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You know, for someone who asks that I read, you seem not to.
"...I ended up returning it, because I'm not spending $900 and regretting my choice every time I'm starting a game. They tested the card, but nothing wrong with it, it's just the way it handles games.
I purchased an overpriced 5080 Aorus Master instead. Sure enough, games look crisp again, shadows are fine, aliasing normal."
Did you maybe forget that the solution was to purchase a 5080? I mean, it's not like that's obvious. Of course, I'm betting you're referring to the eventual finding of DDU...which was part of a post where they guessed that if they were having issues with the 5080 they might also have issues with the 9070xt. For convenience it's here:
"...Of course, now I think of my Taichi 9070 XT that I wanted to love so much, and I'm fairly sure the drivers mix were the culprit too..."
The problem is that, and say it again with me, a claim made with no facts figures or proof means nothing. I could equally claim that it was the phase of the moon. The point here is that somebody made a post badmouthing a card, received pushback that this was likely a user error, finally discovered the right tools after even the people who he bought it from confirmed there was nothing wrong, and that is the thread that this is inside. No rename, no ask for assistance prior to calling the 9070 out for being an issue. This is a forum where if there'd been twenty minutes taken to open a thread half a dozen people here would have asked about cleaning the old drivers, directed them to DDU, and we might be having the discussion today that the 9070 sucked (and here are the figures) or the 9070 was great (here are the figures). The thing is, we don't have that because somebody got trigger happy and instead of asking for help started the discussion with "this thing sucks." That's what we like to call a user error.
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As an aside....let's pretend it was just drivers. Drivers say he's running a 2070 still. Game detects, and sets him up for 1920x1080 resolution on a 4k monitor. Screen stretches. Every single pixel is now 4 pixels. That 4 pixel wide pointy object is now 16 wide, and more of a blunt cudgel than a pointy spear. You call that out...as muddy and smudgy, and try to bring back the point with anti-aliasing. It does its damndest to try and make that point...but with 1 in 4 pixels worth of data the thing really doesn't have anything to work with.
The above is not a driver issue in itself. It is a detection issue, but you could manually go into the game and change settings...which for that one game would fix things. We could tell this if the GPU utilization never peaked beyond 40%, or if you took a screenshot, but there's nothing. That's the problem on a thread with the title "the 9070 xt graphics are terrible." This is not a GPU issue, it's a user issue that would take almost nothing to fix...but the title to this thread remains.
It's also an idiot issue. Not something that should be forgotten. We all have idiot moments, and all do stupid things. That said, this is a retail store Karen moment where somebody returned something not broken, was royally pissed, and despite being proven working required that they have the thing replaced. That's a bit of a bitter pill when someone wants to be taken seriously. It's also frustrating for anyone in retail or quality, who now has to spend hours tracing down all the ways this is a non-issue before the card can be resold basically at cost as a return...which is really a double shot of frustration sauce on an ice cream float made out of excrement.
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