We are aware of issues impacting players using the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, including low GPU power draw and substantial drops in performance.
In early April, we raised this issue with AMD, who are now conducting an internal investigation. We’re also exploring the issue on our side.
In the meantime, we would really appreciate it if those who are using the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and experiencing issues in Darktide could answer the questions below:
Do you have SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading) enabled?
IF YES: Is there an improvement with it disabled?
Which driver version are you using?
Do these issues occur only in Darktide?
Have you confirmed that all redundant GPU drivers have been uninstalled? This is especially important if the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is an upgrade and another GPU was previously installed in the same PC
Thank you for your support as we investigate this issue with AMD.
Hi Julia. Thanks for letting us know that the team is looking into this problem and taking it quite seriously, especially taking it up with AMD directly. There are plenty of new 9070/9070XT owners that would love to see this get resolved.
To answer your questions:
Yes, SMT has been disabled in Bios, as well as manually configured using Process Lasso with some minor performance improvements (alongside fewer worker threads)
Adrenaline driver version has ranged from release 25.3.1 to the current new optional 25.4.1. Same issues regardless of driver.
Darktide is the only game I play that has these stutters and low power draw
Completely removed previous drivers using DDU (restart in safemode etc)
If any other information is required I am happy to provide.
thanks for looking into this issue as the power draw issues have been really annoying.
. yes smt is enabled and disabling it does nothing
. im using driver version 25.4.1
. yes these issues only occur in darktide
. yes i used DDU to uninstall all previous drivers