Link cable Screen tearing/pixelated horizontal lines

I wanted to share my experience in case someone else runs into the same issue. Ever since I upgraded to my new 9070 XT, I’ve been having serious problems using my Oculus Quest 3S with the Link Cable.

The headset connects normally and everything runs smoothly for the first 10 minutes or so, but then heavy visual artifacts start appearing inside the headset: horizontal pixel lines with wrong colors or stuck frames start appearing and it quickly becomes completely unplayable.

If I unplug and replug the Link Cable, it starts working again, but only for another 10 minutes before the issue comes back.

I spent over a week in contact with Meta Support, both through WhatsApp and email, working with their specialists to try every possible fix. We went through basically everything: uninstalling and reinstalling GPU drivers, using DDU, cleaning the system, changing cables, switching USB ports (all 3.0 or better) and even doing a full Windows reinstall. Unfortunately, nothing worked. In the end, since they couldn’t solve the problem, they added some credit to my Oculus account as a small compensation, which I appreciated, but it obviously doesn’t fix the issue.

The problem disappears completely if I swap my GPU back to my old Nvidia RTX 2060, the Quest 3S works perfectly fine with that one. So this seems to be an AMD-side issue.

My specs:
CPU: Ryzen 9 5900X
RAM: 32GB DDR4
GPU: Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT
MB: Asus Rog Strix B550-F Gaming (wifi)

I’ve already contacted AMD support as well, but they haven’t been able to give me a clear answer so far.
I'm not the only one experiencing this issue, i also found this thread  with the exact same symptoms and these reddit posts with similar issues (1, 2, 3)

At this point, I just wanted to share this so other people are aware this might happen. If anyone else with a Radeon 9000-series card has seen something similar, I’d really like to hear about your experience.