AMD RX 7000 series GPU Owners' Club

[remekra]

My edge temperatures are fine. In fact, everything but the hotspot is not a concern and temperatures are good and this is in extended 4K gaming scenarios (Baldur's Gate and Starfield). I have just asked the vendor for an RMA but I'm really not sure. Maybe the card is just meant run that bit hotter (on hotspot) as a custom model.

It's definetly not meant to run like that. Had a Gaming OC that always stayed at 59C under load on Edge. At the beginning it was fine hotspot max at 85-90. Then it got worse and worse, approaching 110 under heavy load, at stock. RMAed it and got a Nitro+ instead. Delta never exceeds 20 degrees and hotspot max it reached was 90, when pulling 450W. And it behaves like expected so when hotspot rises, edge rises too but delta is fine, not 40-50 degrees.Yours is water-cooled, it should be cold.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Hey y'all can any of you test something for me? Run GPUPI 3.3.3 and see if you get a successful run on it

 

[Kabouter Plop]

Google gives dodgy links or only results of 3.3.2

My edge temperatures are fine. In fact, everything but the hotspot is not a concern and temperatures are good and this is in extended 4K gaming scenarios (Baldur's Gate and Starfield). I have just asked the vendor for an RMA but I'm really not sure. Maybe the card is just meant run that bit hotter (on hotspot) as a custom model.

Your hotspot is defiantly a problem, your edge can still be much better but is nothing to worry about.
If you have a liquid devil you should least be getting about same temps as me with PTM7950 on unleashed bios no undervolt or anything, powercolor does not use to little thermal paste if their cards have issue its likely pumpout issue, they need to use paste that does not have pumpout issue or switch to PTM7950 honeywell sells in big batches so for some one like powercolor getting PTM7950 should be easy.
Hopefully they switch to it on nextgen cards, i know there are paste out there that last a lot longer then the stuff powercolor uses, but 3 months is really bad which was time it took for me i think, then 1-2 weeks after repaste with MX-4 2 times 3e time i just bought PTM7950, there was a lot of information online that it would not work well cos watercooled card does not get hot enough for the PTM7950 to melt, it gave me better results instantly, normally it perform slightly worse then melts then gets better and better, and pulls ahead of liquid metal.

The advantage of PTM7950 is that it melts at 45c and gets solid below 45c.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Google gives dodgy links or only results of 3.3.2

Should eb able to get a copy of it through BenchMate

 

[Vya Domus]

Hey y'all can any of you test something for me? Run GPUPI 3.3.3 and see if you get a successful run on it

It fails on both my 7900XT and iGPU(RDNA2).

 

[JrRacinFan]

It fails on both my 7900XT and iGPU(RDNA2).

Ty so it isnt just me. Appreciate that.

 

[Kabouter Plop]

Should eb able to get a copy of it through BenchMate

You sure about that after i google it and try download it this pops up.

 

[3x0]

This is the site https://benchmate.org/
If your AV reports it as malicious send them a report for a false detection

 

[AusWolf]

Today I'm joining with a Sapphire Pulse 7800 XT.

It's an awesome GPU, runs relatively quietly, with the hotspot maxing out at 88 °C, edge at 72 °C, and scores 9900 in Superposition at 1080p ultra, and 17k in 3DMark Time Spy.

Two oddities, though:

• I'm used to seeing GPUs switching from PCI-e x16 4.0 down to x16 1.1 at idle, but this is the first GPU I've seen go all the way down to x1 1.1.
• Idle power consumption is a bit on the high side at 18-20 W. Youtube video playback at 48-56 W. Not good. I hope future drivers improve on this.

Edit: And the retailer has just told me that it takes them up to 5 working days to send the Starfield code. No new games over this weekend, it seems.

 

[Tropick]

I tried asking in my own thread but this seems the place to ask. I just purchased and installed a Liquid Devil. Looking at Reddit these cards some to have a significant delta between edge and hotspot temperatures. Mine does. Hotspot was hitting 100C in three hours of gaming. All other temperatures were really good which was weird to me. I have cut back the power and undervolted the card which has dropped temperatures but should I do anything further? Is it running normally (for this model)? Maybe a repaste with something like PTM7950? Or should I just RMA? I attach a screenshot of the system after 3 hours of Starfield (which came with the card).

Yeah that seems way, way high. My 6950XT is on a block and even when I'm blasting it at 2850MHz with a +20% power target @ 1.2V I never see the hotspot temp go above 60c and edge stays at 45-50ish. I know this isn't a very direct comparison but those temps definitely warrant either a repaste or RMA.

 

[mama]

Yeah that seems way, way high. My 6950XT is on a block and even when I'm blasting it at 2850MHz with a +20% power target @ 1.2V I never see the hotspot temp go above 60c and edge stays at 45-50ish. I know this isn't a very direct comparison but those temps definitely warrant either a repaste or RMA.

This is the response from the seller when I asked whether the card needs to be RMAd: It is typical of this particular model of GPU to have a hotspot hitting 100C, however we are happy to carry out further testing on our end for your peace of mind if you choose to send your GPU in for a warranty assessment.

 

[GamerGuy]

Today I'm joining with a Sapphire Pulse 7800 XT.

It's an awesome GPU, runs relatively quietly, with the hotspot maxing out at 88 °C, edge at 72 °C, and scores 9900 in Superposition at 1080p ultra, and 17k in 3DMark Time Spy.

Two oddities, though:

• I'm used to seeing GPUs switching from PCI-e x16 4.0 down to x16 1.1 at idle, but this is the first GPU I've seen go all the way down to x1 1.1.
• Idle power consumption is a bit on the high side at 18-20 W. Youtube video playback at 48-56 W. Not good. I hope future drivers improve on this.

Edit: And the retailer has just told me that it takes them up to 5 working days to send the Starfield code. No new games over this weekend, it seems.

Nice! I've seen MLD where it's been said that the RX 7800 XT is selling like hotcakes, in fact, they sold out pretty quickly, and the RX 7700 XT is 'selling well' too. According to him, AMD will be restocking the RX 7800 XT, but instead of the initial 50/50 split for the two cards, AMD would ship more RX 7800 XT, perhaps 60/40 in favor of it.

At least you'd be getting the game, I'm an AMD supporter and among the first few adopters of the RX 7900 XTX here, paid inflated price for it and yet no freebies....

 

[thesmokingman]

I just plumbed up a 7900XTX Aqua, pic below is in process. I cleaned the cpu block and ran a cleaning flush then filled it up with 9:1 distilled to auto coolant. Crosses fingers that the dual thin 480 rads can handle the heat load.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Nice case @thesmokingman .. ***peaks at own specs.

Been pondering adding a 480

 

[AusWolf]

Nice! I've seen MLD where it's been said that the RX 7800 XT is selling like hotcakes, in fact, they sold out pretty quickly, and the RX 7700 XT is 'selling well' too. According to him, AMD will be restocking the RX 7800 XT, but instead of the initial 50/50 split for the two cards, AMD would ship more RX 7800 XT, perhaps 60/40 in favor of it.

At least you'd be getting the game, I'm an AMD supporter and among the first few adopters of the RX 7900 XTX here, paid inflated price for it and yet no freebies....

To be honest, I wanted to order it from another shop that is 100% guaranteed to ship it with the game code, but by the time I read the TPU review, it was already sold out, along with all other 7800 XT models, except for the Asus Tuf which goes for £200 more for some odd reason (Asus tax?).

It seems to be the first really popular card within the RDNA 3 / Ada lineup. AMD must have done something right this time.

Now fingers crossed that they're not trying to screw me over with the game code.

 

[GamerGuy]

To be honest, I wanted to order it from another shop that is 100% guaranteed to ship it with the game code, but by the time I read the TPU review, it was already sold out, along with all other 7800 XT models, except for the Asus Tuf which goes for £200 more for some odd reason (Asus tax?).

It seems to be the first really popular card within the RDNA 3 / Ada lineup. AMD must have done something right this time.

Now fingers crossed that they're not trying to screw me over with the game code.

It's a good choice, Asus is overrated, never understood why peeps are drawn the big three manufacturers (Asus, MSI, Gigabyte). As I'd said before, Sapphire, XFX, PowerColor and perhaps ASRock, I'd get AMD cards from any of these, depending on whichever is available.

 

[AusWolf]

I've just figured something out.

Idle power consumption seems to be high only because the card reports total board power in GPU-Z, unlike my 6750 XT which reports GPU chip only power. I see in HWinfo that the chip only idle power consumption of the 7800 XT is around 8 W, which is only 2 W higher than that of the 6750 XT. As for total board power, the 6750 XT doesn't report it at all, so I can only guess it's at similar levels.

 

[Tropick]

This is the response from the seller when I asked whether the card needs to be RMAd: It is typical of this particular model of GPU to have a hotspot hitting 100C, however we are happy to carry out further testing on our end for your peace of mind if you choose to send your GPU in for a warranty assessment.

Lmfao yeesh what a response.. they're just trying to shirk responsibility for it. No watercooled GPU on this planet should have a hotspot hitting 100c. If I were you I'd take the card apart and carefully repaste with either some Kryonaut Extreme or Thermalright TFX. Be super mindful of the evenness of the mounting pressure when you're putting it back together and you should be just fine. You could also push the issue and RMA the card as they mentioned but you very well might just end up with another card that has uneven mounting pressure from the factory.

When I originally got my 6950XT OC Formula the factory cooler was super uneven and my hotspot was hitting around 98c. I set aside a solid 3 hours to take the card apart and very carefully mounted the new block to it and have excellent temps now. Granted I did a liquid metal repaste and had to take extra time to epoxy seal the substrate caps and all that jazz, but IMO an individual builder taking their time and doing a remount themselves will always be better than the factory mount job. Well worth the time and effort when you have a super high end card that you want to make last a long time.

 

[Kapone33]

Lmfao yeesh what a response.. they're just trying to shirk responsibility for it. No watercooled GPU on this planet should have a hotspot hitting 100c. If I were you I'd take the card apart and carefully repaste with either some Kryonaut Extreme or Thermalright TFX. Be super mindful of the evenness of the mounting pressure when you're putting it back together and you should be just fine. You could also push the issue and RMA the card as they mentioned but you very well might just end up with another card that has uneven mounting pressure from the factory.

When I originally got my 6950XT OC Formula the factory cooler was super uneven and my hotspot was hitting around 98c. I set aside a solid 3 hours to take the card apart and very carefully mounted the new block to it and have excellent temps now. Granted I did a liquid metal repaste and had to take extra time to epoxy seal the substrate caps and all that jazz, but IMO an individual builder taking their time and doing a remount themselves will always be better than the factory mount job. Well worth the time and effort when you have a super high end card that you want to make last a long time.

One of the things I actually like about Gigabyte GPUs is how many few screws they use. So that it is much easier to update the Thermal paste since they don't like to apply enough.

 

[GamerGuy]

One of the things I actually like about Gigabyte GPUs is how many few screws they use. So that it is much easier to update the Thermal paste since they don't like to apply enough.

Not a fan of GB, though experience dictates users' preference, I did have 2x GB RX VEGA64 Gaming OC...they died within a few months of each other, not long after warranty expired. That taught me a lesson, they usually cost more (same goes for MSI and Asus, especially Asus), though I'd look at them should they offer extended warranty.

 

[Kabouter Plop]

I hate any brand that does planned obsolescence and have bad warranty or has bad history in doing shady stuff, cant trust anyone these days.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Hey guys. Can you tell me the dimensions of the 7900XT chip. My Asrock RX7900XT Taichi after 3 months very high hotspot 96c. I would like to replace it with a Honeywell ptm7950. I found a 25x25mm, is that enough?

Yes, it is ~24.5x23.5

 

[Kabouter Plop]

I would get more then you need if you going to get PTM7950 the pad is very fragile and rips easily, do not wanna end up ripping the pad and not being able to do 2e attempt.

 

[jayjr1105]

I would get more then you need if you going to get PTM7950 the pad is very fragile and rips easily, do not wanna end up ripping the pad and not being able to do 2e attempt.

It does indeed rip easily and some comes up with the protective top layer. The good thing is you can puzzle it back together and once it meets it's liquid state of 45c or higher, it will all run together. There is a youtube video demonstrating this. But I do agree with buying more than what you need. If the person doesn't mind waiting. Buy PCM-1 from aliexpress. It's pretty much identical in performance to PTM7950. Shipping will be 10-14 days however.

 

[QuietBob]

In anticipation for the sequel, I ran the built-in benchmark of Horizon: Zero Dawn to assess power savings. 4K maxed out (no AA) first uncapped, then at 60 fps:

Average GPU consumption and the related heat down by 48%, CPU consumption down by 18%. Plus the usual benefits of lower temps and less noise.
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