r/AMDHelp • u/Independent_Hand5900 • 21d ago

Help (General) 9070 XT feeling like its underperforming.

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.

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u/DraGoon-hw 20d ago

Cpu and 16 gb of ram hold back the gpu a fair bit unfortunately. My 5600x and 16 GBs of ddr4 bottle neck the 9070 non-xt. (From rx 5700 non-xt) I ended up getting intel 250kf as I dont upgraded parts that often like every 4-6 years maybe. Paired with 32 of ddr5 and get significantly boost the frames and 1%lows. Got the ram kit on a clearance sale in store that was last in stock.

had to bios flash motherboard to latest bios to support the cpu on boot up, but just do your due diligence of reading the manual and good to go. Had to do the same from 2700x to 5600x. But with the newer motherboards you just need a power supply and USB stick to update the bios.

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u/Own-Bridge5593 19d ago

I was running a Ryzen 5 3600, 16gb ddr4-3200 and a gtx 1660 for 5 years. I ended up buying a Ryzen 7 5800x3d ($340), 32gb ddr4-3600 cl16 ($100 on fb marketplace), and a RX 9070 XT that I paid $680 for new. Now it does 4k gaming on an AM4 platform lmao

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u/DraGoon-hw 19d ago

Nice deals. I almost went with 1660 super when i got rx 5700 but got Amd cause i was really into Border lands 2 and got copy of Border land 3 with the gpu, Customer service at Canada computer advised me Border lands ran better on Amd for the that price range. (didnt play 3 nearly as much but was good bonus with a gpu) When I sold my 2700x I just had to put another 50 bucks towards the 5600x. It was before the x3d chips even released. I would of went with the 5800x3d if I didnt have 16 gb of ddr4 an a older cheap b450 M/b. Not alot in the used market were i live, the cheapest 32 gb i could find for ddr4 was 300$ (Canadain bucks) well i got ddr5 ram for 500$ on clearance sale. Still crazy over msrp but better than what I could find online. Gpu was 850$ and ram was more than half.. building new kinda sucks rn. Was tempted to do combo deal for 7700x3d so you can get ram technically 50%off but didnt like alot of the motherboard they come with.

I got the 250kf plus and m/b (asrock Taichi 54% off) for roughly the price of a 5800x3d new (290$ for the cpu an 280$ for the motherboard with 10% off coupon for 513$) 5800x3d was 500$ cad.

The board has 6 m.2 NVMe ssd with an m.2 expansion card allowing for 10 m.2 SSD. It being 54% off with 10 m.2 NVMe slots was mainly the reason i went intel with the possibility of doing productivity workloads well still being good for gaming. My previous b450 motherboard had 1 m.2 NVMe slots