Am running a 6950XT unicorn, and have been thinking of 'upgrading' but the performance increase just isn't enough when I can run anything I play mostly maxed out, and VR performance is absolutely fine (Quest 3). Paired with a 9900X CPU.
Amd rx 9070xt vs 3090fe
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Had to uninstall adrenalin and drivers.
Rebooted and then installed drivers alone.
Got good framerates and fps, but some minor (white fuzzy white lines running vertically) artifacting.
So then installed adrenalin after having already just installed the drivers and all is well.
Still getting 180+fps on the quality setting which is fab!
Doesn't run hot like the 3090fe did so my room is cooler.
Just need to evict the wife from the same room cos when we both play even with windows open it's like an oven!
Think a bigger house is called for...now that's devotion to gameplay!
Very happy with the 9070xt.
I'd happily recommend it over the 3090fe which l know is a good gpu but just doesn't have the horses required for what I wanted in VR. But she's very happy with it.
Sold her 3080 for 300 quid which means I only paid 360 quid for the new gpu (in my head).
Having an all AMD PC for the 1st time ever is a good choice.
And saves me a few quid on a 5070ti or even a 5080.
+1 to AMD support too for their help.
Rebooted and then installed drivers alone.
Got good framerates and fps, but some minor (white fuzzy white lines running vertically) artifacting.
So then installed adrenalin after having already just installed the drivers and all is well.
Still getting 180+fps on the quality setting which is fab!
Doesn't run hot like the 3090fe did so my room is cooler.
Just need to evict the wife from the same room cos when we both play even with windows open it's like an oven!
Think a bigger house is called for...now that's devotion to gameplay!
Very happy with the 9070xt.
I'd happily recommend it over the 3090fe which l know is a good gpu but just doesn't have the horses required for what I wanted in VR. But she's very happy with it.
Sold her 3080 for 300 quid which means I only paid 360 quid for the new gpu (in my head).
Having an all AMD PC for the 1st time ever is a good choice.
And saves me a few quid on a 5070ti or even a 5080.
+1 to AMD support too for their help.
Robert Maynard
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I received my card last week and spent a bit of time getting used to it, deep cleaning the drivers, and playing about with the tuning options.
The following comparison table is based on the 9070XT at -95mV; 2,764MHz VRAM (default timings) and +10% power limit. Everything else in the system is as it was before the card changeout:
The following comparison table is based on the 9070XT at -95mV; 2,764MHz VRAM (default timings) and +10% power limit. Everything else in the system is as it was before the card changeout:
I keep hearing AMD's drivers and software is "better now" and every time I buy one I remember why I should stick with NVIDIA. AMD GPU's are just not good enough for daily driving because of their software, it's garbage.
Gosh, how am I managing to play on an all AMD system? Only doing lightweight stuff like 4K video editiing, photo editing, games playing, and a few other tasks, never mind, prejudice is common, particularly when bubbles are being burst left, right & centre by Nvidia lying through their teeth...
Hey rat this is how this works: The OP was asking for an opinion, and I gave mine. I'm sorry my myopic experience doesn't match your myopic experience. No need to attack me or insinuate I'm some Nvidia shill.
Yep, opinion, or whatever.
Obviously... Do you have a 3090?
I used to have one, bought the 7900XTX (which outperformed it) and also have the 9070XT, which, unsurprisingly, is close in performance to the XTX. (and uses less energy)
AMD Drivers have been very good (for the 7000 series, at least) since just after release, and the current 9000 series, no major issues...
I guess having a good sample set helps form an opinion.
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Every time I try an AMD video card, I have software and driver issues. That's my sample set. I don't need to further justify anything to you.
Look I gave an opinion about an inanimate pile of chips and PCB's and you're taking it personal for whatever reason. I think you should just stop. The OP asked, I answered. I don't know what your bloody problem is, but nothing constructive is going to come from your continued badgering.
I'm keeping it civil but I wont sit here and be bullied because I gave an opinion Rat Catcher doesn't like or agree with.
I don't take anything personal, old chap... can you say the same?
ETA: but, no worries. You had issues with AMD, others don't, that's gaming, I suppose.
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Idk what happened? But l fired up the PC today to play & it's all gone sideways!
Major stuttering, tearing, totally unplayable! I've tried everything, even a fresh install of windoze 11.
Downloaded very latest beta of adrenalin 25.3.2 and it's still pants.!
Can only get it to work in stupidly crap low res.
I've no idea what went wrong?
Major stuttering, tearing, totally unplayable! I've tried everything, even a fresh install of windoze 11.
Downloaded very latest beta of adrenalin 25.3.2 and it's still pants.!
Can only get it to work in stupidly crap low res.
I've no idea what went wrong?
Same here. My fix was to uninstall Adrenalin software. Reboot. Then re-install it but select DRIVER ONLY! That seems to get rid of the horrible stuttering, tearing and low FPS.
Like I said, AMD makes good hardware with horrible software.
From my perspective, I would never buy a new GPU unless it's at least 50% faster than my current one (in other words, a game that runs at eg. 60 FPS with the current one will run at 90 FPS or more in the new one).
So far my purchase history has been
(I know that the passmark G3D score does not necessarily correlate exactly to framerates, especially since that depends quite a lot on the particular game, but I believe it's close enough to make it a valid comparison.)
So far my purchase history has been
- (some really old low-level AMD card I can't even remember the model of)
- GTX 560 (G3D rating 2773)
- GTX 770 (G3D rating 5935)
- GTX 970 (G3D rating 9638)
- GTX 1080 (G3D rating 15572)
- RTX 3080 (G3D rating 25157)
(I know that the passmark G3D score does not necessarily correlate exactly to framerates, especially since that depends quite a lot on the particular game, but I believe it's close enough to make it a valid comparison.)
Aha cracked it!
Set steam VR resolution @ 100%
Set pimax at 90hz upscale
Zero all adrenalin settings. Nothing on at all.
Having installed windows fresh and new adrenalin beta and also switched off FFR & smart smoothing & fixed foveated rendering in pimax app.
Local dimming at default.
Pimax render quality high.
Then Set monitor to 1080p ingame to lower the demand on the cpu/gpu. Don't need whilst wearing headset so who cares hehe.
Set game to ultra VR.
Solid 90fps except on planetary bases where it drops to 70/80fps.
Tweek ingame graphics settings 1 at a time to where u want em.
Same with pimax settings. 1 at a time.
Then finally adrenalin.
I ain't got that far yet. But it's ok. Having to use FSR1.0 ingame so might have to make some changes but I'll see how it goes.
Just happy I got it going again. Still don't know what l did wrong before.
Set steam VR resolution @ 100%
Set pimax at 90hz upscale
Zero all adrenalin settings. Nothing on at all.
Having installed windows fresh and new adrenalin beta and also switched off FFR & smart smoothing & fixed foveated rendering in pimax app.
Local dimming at default.
Pimax render quality high.
Then Set monitor to 1080p ingame to lower the demand on the cpu/gpu. Don't need whilst wearing headset so who cares hehe.
Set game to ultra VR.
Solid 90fps except on planetary bases where it drops to 70/80fps.
Tweek ingame graphics settings 1 at a time to where u want em.
Same with pimax settings. 1 at a time.
Then finally adrenalin.
I ain't got that far yet. But it's ok. Having to use FSR1.0 ingame so might have to make some changes but I'll see how it goes.
Just happy I got it going again. Still don't know what l did wrong before.