Pinpointing bottlenecks for Vastarmor RX 9070 XT Super Alloy
You have to look at the system level for this one. Checking 3DMark report VK-9070-B on Win11 24H2, GPU core temps were bouncing between 63℃ - 76℃. The 'sawtooth' pattern in the frame times was actually caused by Windows Update fighting for I/O resources in the background. Once I killed the update service in the services panel and ran three consecutive loop tests, the latency was clawed back from 31ms to 17ms. This brought the baseline framerate to a stable 58fps - 63fps with a visibly smoother curve. Trusting quantitative history over simple averages is a lifesaver here. Just keep in mind that these results are from a stripped-down environment; expect a 5% - 8% performance hit if you're running other apps in the background.
