Defective RX 9070 XT card with pitted silicon surface runs extremely hot — report indicates it's unclear if this was an isolated incident

Yes, our title is deliberately exaggerated, the potentiality of such a card would not necessarily be the heaviest news of the day, we explain ourselves, the multiplication of cards 9070, from our point of view, could sow the trouble in the minds of buyers, a 9070 XT would be greater than a 9070 and 9070 GRE, but a 9070 GRE would be less than a 9070, the understanding of ranges is not clear, let's admit it... Let's go back to the information repo…

Defective RX 9070 XT card with pitted silicon surface runs extremely hot — report indicates it's unclear if this was an isolated incident

A PowerColor RX 9070 XT Hellhound was found to have defective silicon out of the factory, resulting in unsustainable hotspot temperatures that caused the GPU to overheat and throttle.

News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. The Radeon RX 9070 XT has been one of AMD’s best-selling GPUs in this generation, offering great performance for its price. However, not everything is perfect, and some units present serious overheating problems. A defective PowerColor Hellhound RX 9070 XT GPU was analyzed and revealed to reach 113 °C in its hotspot (hotter point) due to almost 2,000 microholes i…

Last February, Dr. Igor Wallossek demonstrated that slight modifications could significantly reduce the GPU hotspot of a GeForce RTX 5080. Today, he looked at another patient: a PowerColor Radeon RX 9070XT Hellhound...

In response to a reader inquiry, I was given a new PowerColor Radeon RX 9070XT Hellhound for analysis. It exhibited exceptionally high GPU and hotspot temperatures under load, suggesting uneven or locally disrupted thermal coupling of the GPU die. Despite properly reapplying a high-quality PTM pad and applying additional Thermal Putty instead of rigid pads on the memory […] Source