9070XT PCI 5.0 bus speed.

[jaszy]

Quick question, does anyone elses 9070 or 9070XT not downclock below 5.0 speeds?

I have a 5070TI here that works completely fine 1.1>5.0, but swapping to the 9070XT seems to only run at 5.0 without downclocking the PCI slot internally when idle.

Just curious if this is normal for these cards or the 9070's in general. Thanks!

 

[eidairaman1]

Have a fresh os on a separate drive and test in the system without swapping cards back n forth, so just amd only, no nv drivers.

 

[biffzinker]

Quick question, does anyone elses 9070 or 9070XT not downclock below 5.0 speeds?

It shows in GPUZ that the slot interface lowers from Gen5 to Gen1.1 and back up with the built in load tester GPUZ. I have a Z790 Intel platform.

My problem is waking up the PC from sleep mode, and the monitor is no longer detected. I had this issue with the 6700 XT so I’m wondering if it’s the MSI board at fault.

 

[R-T-B]

Quick question, does anyone elses 9070 or 9070XT not downclock below 5.0 speeds?

I have a 5070TI here that works completely fine 1.1>5.0, but swapping to the 9070XT seems to only run at 5.0 without downclocking the PCI slot internally when idle.

Just curious if this is normal for these cards or the 9070's in general. Thanks!

This happens if your power setting is set to "prefer maximum performance" in the nv control panel. AMD I'm unsure.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Have a fresh os on a separate drive and test in the system without swapping cards back n forth, so just amd only, no nv drivers.

The NV and AMD drivers can perfectly coexist with one another, and there is no plausible situation where the NV driver would influence the AMD GPU in this manner.

This happens if your power setting is set to "prefer maximum performance" in the nv control panel.

This, as well as if ASPM has been disabled in the BIOS. The link will also not throttle down if Windows' power settings is set to high performance, it should be set to balanced if this is the desired behavior.

Active State Power Management - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Otherwise, the only downside to having it constantly in 5.0 x16 mode is increased power consumption.

 

[biffzinker]

This, as well as if ASPM has been disabled in the BIOS. The link will also not throttle down if Windows' power settings is set to high performance, it should be set to balanced if this is the desired behavior.

I forgot about this in the BIOS, some board manufacturers set link management/ASPM as controlled by the BIOS instead of the operating system. MSI was doing that on my board for a while then it was changed to by the OS instead in later BIOS updates.

This happens if your power setting is set to "prefer maximum performance" in the nv control panel. AMD I'm unsure.

AMD doesn’t have a similar option exposed in their driver or GUI.

 

[jaszy]

It shows in GPUZ that the slot interface lowers from Gen5 to Gen1.1 and back up with the built in load tester GPUZ. I have a Z790 Intel platform.

My problem is waking up the PC from sleep mode, and the monitor is no longer detected. I had this issue with the 6700 XT so I’m wondering if it’s the MSI board at fault.

Which brand of card?

I'm also on MSI (Z690 Tomahawk). My 9070XT is an ASUS PRIME.

I don't have your issue, but I did experience something where my USB perips wouldn't resume from sleep on said 9070XT. (had to hit power button).

The 5070TI has been solid.. no issues.

The NV and AMD drivers can perfectly coexist with one another, and there is no plausible situation where the NV driver would influence the AMD GPU in this manner.



This, as well as if ASPM has been disabled in the BIOS. The link will also not throttle down if Windows' power settings is set to high performance, it should be set to balanced if this is the desired behavior.

Active State Power Management - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Otherwise, the only downside to having it constantly in 5.0 x16 mode is increased power consumption.

Ok so.. the PCI 5.0 NVIDIA card works fine (I leave balanced power typically for 12900K), but the ASUS 9070XT is perma locked at 5.0. Not sure what's causing it.

 

[biffzinker]

Which brand of card?

The Gigabyte 9070 OC
I see I have not updated my system specs here with the GSkill DDR5-6800 96 GB kit.

 

[jaszy]

Any other suggestions? bout to reformat an older drive just to see if theres a baseline driver conflict....

Edit: I've already DDU'd every other graphic driver and checked link status via power management. Either this specific ASUS card cant downclock or it's a conflict with my MSI board at this point.

I have a 2nd computer in another room, but its being used I cant exactly test the 9070XT there ATM... ASUS board.

Edit 2: Said f it and reformated fully. Same issue.. Either the ASUS PRIME (and TUF? same PCB) refuses to downclock or theres a BIOS conflict on MSI's side.

I'll have to test this card in the other computer with the Z690 ASUS board.. If that works, I'll be annoyed.

Edit 3:

Ok. Sorta figured this out.

VBIOS on the 9070XT PRIME (NON OC) is broken and doesn't downclock or Z690/Z790 don't work properly in conjunction with these GPU's. The PNY 5070 TI I have is fine.

I swapped card to a 2nd PC and talked to someone else with my exact model.... (also on intel). All 3 situations have a locked 5.0 max x32 LINK.. This blows.