Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards, at least some of them, can be successfully «overclocked» almost to the level of Radeon RX 9070 XT. A PCGH-X community user with the nickname Gurdi shared his successful experience with this procedure. He turned his Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC into an almost Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 XT OC by flashing the BIOS to the appropriate version.
As a result, the Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC graphics card received significantly higher base and boost frequencies, as well as a significantly higher power limit. After these manipulations, the video card now operates at up to 3.1 GHz instead of the previous 2.6 GHz, and its TGP (Total Graphics Power) has increased from 220 W to 317 W.
Using the BIOS version available for download on TechPowerUp’s website, Gurdi was able to give its RX 9070 the same parameters as the RX 9070 XT. However, as expected, physically locked computing modules cannot be restored using software – a thing of the past almost 20 years ago. So, the updated graphics card differs from the full-fledged Radeon RX 9070 XT in the number of Navi 48 XT GPU components (GFX1201) – it has 8 fewer Compute Units and 512 fewer Streaming Multiprocessors.
Gurdi has already conducted the first synthetic benchmarks of its «XT version of», and the results are truly impressive. With the initial overclocking settings, the modified card has already outperformed the RX 9070 XT in its standard configuration.
Gurdi shared the results of the tests in 3DMark Speed Way, Steel Nomad, and Port Royal.
Interestingly, the Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC has only two 8-pin power connectors, as opposed to three on the older RX 9070 XT OC — but this doesn’t pose any problems. Other details are still under review.
«But it works! And the standard XT can be easily bypassed — a little optimization, and it’s in your pocket», — Gurdi says.
The enthusiast has already demonstrated his first setup, which works stably in games and surpasses RX 9070 XT with the factory settings.
Now we just need to resolve some minor issues with instability in the desktop standby mode, which is probably caused by high kernel frequencies.
Source: pcgameshardware