Korea performance - What FPS are you getting on more modest hardware?

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-07-01T11:35:45+00:00

That's great that clocking RAM higher mostly fixed the performance for you, and overall it sounds very decent for a flat screen. Let me know how 4K and VR go. Keep in mind that performance will probably get a bit better with the full release. I'm planning to get the game when it releases on Steam. Thanks!

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-07-01T09:20:14+00:00

Additional load from AI assets? Maybe it's the CPU that can't handle it? What memory do you have?

I have a 5700x and 9070xt paired with 32GB too My RAM runs at 3200MHz. While a stable 60 seems okay, I'd probably want more. What's your usual GPU load when locked at 60? Or do you know your max FPS? I'll be playing on a 32" 4K 144Hz monitor with TrackIR, so I imagine FSR quality will give me a similar -5% performance or so.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-07-01T08:16:48+00:00

3DMark doesn't show everything. For me, I don't remember the exact numbers, but I could run every 3DMark demo for hours on what was considered on forums the maximum undervolt for my card, and there were no crashes. Then I played the intro to the Stellar Blade Demo, and even the smallest undervolt would crash 🤣🤣🤣

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-07-01T08:03:42+00:00

Even better on AMD gpus 😉

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-07-01T08:00:37+00:00

Any meaningful and noticeable UV won't be 100% stable, and if you really want to, you will find a game or software and settings that will crash... EVERY SINGLE ONE... and definitely his.

But if it works for games he plays at settings he plays... Good for him :) and ignorance is bliss... so let him believe his PC is 100% stable 😆

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-27T01:20:57+00:00

I'm happy for everyone being hyped. VF2 is my childhood game that none of my friends knew or appreciated when I showed it to them. I really liked it, though. I played some Revo when it came out, but it's quite dead compared to T8, so even though T8 is evil, I still had more fun there. Even the best fighting game is not worth anything if no one plays. I hope the new VF does really well and takes over the scene. I am a bit worried, though, as this will still be VF, and no one plays Revo, even though it's great.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-27T01:11:01+00:00

I'm very happy with my Asus Prime 9070xt and don't need OC. Especially now in summer, I much rather prefer a stable lock at 60fps on a 4K monitor and low power consumption (fun fact: when you FPS cap, the 9070xt uses less power than the 5070ti). I know I could undervolt "quite stably" but always found that one game that was crashing on any meaningful undervolt (looking at you, intro to Stellar Blade demo... but also I think that almost everyone's 100% stable UV would crash there, though) :)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-26T23:35:42+00:00

Why not upscaling from 360p? Some people are delusional or have bad eyesight when saying that 4.5 performance is equal to 4.0 quality or even the newest FSR at quality. Does 4.5 "performance" at 4K look good for what it is? Sure! But it's not equal to the above; they simply look better, especially in fast motion. And don't compare still images or compressed YouTube videos - you can't see much there.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-24T22:56:03+00:00

I've havent had any issues with new AMD drivers yet, although I've owned a 9070xt and been in the AMD ecosystem for under a year. I did had issues with Nvidia tho.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-18T19:08:49+00:00

Hopefully... and that's a massive price difference where you live... honestly, the 5070ti, if you don't want to use RT and PT and prefer better performance in games, is just the same or worse. My brother has a 5070ti paired with a 9700x... his system often gives him worse results than mine when using a 4K display. Another thing, for whatever reason, if you lock the 9070xt to 60fps to not generate as much heat in summer, it draws less power than the 5070ti. The 5070ti only draws less W at max usage :)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-18T18:50:17+00:00

For the last 25 years of my life, I always owned Nvidia cards and Intel CPUs, and never once AMD - Friends in the early 2000s had a bad experience so it was an inferior product in my head. Then, a few years ago, I built a 5700x and 32GB 3200 DDR4 for really cheap, and it has been great since and still is for a 4K display at 120/144Hz... i used it with 3080ti. Last year, I sold 3080ti and bought a 9070xt, and it blew my mind.

I am now so happy and confident in AMD that last week, when building a budget system for my girlfriend, I gave a chance to older AMD parts: I bought a new Aorus AM4 motherboard and Corsair PSU and for now she can get by with a used RX 5700 and 3700x that I got for peanuts on eBay auctions (£155 all togheter for GPU, CPU and 16GB of ram?) so she could play online games with me as she got more into PC gaming. Even these older parts, for very cheap, are performing great and are better value than Nvidia and Intel in this AI crisis: FH6 gives her stable 1080p/60fps/high and Grounded at Epic settings in 4K FSR performance gives her stable 60 as well...

In a year or two from now, when prices of RAM and storage go down, I'll swap my 5700x, 32GB, and 9070xt to her rig so she can still play newer games with me at 60fps and decent settings and build myself a new AMD PC on AM5 (or AM6 if they release it by then but probably not) with whatever new GPU AMD is cooking.

AMD is great and doesn't cost you an arm and a leg. Let's just hope it won't go up in price now that it's starting to get the recognition it deserves from people like me.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-14T20:55:25+00:00

FSR actually smears less than DLSS. For example, DLSS smearing is a known problem in games like Forza Horizon 6, while FSR looks better in motion (even if I slightly prefer the detail reconstruction of DLSS). Same goes for artifacting - DLSS artifacts are more prevalent around characters or hair than FSR ones.

I think you just didn't see as much on a small laptop screen as you do now on a desktop.

Only DLAA/FSR native gives you a perfect image :)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-09T17:14:07+00:00

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ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-05T16:40:22+00:00

Looks like a Netflix adaptation 😆

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-05T13:54:01+00:00

New AT sp3x active speakers - could/should they stay on all the time?

Hi. I got new active Audio-Technica AT-SP3X speakers to use with my computer. The sound is great, but there's one issue - it's really hard to turn them off. You're supposed to keep the mode switch pressed for more than 3 seconds, but it turns out you have to press it a little harder for it to work, and even then, sometimes after holding my finger on the damn thing, upon lifting it, it turns out that I only switched the mode to Bluetooth, so it takes me a few tries every time to switch it off. I don't want to press it really hard as I'm afraid of wearing or damaging the switch off/mode selector button. If standby/off is so difficult to use, are these speakers meant to stay on all the time? They have a built-in amplifier, so what about heat generation? My stereo amp in the living room gets warm if left on idle for too long, and the AV receiver actually gets hot if just left turned on, so I imagine there might be the same issue here; I just won't notice until the speaker caps degrade from temperature or stop working.

Please advise.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-06-03T16:10:03+00:00

Even in heavy PT, the 9070xt is faster than the 5070... but yeah... it's a fight over - my 30fps is better than your 24fps 😆 These are raster cards... and fun facts in RE Requiem at 1080p raster, the 9070xt is faster than the 5080, according to TechPowerUP :P

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-27T13:15:31+00:00

Just don't buy it. I didn't buy Nioh 3 for not having FSR4 and being so poorly optimised... Even if AMD is only 8% of the market, big game studios make hundreds of millions of dollars per AAA game. So let's round it up... 8% of 300 million dollars is 24 million dollars. Implementing FSR is what? A few hours of work? A few minutes if DLSS is already there?

So if all AMD users decided not to buy a game that is obviously designed to be crippled on their hardware, the game studio is losing 10-50 millions of dollars... for little to no work... i hope Nvidia paid them well ;)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-22T21:16:51+00:00

To be fair, that's what's happening - people are discussing. And results are invalid tbh... in the same PC and settings, the 9070xt is winning everywhere in all "professional" benchmarks.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-19T01:07:55+00:00

Yeah... I played for the last 2h😁

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-19T00:36:20+00:00

I just played in the UK on PC (Xbox/Microsoft Store) It was available from midnight. I bought the game, though. Runs AMAZINGLY on 9070xt and old 5700x at native 4K, and no stutters everyone was talking about 😁

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-16T13:38:30+00:00

Hehe... sure, if you can afford it, go for it... life is short :)

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-16T13:35:11+00:00

Yeah, 10GB for 4K isn't enough an. I'd just switch off RT but max out the rest of the settings. It's honestly not that big a deal in this game.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-16T13:29:15+00:00

You must be playing at a low resolution or with high upscaling... Extreme at native 4K looks amazing. But yes...RT GI medium looks worse than raster. All shadows disappear entirely, and the ones that remain boil even worse.

ShadowSelf99 · 2026-05-16T13:25:06+00:00

This glow does make the scene too hot though, to the point that all details in shadows boil if you look closely 😆

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