News Undervolted RX 9070 XT beats RTX 5080 — RX 9070 and 9070 XT models with heavy coolers have massive OC headroom

[Admin]

The AMD RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are well-equipped for heavy performance boosts through undervolting, per the reviews of several online overclockers.

Undervolted RX 9070 XT beats RTX 5080 — RX 9070 and 9070 XT models with heavy coolers have massive OC headroom : Read more

 

[baranlai]

Awesome.

 

[Gururu]

I saw Derbauer's video on this and I don't understand although this article helped a lot. So one has to lower the voltage, increase the power draw and increase the frequency? Which setting is the most risky to the life of the card?

 

[baranlai]

I saw Derbauer's video on this and I don't understand although this article helped a lot. So one has to lower the voltage, increase the power draw and increase the frequency? Which setting is the most risky to the life of the card?

Nope, only lower the voltage and increase power limit. The card itself reaches higher clock speeds due to higher power limit with less heat due to lower voltage.

 

[A Stoner]

AMD did not leave that sitting on the floor for no reason. Some chips might have massive headroom for additional performance, and likely many, more than 30% have little room for additional performance. Particularly for the 9070 since they likely bin chips and put the worst but acceptable ones in the 9070.

 

[SonoraTechnical]

I would have liked to have seen benchmarks against the Radeon RX 7900 XTX... just to see how close it can get...

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Very interesting. Might leave the door open for a 9070xtx if they start binning the gpus further.

 

[talkischeapc9]

Good luck getting pre-binned reviewer GPU's. Your GPU will likely never come close to the OC's they are getting. Also show numbers with Ray tracing so we can see actual differences. Cyberpunk looks like a different game with RT on.

 

[thestryker]

I saw Derbauer's video on this and I don't understand although this article helped a lot. So one has to lower the voltage, increase the power draw and increase the frequency? Which setting is the most risky to the life of the card?

Currently setting the clocks doesn't work quite right so there weren't any changes there in these tests. What happened to increase the frequency is the extra power headroom from raising the power limit combined with lowering the voltage. There is no risk to the card longevity in doing these things (both AMD and nvidia heavily limit how high the power target can go) the only risk is to stability.

I've run my card undervolted for almost the entire time and it has done very well. I mostly did it because I prefer running at 75% power (300W vs 400W for my model) and this allows the card to still maintain close to stock performance at that power limit. When I do raise the power limit back up it means extra performance there too.

 

[ezst036]

Sounds like AMD could create an RX9080 card if they make some small changes.

 

[usertests]

Very interesting. Might leave the door open for a 9070xtx if they start binning the gpus further.

Sounds like AMD could create an RX9080 card if they make some small changes.

Revive that 32 GB rumor back from the dead!

 

[Jabberwocky79]

I've finally started to get clarity on my realistic options for a new card. I was in the market for a Gigabyte 5080 Waterforce card, which debuted with a price of $1299.00. It has gone up in price on Newegg twice - first to $1500.00, now to $1659.00, despite NEVER having been restocked yet that I'm aware of. Although I can still afford it, that is absolutely ridiculous.

Yesterday I learned that Alphacool has already developed a water block for the Asrock 9070 XT Taichi. The water block hasn't made it to any US vendors yet, but now that I know it exists, I'm pretty certain the Taichi will be my next card. It debuted at $729.00, and with more tariffs, I'm sure the next restock will be even more. Who knows what it'll end up costing me, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be able to land one for much less than the cost of a water cooled 5080.