ASUS Radeon RX 9070 XT TUF OC

[OldSchoolPCGamer]

What flaws do you mean?

I'm willing to buy this TUF version. I find it to be actually not that badly made, compared to other cards.

I want a card that has proper cooler and thermal pads where they should be placed. Secondly, I want to avoid 12 pin piece of shit connector at all costs. Thirdly, I wanted 3x 8pin connectors for better current distribution and minimum power draw from PCIe slot. I successfully RMAed my Asrock 7800 XT Phantom Gaming due to coil whine and got refund. I was actually thinking about giving Asrock another chance by getting Taichi 9070 XT, but there's a connector culprit. Same for Sapphire Nitro.

PowerColor Red Devil is a joke for that price. Missing thermal pads on the backplate, card is too thick. And that price ...

Gigabyte, just no.

If there's any other silent card with all thermal pads, 3x 8pins, then tell me.

I like how this ASUS dual BIOS behaves. It's same power and performance, difference is in fan curve and thus speed and noise. Asus Prime can get quite loud (36dBa at full speed). Hellhound lacks backplate thermal pads and costs more than TUF and can reach 35 dBa. I don't wanna do any ghetto modding like putting passives on backplate, another fans and so on. I need a card that is good out of the box. Taichi would be even better than TUF, if there weren't that unreliable 12 pin connector.

TUF is great imo. but it seems to have fallen off in quality, so I'm not too sure about it. I would seriously consider XFX as far as word of mouth about reliability and tech support is concerned. so that would be my choice. I ended up with the Taichi since the XFX was unavailable during the general release of the 9070XT launch.

 

[Dahita]

TUF is great imo. but it seems to have fallen off in quality, so I'm not too sure about it. I would seriously consider XFX as far as word of mouth about reliability and tech support is concerned. so that would be my choice. I ended up with the Taichi since the XFX was unavailable during the general release of the 9070XT launch.

So from my research, I have found the opposite to be true. the Asus 5080 TUF comes as the top in terms of quality. In the video linked, this guy shows how the components are superior to most competition (shielded coils, quality MOSFETs, clean assembly), the PCB is longer and varnished, and the fan system is top notch. Card is supposed to have no coil whine and last much longer.

As far as my personal experience for the past two days:
- Card extremely quiet
- Size is acceptable (not as big as this crazy Aorus Master which didn't fit in my case as is)
- Very powerful (8800 in Steel Nomad by default with my 5950x, 63 degress GPU in load)
- Zero coil whine
- Beautiful, simple design

I really like it and can only recommend from my perspective, but still overpriced at $1650 VAT included. It's the same for the 9070 XT.

(sidenote: MSI consistantly comes as poorest quality in components and assembly among all brands)

 

[LittleBro]

So from my research, I have found the opposite to be true. the Asus 5080 TUF comes as the top in terms of quality. In the video linked, this guy shows how the components are superior to most competition (shielded coils, quality MOSFETs, clean assembly), the PCB is longer and varnished, and the fan system is top notch. Card is supposed to have no coil whine and last much longer.

As far as my personal experience for the past two days:
- Card extremely quiet
- Size is acceptable (not as big as this crazy Aorus Master which didn't fit in my case as is)
- Very powerful (8800 in Steel Nomad by default with my 5950x, 63 degress GPU in load)
- Zero coil whine
- Beautiful, simple design

I really like it and can only recommend from my perspective, but still overpriced at $1650 VAT included. It's the same for the 9070 XT.

(sidenote: MSI consistantly comes as poorest quality in components and assembly among all brands)

My RX 9070 XT TUF has coil whine in full load, but compared to my previous RX 7800 XT from AsRock this is significantly less audible.
How come you get 8800 points in Steel Nomad? I can't get past 7553 even with undervolt. That's like RTX 5080 worth score.

I must admit, ASUS RX 9070 XT TUF is really cool and quiet. If you limit PT to 90% (=297W on this card), it won't spin fans beyond 1500 rpm under full load,
and memory junction temp is oscillating around 80°C. So far I'm really satisfied with this card, unfortunately my piece can't handle more than -70mV undervolt in stress test.

 

[TSiAhmat]

My RX 9070 XT TUF has coil whine in full load, but compared to my previous RX 7800 XT from AsRock this is significantly less audible.

Was also a bit disappointed that mine has coil whine, but than found out it was the PSU not the GPU (oops)

I must admit, ASUS RX 9070 XT TUF is really cool and quiet. If you limit PT to 90% (=297W on this card), it won't spin fans beyond 1500 rpm under full load,
and memory junction temp is oscillating around 80°C. So far I'm really satisfied with this card, unfortunately my piece can't handle more than -70mV undervolt in stress test.

mine is not stable in 1 very certain scenario at -45mV, everything else doesn't crash until 65 ~ 70mVs

 

[Dahita]

My RX 9070 XT TUF has coil whine in full load, but compared to my previous RX 7800 XT from AsRock this is significantly less audible.
How come you get 8800 points in Steel Nomad? I can't get past 7553 even with undervolt. That's like RTX 5080 worth score.

I must admit, ASUS RX 9070 XT TUF is really cool and quiet. If you limit PT to 90% (=297W on this card), it won't spin fans beyond 1500 rpm under full load,
and memory junction temp is oscillating around 80°C. So far I'm really satisfied with this card, unfortunately my piece can't handle more than -70mV undervolt in stress test.

Wait, I hit 8800 with the 5080, not with the 9070 XT, sorry for the confusion. I was only talking about the TUF quality.

I had a 9070 XT Taichi and I scored 7931 points with it. Undervolting to -90, no GPU overclocking, memory on fast timing + mem freq at 2800mhz off the top of my head. Paied with a 5950x that works really, really well.

 

[OldSchoolPCGamer]

Wait, I hit 8800 with the 5080, not with the 9070 XT, sorry for the confusion. I was only talking about the TUF quality.

I had a 9070 XT Taichi and I scored 7931 points with it. Undervolting to -90, no GPU overclocking, memory on fast timing + mem freq at 2800mhz off the top of my head. Paied with a 5950x that works really, really well.

just curious what are your rigs? cpu and ram and mobo, and platform? I know mine boosted when I upgraded my system ram. just like lilbro, I'm only hitting steel nomad at 75fps average max. highest I have is 76.7fps. I haven't updated my driver yet. also, mine is only stable with the benchmark at -65mv. it was weird because there was a few times that it was stable and hit -150mv more than a week ago. not sure what was happening at that time. although when I restarted my pc earlier this week, it could hit over -100mv anymore and seems to be back at it's usual performance. I think 75fps and below -75mv is standard for the XT OC. I also have the Taichi but somehow curious and a bit envious that people are hitting 2-3 fps more on average than my copy with air cooling. I know others are hitting over 80fps with wb cooling but I don't care about that. anyway, real world performance is a breeze and playing games so far is a breeze. sometimes I feel the gpu is too much so far even at 4k. it's smooth even if average fps is around 55-60 fps.

My RX 9070 XT TUF has coil whine in full load, but compared to my previous RX 7800 XT from AsRock this is significantly less audible.
How come you get 8800 points in Steel Nomad? I can't get past 7553 even with undervolt. That's like RTX 5080 worth score.

I must admit, ASUS RX 9070 XT TUF is really cool and quiet. If you limit PT to 90% (=297W on this card), it won't spin fans beyond 1500 rpm under full load,
and memory junction temp is oscillating around 80°C. So far I'm really satisfied with this card, unfortunately my piece can't handle more than -70mV undervolt in stress test.

don't worry. mine is stable at -65mv.

 

[Dahita]

Sure, I have a 5950x that I have optimized in the bios regarding OC using XFR (nothing agressive). It's watercooled by a 360mm solution. Mobo is a Gigabyte Aorus x570s Elite AX with 32Gb of 3600Mhz Ram, with 18 CAS timing (should have bought 16 CAS but oh well). My inital Score witht he Taichi was something like 7200/7300. I believe my CPU is helping a lot because it can hit aorund 5Ghz during the test.
Sidenote: the OC and undervolting values of the graphic card were valid for the test, but not for gaming, I would crash. So it's just Steel Nomad approved. For stability in gaming I had to use -50mv, maybe even -40, and the score would lower to something like 7700.

 

[OldSchoolPCGamer]

Sure, I have a 5950x that I have optimized in the bios regarding OC using XFR (nothing agressive). It's watercooled by a 360mm solution. Mobo is a Gigabyte Aorus x570s Elite AX with 32Gb of 3600Mhz Ram, with 18 CAS timing (should have bought 16 CAS but oh well). My inital Score witht he Taichi was something like 7200/7300. I believe my CPU is helping a lot because it can hit aorund 5Ghz during the test.
Sidenote: the OC and undervolting values of the graphic card were valid for the test, but not for gaming, I would crash. So it's just Steel Nomad approved. For stability in gaming I had to use -50mv, maybe even -40, and the score would lower to something like 7700.

that is still good. I would guess the baseline for the 9070 XT OC is really 75fps. any contributing factor like cpu/ram/mobo + mod maybe could hit 2-3 fps more than max. mine did initially hit 72/73fps out of the box. could hit lower while tinkering with the gpu for power-efficiency around 62fps which was hitting 180w stable. I think anything hitting above 78fps has some gpu modifications done already imo. also, my copy so far is stable at -65mv. that's the highest so far I can have my system at default.
in return, my system is a 5700X3D on MSI x470 gaming board with -30mv uv on all cores. ram is also 48GB 3600mhz with 18cas. gaming is no problem but I still think about the 10%-15% performance difference that the 5700X3D over the 5800X with the 9070XT use. my only issue I have with the 5700X3D is productivity which is pretty the same as the 3700X I had previously. so it is struggling a bit. my son lucked out with the 5800X and won the silicon lottery. his is maxing at 4.95Ghz which is even beating the 5800XT cpu. anyway, we'll see if it hangs on in the long run.

 

[Dahita]

that is still good. I would guess the baseline for the 9070 XT OC is really 75fps. any contributing factor like cpu/ram/mobo + mod maybe could hit 2-3 fps more than max. mine did initially hit 72/73fps out of the box. could hit lower while tinkering with the gpu for power-efficiency around 62fps which was hitting 180w stable. I think anything hitting above 78fps has some gpu modifications done already imo. also, my copy so far is stable at -65mv. that's the highest so far I can have my system at default.
in return, my system is a 5700X3D on MSI x470 gaming board with -30mv uv on all cores. ram is also 48GB 3600mhz with 18cas. gaming is no problem but I still think about the 10%-15% performance difference that the 5700X3D over the 5800X with the 9070XT use. my only issue I have with the 5700X3D is productivity which is pretty the same as the 3700X I had previously. so it is struggling a bit. my son lucked out with the 5800X and won the silicon lottery. his is maxing at 4.95Ghz which is even beating the 5800XT cpu. anyway, we'll see if it hangs on in the long run.

I think I know why you're hitting a little lower, your motherboard is probably a PCIe 3.0, not 4.0, so you do lose 5% perf automatically. Not really a dealbreaker in my book.

 

[OldSchoolPCGamer]

I think I know why you're hitting a little lower, your motherboard is probably a PCIe 3.0, not 4.0, so you do lose 5% perf automatically. Not really a dealbreaker in my book.

I was thinking the same thing as well due to power limitations, although some studies and people I talked to mentioned that the performance difference is almost negligible. not sure about it or if the online comparisons are that reliable. but anyways, as you said, it's not a dealbreaker until I begin to see some terrible performance. so far, X470 seem to do it's job very well so far inspite of the limitations. unless everything becomes unstable on a regular basis.

 

[LittleBro]

Wait, I hit 8800 with the 5080, not with the 9070 XT, sorry for the confusion. I was only talking about the TUF quality.

I had a 9070 XT Taichi and I scored 7931 points with it. Undervolting to -90, no GPU overclocking, memory on fast timing + mem freq at 2800mhz off the top of my head. Paied with a 5950x that works really, really well.

Uff, I was getting really pissed.

5080 TUF has vapor chamber design.

 

[OldSchoolPCGamer]

I experimented further with my Taichi 9070XT and was able to get general stability at 77fps. yes, finally hitting that number at -65mv. would love to push the gpu further but I guess the limiting factor of using a lower end mobo running on pcie3.0 and lower vrm capability makes it quiet handicapped. I might just upgrade to a newer platform maybe a year or 2 from now moving to am5 with better mobo vrms and pcie5.0 support and better ddr5 rams. I might get the 9800X3D. on a realistic side, I might be able to squeeze 5fps more into it which could be useful for 4K.