News Defective RX 9070 XT card with pitted silicon GPU surface runs extremely hot — report indicates it's unclear if this was an isolated incident

[Admin]

A PowerColor RX 9070 XT Hellhound was found to have defective silicon out of the factory, resulting in unsustainable hotspot temperatures that caused the GPU to overheat and throttle.

Defective RX 9070 XT card with pitted silicon GPU surface runs extremely hot — report indicates it's unclear if this was an isolated incident : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

do wonder if we'll see future issues relating to this as everyone rushes them out and uncommon issues escape into wild.

 

[-Fran-]

Sapphire Pulse 9070XT here, sample 1 out of 1, but no issues with temps and been toying around with OC'ing and undervolting.

In fact, it runs incredibly cool for a 300W card with """basic""" cooling on core, hotspot and memory. Quotations intentional as this thing is monstrous still and has a lot of metal to dissipate heat.

Regards.

 

[George³]

Well, more and more defects from the factory, with the shrinking of lithography process.

 

[edzieba]

Since grinding is a wafer-scale process, that means there is at least a wafer worth of similarly affected dies that could have made it to circulation if QC could not detect this one.

 

[YSCCC]

This is really a kind of defect I don't even ever think of... with powercolour using PTM7950 I was actually surprised at the huge temp difference, wonder how much of the cards out there have these issue and won't boost. pathitic times when ppl paying retail scalping price for some GPU just for gaming and get this, or the missing ROPs in Nvidia

 

[Ali3nWnd3rWaRE4]

New here but use Techpowerup.com everyday. I bought a PowerColor RX 9070 XT Red Devil on launch day. I got the card installed and tested some benchmarks and noticed the card would not hit the rated speeds at all.

I then tested a few games and found that my GPU temp would get in the 80's C while my hotspot was hitting 110 C I have seen it get up to 113-114 C.

I contacted PowerColor about the issue and I'm in talks with them.

I tried changing the thermal martial, I know that use PTM7950 but I put some Kryonaut extreme and tested with the same results, I thin swapped back to my own honeywell PTM7950 just to test if maybe they used a lesser quality PTM and still got the same results.

After reading this article, Now I'm thinking I may have gotten one with this issue.

I tested this on two workstation as well both in Thermaltake tower 900 cases with custom loops on the cpu side.

1st
Asus Crosshair VIII hero wifi (x570)
Ryzen 3950x
32GB 2x16 Gskill 3600M/T system memory
Seasonic Prime TX-1000w
2x WD Black SN750 2TB
ASUS STRIX RX 5600 XT (was pulled out for testing)
Powercolor RX 9070 XT Red Devil (First time purchasing PowerColor)
2 year old windows 11 Pro install with 23h2

2nd
Asrock x870e Taichi with bios 3.20
Ryzen 9950X3D
48GB 2x24 Gskill 6400M/T system memory
Seasonic Prime TX-1300w
2x WD Black SN850x 4TB
Powercolor RX 9070 XT Red Devil (First time purchasing PowerColor)
Brand new Windows 11 Pro install with 24h2

 

[Exploding PSU]

I wonder if something like this used to happen in the past... I had a Vega 56 that was such a hohehoheho to cool... It was a Sapphire though, but an issue like this would happen before the actual die even landed on the AIB's factory, right?