How to disable throttling on AMD RX Vega?

[Artas1984]

I need help!

I am messing now with a new RX Vega 56. I am trying to get 4K gaming results out of this card, which i will compare with the already done GTX1080, GTX1070, GTX980 Ti results.

The PROBLEM is the HORRIBLE throttling this card produces. The clocks would not go above 900 MHz and the memory would not go above 500 MHz no-mater what...

First of all, is there some kind of edit option in the Crimson Software that disables BOTH memory and core downclocking? There is some kind of "chill" hotkey that is turned off - it does not help.

Second, can anybody confirm that using MSI Afterburner solves the throttling?

I know there guys here, who must have had experience with this problem, i urge you not to be ignorant, but get this thing fixed.

 

[Vya Domus]

Sounds like something is terribly wrong with the card. I would first try to sort that out before attempting to shut off any thermal protection ( I doubt it's even possible ).

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I need help!

I am messing now with a new RX Vega 56. I am trying to get 4K gaming results out of this card, which i will compare with the already done GTX1080, GTX1070, GTX980 Ti results.

The PROBLEM is the HORRIBLE throttling this card produces. The clocks would not go above 900 MHz and the memory would not go above 500 MHz no-mater what...

First of all, is there some kind of edit option in the Crimson Software that disables BOTH memory and core downclocking? There is some kind of "chill" hotkey that is turned off - it does not help.

Second, can anybody confirm that using MSI Afterburner solves the throttling?

I know there guys here, who must have had experience with this problem, i urge you not to be ignorant, but get this thing fixed.

Even air cooled my card didn't throttle that much ,what is the airflow round and to it.
I oc with wattman on vega and watercooled i have no throttling , what drivers are you using i can get different max clocks with different drivers ,some were buggy too try a driver reinstall , make sure your pc is in high performance mode too.

 

[Artas1984]

Wattman must be the most annoying performance/overclock boost program i have ever seen... Please explain in details what do you do to keep your clocks at max speed? When i enter custom settings, i can see that at "state7" i should be getting the clocks i need. How do make my 1610 MHz clock speed run at "state0"?

Better yet - what i need to do in order for the clock and memory speeds to always run on max? So that in GPU-Z i could always see them running on max?

Using latest Crimson beta 17.10.2 and a POS blower type cooled RX Vega 56.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Wattman must be the most annoying performance/overclock boost program i have ever seen... Please explain in details what do you do to keep your clocks at max speed? When i enter custom settings, i can see that at "state7" i should be getting the clocks i need. How do make my 1610 MHz clock speed run at "state0"?

Better yet - what i need to do in order for the clock and memory speeds to always run on max? So that in GPU-Z i could always see them running on max?

Increase its cooling but you're card does seam to be throttling a lot more than usual ,whatman won't change anything below the top two ,you can't change p0 , and all other oc software basically adjusts the slider.

First set the fans to max speed all the time and retry at stock to monitor throttling and can you show us a picture of the card in situ.

 

[eidairaman1]

Get Release Drivers, Beta are for testers.

Make sure your chipset drivers are latest too

 

[MrGenius]

Try this.

 

[fullinfusion]

Try this.

THAT has noting to do with the OP issue... If I had a dime everytime you post his babble I wouldn't need to work

@Artas1984 remove Msi AB for one, DDU your driver in safe mode and use a BETA driver dispite what @eidairaman1 says about beta drivers, he has no Idea on the branches of these beta's

USE wattman as it's got a lot of potential and the settings are validated.

Run my settings and give it a try.. Crank the fan slider to 2000RPM for a test and run Supersition bench as it's show your current clock frequency.

@Artas1984 I've been testing non public drivers and public ones all day.. Here is my clocks holding running Extreme 1080P with HBCC on running Unigin Superposition.

 

[MrGenius]

If I had a dime everytime you post his babble I wouldn't need to work

I guess I'm supposed to take offense to that. Well...not today anyway. I've got better other things to do. You sound a bit grumbly. Maybe you need a nap or something.

BTW I'll paypal you those $.30 if you're in desperate need. Wait...$.40 maybe? I dunno. Let's call it an even $.50. Then you'll be covered for the next one or two times.

 

[eidairaman1]

THAT has noting to do with the OP issue... If I had a dime everytime you post his babble I wouldn't need to work

@Artas1984 remove Msi AB for one, DDU your driver in safe mode and use a BETA driver dispite what @eidairaman1 says about beta drivers, he has no Idea on the branches of these beta's

USE wattman as it's got a lot of potential and the settings are validated.

Run my settings and give it a try.. Crank the fan slider to 2000RPM for a test and run Supersition bench as it's show your current clock frequency.

The reason I state what I do is because of the issues beta drivers tend to have and crop up randomly, so that's to cover the bases. Also you are right. I'm not a Beta tester like you @fullinfusion, speaking of which, why is it that when they fix one thing the break another?

 

[Nuckles56]

@eidairaman1 They have to keep themselves in a joke somehow and breaking something else is an easy way to do so

/Sarcasm off

 

[fullinfusion]

I guess I'm supposed to take offense to that. Well...not today anyway. I've got better other things to do. You sound a bit grumbly. Maybe you need a nap or something.

BTW I'll paypal you those $.30 if you're in desperate need. Wait...$.40 maybe? I dunno. Let's call it an even $.50. Then you'll be covered for the next one or two times.

Na not at all, I wasn't meaning any offence. I had to lol to myself thinking I bet your entire favs must be on buddie is all. I just get tired of the same ol same ol video Poppin up is all

I have no issues with his videos, but one issue I have is how he promotes reg tweaking to get massive power setting and don't explain the entire method behind the work involved.. to me the public will not do the reg properly and mess shit up. If he wants to explain and he has stated in a previous video on how to set the power with a reg tweak but only tells half the story??? That's what bothers me... For the OP that video makes ZERO sense and you know it otherwise your just shooting in the dark hey?

@eidairaman1 it's not fix one thing break two.. it's progression and how the drivers branch out. It's not an easy thing to fix everything as you know being an ex mechanic.

Sure sometimes it's a step forward and 2 steps back but AMD as you see is making great progress in the drivers.

1. There's the public that fill out bug reports and then there's us that find issues the public hasn't found.
2. It's a tough balancing act at times. 3. Right now OW is one of the main issues being worked on steadily. I really can't get into to much detail but rest assured lots of fixes are being dealt with

So don't think because a beta is not for public, it is. It's not like 2012 how things are being done and I highly recommend to use beta drivers. There are many levels in testing and the drivers are tested in house as not to have a cards driver overvolt and burn a card up. They get tested, we get a branch and test and find bugs. We report and have a direct line to the bug report team and they will say that X is doable this version but Y isn't for another branch off..



@Artas1984 you quoted "Using latest Crimson beta 17.10.2 and a POS blower type cooled RX Vega 56"

The blower cooler isn't a bad cooler.
Look at my screen shot and settings. I re-pasted the thermal paste and why I'm able to maintain the clocks. The paste used from AMD is crap. And to further answer your question AMD has locked down the safety on vega cards.. one time we used to overvolt a card for more clocks but not anymore. Depending how good of ASIC you have you can down clock the core and raise the frequency but not any voltage below 950mV as HBM is set at 950. You want higher clocks flash a 64 bios to the card. I flash many times a day for testing.

 

[eidairaman1]

Na not at all, I wasn't meaning any offence. I had to lol to myself thinking I bet your entire favs must be on buddie is all. I just get tired of the same ol same ol video Poppin up is all

I have no issues with his videos, but one issue I have is how he promotes reg tweaking to get massive power setting and don't explain the entire method behind the work involved.. to me the public will not do the reg properly and mess shit up. If he wants to explain and he has stated in a previous video on how to set the power with a reg tweak but only tells half the story??? That's what bothers me... For the OP that video makes ZERO sense and you know it otherwise your just shooting in the dark hey?

@eidairaman1 it's not fix one thing break two.. it's progression and how the drivers branch out. It's not an easy thing to fix everything as you know being an ex mechanic.

Sure sometimes it's a step forward and 2 steps back but AMD as you see is making great progress in the drivers.

1. There's the public that fill out bug reports and then there's us that find issues the public hasn't found.
2. It's a tough balancing act at times. 3. Right now OW is one of the main issues being worked on steadily. I really can't get into to much detail but rest assured lots of fixes are being dealt with

So don't think because a beta is not for public, it is. It's not like 2012 how things are being done and I highly recommend to use beta drivers. There are many levels in testing and the drivers are tested in house as not to have a cards driver overvolt and burn a card up. They get tested, we get a branch and test and find bugs. We report and have a direct line to the bug report team and they will say that X is doable this version but Y isn't for another branch off..



@Artas1984 you quoted "Using latest Crimson beta 17.10.2 and a POS blower type cooled RX Vega 56"

The blower cooler isn't a bad cooler.
Look at my screen shot and settings. I re-pasted the thermal paste and why I'm able to maintain the clocks. The paste used from AMD is crap. And to further answer your question AMD has locked down the safety on vega cards.. one time we used to overvolt a card for more clocks but not anymore. Depending how good of ASIC you have you can down clock the core and raise the frequency but not any voltage below 950mV as HBM is set at 950. You want higher clocks flash a 64 bios to the card. I flash many times a day for testing.

Thanks for the affirmation bro, I was always scratching my head on this.

Maybe once I'm back on my feet I will be able to do some testing on 2nd Gen GCN lol

 

[Artas1984]

whatman won't change anything below the top two ,you can't change p0 , and all other oc software

Yes, i noticed that already. I've managed to fix my throttling problem by setting the base core speed at power "state6" and boost core speed at "state7". I have overclocked my RX Vega 56 to 1650 MHz, and now i am getting constant dynamic core speeds from 1650 MHz to 1670 MHz while gaming. HBM2 speed also seems to be stable at 800 MHz.

However, i still must use MSI Afterburner in order to manually keep my FAN speed rotating high enough.

he promotes reg tweaking to get massive power setting and don't explain the entire method behind the work involved...

Yes, i try to avoid anything manual registry related.

Wait a second, howcome my Powercolor RX Vega 56 is 1610 MHz boost clock out of the box?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131730

Should not it be 1471 MHz? Wattman showed 1610 MHz boost clock at power "state7" without me even overclocking it.

 

[fullinfusion]

Wait a second, howcome my Powercolor RX Vega 56 is 1610 MHz boost clock out of the box?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131730

Should not it be 1471 MHz? Wattman showed 1610 MHz boost clock at power "state7" without me even overclocking it.

that I'm not to sure on, mine shows a boost clock of 1590 but I think it's a gpu-z bug but I'll find out and ley you know.

Also Artas if looking at the card what position is the bios switch in? it should be in the left position.

@eidairaman1 do you recall an AMD driver that was in beta and went to WHQL just not to long ago. That's why I say go for it, beta drivers are good

@Artas1984 whattman will do the same thing for fan speed... set the min and max slider to the same rmp, you can put the cursor on the rmp box and manually type in what ever speed you want like 2100 by 2100 and it'll remain at a constant.

 

[eidairaman1]

that I'm not to sure on, mine shows a boost clock of 1590 but I think it's a gpu-z bug but I'll find out and ley you know.

Also Artas if looking at the card what position is the bios switch in? it should be in the left position.

@eidairaman1 do you recall an AMD driver that was in beta and went to WHQL just not to long ago. That's why I say go for it, beta drivers are good

@Artas1984 whattman will do the same thing for fan speed... set the min and max slider to the same rmp, you can put the cursor on the rmp box and manually type in what ever speed you want like 2100 by 2100 and it'll remain at a constant.

Nah, I've been on my phone for a few months, my rig is unplugged until I have better living conditions, I also need a new monitor as the current 1 is showing signs of failure not wanting to light the screen unless I unplug it.

 

[fullinfusion]

Nah, I've been on my phone for a few months, my rig is unplugged until I have better living conditions, I also need a new monitor as the current 1 is showing signs of failure not wanting to light the screen unless I unplug it.

Ah sorry I didn't know man, well I hope things turn around for ya real soon.

@Artas1984 here look.. it's not hard to maintain the clocks if the fan is running higher.. try running Supersition without HBCC and then again with HBCC on.

stock 56

stock 64 bios flashed to the 56

Overclocked 64 bios

 

[eidairaman1]

No worries Brad, I'm alive, have some joy still. My monitor is 15-16 yo now lol.

 

[fullinfusion]

someone say COLD?

 

[Artas1984]

My RX Vega 56 started lagging the whole computer horribly. I uninstalled the drivers using DDU and now would like to install the latest WHQL drivers, not beta (even though i have nothing against beta).

The thing is, if i google "latest AMD Crimson WHQL drivers, i get so many different answers, all from AMD sites.

Who knows which drivers are latest non beta?

Also, WTF is this "ReLive" thing? I never noticed this before in any driver updates?

 

[HD64G]

WHQL 17.9.3 are the latest stable ones.

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/amd-radeon-graphics-drivers/

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

My RX Vega 56 started lagging the whole computer horribly. I uninstalled the drivers using DDU and now would like to install the latest WHQL drivers, not beta (even though i have nothing against beta).

The thing is, if i google "latest AMD Crimson WHQL drivers, i get so many different answers, all from AMD sites.

Who knows which drivers are latest non beta?

Also, WTF is this "ReLive" thing? I never noticed this before in any driver updates?

Use the betas , on such a new card its the best one, also I've used them All, the latest Is the best and most stable.

Fullinfusion agrees and he is in the know , the latest betas are the next whql id wager

My pc has never ever lagged due to the graphics card and its been switched on running flat out seven years ( with some variation of inards) so im unsure how you're getting to this conclusion , is the gpu throttling after a while under load?? Gpuz sensor suite can monitor this.

 

[eidairaman1]

Check out the services running and post them here via screenshot, someone here recently was having lag issues with another card and setup, once he removed said programs the issues stopped.

How old is that psu anyway?

 

[Artas1984]

Fullinfusion agrees and he is in the know.

I know what you did there

However, i now have installed the 17.9.3, which contain support for RX Vega cards anwyay. So far the card works good.

that I'm not to sure on, mine shows a boost clock of 1590 but I think it's a gpu-z bug but I'll find out and ley you know.

Also Artas if looking at the card what position is the bios switch in? it should be in the left position.

The BIOS switch in located at the opposite side to the PCI-E lane. What does it do?

@Artas1984 I've been testing non public drivers and public ones all day.. Here is my clocks holding running Extreme 1080P with HBCC on running Unigin Superposition.

I have seen Gamer Nexus review on that HBM controller influence in performance and it offered no notable performance whatsoever. It's just an AMD marketing trick.

However i will check superposition performance later on.

Check out the services running and post them here via screenshot, someone here recently was having lag issues with another card and setup, once he removed said programs the issues stopped.

Any clues which unnecessary services might be crippling performance prior?

 

[eidairaman1]

I know what you did there

However, i now have installed the 17.9.3, which contain support for RX Vega cards anwyay. So far the card works good.




The BIOS switch in located at the opposite side to the PCI-E lane. What does it do?




I have seen Gamer Nexus review on that HBM controller influence in performance and it offered no notable performance whatsoever. It's just an AMD marketing trick.

However i will check superposition performance later on.



Any clues which unnecessary services might be crippling performance prior?

Follow this thread for some hints, of course everyones rigs are different but he removed those and his issues stopped.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...spikes-until-reset.237283/page-2#post-3744993