★★★★★Triple Screen 4K Gaming, Very fast card, much better value than new 3090 or 3090ti as of July '22
As others have reviewed this card did had slight coil whine when I first got it. PowerColor on the box recommends at least a 950W PSU and I only had an EVGA 850W Gold so I upgraded to a EVGA 1000W Platinum PSU and the coil whine went away and is even quieter than my wife's PowerColor 6800XT. This is a heavy card so I highly recommend using the included GPU bracket to prevent card sag long term and PCIE x16 socket stress. I play triple screen 4k games, (75% of 8k resolution) and stock card settings on COD Vanguard with ultra settings, triple 4k, FSR set to ultra quality, I get 85-90 fps with dips down to 75 so it keeps my 70hz 4k monitors well fed. Flight Simulator 2020 gets 22-25fps on high settings triple 4k so enough to fly but not ultra smooth, such a non optimized game. Far cry 5 triple is 45-55 fps on ultra so a bit lower. I should note these numbers are with Smart Access Memory enabled as well. Also for context my CPU is a Ryzen 9 - 5950x. I have found that AMD's eyefinity surround works much better and more consistent than nVidia surround. I did have an EVGA 3070 and had soo many issues with surround, like disabling monitors in windows after leaving surround mode. I like eyefinity's ability to go into surround only when playing games as this is my work-from-home PC so for premier pro, affinity publisher and the like I prefer the normal Windows scaling experience. This card pulls around 289W on stock settings and temps are decent (70c), enabling extra watts via +20% power makes this card pull 346 watts and gets very warm, (82c-85c). My case is a Thermaltake View 71 (Large Case) and my CPU is on a 360 radiator so there is decent airflow with my additional 5 case fans. I did buy a damaged box card (saved $150 buying from Amazon Warehouse) and the card has been great so far.
Geisel · 2022-07-12 · via amazon
★★★★★Amazing card!
This card is an absolute gaming monster! It handles everything I throw at it with ease, including MSFS and Plague Tale Requiem at 4k. Overclocking and undervolting is an absolute breeze with AMD’s Adrenaline software. I’ve not had any significant coil whine issues some seem to have, but that could be due to the power supply I’m using : Corsair RM1000x. Speaking of components, the rest of my system is as follows:
CPU: i5-13600k
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Peerless Assassin 120
MOBO: MSI MAG MORTAR DDR4 WiFi
RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3600 CL18
Fans: Arctic P12 and P14 PWM ARGB
For the 3DMark scores posted, I had the power slider set to +15, voltage left alone at 1200, GPU clock sliders set to 2700-2800, and memory on fast timings @2312mhz. I’m running mine in a Lian Li O11 Air Mini with 140mm fans in front of it, and 120mm under it constantly supplying fresh air so my temps are great. Highest junction temp I saw while benchmarking was 92, with the GPU temp between 70-72 at the most.
For regular old gaming, I don’t run that OC profile. My particular card doesn’t seem to undervolt very well, I was getting constant crashes in Time Spy under 1135mv regardless of clocks. So for gaming, I run an UV profile of 2500-2600 core clocks, fast memory timings @2312, power slider at 0, and voltage @1140, and a custom fan curve that starts gradually ramping up at 55*C. Even running Microsoft Flight Sim at 4k, I’ve never seen GPU temps go above 65* with temps typically hovering between 55 and 60.
The only negative is that the fans are pretty loud when they get going. I do have mine set pretty aggressively as I’d rather sacrifice a bit of noise for a cooler running system since I typically have a headset on anyways. But if you don’t game with a headset, you will hear the fans when they ramp up.
All that said this is a phenomenal card that only BARELY loses to the new 7900XT. AMD 6000 series cards also do not seem to have been plagued by the driver issues of 5000 series and now seemingly the 7000 series cards. If you’re looking for a high end card, the 6950XT is pretty hard to beat at 780 bucks unless you’re lucky enough to find a 6900XT sub 700.
Randy · 2022-12-20 · via amazon
★★★★★Beastly Gpu for on sale for prices sub 750$
I know that the GPU market has been a disaster for the past 5 years, but I finally got a flagship card that can actually deliver flagship performance. I wanted a 1080ti years ago but ended up settling for a 1070ti. Then the mining boom hit and cards were insanely overpriced for many generations. Well this bad boy delivers a solid 4k60 fps in demanding titles with max settings all the way to 4k 240+ fps in others. And in some like rocket league, over 500fps. It’s kind of mind boggling how fast cards have gotten, but there’s only so much further gpu’s can go, and until they have brain dances like in cyberpunk, I think I’ll be fine with this card. Also to note! The ray tracing performance is better than nvidia’s first generation of it, and! That 4k60 fps number was with raytracing on in cyberpunk with the card clocked to the moon at 2750min 2850 max 1100mv vcore and 2460 with fast timings on the memory. The fans are a little noisy, but considering she can pull just shy of 400 watts from the wall (393watts @ 1189mv highest I’ve seen yet) and bouncing off 100c. But I cut the voltage back, and now I see sub 85c junction temp (usually 65c on the edge so a 20 degree junction) @ 80% fan speed roughly 2350-2450 rpm. Which, with my case fans, I can hardly hear. But if she hits 90c I have the fans set to crank. And the fans are very loud, but not as piercing as my old 1070ti was that I kept the fans screaming on for maximum clockage. I like my tech staying cool and hopping from 10 series staying in the low 60’s to seeing that gpu hotspot hit 100c had me nervous. But all seems well a month later and the card still beats down everything I’ve thrown at it and the thermal paste has settled some as well. Will be looking into if powercolor will let me change my own paste
T · 2023-01-25 · via amazon
★★★★★Still not finished!!
I didn't know when I purchased this all I knew is. I wasn't paying 1300 for AGP U but Lord behold. This thing's a beast still runs on our dna tool.But it's a monster, i mean, they told me tell me that the 9070xt is like some less than 20% more efficient. In the terms of electricity, but this thing does not got hot when I play my games which is mainly mw3 zombies and dmz type, plus Wow;D
