ASRock RX 590 severely underperforming - Help

[dongeg97]

Hello. Im new to writing in this forum, i have a problem that came since the first day i had this gpu. The gpu is an "ASRock rx 590 phantom gaming".
i bought the gpu from a kid so i dont think the card was used for mining at all.
When i benchmark the card is actually very slower than a rx 580.
On furmark it gives 75 fps with 0xMsaa in 1920x1080, on Fire strike is like 11.000 points. One thing i noticed is that the card won't overclock at all, it even go slower when overclocked. The only improvement she has is when i put the memory profile to #1 or 2, but at the next restart it return to Automatic.
My ask is if i can mod the bios to have the timings of #1 or #2 profile even when is in Auto, so the card will perform like an actual rx 590, because like this the card is running slower than my previous rx 480 sapphire.
Hope someone can help me, sorry for my bad english

 

[basco]

give us "all" your system specs and then we might be able to help.
you could have a pentium from core2duo era so i hope ya understand.

 

[dongeg97]

Yes, i'm sorry. My specs are:
-Asrock X79 Extreme4-m
Intel core i7 3820 / intel xeon 2680 (i tried with bots cpus)
8gb ram 2133 ripjaws z
1000w cooler master psu

 

[Colddecked]

In addition to what basco said, post a screenshot of GPUZ. That could give us a hint if the bios has been modified.

IMO you have to assume its been bios modded. Perhaps the kid tried to bios mod his card, didn't save the original and couldn't reflash it back and decided to cut bait instead of muck it up further.

 

[dongeg97]

i actually can't post the gpu z screenshot because im not in my hometown , i can post it tomorrow. By the way some time ago i re-flashed the latest bios from THIS page . So the card has the stock bios.
I think is a problem of memory timings.... but oviously im not sure of that, that is the purpose of this thread...

 

[Colddecked]

I see. There's two versions of the bios, are you sure you got the right one? If so, did you run DDU before installing new drivers?

 

[dongeg97]

I tryed both versions. Same performance issue.. I can’t believe that ASRock had actually put the wrong memory timings in it... but I see rx 580s doing great scores in furmark and my 590, that has to be better than 580, running poor 75 fps on it..
I tried every single setting, I used always ddu to change drivers, I don’t know what I have to do...
I think modding the memory timings on it is the best choice

 

[Colddecked]

Furmark isn't the best test for performance especially for that card as the cooler is probably between crap and adequate.

Your Firestrike score does look low though. What was the graphics score? Should be at least 13k. Try to log the clocks and temps during a firestrike run. Also what are you using to OC?

 

[dongeg97]

 

[WHDS]

Looks like you're running at pcie 1.1 instead of 3.0

 

[Batou1986]

Looks like you're running at pcie 1.1 instead of 3.0

That's just because the card is idle

 

[dongeg97]

yess, is 1.1 because of idle.
That is my Fire Strike Benchmark, but here the card is totally overclocked with memory timings lv2 @2175 memory and 1600 core clock

My final answer is: is there a way to set Permanently the memory timings to #lv2 to have such performance?
or i have to change it every time I restart pc?
Tomorrow I post a photo of Fire strike on All Stock

this is my Fire Strike bench with all stock. The card is not going bad, absolutely, but I think could be better. Next days is arriving a 1650 v2 that is really better than my actual cpu 2680

 

[basco]

Now also for Polaris: The new Red BIOS Editor RBE with full support for the older AMD Radeon RX 590, RX 580, RX 570, RX 480 and RX 470 | igor´sLAB

It’s done, even if it took a long time: the RBE now also supports older AMD graphics cards with Polaris chip. My personal thanks go to the community in general and to mynm in particular…

www.igorslab.de

please be careful

both your cpu´s are not overclockable?
did ya use your rx480 with the same processors?

in which tool are you setting your memory timings?

 

[dongeg97]

I managed to mod the bios on my 590 with the Polaris Bios editor (one click timing patch) with hynix VRAM. Now the card is running better, but i can't boot with CSM enabled, the POST of my mobo says there's no GOP on the GPU BIOS. @basco you advice to use this software instead?

 

[basco]

i can only tell ya that if ya want it permanent this is a often used tool .
and if you ask there in the forum you could get better help then from me. sorry never had a rx card

maybe ya can make a .bat file that loads your timings after each restart
but times are hard for buying new hardware and you have to decide if its worth the frames.
i would test it in games too you know bechmark versus games !

 

[Colddecked]

I managed to mod the bios on my 590 with the Polaris Bios editor (one click timing patch) with hynix VRAM. Now the card is running better, but i can't boot with CSM enabled, the POST of my mobo says there's no GOP on the GPU BIOS. @basco you advice to use this software instead?

One click timing patch is for mining, it'll make your games crash if you overclock the memory because the timings are for lower speeds. You'll have to run the amd pixel patch (google it!) in order to get your gpu detected.

 

[dongeg97]

I already patched my driver, for overclocking my monitor past 144hz on dvi, so my gpu is recognized correctly