RX 9070 XT stuttering while loading assets

CharlieChicken · May 21

Hello fellow LTT enjoyers.

I'm fairly competent in IT, but my problem is so infuriating that it requires knowledge of those more competent than me.

Recently I've upgraded my RTX 3070 Ti to RX 9070 XT. I've uninstalled drivers, restarted to safe mode and ran DDU, installed most recent WHQL AMD drivers (Adrenalin 25.5.1) and to my surprise, instead of smooth gameplay, it stutters to hell and back. I'm knowledgeable enough to notice that the stutters come from loading assets. E.g. in Elden Ring, when I circle the camera around my standing character it stutters like hell, but after one 360° it's smooth as butter. And it stays that way until I move my character and it needs to load something new. I've done the same thing in other titles and it always behaves the same way, even in other engines (Prey 2017, Cyberpunk, Helldivers 2, Heaven Benchmark 2009).

What I did was:

Unplugged internet cable (so windows update doesn't f around), uninstalled driver, ran DDU in safe mode, installed the same driver (Adrenalin 25.5.1), nothing changed.
Did the same thing but with previous WHQL (Adrenalin 25.3.1), nothing changed.
AMD drivers come with chipset drivers (7.04.09.545), I've installed those as well, nothing changed.
I've installed chipset driver from my mobo official support page (5.11.02.217), nothing changed.

Until the idea came to me. I've changed my PCI-E version from 4.0 to 3.0 and lo and behold, it mostly fixed the issue. I was stuttering far less than before, but on frametime graph there were still spikes (although it was finally playable). But the plot thickens.

While downloading chipset drivers I've noticed newer BIOS (upgrade F18d to F18g). I updated my BIOS and changed PCI-E back to 4.0. And to my surprise, it was smooth as butter. Ran all of the games again for a couple of hours, everything was smooth. Thinking newer BIOS solved the problem, I've installed newest GPU driver once again, but after restart, stuttering came back. Rolled back GPU driver to 25.3.1, but the stuttering continues. I could leave it at PCI-E 3.0, but the stuttering is still present, and so far, changing my GPU feels more like a downgrade. Maybe someone has an idea how to fix the damn thing? Because I know it can be done.

I've attached video capture. It's looks even worse that in the recording, sorry for the lack of graphs.

Specs:

Ryzen 5 5600X
Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2
Kingston Fury Renegade, DDR4, 32 GB, 3600MHz, CL16
Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC
Endorfy Supremo FM5 Gold 750W

2025-05-21 07-14-29.mkv

xAcid9 · May 21

Rebar ON?

Probably just stuttering from rebuilding shader cache.

191x7 · May 21

53 minutes ago, CharlieChicken said:

Hello fellow LTT enjoyers.

I'm fairly competent in IT, but my problem is so infuriating that it requires knowledge of those more competent than me.

Recently I've upgraded my RTX 3070 Ti to RX 9070 XT. I've uninstalled drivers, restarted to safe mode and ran DDU, installed most recent WHQL AMD drivers (Adrenalin 25.5.1) and to my surprise, instead of smooth gameplay, it stutters to hell and back. I'm knowledgeable enough to notice that the stutters come from loading assets. E.g. in Elden Ring, when I circle the camera around my standing character it stutters like hell, but after one 360° it's smooth as butter. And it stays that way until I move my character and it needs to load something new. I've done the same thing in other titles and it always behaves the same way, even in other engines (Prey 2017, Cyberpunk, Helldivers 2, Heaven Benchmark 2009).

What I did was:

Unplugged internet cable (so windows update doesn't f around), uninstalled driver, ran DDU in safe mode, installed the same driver (Adrenalin 25.5.1), nothing changed.

Did the same thing but with previous WHQL (Adrenalin 25.3.1), nothing changed.

AMD drivers come with chipset drivers (7.04.09.545), I've installed those as well, nothing changed.

I've installed chipset driver from my mobo official support page (5.11.02.217), nothing changed.

Until the idea came to me. I've changed my PCI-E version from 4.0 to 3.0 and lo and behold, it mostly fixed the issue. I was stuttering far less than before, but on frametime graph there were still spikes (although it was finally playable). But the plot thickens.

While downloading chipset drivers I've noticed newer BIOS (upgrade F18d to F18g). I updated my BIOS and changed PCI-E back to 4.0. And to my surprise, it was smooth as butter. Ran all of the games again for a couple of hours, everything was smooth. Thinking newer BIOS solved the problem, I've installed newest GPU driver once again, but after restart, stuttering came back. Rolled back GPU driver to 25.3.1, but the stuttering continues. I could leave it at PCI-E 3.0, but the stuttering is still present, and so far, changing my GPU feels more like a downgrade. Maybe someone has an idea how to fix the damn thing? Because I know it can be done.

I've attached video capture. It's looks even worse that in the recording, sorry for the lack of graphs.

Specs:

Ryzen 5 5600X

Gigabyte B550 AORUS Elite V2

Kingston Fury Renegade, DDR4, 32 GB, 3600MHz, CL16

Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC

Endorfy Supremo FM5 Gold 750W

2025-05-21 07-14-29.mkv 18.45 MB · 2 downloads

1080p? Extreme CPU bottleneck causing GPU usage drops that cause clock speed drops and a stutter performance.

1440p? A slight CPU bottleneck noticeable in multiplayer shooters, especially when "under fire" or around many enemies.

4K? No real bottleneck.

CharlieChicken · May 21

1 hour ago, xAcid9 said:

Rebar ON?

Probably just stuttering from rebuilding shader cache.

I haven't felt this stupid in a long time. You are right. Every time the game was stuttering I've changed something about my GPU that made shaders to compile again. The wisdom of others is priceless. If I just kept on playing, it would have gone away. Thanks man, kudos.