Gigabyte 9070 XT audio issues

[Kamelott]

Even with the new driver (25.6.1), the problems persist….

 

[gaceterox]

so there is no solution to this?

 

[eidairaman1]

Report it to gigabyte, then amd

 

[JonnyDK]

I also have this problem. I've created a post at the AMD forums, perhaps commenting there would bring more attention to it?

AMD PC Processor and Graphics Community

pcforum.amd.com

 

[dingbat]

Also registered to reply here as I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure this out without result. My GPU is the Powercolor 9070 Hellhound. In my case my PC will even unexpectedly shut down (Kernel Event 41) when playing audio or other low load tasks, in addition to the crackling noises.

I ran a gamut of troubleshooting steps, including doing a clean install using media creation tool, but my suspicion it’s either a hardware fault or an awkward interaction of the audio driver and AMD’s video driver.

You can play around with device manager in Windows and find that when you disable the video driver the problem goes away, while if you substitute AMD’s audio driver with a generic Microsoft provided one, the issue persists.

Audio when the iGPU is set to primary GPU is clear. Same thing on my spare (Nvidia) GPU.

Latencymon shows that the system has to wait for audio drivers for too long. Latency spikes are more infrequent and less severe under the iGPU or Nvidia GPU.

Side note, I’ve also got the 7800X3D like several others here. Motherboard is the B650 Steel Legend with ALC4042 audio.

 

[Chrispy_]

This was also commonly reported on AMD's most recent 5xxx series, from what I recall. Main reason I skipped the 5700XT. Hope it's not still that same issue, that would be pretty sad...

I've experienced this on multiple AMD cards from 5700XT onwards, using HDMI audio to receivers. It is still that issue and I check every generation to see if they've solved it. So far, no. Sometimes AMD mention "fixed issue with audio interruption using HDMI receivers" but it has never helped me.

5700XT, 6600, 6700, 6700XT, 7800XT, 9070XT. The only recent AMD card I've had access to and didn't try was a 7900XT.

TVs from Hisense and Samsung, receivers from Yamaha and Marantz.

This is why I run a GeForce in the living room. You have to make a choice between Nvidia's abysmal handling of TV resolutions and refresh rates or AMDs issues with HDMI audio. At least the Nvidia workarounds for dumb resolution/refresh are software-based and don't require me to mess with changing cables, so that's what I stick to, even if it's the worse option IMO.

For AMD GPUs on receivers, I opted to just bypass HDMI audio entirely for two reasons. Receivers that handle 4K 10-bit HDR properly cost silly money and are still behind the curve when it comes to high-refresh. So HDMI to TV directly, to get Native 4K120 HDR without the receiver f*cking everything up, and digital audio direct to receiver, bypassing the TV.

AMD use a newer audio driver than Nvidia and that seems to be the issue, but I've never bothered messing with the GPU's audio driver when better, more permanent alternatives exist.

For what it's worth, you can downgrade the audio driver in device manager to the basic Microsoft one that Nvidia uses, I believe that is supposed to solve this but it'll get replaced every time you update your drivers so I find it an irritating solution unless you are disciplined and mindful enough to deselect the HDMI audio driver ever time there's a graphics driver update.

 

[Boggmeister]

I just registered, because I think I have same issue and I think I know what is a reason for this. I have a new Powercolor Rx9070 Hellhound and I get sound distortions, when I play music in background via displayport on my monitor. When I play music via HDMI on my LG Oled TV apart from sound distortions I also get short sound cut outs. I found out that all these issues disappear when graphic card is not in idle state, for example when I open GPU-Z and run built in render test. It stresses graphic to about 30% of load and makes clocks go higher. Please check if it solves your issue with sound? If yes you can report a bug to AMD, I already did that. I hope they will increase idle clocks in next graphic driver update.

I have the same card and the same issue. Your solution worked for me ! Thank you so much! I registered just to thank you. While I realize using GPU-Z is just a work around until the issue is fixed, It saved me from spending more days searching for a solution.