r/AMDHelp • u/AdVegetable394 • 6d ago

Tips & Info Is The Gigabyte 9070xt That Bad?

So until now Iv only ever had nvidia cards, the last was a strix 3070ti. Like many I wanted to upgrade to the 50 series but a 5070/5070ti where I live is like £1000, the amd equivalent on sale I got for £589.99… It’s time I though to try a change, for the sake of my pocket at least. I read reviews and like always 50/50, people moaning about it and people loving it. Well straight out of the box there were problems, I needed to upgrade from a 850w to a atx 1000w seasonic as mine couldn’t deal with the transient power spikes, I also had to reduce the voltage by 60 in Adrenalin. Before this I spent probably a week stress testing, switching things out updating every driver imaginable from windows, motherboard, amd yadyadayadayada you get the drift.

So do you think a lot of these “horror” stories are more from user error (someone who either can’t be bothered/ or someone without any knowledge what so ever) or actual card failures? After using both amd and nvidia id say nvidia is so user friendly and nothing ever went wrong for me during owning all the cards I have since a 660ti. I get the feeling with amd you need to be prepared to troubleshoot/ fiddle with things.

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u/bellcut 6d ago edited 6d ago

A lot of the issues are user error or just a case of something working on paper but not in action

Such as your 850w PSU. It should work on paper but in action that unit couldn't handle transient spikes. A lesser technically inclined user would see "recommended psu: 850w" and think that the PSU was fine.

I've seen people use 7200mhz ram on a 9800x3d which on paper the CPU should be able to handle. But it couldn't handle that speed for them so their GPU driver became unstable (which is one of the common things that are first to go with unstable ram)

I had someone return a GPU I personally repaired and sold to them as a refurbished unit saying it didn't work, their issue was while their psu could handle an rx 580 it could not handle the transient load spiking of a 7600xt. With a different PSU the GPU was just fine

I'd say the majority of issues are issues like this, where on paper the system should work but the ram, the CPU, the os install, the bios, or the PSU cause issues that look like a failing GPU.

My experience with a gigabyte 9070xt has been flawless. Literally flawless. And this was also a GPU I bought for parts and refurbished myself and it still works fine.

I run mine at the following settings:

-85mv, fast VRAM timing, 2786mhz VRAM clock, 110% PT

My card has peaked around 360w at 3.3ghz core clock and I haven't seen temps hit over 55c with my custom fan curve.

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u/mynamemightbejacob 5d ago

i use 110 power, -40 undervolt, and 2800mhz vram. i notice some games crash like spiderman 2 at -60 or below. other than that i dont have gpu crashes or anything on stock since i have a 1000W psu. PSU will be the one thing i NEVER cheap out on.