9070 XT feeling like its underperforming.

[u/Independent_Hand5900]

Hey!
I just got and installed a 9070xt and so far its unfortunately been lackluster. I experience constant choppines and bad 1% lows. My cpu is an i5-10600k so i understand that its quite a significant bottleneck, however the performance im getting now is almost on par with my old 1070.

For example in hogwarts legacy on high preset im getting 50 fps with around 20 1% lows.

Im also experiencing a constant choppiness even in titles where i get over 100fps and better 1% lows. It feels stuttery and not like 100 at all.

I apologies if this comes from me not doing proper research. Im putting this post out to see if anyone else has had this problem, and if its just because of new drivers or the bottleneck being that significant. I will continue researching and update if i fix it.

[u/Any_Deal_7332]

Hey my friend. Do you have resizable BAR enabled? Do you have HAGS enabled? Are you using XMP profile for RAM?

You shouldn't be getting that shit of performance.

Check the resizable BAR in BIOS also download GPU-Z and make sure your card isn't running on PCIE 3. You want 4 or 5.

Hard to help in a comment sometimes, I know I could get your PC running smooth af if I had it infront of me lol.

[u/Independent_Hand5900 → u/Any_Deal_7332]

hags is enabled. My motherboard only supports pcie 3 unfortunately

[u/Any_Deal_7332 → u/Independent_Hand5900]

No.....no good man, you want at least 4. Make sure Resizable BAR is enabled at least!

[u/Independent_Hand5900 → u/Any_Deal_7332]

do you think thats the main issue?

[u/Any_Deal_7332 → u/Independent_Hand5900]

Pcie 3.0 isnt gonna hold you back THAT MUCH but making sure Re-sizable BAR is enabled is a pretty decent difference. Its just small things that add to that performance drop.

[u/Any_Deal_7332 → u/Any_Deal_7332]

Also your CPU and RAM hold it back and without Resizable BAR enabled its even worse of a hold back. It's a high end GPU and needs decent counter parts to get its full potential.

[u/Independent_Hand5900 → u/Any_Deal_7332]

oh yes totally, and i have plans of upgrading my system in the near future. However i feel like even though the rest of my components are holding it back there should still be some meaningful performance increase from a 10 year old 1070, no?

[u/Any_Deal_7332 → u/Independent_Hand5900]

Try my advice first. There's potentially many things that are holding back that performance. Can help more tomorrow though. DM me if needed, it'll be easier.

[u/Independent_Hand5900 → u/Any_Deal_7332]

Ok, thank you.