How to fix frequency spikes on Vastarmor RX 9070 XT in Requiem?

Whenever the screen fills with thousands of rats, there's this irritating micro-stutter that makes stealth gameplay feel clunky and imprecise. The default clock behavior on the Vastarmor RX 9070 XT Super Alloy was a mess, with core voltage jumping between 1.05V - 1.25V when hitting complex shaders, causing micro-second instruction delays. I tried enabling Low Latency mode in the drivers, but it did nothing for the stutters and actually caused some textures to flicker, which made me realize the underlying voltage was the real culprit. I used an overclocking tool to manually lock the core frequency at 2600MHz and smoothed out the voltage curve at critical nodes. In real-time monitoring, the frame delivery interval shrank from a chaotic 16 - 32ms down to a crisp 11 - 14ms. I did run into a wall where the system crashed twice during the initial boot after locking the clocks, but dropping the memory frequency by 100MHz stabilized everything. GPU temps stayed steady at 68 - 74℃ with power draw between 280 - 310W. After a three-hour stress test, the stutters are gone and VRAM temps are holding at 58 - 63℃.
Category:Troubleshooting Last updated:February 25, 2026 11:40 AM