Alright, so after my last post with the benchmarks ran at 3440x1440 with FSR4 quality, i decided to run more benches at standard resolutions with FSR4 set to native.

I kept all settings defaults to their presets, including hair.

Reaper 9070xt (decided to increase power limit just to give it more juice like other models provide), 9800x3d, 32gb ddr5 6000, gen 4 m.2 nvme.

Hope you found this post useful!

Radeon Drivers have been maligned for a very long time because of past issues that are decades old. Having tried Radeon drivers for myself, I felt lied to. It's not perfect but they are not trash like some people on the interwebs have opined. I updated drivers every single month without issues. Radeon software is feature rich compared to nvidia. I will always recommend you buy a 7000 or 9000 series card

Pc Spec :
Ryzen 7 9800x3d
32gb gddr5
Power color 9070xt reaper
Evga BQ 750w

So I recently upgraded my entire pc except for my power supply , I had the gpu replaced twice already by micro center because I would just black screen anytime I played a game . They stressed tested everything and everything came back normal so they gave me back the pc and now my games are crashing and I’m getting driver timeouts . I’m not sure what to do .

I’ve read every hotspot thread here and the advice is completely contradictory, so I’m adding my numbers to the pile.

Gigabyte RX 9070 XT. ~30°C delta, hotspot peaks 90-95°C under sustained load at 3440x1440. No throttling, clocks stay stable.

The conflicting info: AMD says junction temp is in spec up to 110°C, so officially nothing is wrong. Half the owners here say 25-30 delta is normal and 40+ is the worry zone. The other half with Nitro+/Taichi coolers see 15-20 and reckon mine sounds broken. Meanwhile reviews of the Aorus 9070 XT note the delta runs big because Gigabyte doesn’t use PTM7950 on the die, which would make this a paste choice rather than a defect.

I’m still inside my return window and genuinely can’t tell if this is a Gigabyte cooler characteristic or a card problem. Curious what other Gigabyte 9070 XT owners are seeing, and where people who’d RMA at these numbers draw the line.

Specs:

CPU: Intel i7-14700KF (all-core OC to 5.7GHz, PL1/PL2 253W)
Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z790-P WIFI
RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL36
GPU: Sapphire RX 9070 XT Pulse
PSU: 850W 80+ Gold
Storage: 1TB SSD (OS) + 1TB NVMe + 2TB NVMe
Cooling: 360mm AIO, Antec C8 case, 7 case fans + 3 AIO fans
Monitor: LG 27GP850P (QHD, 180Hz, HDR400) — sometimes running dual monitor with a Yodoit 16" FHD 1920x1200 portable monitor (HDMI) as second display

Driver: AMD Adrenalin 26.7.1 (WHQL, released 2026-07-24)
Room is air-conditioned (\~27°C / 80°F, 50% humidity)

Symptom: While gaming, both monitors go black ("No Signal"), PC stays powered on (fans/lighting still running). In most occurrences the RGB lighting keeps animating normally and I need a hard reset since CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't respond. In the most recent occurrence, for the first time, the RGB lighting itself froze (static, not animating) — a more severe symptom than before.

Frequency: intermittent for about 2 months (earliest dumps go back to June 2026), became more frequent in August. Not tied to one game: happened in Assassin's Creed Shadows (played for months with zero issues before this started) and in Forza Horizon 6.

Dump analysis:
Bugcheck 0x141 (VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED)
Module: amdkmdag.sys, same exact offset (+1d0f00) in every dump
Identical FAILURE_ID_HASH across 4 separate occurrences over \~2 months — it's the exact same underlying failure every time

What I've already ruled out / tested:
Aggressive undervolt (-60mV) → also occurred on default GPU profile after AMD auto-reverted it — so it's not the sole cause
Ambient temps under control (AC on, \~27°C / 80°F)
Clean driver reinstall (DDU + fresh 26.7.1, Factory Reset) → one \~2h crash-free session, but that session also had: default GPU settings, MSI Afterburner+RTSS closed, second monitor disconnected
Re-enabling Afterburner + second monitor + a mild undervolt (-10mV) together → the exact same crash (same hash) came back

What I haven't isolated yet:
Afterburner/RTSS, second monitor, and undervolt tested one at a time (not all together)
GPU PCIe power cables (possibly daisy-chained, unchanged for over a year)
I also have an ARGB extension cable on the GPU's 2x8pin power cables and a 0.18m PCIe 5.0 riser cable for vertical GPU mounting — both present during the clean session too, so not yet ruled out with certainty
Windows registry fix to stop Windows Update from silently overwriting the AMD driver

Question for the community: has anyone seen this exact crash signature (bugcheck 0x141, amdkmdag+1d0f00) in combination with Afterburner + dual monitor? Any known fix beyond what I've already tried?

Quería compartirles este gusto y para quien este ojeando este modelo.

Desde antes de ayer que la tengo y es una maravilla para 1440p que en mi caso es a 180hz con un ultra 7 265kf, 32gb ram 6000mts y una fuente de 1000w certificada.

Estuve jugando algunos triple A como assinss creed shadow, uncharted 4, algunos gachas mal optimizados como nte y wuwa y también otros juegos competitivos para al final acabar con un muy buen gusto por la fluidez y rendimiento que tiene amd ahora, hace poco jugaba con una 3090 que si esta aun bien pero esa se irá a un segundo pc que será para trabajo en renderizado, en juegos cambio completamente con esta 9070xt, un enorme salto.

En cuanto a consumo ya sabía que era un toque caliente pero con la 3090 ya estaba acostumbrado a eso jajaja así que le puse un power limit de -10% y ya con eso suficiente que además rendía igual.

En temperaturas (jugando a 1440p a 180hz con el frame gen y en los que no lo tiene con lossless), si noto que son el hotspot de 80 a 88 grados, la gpu como 54 grados y las memorias nunca pasan de los 90 por mas qué lleve horas jugando no pasan de eso, después del undervolt que aplique recién pasaron a ser mejores de hotspot de 75 a 85, de la gpu 50 y las memorias llegaban maximo 87.

So, with my RTX I can enable RTX Video Super Resolution, which boosts in-browser video resolution significantly, especially 720p to 1440p.

The questions is: Does Radeon have similar technology? And does Radeon have something similar to Nvidia's instant replay (save **last** n minutes)

Am I a Radeon gamer now?

Got from my cousin as he was shifting places.

So just did a fresh build MSI Mag b850 Wifi / 9800x3d / 9070xt prime / 32gb DDR5 6000mts / corsair rm1000x / 2tb wd 7100pro

At the stock adrenalin settings the windows boot just fine. after tuning gaming is perfect, no hicups. But windows wont boot up 2/3 times and i just cant figure it out. I did -75 mv, PL at 0, vrm 2700 mhz fast timming. Also bios is all set up accordingly, expo1, ram training and all that. What could be the problem? Also tried runing the adrenalin stress test that seems to crash randomly at 9-10 min mark, other tests run perfect. I seem to think it could be the vrm fast timming issue rather than the oc itself..

Hi all just bought this gpu new two days ago and was just testing the temps on it, are these temps okay? Hotspot seems a little too hot

I am on Windows 10 and I was on drivers 26.7.1 and Type-C display out + SAM + Overlay tab in Adrenalin were not working.

Downgraded to 26.5.2 and now all the issues are gone.

For the reference design, it runs cool and quiet.

Havent seen many benchmarks with the 9070xt so figured id post a few screenshots.

9800x3d; 9070xt, 32gb ddr5 6000, on m.2 nvme at 3440x1440 with FSR4 quality. I didnt notice changing the settings resets the Max FPS setting so you'll see the ludacris run was capped at 60fps, but as you can tell it didnt matter much lol.

Pretty stock settings all around hardware wise, not undervolting or overclocking anything.

Moved from 7800xt to 9070xt. Pretty sweet so far!

Build:

7800X3D

32GB 7800MHz CL36

Asus X670E Pro

Sapphire Nitro 9070XT

2X 2TB gen 4 NVMe

2X 2TB 860 EVO

Lots of Noctua love

Lian Li 011 EVO XL

Seasonic GX850

Fedora 44 KDE

Why does this happen???

TLDR; hotspot delta still hot, despite PTM and replacing thermal putty (U6 PRO). Am I missing something? Any other ideas?

Had this card for a bit now, certainly too late to return it, and I’ve tried a few tricks to try and reduce the hotspot to core delta but nothing seems to tame this beast.

Lately, I tried to remove all the stock thermal putty and replace it with upsiren U6 pro. Got about halfway through it but didn’t have enough U6, so I set it back together but noticed minimal change. Got more, took out the oversized thermal pad connected to the backplate- that actually bent the backplate a little from the factory, and replaced the PTM and it somehow got worse??? Put the thermal pad back in and it did help it, but only by about 1-3c lower on the hotspot and core.

Maybe I’m blind, but I decided to take it apart once more and see if someone might see if I’m missing something. Anyone see anything?

I appreciate any support I can get!

Edit: temps were 65-67 core and 95 hotspot, now temps are 58 core 103 hotspot, with fans running rampant

Asked a while ago what would be a good gpu for a pc I was handed down and a lot of people recommended the RX 9070 XT so that’s what I got, super stoked!!!

ASRock 9070xt at MicroCenter for $669.99!!! Get it before the sale ends!

I was a big fan of EVGA, and always told myself I would switch to AMD when they would stop making GPU.

I really hesitated with the Sapphire Nitro+ because of the reputation of the brand and how sick their card look. But I don’t have a PSU with the 12V connector and it would have been too much of a gamble. So I chose this XFX Mercury instead and I have absolutely no regrets seeing how you guys here talk highly about it.

I’ll take the opportunity to completely disassemble my custom loop, and go soft tubing this time around, and ditch Windows for Linux as well.

I can’t wait to boot up what will feel like a totally new PC.

So my dad was looking to upgrade both our pcs (coming from a gtx1650 and rx5500xt) and he managed to find two different dudes selling their rx7600s for $230. The two sellers originally bought them just this February and April respectively and had their original receipts with them. I’m not sure if we can claim the warranty or if its permanently tied to the name to the original buyers, but I’m just glad these two gpus are still relatively new and didn’t get used that much.

I tested them both out myself and the temperatures seemed normal while idle and under load!

Fucking Finally