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

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.
 
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LYNK BYTE said:
Anyone who is currently using it can share your experience on 1440p gaming with ray tracing capablities ?
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Did a quick run of built-in benchmark in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p. Settings:
  • Preset: RT Overdrive (i.e.Path Tracing enabled)
  • Upscaling: FSR3 Quality -> FSR4 Quality (using Optiscaler)
  • Film Grain and Chromatic Aberration turned off
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Take note that I am running my 9070 XT with -30% total power, so a regular one should perform better. ~43 FPS seems okay, and you can turn ON frame generation to have a smoother presentation.

I personally play at 4K, and this card isn't fast enough for 4K + Path Tracing even at FSR Performance, but regular RT modes work well. I also find 4K FSR Performance to be much more temporally stable than 1440p FSR Quality.

Let me know if there are any other specific benchmarks you'd want me to run.
 
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GauravDas said:
Did a quick run of built-in benchmark in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p. Settings:
  • Preset: RT Overdrive (i.e.Path Tracing enabled)
  • Upscaling: FSR3 Quality -> FSR4 Quality (using Optiscaler)
  • Film Grain and Chromatic Aberration turned off
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Take note that I am running my 9070 XT with -30% total power, so a regular one should perform better. ~43 FPS seems okay, and you can turn ON frame generation to have a smoother presentation.

I personally play at 4K, and this card isn't fast enough for 4K + Path Tracing even at FSR Performance, but regular RT modes work well. I also find 4K FSR Performance to be much more temporally stable than 1440p FSR Quality.

Let me know if there are any other specific benchmarks you'd want me to run.
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This is what i wanted to see thank you so much for taking your time to post this
 
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Did a quick run of built-in benchmark in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p. Settings:
  • Preset: RT Overdrive (i.e.Path Tracing enabled)
  • Upscaling: FSR3 Quality -> FSR4 Quality (using Optiscaler)
  • Film Grain and Chromatic Aberration turned off
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Take note that I am running my 9070 XT with -30% total power, so a regular one should perform better. ~43 FPS seems okay, and you can turn ON frame generation to have a smoother presentation.

I personally play at 4K, and this card isn't fast enough for 4K + Path Tracing even at FSR Performance, but regular RT modes work well. I also find 4K FSR Performance to be much more temporally stable than 1440p FSR Quality.

Let me know if there are any other specific benchmarks you'd want me to run.
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Check out UltraPlus on nexusmods, the mod offers both performance and visual improvements for path tracing, might give you just enough to get 50-60 fps
nvm, there seems to an issue with 9070 xt users. Ignore.
 
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For those running regular 9070XTs, what temps do you have? This is for both core and memory. Also, should an 80% PL work in bringing temps down to a manageable level?
 
Seeing some ASUS models at suspiciously low prices on Shweta Computers. A non-XT 9070 for 59.3K, 9070 XT for 66.5K, and even a 5070 Ti for 82K!

There's a couple months old thread on TE itself with multiple people reporting the website is legit https://techenclave.com/threads/is-shwetacomputers-com-pc-shopping-site-trusted.225427/. The prices sound too good to be true, especially as ASUS models are typically more expensive, but perhaps someone interested could message them and check.

gtx10606gig said:
For those running regular 9070XTs, what temps do you have? This is for both core and memory. Also, should an 80% PL work in bringing temps down to a manageable level?
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Funnily enough, I moved back from 70% PL → 81% PL to regain some performance. Here's my temps after a 5 run loop of the Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition benchmark.
  • Core Temp: 64 °C
  • Hot Spot Temp: 80 °C
  • Memory Temp: 88 °C (!)
  • Fan Speed: 1581 RPM
Attached a screenshot of HWiNFO as well. I get the feeling the GPU is programmed to allow memory temps to reach ~90 °C. My ambient temps are ~10 °C lower with the recent rains, but GPU temps seem same while fan speed is lower. I had seen over 2K RPM when benchmarking last month during the peak of summer.
 

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GauravDas said:
Attached a screenshot of HWiNFO as well. I get the feeling the GPU is programmed to allow memory temps to reach ~90 °C. My ambient temps are ~10 °C lower with the recent rains, but GPU temps seem same while fan speed is lower. I had seen over 2K RPM when benchmarking last month during the peak of summer.
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yes, so you will need to change fan curve to get lower temps. At 2k rpm you will get lower temps vs before.
Since fans can be easier to replace, i run them slightly higher ~65-70% in my case and get lower temps.
Memory temp in high 80s seems to be normal, so it should be fine.
 
YeAhx said:
FSR 3.1 is very close to DLSS now and they keep updating and improving it, If I play on an nvidia card obviously I would still be running DLSS but for AMD cards FSR is a godsend and remember it still runs on all GPUs so if DLSS in a particular game is causing you issues (ghosting/trails, artifacts etc.) then FSR saves the day.
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its not, just not, not with DLSS 4.0 Transformer model release, AMD still needs a couple of generations to even match Nvidia for upscaling, but it is indeed a very viable card now.

P.S. which games are giving you ghosting with DLSS and not with FSR? no really? I wanna know that
LYNK BYTE said:
Anyone who is currently using it can share your experience on 1440p gaming with ray tracing capablities ?
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if you want RT. go for second hand Nvidia, Ray Reconstruction alone is essential in cyberpunk imo, RT on AMD is just serviceable
 
altair21 said:
its not, just not, not with DLSS 4.0 Transformer model release, AMD still needs a couple of generations to even match Nvidia for upscaling, but it is indeed a very viable card now.

P.S. which games are giving you ghosting with DLSS and not with FSR? no really? I wanna know that
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I think for me that game was Silent hill 2 but I'm not sure as it's been some time now, I just remember noticing weird stuff happening while using DLSS which disappeared when I switched to FSR. Here's a video showing ghosting using DLSS in Silent hill 2 which looking at the comments section seems like it got fixed by a patch later. I think it's the implementation of specific DLSS versions (same for FSR) combined with games which can/will have issues like the one I described and is not true for all games or DLSS/FSR in general. It's good that we have multiple options now including XeSS which to be honest is looking alright these days, like the differences aren't noticeable while playing, only when you take screenshots and compare pixels you realise.

Also today my stance on frame generation is slightly positive than it used to be earlier. I tried frame gen on Horizon: Forbidden West and I was amazed by how smooth it was without glitches or anything while giving more FPS (although some fake ones), the only thing that's noticeable is the input delay which is expected and sometimes inconsistency in the frames as they dip down from time to time depending on areas. The dipping can be resolved or at least mitigated using a separate dedicated GPU for frame gen but the input delay is here to stay.
If you are satisfied with having slightly more input delay or are one of those who didn't/couldn't notice then frame gen is amazing.
 
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