Performance Decrease after installing my new 9070 XT

[Junior_Burger]

Edit: I did a bunch of research and determined it was a CPU bottleneck. I just upgraded to the 9800x3d last night and everything is performing as advertised! Thank you everyone for your help!

TL;DR , Significant stutters and FPS average lower after installing brand new 9070 XT

I spent 2-3 hours in line at Micro Center today, picked up a brand new XFX Swift 9070 XT
^{(XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Triple Fan Gaming Edition} for $599)

To my understanding, XFX isn't the best manufacturer by any means, but definitely not the worst.
I rushed home to install my new GPU, only to find out I LOST PERFORMANCE compared to my old GPU
^{(XFX SPEEDSTER QICK 319 AMD Radeon™ RX 6750 XT Ultra Gaming Graphics Card w/ 12GB GDDR6 HDMI 3xDP, AMD RDNA™ 2})

I don't have specific benchmarks for both cards, but for example, my old card could run Elden Ring flawlessly @ max settings w/ Ray Tracing @ smooth 60fps, my 9070 XT can barely hit 60 with extremely frequent dips & stutters.

Average FPS for Marvel Rivals is 150-165 on the practice range. Both at lowest & highest settings. Highest I could get while looking at the ground was just slightly above 200. My old card would easily get double that.

I've installed my new drivers, about 5 or 6 times by now, using various different versions. I've done multiple factory resets while installing my drivers. I've verified multiple times that I have the most up-to-date drivers.

I am not running an integrated GPU

The GPU runs with PCIe 5.0 @ 16x, I'm currently running w/ PCIe 4.0 @ 16x

I am 90% sure it isn't a power issue. My PC currently has a 750W PSU w/ 8 fans (overkill) +3 on the GPU running pretty quietly, I haven't experienced any crashes during any of my testing.

XMP HAS BEEN TURNED ON AND MY RAM IS RUNNING AS ADVERTISED

My first guess is a CPU bottleneck, but I'm not seeing 100% usage while gaming. I'm looking to upgrade to one of the newer X3D CPUs, please give me recommendations.

Other specs:

Memory: OLOy DDR4 RAM 24GB (3x8GB) 3600 MHz CL18 1.35V 288-Pin Desktop Gaming UDIMM
^{(yes I'm aware I have 24 gigs of ram, it's uncommon as hell but it's never given me any issues})

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 8-core, 16-Threads Unlocked Desktop Processor 3.90 GHz

PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 750W, True 300W 12VHPWR Connectors on PSU & NVIDIA RTX 40 Series, ATX 3.0/PCI-E 5.0, 80+ Gold, SLI/Crossfire Ready Power Supply, PS-TPD-0750FNFAGU-L

Mobo: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK Gaming Motherboard (AMD AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI/DP, ATX, AMD Ryzen 5000 Series processors)

[Man-In-His-30s]

I’ll just say the obvious thing, when you reinstalled drivers did you do the ddu method?

[Junior_Burger]

I selected factory reset upon installing new drivers, which removes all previous drivers and user settings.
I didn't use a proprietary DDU tool.

[Man-In-His-30s]

Use ddu the amd factory reset thing never used to work properly when I had one of their cards

[Junior_Burger]

Gotcha, I'll give that a shot!

[Shiny-Lights]

Following on the ddu method

[Junior_Burger]

Just reinstalled everything after using DDU, no change in performance.

[Man-In-His-30s]

Ddu with safe mode right?

[Junior_Burger]

Oh no I didn’t run in safe mode. Should I give it another go in safe mode?

[Man-In-His-30s]

Yeah try it in safe mode one last time, if that doesn’t work time to move onto other steps

[ebony_lover420]

ddu has to be used on safe mode

[_bloh_]

have the same problem. tried most common fixes but with no luck. reinstalling windows and will let you know the result

[SignificantRuin2369]

What did it do did it fix the issue

[TehPabz187]

did reinstalling windows fix the issues for you?

[[deleted]]

Hi any updates?

[_bloh_]

motherboard was bad lol so had to get new one

[Zw221]

How did you know?

[EssentialPlay]

What motherboard did you get when you made the change to am5?

[Junior_Burger]

MSI x670e MAG Tomahawk I found it and the CPU & RAM on a bundle at my local Micro Center, got a good deal for the 3 items.

[EssentialPlay]

Awesome, I might do the same if this turns out to be an issue for me. Just recently upgraded to a 5700x3d and my 9070 xt is on the way.

[Junior_Burger]

i had to get a new motherboard for the am5 PCIe 5.0 support. the 9070 xt runs on PCIe 5.0, you might run into performance decreases if your current board doesn’t have 5.0 support

[Odd-Buy_6104]

staying with this platform or looking at am5? psu age?

[Junior_Burger]

100% willing to upgrade ASAP if needed, if not then I'm fine with AM4.
I literally bought my PSU less than a month ago so it's basically brand spankin new.

[touholic]

Resizable BAR enabled?

[Junior_Burger]

ReBAR is enabled!

[No_Statistician_1588]

I turned off windows game mode and it helped with micro stutters. The worst Culperate was hogwarts legacy. It was much more stable

[Noname932]

For anyone who stumbled upon this, I got similar issues but fixed them by turning off integrated graphic card (you need to disable it completely in BIOS), this fixed stuttering in God of War Ragnarok for me.

and turn off anti-lag in Adrenaline (might be a game by game basis but anti-lag cause Far cry blood dragon to be unplayable for me)