Thursday, January 19th 2023
AMD RX 7900 XTX OC Does Cross 3 GHz Barrier, But in Non-Gaming Workloads
AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XTX RDNA3 graphics card does cross the 3 GHz engine clocks barrier, but not in gaming use-cases, finds a ComputerBase.de article, in which the German publication compares the overclocking experience between the RX 7000-series RDNA3 and NVIDIA RTX 40-series "Ada" architectures. The RX 7900 XTX was found to hit engine clock speeds as high as 3455 MHz, but when handling the Blender rendering benchmark, and not typical gaming workloads.
The GPU could even be pushed to 3548 MHz with a power-draw of around 400 W, but it wasn't stable, the article notes. The top frequencies the GPUs could hit with gaming workloads were around 2.90 GHz. We could be happening with games is that more of the GPU's hardware resources are tapping into its power-limit (such as the memory controllers, caches, and other special SIMD functions, which could be impacting the engine clock boosting headroom. ComputerBase.de used a Sapphire RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ custom-design graphics card in its testing, which comes with three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and a higher overclocking headroom than what the reference-design cards are capable of.
Source:
ComputerBase.de
The GPU could even be pushed to 3548 MHz with a power-draw of around 400 W, but it wasn't stable, the article notes. The top frequencies the GPUs could hit with gaming workloads were around 2.90 GHz. We could be happening with games is that more of the GPU's hardware resources are tapping into its power-limit (such as the memory controllers, caches, and other special SIMD functions, which could be impacting the engine clock boosting headroom. ComputerBase.de used a Sapphire RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ custom-design graphics card in its testing, which comes with three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and a higher overclocking headroom than what the reference-design cards are capable of.
68 Comments on AMD RX 7900 XTX OC Does Cross 3 GHz Barrier, But in Non-Gaming Workloads
Search this thread for “16 pin whatever” and see for yourself who won’t stop talking about it.
No major issues with driver's here on a 7900XT.
As for the AMD TROLLS, there at it again shitposting in every AMD thread, never on topic never.
And what with the ninja moderator weya, I won't be reporting anything anymore, it's PM's and straight talk here from now on.
I'll try and not aim it at people, that might help but it is what it is.
In any case, this is off topic, and you should start your own thread if you want to discuss 8 pin vs 16 pin.
7900 XTX. been watching pricing here in Norway and sadly, still too high for my taste. Also, still have the 6900xt which is working great.
My point is, whenever someone went from nvidia to amd, they get surprised by the amount of crashes and black screens. Which never is the case when they go from nvidia to amd
It isn't.
Im not saying nvvidia doesn't have driver issues, I had black screen on my 3090 myself, but the thing is, they lasted 3 days until a new driver came out and fixed it.