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ASRock Radeon RX 9070 Steel Legend OC

W1zzard

W1zzard

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The ASRock Radeon RX 9070 Steel Legend OC is a factory-overclocked custom design model with a white color theme. It comes with excellent RGB lighting and a cooling solution that's incredibly quiet. Testing in our review confirms that this is the card that you want for a low noise gaming experience.

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I think the idle power consumption is 2 or 3 watts, not 11 as claimed here.

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Something wrong with this card:

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That price is a joke
 
rlifeh said:
Something wrong with this card:

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It's technically the fastest while overclocked so probably not maybe W1z has changed the sections tested or driver changes since launch. I doubt he retest every varient of a specific gpu for each review
 
oxrufiioxo said:
It's technically the fastest while overclocked so probably not maybe W1z has changed the sections tested or driver changes since launch. I doubt he retest every varient of a specific gpu for each review
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Looks like w1z just put the stock results instead of oc results in that cell.
 
Despite the large cuts to the shader count (compute units), TMUs and RT cores, the vanilla 9070 remains remarkably close to the XT

Is it ROP or still even bandwidth-limited?
 
Chrispy_ said:
Despite the large cuts to the shader count (compute units), TMUs and RT cores, the vanilla 9070 remains remarkably close to the XT

Is it ROP or still even bandwidth-limited?
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I believed it was bandwidth, and not that the even lower clocked 9070, but with memory at 2800 beats the XT, I'm 100% sure AMD should have use GDDR7
 
Fishymachine said:
I believed it was bandwidth, and not that the even lower clocked 9070, but with memory at 2800 beats the XT, I'm 100% sure AMD should have use GDDR7
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Aye, I'm running my XT at 2750 mem with fast timings, but I'm running at a significantly reduced power limit (-14%). I wasn't sure if it was the undervolt or the memory OC that was bringing performance back to faster than stock, since the memory didn't seem to achieve much in synthetic testing but then made a measurable gain in real game framerates.
 
Schalde said:
I mean how is it lowest i can go.. is 20% @1080 rpm? Sorry not good at reading these Graph
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Looks to be 1000rpm minimum. 1080 rpm is the steady state once the temperatures have stabilised, but it looks like the minimum fan speed is a little lower than that.

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Don't forget these are smaller fans than your typical 120mm or 140mm PC fans, so 1000rpm is actually a pretty low RPM for them - likely to be near-silent - while a typical 140mm fan at 1080rpm would be very audible.

My HTPC has some 80mm fans at the back and those are inaudible up to around 1400rpm and yet I can hear the 120mm fans at 800rpm.
 
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Good review, but I'd suggest doing a retest with the 24.5.1 WHQL Adrenalins, as I noticed in BG3, for instance, rasterized as BG3 doesn't support RT, that my venerable 6900XT @ 4k, IQ maxed, is quite a bit faster than the review card which shouldn't be the case. With full HDR @ 1000 nits BG3 looks much better than it does in SDR mode, and I used driver settings Fluid Frames 2.1 (Search Mode High, Performance mode Quality), Anti-Lag Enabled, Image Sharpening 100%, and Enhanced Sync (Vsync Off) my average frame-rate is ~180 fps on average, with FSR 2.2 supported (3.1 for the 9070 would be much better.) I don't run with FSR 2.2 enabled (it's blurry), I turn off upscaling entirely and use TAA, which is gorgeous with HDR, @ 130 fps, average, which is still a good bit faster than these test results.

Of course, I'm running the last patch for BG3, Patch 8, I believe, which is considerably better than patch 7, so that may have something to do with it, however. Just thought I'd mention it, as I noticed you tested with earlier betas. I didn't have time to look at anything else, but I did check BG3 out, as I thought it seemed low from what I remembered. My system is AM4 3900X (as I'm doing something else with my AM5 box atm), 32 GB sys ram @ 3733MT/s.) Almost forgot, Ray Tracing on the 6900XT is much, much better in performance than it was in earlier drivers--the difference in performance actually surprised me as it was unexpected...;) (I like pleasant surprises...;))
 
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W1zzard said:
Use lab equipment to measure the actual power going across the power connector and slot
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How is the idle test performed? Just on the desktop doing nothing with the screen on or off?
I think there is no chance that the card draws 11 watts when it's in deep sleep / idle state.
In this case, maybe something in the driver is broken.
 
ARF said:
How is the idle test performed? Just on the desktop doing nothing with the screen on or off?
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Desktop, 1440p, screen on, GPU-Z

The card draws 3 W more than a reference 9070 non-XT, probably from the RGB, RGB MCU, VRM design, custom settings. And generally, if the GPU is in deep sleep, memory and VRM still needs power, also the display outputs.
 
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