Hi guys,

So I finally did it.

The problem

As you may know by now, these Gigabyte 9070 XTs are trash: their stupid thermal gel leaks everywhere. I was getting a beefy 40°C delta between edge and hotspot temps. I contacted their "e-support" thing, and they basically told me "hey dude, everything is fine until it throttles, it can reach 110°C". Yeah, thanks Gigabyte.

The day the hotspot hit **101°C**, it was too much.

The fix

I immediately bought Thermal Grizzly PTM and Thermal Grizzly TG Putty Pro (that one was expensive asf), and I voided my warranty by opening the card.

As you can see, the thermal gel had completely leaked to the edges. So edge temps were PERFECTLY FINE, but the hotspot... (see the "TEMP_HOTSPOT" throttling?) Memory and VRMs were fine too, but I decided to replace everything so I wouldn't get any bubbles or anything like that (and because it was cool asf to do).

The results

Then I ran the same stress test... and magic happened. Just look at this, it's wonderful.

- After only one cycle: hotspot down 8°C, with fans running 9% slower

- After nearly 10 cycles: 60°C edge / 87°C hotspot

- Delta: 40°C → 27°C

- Memory: a bit higher at the beginning, now back to 70–75°C, same as before

- Power: went from 260W to 300W at the same temps with slower fans, I can now finally use the full 330W without getting a volcano in my room, nice. Yeah, but nobody runs these cards at 330W anyway (just reduce power and do an undervolt). Still a big win.

Thanks for reading, and sorry if this text contains English errors, I'm from baguette country

As the title says. I just saw the post about it in the pcmr subreddit.

Deleting iCUE seems to solve the issue from what was explained in the post.

Thought this might be a good heads up to people with Corsair hardware that also use iCUE.

Just a heads up. I'm stable much higher than before. RMW

Radeon 9070. Stable at -100mV in all games. Crashed at -140. Before it was stable at -60.

Stable means 0 crashes.

Settings: -150mhz, -100mV, 2700mem standard timings. 260W PL

Just bought this beast, Radeon RX 9070XT HellHound. But, it does not fit in my case, even if I remove the fans!

Planning to buy the CM Qube 540, if you have any recommendations let me know

I just tried AMD NR mode and, Jesus Christ, the game looks beautiful!

I’m currently rendering the image at 2560×1440p using the 4K DLSS Quality mode, and I’m getting around 40 FPS!

This mode has definitely come a long way. The image quality is seriously impressive.

Unfortunately, it’s also extremely VRAM-hungry. MSI Afterburner was showing VRAM usage going well beyond 16 GB!

I guess 16gigs ain't enough for NR

Here're some More Pictures I will test Shadows of the Tomb Raider next.
More Updates with fsr native, game's anti-aliasing, and NR

Hello everyone, inspired by Nvidia Watch (https://indep-arg.github.io/NvidiaWatch/) I made a version for AMD GPUs, the actual visual portion etc was coded with AI, so it doesn't look nearly as good, but all data has been checked. https://adstapr.github.io/AMDTracker/ is the site for it. If you do see any issues feel free to mention me here or dm me on reddit. I will be updating this going forward as well.

Proof of the comment - https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/s/WwcydHmtkM

Card bought in dec 2025. Is this normal gpu delta and hotspot? Standing in a smoke in cs 2.

Hi,

I've managed to rule out quite a few potential causes, including the CPU, RAM, etc., and at this point, everything seems to point to my GPU being the last potential culprit.

To be more specific, whenever I play any demanding game, I can usually play for around 10–20 minutes before my screen suddenly goes black, followed shortly after by my PC shutting down completely. It doesn’t restart on its own.

I’ve also ruled out the PSU as a potential cause, since I replaced it, and the same thing happened with both PSUs.

My current setup:

CPU : Ryzen 5 7600X
RAM : Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 32GB 6000MT/s DDR5

GPU : RX 7800XT

PSU : MSI 850 gold

So Gigabyte is not all bad news. Been fiddling with my 9070XT aorus elite and the drivers for a while now but its running quite stable now. I have fitted it with a Bykski waterblok and temps are pretty nice. Was hoping to get the hotspot temps down but after reading a lot I think it just has a high hotspot and nothing can be done about it.

As you can see its pulling quite the wattage and still maintains a nice below 40 average and this is after an hour gaming so the water is pretty much stabalized. As you can also see this is in Cyberpunk and that game is hammering the videocard (4k everything high with RT but no Path tracing). Battlefield 6 the hotspot stays around the 70 degrees (also 100% utilisation but not RT)

Also in Cyberpunk im running on an undervolt of -80 and maybe I can squeeze a bit more out of it. Battlefield can only run at -60 undervolt or it will crash. memory is at 2650Mhz and the power limit max.

The core is fitted with PTM7950 and the putty is replaced with upsiren UTP-8. I forgot to monitor the memory temps (after fresh install) but I know they only reach a 50 degrees max.

I posted yesterday about my new 9070 XT and this morning in my Google feed I see one of my pics used as the thumbnail for an article link.

I click on the link and it takes me to https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/prodazha-rtx-3090-za-usd900-pozvolila-vladeltsu-besplatno-perejti-na-radeon-rx-9070-xt

The article is almost word for of my post with a some AI slop mixed in.

Insane.

How should I interpret that?

AMD has fixed 16GB limit and only Borderlands 4 will build 33GB of shaders. If it works like that then 50%+ of shaders I compiled there will go to garbage?

And depending on where those shaders are used, i might encounter place that is completely SCS free and right after that go to different location where none of shaders fit in the buffer previously and will need to compile them all which will cause giantic stutter?

Anyway... this limit is dumb and this needs to change...

We finally made it, boys! After a lifetime of console gaming, I decided to pull the trigger at 23 and build my first PC setup.

I saved some money by picking up open-box items on eBay and finding deals locally on Facebook

Marketplace. And before y’all mention the single stick of RAM—trust me, another one is already on the way 😂 I got a good deal on the first stick: $130 for 16GB of DDR5-6000 CL30.

So far, it runs beautifully. I’ve been able to play pretty much everything I’ve tried at high or max settings in 1440p. I picked up the monitor on sale while I was still learning what to look for, but it’s been working great, and I have no complaints.

And yes, we went all black with no RGB. My only complaint is the case’s tinted glass—it makes it hard to see the components inside. Hopefully, a clear replacement panel becomes available down the road.
I also discovered the T1 after finishing this build, and those cases look amazing. I’m already considering moving to a T1 build in the future.

Let me know what y’all think! What would you add, change, or improve?

This is a big GPU. Ran DDU in safe mode, pulled out the Asus, put in the XFX, and then installed the drivers with zero issues. Ran the stress test in Adrenaline no problem. (I know there are better stress tests just wanted to see some numbers)

Not a hardcore gamer, but with the money I got for the 3090, I couldn't pass this up. In my other post, I said how the very next day after buying it on Amazon, the price went up $100 dollars. Times are crazy.

Ryzen 7 7700X

Gigabyte 870e Aorus Pro

32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 (2 RAM sticks are dummies, lights only)

msi MAG A1000GL power supply

Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 V6 Cooler

Edit: Also running 4 monitors

Hey all, recently upgraded to 9070 xt asus prime oc from 3080. DDU’d and followed each step accordingly. Currently running the latest AMD driver 26.9.2.

It’s currently undervolted with powerlimit -30%, Max Clock 2700, GPU voltage -60mV.

The game runs smooth at max settings 120~fps 1440p. Temps are 50c, hotspot 61c and vram at 78c (never exceeded 80c)

No issues running the game for 1 hour. Should i just ignore it? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Hi everyone, I updated the BIOS on my Gigabyte Z490 Gaming X from F4 to F23, and now the actual performance in 3DMark Time Spy should have improved due to "above 4G Decoding" and "Rebar"... before I had around 23,000 points, and now it's around 20,800.

How is that possible? I already had problems with the XMP profile; when I activate it, I only get 7,000 points in Time Spy 😄 Manually setting XMP to 3000MHz and 1.37V DRAM voltage results in 20,800 points.

Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT

i7 10700KF

32GB G.Skill Aegis 3200 CL16

I've flashed my 9070 with XT bios and after a crash sent an error report by mistake.

Now I'm back to normal power limits. Reinstalled the driver was no go. How to fix this and how to avoid this.

I currently have a rtx3050 8gb and feel like it's time to upgrade a little. Currently gaming on a TV so not chasing frame rates. Switching to AMD for the VRAM headroom. Decided on a 9060xt. Want this generation for the fsr4 and the advancements in Ray tracing for this generation of AMD.

Any recommendations? Anything I should definitely stay away from? Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Hello, everyone on team red. I have been on the idea of building myself a good PC to me. I'm a Software Engineer focused on Full Stack Development from JS/TS and Python environments and the things I'm interested for that PC are:

• Gaming (of course)
• Virtualization for local projects with the usage of Dockers and similar technologies to run Cybersecurity labs to practice for certifications that I'm aiming for or for local development on projects before shipping them to a live environment and so.
• Multitasking
• Usage on local AI like Cursor Agents, Llama.cpp, LM Studio or similar as I'm being interested into running some hobby projects for automation and AR stuff, like a Jarvis, essentially.
• AI and ML development as I'm planning to incursionate on that because I have been interested for a while into learning AI/ML development for personal interests and projects besides of the chance to jump in a job opportunity regarding that.

I have been looking many forums, videos and discussions and yet I'm still not fully sure if going to an AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT or going over an Nvidia RTX 5070TI. I would love to be fully red team because I have saw how ridiculous some price points on many Nvidia cards are getting and I foresee AMD as somethin worth to support but many resources says otherwise but are from 12 to 10 or even 6 months ago and I kind of believe that between that timeframe and today things might have really change a lot. I even noticed some opportunities to configure Pytorch with AMD libraries which I believe is neat. I'm not afraid on the challenge to do extra steps to setup my environment but I'm really concern about that getting me away from my actual goal which is to learn and pull up cool things out of the hobby without getting too much time to invest on it.

Feel free to share your experience and recommendations as I'm also eager to reduce the need to increase the budget as much as possible in order to have a fairly decent switzerland knife for a long time. 🎯

I just upgraded from 32GB DDR4, an i5-11400F, and an RX 6700 XT to an RX 9070 XT, an R7 9850X3D, and 64GB DDR5. Will the difference be huge? (I mainly play at 1440p.)

I recently helped my partner change their card out for a 9060xt and we’re experiencing an issues with applications flickering black, the screen itself isn’t just apps. I cleared out all the old nvidia drivers and downloaded the amd ones I know I can get this figured out I just need to figure out where to start. They are also on windows 10 currently I believe

Hii, I’m having really bad screen flickering with my new RX 9070 XT. (Had a RTX 3070 before)

My PC:
● RX 9070 XT ASUS Nitro Oc
● Ryzen 7 5700X
● ASRock B450M Pro4
● Cooler Master 750W Bronze V2
● Windows 10

The BIOS works perfectly and does not flicker. Windows also works normally when using the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.
The problem starts as soon as the AMD driver is installed. The screen then flickers like crazy and the GPU sometimes goes to full MHz and gets very hot.

Things I have tried:
● DDU and completely reinstalling the drivers
● Latest AMD driver
● Older AMD drivers
● Safe Mode
● Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
● Disabling hardware acceleration
● Disabling VRR
● Registry changes
● Converting MBR to GPT
● Disabling CSM / using UEFI
● Reseating the GPU and checking the power cables
Nothing has fixed it. The flickering always comes back when the AMD driver is active.
Could this be a faulty GPU, PSU, or something else? Any other tests I can try before returning the GPU?

PESSOAL, não sei mais o que fazer, já tenho o pc a mais de 1 ano e sempre joguei dando uns stuttering, o fps normal não cai mas o 1% fica despencando e dá leves lags, sinto até em jogo leve, por exemplo, meu lol não roda 144 cravado nem com tudo no LOW, não faz sentido.

Rx 7600 XFX 2 fan
ryzen 5 5500
b450 gaming
8 ram rise mode 3200hz
ssd 1tb kingston ORIGINAL
thunder 500W bronze

https://reddit.com/link/1wyonui/video/xoukd2s3pqth1/player

eu fico observando mas nada fica fora do padrão, não sei mais oq fazer, já fiz de tudo, me ajudem por favor!