Graphic Cards Is it worth it to buy 9070xt now?

[GauravDas]

I had to bump down VRAM clocks from 2800 MHz to 2700 MHz. Oddly enough everything was stable on Cyberpunk and Witcher 3, but I encountered screen corruption on Metro Exodus and Marvel's Midnight Suns.

I have also been messing around and benchmarking with Optiscaler, and have to say, it is an amazing piece of software. You can use it to switch between XESS, FSR 2/3/4, and also allow frame generation on 9070 XT with a couple of ways.
Here's some settings I got working using Optiscaler with different games:

• Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition: DLSS → XESS + no FG (FSR4 causes artifacting, OptiFG doesn't work)
• Blacktail: DLSS → FSR4 + OptiFG + Reflex (works flawlessly)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (non-remastered): DLSS → FSR4 + no FG (OptiFG causes judder)
• Marvel's Midnight Suns: DLSS → FSR4 + DLSS FG + Reflex
• Witcher 3 (next gen): DLSS → FSR4 + DLSS FG + Reflex
• Cyberpunk 2077: FSR3→ FSR4 + DLSS FG + Reflex
• Deep Rock Galctic: FSR2 -> FSR4 + Reflex (didn't try OptiFG as frame rate is already high)

Also been playing around with reducing total board power primarily because of concerns with memory temps, which is 90 °C constantly and sees peaks of 93 °C. A flat TBP reduction of -30% sees much more reasonable peak memory temps of 86 °C. Suprisingly a -30% board power reduction showed just ~7% reduction in performance in Horizon and ~13% in Cyperpunk.

I am thinking of permanently running with -30% TBP, which would be great for indian summers. Will try some additional performance tuning and see how much performance I can claw back.
Well that didn't take long. Here's updated tuned settings for my Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT:

• Total Board Power: Stock → -30%
• GPU Voltage Offset: -50 mV → -70 mV
• VRAM Clock Speed: 2700 MHz (unchanged)
• VRAM Memory Timing: Fast (unchanged)

Cyberpunk and Metro Exodus both see performance drop to around 92.5% of previous optimized settings, while Horizon sees a drop to around 95%. Compared to stock clocks, I ought to be getting around 95% of the performance which is very impressive considering the massive power and heat reduction.

That said TechPowerUp says the 9070 (non-XT) has 90% of the performance of a stock 9070 XT. If you have power or cooling constraints, then I would definitely recommend to be on the lookout for good deals on a 9070. I see an ASRock model listed for 63K on Vishal Perhiperals which seems quite good value to me.