The RX 6000 series Owners' Club

[Valantar]

sold my AIO hybrid EVGA 1080Ti few days ago and bought a 6700XT white Hellbound

Sold the 1080ti for $700 and bought the 6700xt powercolor for $800

Runs very quiet and with a bit of UVing relatively cool as well

Power consumption reduction vs the nvidia is great and perfs are what the reviews and benchmark were telling me so happy with my decision in the end for a $100 upgrade in these crazy GPU prices days

the only concern is the idle temps,I was hoovering at around 35degC with the Ti, of course watercooled, and I am above 45degC with the 6700XT but granted in a warm room and with zero rpm feature activated as well

That sounds like a pretty great upgrade, and for not a lot of money at all!

Regarding the idle temperatures: don't worry. Seriously. Your fans are off, yet the GPU sits at "above 45 degrees" - that's nothing at all. If it was going above 60 or something like that I would expect the fans to kick on, which any GPU with a zero-rpm feature will do. Passively cooling a GPU in a warm PC case, even at idle, will result in some temperature increase (especially when your reference is water cooling). And it's perfectly fine in every concievable way. Enjoy the silence - the only thing you'd achieve by disabling zeor rpm mode is wearing out your fans earlier than what is necessary.

 

[nolive721]

Yes, I really think it would have taken much much longer for a similar $100 upgrade indeed like waiting for next Gen cards and to be honest, happy to be back in the RED camp already

thanks for the advice regarding idle temps, I will try not to bother as you said

 

[Felix123BU]

yeah zero rpm is a great feature these days. i'm fine with the higher idle temps as long as they aren't to bad, 45 is great imo. the less dust the better. always remember, dust is our arch enemy... lol

Dust may have something to do about my obsession with dust filters on cases and only buying cases that have dust filters everywhere I hate dust buildup

sold my AIO hybrid EVGA 1080Ti few days ago and bought a 6700XT white Hellbound

Sold the 1080ti for $700 and bought the 6700xt powercolor for $800

Runs very quiet and with a bit of UVing relatively cool as well

Power consumption reduction vs the nvidia is great and perfs are what the reviews and benchmark were telling me so happy with my decision in the end for a $100 upgrade in these crazy GPU prices days

the only concern is the idle temps,I was hoovering at around 35degC with the Ti, of course watercooled, and I am above 45degC with the 6700XT but granted in a warm room and with zero rpm feature activated as well

6700XT white Hellbound - that card looks great , and 45ish idle with no fans spinning is perfectly fine.

 

[nolive721]

Thanks

the card looks great indeed
Now horizontally mounted in a Q300L case that I use as my Gaming rig

I might modify it in the future to allow GPU vertical mounting for the card to show off even more as I like the Fan led implementation

it was one of the drivers for buying it

I had few yrs ago a powercolor 480 Red devil that I had heavily OCed and Bios modified as well
It served me well for almost 2yrs so it’s also a trust in the AIB that I am buying in with this 6700xt

I was eying at an higher tier card like the 6800 xt but prices were extremely high over here in Japan

if I use my rig for 4K gaming in the relatively near future then I am banking on the benefits of extra features I don’t use today like SAM or Fidelity FX to reach the butter smooth 4K 60hz

I might then go for a 4K Freesync panel that will just eliminate the need of another GPU upgrade before a good 3 to 5yrs I hope

 

[Butanding1987]

Time to overclock that 6700 XT. Let’s go.

 

[nolive721]

I know I know and I will trust me

but priority is Undervolting right now

 

[Butanding1987]

Noooooooo.

 

[nolive721]

OK OK, just to avoid giving the wrong impression

I had pushed the OC on my VEGA64LC I had as well as the Ti at some point, using this setting below

It was good for 27,000points Graphic score in Firestrike but Heaven benchmark was really low at around 100fps if my memory is right

I did a very very first Heaven run by maxing out the OC in RADEON as shown below and the card seemed stable, it gave me a score of around 150fps at 1080p extreme tessalation and Ultra Quality without CPU OC and in windows mode.
from my testing with my GPUs,I could add few more fps with OCed CPU and Full screen, surprisingly or not

will do some 3D mark testing when time permits

that was too much tempting. FS with stock CPU and the OC on the 6700XT as I mentioned above

will do some more tweaking later this week but feel free to comment on the Graphics score please

 

[Butanding1987]

Try keeping a 200MHz difference between minimum and maximum clock frequencies. That should improve performance. Check if your VRAM OC is giving you higher scores and there's no regression. The goal for now is 40,000 graphics points. Wow, I didn't know the 6700 XT had max 1.2v.

 

[nolive721]

Might be a bit of a challenge looking at my current 35k points mark
I guess i need to forget about my Vega and 10series OCing habits when i am going to play more seriously with the 6700xt

Thanks for the preliminary advice but i might come back to you soon

I apologize as I see that I am posting a lot and being late to the 6000series party, this might have been discussed already (its a big thread, still reading sorry)
anyway, I did some further runs yesterday very late at night to test the best OC possible with my card

These are the settings that allow me to pass just above 3600points, by creating the 200Mhz gap between Min and Max core frequency and reducing the core voltage to around 1100mV

My gut feeling is the card is not a great OCer (but that's fine, I don't need this extra power right now anyway) although its not really a turd.

The benchmarks I have seen on Japanese websites (I live here) for any 6700Xt are telling me that scores varies between 35 and 36k points so I am right there at 35k stock and then 36k OCed

in the 3Dmark database for this SKU, I see only very few people at 37k point with similar temps to mine (low 60degC)

for scores from 38k to 40k, cards temps go below 40degC so obviously these cards are watercooled allowing for higher core frequencies

As I said,I am not too much bothered at this point in time, UVing to run my card cool&quiet is the priority and working well in my 2 Display type of set-up, but yes I appreciate any feedback and further guidance so to see if I can do a very final tweaking with this GPU

thanks a lot

 

[nolive721]

pushed the Core Fq to max 2800Mhz and that is going to be my final OC effort, I am contentTop10 in the world with the combo 3500X/6700XT and without watercooled GPU

 

[Valantar]

pushed the Core Fq to max 2800Mhz and that is going to be my final OC effort, I am contentTop10 in the world with the combo 3500X/6700XT and without watercooled GPU

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Nice! How does it perform in Time Spy?

 

[zerasse]

Hello!

I just upgraded from 5700xt Red Devil to 6700xt reference card made by Powercolor.
Card is limited to 215w by default as you know and i used MPT to push it to 240w as i've read many have done.
I got like 1k points more in Timespy and it was stable while temps were like Core 72c max, mem junct 100c max and mem were in reasonable temp, cant remember what it was tho.
OC was min 2500mhz max 2800mhz 1,2v mem fast timings and maxed out 2150.

The question is, is it safe to run the reference card 240w max in the long run if the temps are fine and the system is stable?
I've seen that the custom models have 2x8 pin connector as my card has only 8+6.

Thank you for your help in advance!

 

[Felix123BU]

Hello!

I just upgraded from 5700xt Red Devil to 6700xt reference card made by Powercolor.
Card is limited to 215w by default as you know and i used MPT to push it to 240w as i've read many have done.
I got like 1k points more in Timespy and it was stable while temps were like Core 72c max, mem junct 100c max and mem were in reasonable temp, cant remember what it was tho.
OC was min 2500mhz max 2800mhz 1,2v mem fast timings and maxed out 2150.

The question is, is it safe to run the reference card 240w max in the long run if the temps are fine and the system is stable?
I've seen that the custom models have 2x8 pin connector as my card has only 8+6.

Thank you for your help in advance!

8+6 is 150w+75w=225w, another 75w max from the PCIE port, you get to a max of 300w theoretically.
There should generally be no serious issues with 240w in your case, no electronics device is built without some tolerances, as in it wont break if you pump a bit more, within reasonable limits. But that's like any OC your decision, you want it or not. I would not worry about 240w, I would worry more about temps generally speaking.

 

[Butanding1987]

pushed the Core Fq to max 2800Mhz and that is going to be my final OC effort, I am contentTop10 in the world with the combo 3500X/6700XT and without watercooled GPU

Never say never.

8+6 is 150w+75w=225w, another 75w max from the PCIE port, you get to a max of 300w theoretically.
There should generally be no serious issues with 240w in your case, no electronics device is built without some tolerances, as in it wont break if you pump a bit more, within reasonable limits. But that's like any OC your decision, you want it or not. I would not worry about 240w, I would worry more about temps generally speaking.

Listen to @Felix123BU, who has forced his GPU to guzzle 450w during a Time Spy run.

 

[nolive721]

Is there a good tutorial you could advise then for executing MPT on an 6700xt card?
Thanks

 

[Felix123BU]

Never say never.


Listen to @Felix123BU, who has forced his GPU to guzzle 450w during a Time Spy run.

Naaah, only 380w (270w being default limit), could not bare to go higher even though I am reasonably sure the card can take it

 

[eidairaman1]

Well here comes the 6900XTX talks. I think AMD should wait for the 3090Ti Launch or just make RDNA3 all out for RX 7990XT (Miss the pro name for Top Dog Cards).

 

[nolive721]

Nice! How does it perform in Time Spy?

pretty good I think looking at some benchmark ONLINE and 3DMark database what do you think?

 

[Valantar]

pretty good I think looking at some benchmark ONLINE and 3DMark database what do you think?

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I don't really have a frame of reference for 6700 XTs, but that looks good to me! Interesting to see how this stacks up against my undervolted 6900 XT (~180W IIRC) and at stock (~330W). At pretty much exactly half the compute resources, you can get a lot more than half the performance just by pushing power higher. Of course, my UV results also make me curious just how low power a 6700 XT die could go. I lost ~15% performance for a ~45% power cut from stock, so if that transfers over to your card, you'd be looking at less than 120W(!) for a TS score of ... I don't know what your baseline was, but something like ~10 000 graphics score? That sounds like wishful thinking to me, but it would be really cool to see.

 

[jesdals]

Any who gets hard restart at cold boot? I have had a coupple of days with it but no other problems after new chipset driver to my AMD x570 setup - but seems to be AMD driver related - currently running 21.7.2 driver

 

[nolive721]

I don't really have a frame of reference for 6700 XTs, but that looks good to me! Interesting to see how this stacks up against my undervolted 6900 XT (~180W IIRC) and at stock (~330W). At pretty much exactly half the compute resources, you can get a lot more than half the performance just by pushing power higher. Of course, my UV results also make me curious just how low power a 6700 XT die could go. I lost ~15% performance for a ~45% power cut from stock, so if that transfers over to your card, you'd be looking at less than 120W(!) for a TS score of ... I don't know what your baseline was, but something like ~10 000 graphics score? That sounds like wishful thinking to me, but it would be really cool to see.

thank you, I also think the card is not too bad from references I see around the Web. But I also see people with much higher score than mine in TS of FS but I also see these people with much lower temps/higher clocks so I assume they have watercooled their cards.

I was not aware of this MPT tool, which I assume could be comparable to the powerplay table editor that was/still is used on VEGA gen, although I was not using it on my VEGA64 LC as I was using Wattman and the Memory Tweaker tool to make most of my GPU.
The day I go 4K I might visit this MPT topic more in details but any guidance already today is appreciated.

My current approach though, that is related to my 2 Gaming display set-up, is focusing on UV to limit power use while maintaining a >60fps no stuttering experience and the 6700XT is delivering so I have no problem right now.

This is the very basic UV setting I am running now, didn't really look at synthetic benchmarks but monitoring power use in Games, I am around the 100-120W max mark so really I can not complain.

I might do a bit more deep dive analysis when time permits and share if you are interested. Maybe pushing the UV further if the card can go lower in Voltage/Fqcy combination

 

[zerasse]

Thank you for your help about the power limit for reference 6700xt.
I guess i got lucky in the silicon lottery as the results atm are following in 3dmark?
Will continue tweaking and trying to lower the voltage.

In case you're wondering my setup is following

Asus Prime z490-P
10700k @ 5ghz
3500mhz DDR4 CL16
6700XT Reference from Powercolor.

Sorry for the amount of pictures

 

[nolive721]

Impressive score indeed

 

[INSTG8R]

Clearing my “stock” score by 1000 points and my Max Boost is 2622 of course it’s not hitting that in Timespy but I’ve seen it over 2600 gaming but it’s usually running 2570ish