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[NestedBones]

Hello,

I went from an RTX 3070 Ti to an RX 9070 XT and I'm experiencing strange FPS drops in various games.

Even some 2D games like "Idle Champions" are affected, with the FPS dropping in mostly irregular intervals. Looking at the GPU usage in task manager, there is an unusual amount of GPU copy operations. Every time they spike, the affected game shows severe FPS drops. It looks like this:

If I run the same game with DXVK, however, the issue completely disappears, the game runs perfectly and the graph looks like this instead:

This behavior did not occur on my previous GPU.

I have attempted using DDU to clean up the remaining Nvidia driver files and such before installing the latest AMD drivers, but it didn't resolve the issue. I will try this again in safe mode later today.

Has anyone run into the same issue? Or could this be a bug in the AMD drivers? I'd welcome some advice.

Edit 1: Running DDU in safe mode for both Nvidia and AMD drivers, followed by installing the latest AMD drivers (w/ factory reset) in normal mode (Windows Update drivers disabled) did not help.

[Farzad62sf]

I move from tuf gaming rtx 3080 10oc to tuf gaming rx 9070 oc 16 gig but I have fps drop issue and freezing during the game for example in FC25.

And in red dead 2 in benchmark test during the benchmark 3 time faced to fps drop to 9 fps!!!

[mengelag]

Can you please post your full PC specs, driver version and any overclocking/ undervolting or changes you've made? Furthermore, can you please include any other troubleshooting you've done? This will help people diagnose and hopefully help you fix your issue. Cheers

[NestedBones]

Sure!

Specs:

• MB: MSI X570-A Pro (UEFI ver. 7C37vHO)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (Default clock/voltage settings)
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT - Sapphire PULSE (Default clock/voltage settings)
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (3600MHz)
• PSU: Corsair RM750
• Storage: 2 NVMe drives, 4 SSD drives

The AMD Adrenaline version is 25.3.1

Troubleshooting steps so far:

• Used DDU in safe mode to clean old drivers before installing the latest AMD drivers again
• Used "factory reset" in AMD driver setup
• Used AMD cleanup tool before installing the latest AMD drivers again
• Uninstalled and reinstalled affected games
• Lowered settings of affected games
• Closed as many unnecessary background processes as possible before testing affected games

[cvearl]

I have had no such drops in fps at least in the games I am playing. 

KCD2, Cyberpunk, Spiderman Miles Morales so far high fps and glass smooth.

I did encounter funny business and black screens when playing games for the first few days but I had a 650 WATT PSU and as soon as I upgraded to a decent 850W PSU the issues all went away.

Not sure you have enough PSU? 

My system 7800X3D 32GB RAM, 3 SSD's and 9070XT

Charles.

[NestedBones]

Power draw of my system is well below the advertised 750W of my PSU. It's actually lower than with my RTX 3070 Ti.

[N4Tchos]

Hello NestedBones,

I had similar issues with my whole new build (Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT and Ryzen 7 9800X3D). All drivers are up to date (deleted them 3 times, and installed them again), I did factory reset the GPU and other steps just like you and I still encounter the same problems.

From my experience on LoL and Valorant in the last few days, Valorant has no problem to run smoothly the game. On the other hand, League keeps stuttering even with the lowest graphic settings at 1080p. It seems that those frame drops happen on only some games.

I wonder if those issues come from AMD drivers (since the GPU came out only two weeks ago) or if the problem is limited to a small amount of cards (or maybe to Sapphire GPUs?). I'll keep you updated on my progress, if there is any.

Edit : I tried some tips found online from people struggling with other AMD GPUs but nothing worked (using MSI Afterburner for example to limit GPU possible overload). I also did a whole reset of AMD drivers with AMD Cleanup Utility (twice), which did not work. I was wondering if the issue could come from Windows 11, so I did a whole clean install. Reinstalled drivers, and went back on League to check. Well, my game still stutters. I have no idea where the problem lies. I had similar issues on other games like Fortnite as well.