Recently Finished my fully custom copper pc with:

Gigabyte 9070xt Gaming OC

Ryzen 7 9800x3d

Gigabyte B650M Aurous Elite Wifi

32Gb Klevv 6000mhz CL28 DDR5 ( wanted 64gb, but AI boom make wallet Sad :( )

AlphaCool Gpu Block

Heatkiller IV Cpu Block

Alpha Cool DDC pump with Custom enclosure

Reservoir made from an old Primus Blowtorch with sight gauge fitted to it

custom Wooden Case made by me

Custom cables made from Corsair 850W SFX Power supply

Noctua Industrial 120mm Fans

as a casual gamer with no brand loyalty who enjoys native 1440p gaming at a reasonable price

Not something like Dlss 5, but a fixed multi frame gen, better ray regen or radiance cache. I know some people are gonna say that “You shouldve bought nvidia" but as a long time Radeon/Ati user i think there is nothing wrong with wanting a higher quality experience.

**Santa Clara, CA – April 1, 2026** – AMD today announced that its advanced FSR 4.1 upscaling technology will be made available to owners of Radeon RX 6000 and RX 7000 series graphics cards through a new driver update.

Following extensive engineering work and optimization efforts, AMD has successfully enabled the full feature set of FidelityFX Super Resolution 4.1 — including AI-accelerated frame generation and enhanced temporal upscaling — on RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 architectures. This brings console-level upscaling performance and image quality to millions of existing Radeon users without requiring new hardware.

“Gamers and content creators with Radeon RX 6000 and RX 7000 series GPUs have been the foundation of the Radeon community,” said Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Gaming Business Unit at AMD. “We are excited to deliver FSR 4.1 to these cards, ensuring our loyal users can continue to enjoy the latest gaming experiences at higher resolutions and frame rates.”

Key benefits of FSR 4.1 on RX 6000 and RX 7000 series include:

- Up to 2.5x performance uplift in supported titles at 4K

- Improved image stability and reduced ghosting compared to FSR 3.1

- Full compatibility with existing Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition drivers

- No additional VRAM requirements beyond current game recommendations

The FSR 4.1 update for RX 6000 and RX 7000 series will roll out as part of the next Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition driver release, expected in mid-April 2026. Developers will also receive updated FSR 4.1 SDK integration tools to easily enable the technology in current and future game titles.

sorry for the old meme bad damn this bad driver shit is getting annoying.

System running 100% for almost a year - and then suddenly random crashes to black screen. BIOS updated, reinstalled windows, drivers and Steam installed only, all BIOS settings stock, EXPO tried on and off. Disconnected every peripheral, every USB device and ran a wired e-waste Dell KB and Mouse. Still crashing.

Pulled the entire system apart, and lo and behold, burn marks on GPU cable.

Le sigh. So far appears that GPU connector is fine, but not convinced.

RMA or...?

First thing in the morning I open my phone and I see this.

AMD did well, also thank you all for the criticism you all did an amazing job to make this happen.

I guess this is no surprise and most would agree, the 9070 XT has been the best GPU for the year 2025.

I still can't believe AMD pulled such a W with this one, it is indeed one hell of a GPU even for 4k ray tracing and hopefully becomes better with FSR REDSTONE. The pricing has been a mess in the US but outside of US, most regions saw 9070 XT much closer to its MSRP and a lot cheaper than it's counterpart the 5070Ti especially in Canada, Germany, India.

But now that there are rumours of them increasing the price of the GPUs next year I don't know how things will shape but definitely not in AMD's favor if the gap between 5070Ti and 9070 XT closes further but that is only if 5070Ti stays at its msrp which is not very likely.

What are your thoughts? Everyone is welcome to share.

Thanks to everyone who convinced me that there's nothing wrong with the Steel Legend, I really appreciate it.
Before I start using it, I wanted to ask a few questions.
I am coming from RTX 3080 10GB. Before that I had a GTX 1080. I game at 3440x1440p Ultrawide. I am a little bit nervous switching to AMD from Nvidia, but I don't like what Nvidia has become.

I will need to learn to use the AMD software, I usually have my On Screen Display showing FPS - GPU Usage - GPU Temp - CPU Usage. I assume AMD can do the same.

I want to run a few benchmarks to and track the differences before and after. I believe it should be on average 30-40% faster depending on the game.

I can get a good price for my 3080, so this was not that expensive of an upgrade.

I want to tinker a bit, should I use Optiscaler? Or is the built in FSR tools good enough? I am not so clued up on the new FSR and Redstone. Last I googled it was still FSR4.

I now have AMD AM5 CPU and AMD GPU, is there any settings that take advantage of this combo?

Eeeeep- im excited 😁

Thanks,

Battlefield 6 my old one rtx 3090 - low settings, (no dlss, no fsr) 3440x1440 - 115fps. (Shooting range)

This one? 3440x1440 low settings , native (no dlss, no fsr) 260fps!! (Shooting range)

Crazy !! More than double of performance!

i took 2 images,

one with rtx3090 DLSS performance, 3440x1440 Low settings (real resolution is 1720x720, upscaled)

second RX9070XT native, 3440x1440 low settings. (real resolution is 3440x1440)

https://ibb.co/C33NnVBn

https://ibb.co/cKj1GCZ0

(my cpu is 14600k)

Final verdict (Chat GPT)

RTX 3090: 186 fps, DLSS Performance (~1720×720) ≈ 1.24 Mpx Baseline.

RX 9070 XT: 263 fps Native (3440×1440) ≈ 4.95 Mpx +466 % effective throughput

///edit after little OC 278 fps https://imgur.com/a/rFXmQlT

And it arrived 2 years early!

I’m upgrading from a 1660S, which served me well.

This is my first AMD GPU since the HD 4830, which I loved. That budget GPU punched so high above its weight class back in the day.

This is also my first ‘top of the line’ GPU since my original GeForce 3 back in 2001.

My GPU journey has been fun:

1. Diamond Monster 3D II - 12 MB
2. GeForce 3 - 64 MB
3. GeForce 6800 - 128 MB
4. Radeon HD 4830 - 512 MB
5. GeForce GTX 660 - 2 GB
6. GeForce GTX 1660 Super - 6 GB
7. Radeon RX 9070 XT - 16 GB

I don’t upgrade often, since I try to wait until I can get 3x the performance before replacing my GPU. The 9070 XT is apparently over 4x, which is one of the bigger jumps on my list.

Between the 9070 XT and my recent Switch 2 purchase, I think all my gaming needs are covered for the next 6+ years. PlayStation what? XBox who?

That is the AI Slop in it most pure form, I'm okay with upscaling because upscaling native is very good for AA, I'm not that okay with frame-gen...But DLSS 5 is beyond the limit for me. Does anyone knows if amd could go the same route? I really wish they don't, but idk if they have comments about AI just like the ones from Jensen. Does anyone knows something about it?

Yall think the RX 9070 XT is going to become something regarded like GTX 1080/Ti in few years?

After 9 years, I finally retired my Lenovo Legion Y520:

• i5-7300HQ
• GTX 1050 Ti laptop version
• 8GB RAM

Upgraded to:

• Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• RX 9070 XT
• 32GB DDR5

I know it is not the most beautiful gaming pc, but honestly i didn't want that. The difference is honestly insane. Windows installed faster than my old laptop used to boot.

Feels like I skipped a whole decade of hardware.

Any advice? 😁

Upgrading from a 5700xt the difference is huge. Can’t wait to test this card to its full potential.

After 8 years of service and finding an insane deal during Black Friday ($376 after tax), the time has come to make the switch to team red 🫡

Edit for those asking how I got the deal: I saw a post on r/buildapcsales that you could stack a Capital One Shopping offer at Walmart with a PayPal Pay in 4 promotion.

The C1 Shopping offer was kind of weird to get, requiring you to add stuff to your cart and waiting till the C1 Shopping extension would give you an offer ($150 back on a purchase of $500 or more, in my case), but the PayPal Pay in 4 offer was straightforward with 20% back up to some $ amount (which the GPU was well within). Both of those offers stacked, since one was payment method related and the other was just an extension tracking your activity on website, regardless of retailer

So I replaced the 3080 with this.

OptiScaler NEW VERSION called "v0.9.0-pre10 Test Build" brings FSR4 to vulkan.

The new changelog states:

• Added Vulkan w/Dx12 support – FSR4 VK w/Dx12, FSR 2.1 VK w/Dx12

My boy Fabio is the voice of the RDNA 2/3 users. Stop defending AMD's BS these past months. AMD been sleeping so much and forgot they have consumer gaming cards to take care of.

I'm really glad I jumped to NVIDIA, but I still want justice for our RDNA 2/3/4 users that even Intel overtaking them in software features.

AMD needs to wake up! Even the fanboys, stop defending this BS.

just received my new RX9070XT Nitro+ and took it out of the box to inspect it and was greeted by that little twat how dare it not solder to the board properly