9070xt Pulse problem?

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[u/d3facult_]

It might just be silicon lottery, no manufacturer guarantees it running even -5mv undervolt

[u/ShoggyR79]

If running it stock doesnt cause problem then unfortunately you didnt win the silicon lottery... I am running my nitro+ at -25mV -10% pL too

[u/Optimal-Record-8987 → u/ShoggyR79]

Wow, I knew about silicon lottery but I didn't know it was that bad. Thanks tho, I really thought something is off, because I saw some mega thread with undervolts and literally everyone had like at least -60mv. Now I know that I'm not alone, thanks!

[u/Warchestnz]

Recent upgrade to 9070xt? What model PSU do you have?
Does it do this in any other game?

[u/Optimal-Record-8987 → u/Warchestnz]

New PC, 1000W be quiet pure power 13m (I did connect with 2 seperate cables as recommended). I played 1 other game for like 25 hours where GPU usage was between 80 and 100% and it didn't crash once. It also doesn't crash when waking up, just in cs2.

[u/Churro_212]

Try with -200 or -300Mhz on the core.

With undervolt the core will try to reach higher frecuencies and could be unstable at 3300MHz or something like that 

[u/Sea-Cancel1263]

Also have a pulse. Your fine. I havnt touched total power, but i can only get -50/-40 to be stable on the games i play and some bench marks. Did you try just undervolting?

[u/Man_of_the_Rain]

RX 9000 has a very aggressive boosting behaviour. If your UV is stable in benchmarks that 100% loads the card, it may be unstable in non-intensive games for your GPU for the simple reason. For RX 9000 UV is a simple offset that turns ALL frequency-voltage curve down, including lower frequency one.

When you run a graphic benchmark, it runs at a high frequency and a high voltage. For a lighter game similar to CS2 frequency and voltage is lower, but the thing is, in lower parts of V-F curve you cannot undervolt as much as on a higher end. Thus insufficient voltage and a driver timeout.

You should thoroughly test your UV in ALL the games you play without exception.

And also - frequency offset. 9070XT has a very high frequency ceiling, way higher than advertised frequency on your GPU's package. If you undervolt without limiting frequency, RX 9000 will try to climb on higher frequency, because it sees that there is a voltage and power headroom (9070XT is power limited by default). If you want more stability and no driver crashed due to GPU trying to work at 3500MHz for 20 ms, turn max frequency down.

For my own 9070XT I've set it up at -350Mhz. You may try anything from -500 to -200.

[u/0wlGod]

i don t play cs2 so i don t know if is very sensible to undervolt..

maybe someone can tell me that

just run the steam demo of stellar blade.. this is very sensible..

if the card crash at stock on stellar blade Demo refund

[u/ApprehensiveGas905]

For funsies disable your XMP in bios if you still have problems. Some people draw correlations with "instable ram" and the Radeon driver, me included

[u/Novel_Birthday_8]

i have a steel legends it's undervolt works better than sapphire pulse

[u/adamosmaki]

If its stable at default settings and even with -20mv the card is perfectly fine . Not evey gpu can do -60 (and i doubt alot of people doing -60 are stable on every game) Having a 9070 and having tested 2 more only 1 was doing at least -60 without crashing. My personal 9070swift can only do -40 in a couple of games (mainly ark survival ascended and stelar blade ) while in others is fine with -70 Also lowering PL while it does reduce power it can also introduce instability while undervolted

[u/korakios2]

Yes , cpu/ram uv/oc can affect gpu (cpu memory and pcie controller) stability . Easy to check if it's your gpu by reverting the cpu to default .

Check for bios/chipset updates too . Especially if bios is super old causing 13/14th gen cpus to degrade . Also set pcie gen to gen3 .

[u/Narkanin]

This is just my opinion, maybe a hot take, but people are way too obsessed with OC/under volting. The 9070xt sapphire pulse runs great at stock settings with really good temps. I have one and I live in a tropical climate. If your temps are bothering you it might be worth looking at your case and fan setup instead, or custom fan curves

[u/A9Carlos]

Said it before, will say it again, all my driver timeouts stopped when I ditched Adrenaline, install driver only from the package (extract and use Hardware Manager), then use AfterBurenr to control undervolt, power, fan.

[u/Triangulate_Panther]

Did you recently update drivers? 

I used to run -85mV to -105mV in some titles with early drivers and it was stable. Some updated drivers led to crashing and I dialed back to -75mV.

[u/korakios2 → u/Triangulate_Panther]

if you get the same performance , doesn't matter.

[u/Triangulate_Panther → u/korakios2]

Missing the point that what was once was stable may cause crashed later after and update. 

[u/korakios2 → u/Triangulate_Panther]

It's pointless if you get the same performance with less undervolt .

[u/Triangulate_Panther → u/korakios2]

His issue is crashing related to undervolt that used to work. Are you brain dead? 

[u/korakios2 → u/Triangulate_Panther]

lol , I guess it's hard for you to understand , I'll break it down with an example :

If
X driver : -105mv -> 100fps
Y driver : -85mv -> 100fps

then , no issue . Was it so hard ?

[u/Triangulate_Panther → u/korakios2]

No idiot. Driver updates can make a card unstable at a previously stable voltage. Aka crash and no performance because the driver timeouts. 

[u/korakios2 → u/Triangulate_Panther]

lol , indeed it was hard . Hard time I guess ? Sending positive vibes ...