- Mar 2, 2025
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My new Sapphire Nitro+ 9070XT performs poorly in most games, even though in some games it shows me the reasonable amount of FPS, it feels choppy like 40-60 fps. In some games my gpu doesn't exceed 100W. For reference this is my build:
My specs:
CPU: R7 5800X
RAM: 4x8GB 3600MHz DDR4 Corsair Vengeance
MOBO: Asus B550 F-GAMING
GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ 9070xt
PSU: Corsair RM1000e
Resolution: 2560x1440
I've used DDU a couple times and I've also tried the compatible driver versions for 9000 series, and still nothing. For instance, while playing league of legends, I get around 100-130 fps which is bad for my pc and it drops onto 40s which is horrible, while the 100+ fps in itself feel like 60 and the power usage is under 100W. Similar for CS2, now I know that this game is heavily CPU bound, however, I can't even hit 200 fps in menu and in-game, where I'm supposed to hit over 300fps easily and it eats barely 200W. Similarly on MH Wilds, something more demanding, the game runs well however it gets very choppy most of the times, and I haven't even seen it draw 300W, just around 200W-250W. I've ran FurMark and Steel Nomad, and the gpu draws its tdp without any issues.
It's becoming pretty annoying to no be able to play anything and enjoy. I don't game as much anymore so you can imagine how frustrating it is to dump a bunch of money on a new gpu and not work the only time you're trying to enjoy your time.
Even if it could be bottlenecking, it still doesn't explain the fps drops and choppiness in games such as cyberpunk, the game ran anywhere between 60-90 fps at 1440p on all high and the FSR didn't seem to work. The game was choppy as well, I know that I'm supposed to get around 120-140 fps on native 1440p all maxed out, but thats not the case. Or in Arma 3 where my GPU doesn't get over 100W and it stays at 60-80fps. And let's say it is a cpu bottleneck, it shouldn't make my pc perform games worse than my previous gpus.
I had a 6750XT, everything was performing very well and I had no issues for the time I had it which was around 3 years, I decided to upgrade and before the 9070XT came out I got a good deal on a 7900XT, it performed well with no issues for around a month, however the card was defect so I had to get a refund and then I bought a 9070 xt when it came out. I confirmed the problem it was on the GPU's side with the 7900xt because it had defect clock speed and made my drivers crash. Opposed to that, my 6750xt worked well regardless even after I returned the 7900xt, so I ruled out the option that my system is at fault. As for AAA games, I was curious how this gpu runs cyberpunk however I was met with disappointment as the game ran anywhere between 60-90 fps at 1440p on all high and the FSR didn't seem to work. The game was choppy as well, I know that I'm supposed to get around 120-140 fps on native 1440p all maxed out, but thats not the case. I'm kind off confused since like I said, all stress tests are able to use my gpu at its full potential and I've never had a CPU issue before or anything in this matter.
I pretty much narrowed it down to the CPU bottleneck since I don't seem to find any other explanation when everything in my system is working well, kinda unfortunate to get hit so hard by "bottleneck" but the 5800x is pretty old hardware compared to the 9070 xt and I expected that bottleneck would happen if I do get this gpu, just not at this scale. I do believe that AMD could fix some of this with driver updates to improve AM4 performance with the 9000 series.
For reference, I got a total score of 22 106, Graphics Score: 27 837 with CPU Score: 10 203 on timespy. And to be sure I tested my CPU in cinebench and got 13343 (30 minute test) which is like a perfect score for the 5800x. Nothing out of the ordinary really, everything ran cool.
My specs:
CPU: R7 5800X
RAM: 4x8GB 3600MHz DDR4 Corsair Vengeance
MOBO: Asus B550 F-GAMING
GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ 9070xt
PSU: Corsair RM1000e
Resolution: 2560x1440
I've used DDU a couple times and I've also tried the compatible driver versions for 9000 series, and still nothing. For instance, while playing league of legends, I get around 100-130 fps which is bad for my pc and it drops onto 40s which is horrible, while the 100+ fps in itself feel like 60 and the power usage is under 100W. Similar for CS2, now I know that this game is heavily CPU bound, however, I can't even hit 200 fps in menu and in-game, where I'm supposed to hit over 300fps easily and it eats barely 200W. Similarly on MH Wilds, something more demanding, the game runs well however it gets very choppy most of the times, and I haven't even seen it draw 300W, just around 200W-250W. I've ran FurMark and Steel Nomad, and the gpu draws its tdp without any issues.
It's becoming pretty annoying to no be able to play anything and enjoy. I don't game as much anymore so you can imagine how frustrating it is to dump a bunch of money on a new gpu and not work the only time you're trying to enjoy your time.
Even if it could be bottlenecking, it still doesn't explain the fps drops and choppiness in games such as cyberpunk, the game ran anywhere between 60-90 fps at 1440p on all high and the FSR didn't seem to work. The game was choppy as well, I know that I'm supposed to get around 120-140 fps on native 1440p all maxed out, but thats not the case. Or in Arma 3 where my GPU doesn't get over 100W and it stays at 60-80fps. And let's say it is a cpu bottleneck, it shouldn't make my pc perform games worse than my previous gpus.
I had a 6750XT, everything was performing very well and I had no issues for the time I had it which was around 3 years, I decided to upgrade and before the 9070XT came out I got a good deal on a 7900XT, it performed well with no issues for around a month, however the card was defect so I had to get a refund and then I bought a 9070 xt when it came out. I confirmed the problem it was on the GPU's side with the 7900xt because it had defect clock speed and made my drivers crash. Opposed to that, my 6750xt worked well regardless even after I returned the 7900xt, so I ruled out the option that my system is at fault. As for AAA games, I was curious how this gpu runs cyberpunk however I was met with disappointment as the game ran anywhere between 60-90 fps at 1440p on all high and the FSR didn't seem to work. The game was choppy as well, I know that I'm supposed to get around 120-140 fps on native 1440p all maxed out, but thats not the case. I'm kind off confused since like I said, all stress tests are able to use my gpu at its full potential and I've never had a CPU issue before or anything in this matter.
I pretty much narrowed it down to the CPU bottleneck since I don't seem to find any other explanation when everything in my system is working well, kinda unfortunate to get hit so hard by "bottleneck" but the 5800x is pretty old hardware compared to the 9070 xt and I expected that bottleneck would happen if I do get this gpu, just not at this scale. I do believe that AMD could fix some of this with driver updates to improve AM4 performance with the 9000 series.
For reference, I got a total score of 22 106, Graphics Score: 27 837 with CPU Score: 10 203 on timespy. And to be sure I tested my CPU in cinebench and got 13343 (30 minute test) which is like a perfect score for the 5800x. Nothing out of the ordinary really, everything ran cool.
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