C–94°C (and up to 100°C on stock fans). Should I leave it alone for the next 2–3 years, or risk swapping to 1.5mm Arctic TP-3 pads when I'm unsure of the exact pad thickness required?

Just bought 9070 XT , Gigabyte Gaming OC. Previously I used Nvidia cards and I am pretty much synced with the nvidia control panel.

But I am slightly confused about the AMD panel, can anyone help me with :

- Boosting FPS with very minor image quality downgrade

- How to prevent overclock and overkill of the GPU

- How to prevent temp going past 73° and power management

Going to play with 2k with mostly mid-high level settings in multiplayer and in single player mostly with epic-ultra level.

Thanks in advance!

I’ve been having some buyer’s remorse and wanted to hear your opinions.

My previous GPU was an RX 5700 XT, but it started having serious issues (gray screens, artifacts, crashes, and random reboots). So I genuinely needed to replace it.

I ended up buying a PowerColor RX 9060 XT Hellhound 16 GB for about US$570 (GPU prices are much higher here in Brazil due to taxes).
At the time, the RX 9070 XT would have cost me about US$250 more.

My current setup is:
Intel Core i5-9600K
32 GB DDR4 RAM
1440p 240 Hz monitor

I mostly play single-player games, but I also own a PS5, which is actually my main platform for most AAA releases.

Another important point is that I wasn’t planning to upgrade my CPU, motherboard, or RAM this year. My plan was to keep using the i5-9600K for a while longer and eventually move to an AM5 platform.

One of the reasons I chose the RX 9060 XT is that I was also interested in buying a PlayStation Portal. On top of that, the roughly US$250 I saved could later be put toward a new CPU and cover part of the cost of an AM5 motherboard.

After installing the RX 9060 XT, I noticed that in games like theHunter: Call of the Wild, some areas still drop to around 50 FPS. In other parts of the map, performance improved significantly compared to my RX 5700 XT, but in those heavier areas, the improvement was minimal.

From everything I’ve researched and discussed with other people, it seems that my i5-9600K is the bottleneck in those situations.

Even so, I can’t stop wondering if I should have spent the extra money and bought the RX 9070 XT, especially with long-term use in mind.

So, what do you think?
Considering my current hardware, was the RX 9060 XT the more sensible choice?
Or would you have spent the extra US$250 on the RX 9070 XT, even knowing I’d be keeping the i5-9600K for a while?

I’d really appreciate hearing from people who have been in a similar situation or have experience with these GPUs.