Change.org petition to add an option to disable power saving in GPU settings

sammarbella · 26 Feb 2016 at 22:05

I started a new change.org petition.

Title:

AMD add an option in GPU settings to disable the new power saving to recover performance

Description:

The mandatory power saving feature introduced in the new Crimson drivers decrease performance and introduce instability in the gaming experience and multimedia playback.

An user option to disable it in GPU settings GUI could solve the problem for users who prefer performance over power saving.

Link:

https://www.change.org/p/radeon-tec...e-the-new-power-saving-to-recover-performance

Originally posted and more info in Guru3D initial thread: (updating OP)

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=406100

Edit: (spreading the petition in other forums)

Overclock.net

leshcatlabs.net

reddit.com

Overclockers.com

Ayahuasca · 26 Feb 2016 at 22:08

shankly1985 · 26 Feb 2016 at 22:12

What?

AlamoX · 26 Feb 2016 at 22:19

which option are you refering to ?
the idle state of gpu or frame target ?
maybe would be usefull giving more information

Gregster · 26 Feb 2016 at 22:39

Signed it!

Jokes, I have no idea what this is on about lol

sammarbella · 26 Feb 2016 at 22:48

AlamoX said:
which option are you refering to ?
the idle state of gpu or frame target ?
maybe would be usefull giving more information

Since Crimson driver the GPU driver downclock GPU timings at any moment to save the maximum power at the expense of performance in games or multimedia playback.

There is no way to disable that behavior in AMD GPU settings, 3rd party tools like ClockBlocker or AfterBurner are needed to lock GPU timmings to avoid that performance loss.

AFIK Nvidia drivers has a simple "performance mode" to prevent that.

shankly1985 · 26 Feb 2016 at 22:55

No issue here, My core is up and down based on GPU load and Frame rate target.

Dygaza · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:04

shankly1985 said:
No issue here, My core is up and down based on GPU load and Frame rate target.

I think it only effects Fiji cards. Though AMD is working for a fix on drivers for it.

evolad · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:11

****ing hell

AlamoX · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:16

sammarbella said:
Since Crimson driver the GPU driver downclock GPU timings at any moment to save the maximum power at the expense of performance in games or multimedia playback.

There is no way to disable that behavior in AMD GPU settings, 3rd party tools like ClockBlocker or AfterBurner are needed to lock GPU timmings to avoid that performance loss.

AFIK Nvidia drivers has a simple "performance mode" to prevent that.

never happened to me, maybe it's Fury thing like dygaza said

sammarbella · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:39

AlamoX said:
never happened to me, maybe it's Fury thing like dygaza said

There are contradictory reports, some Fury (X) owners say they dont' suffer this problem but ClockBlocker tool was originally created to solve power management in Fury series GPUs and it's now widely used to prevent downclocking in AMD GPUs:

ClockBlocker (profiled AMD power-management control)

ClockBlocker is a GPU power-management control software designed for AMD graphics cards. It started as a tool entirely designed for the Radeon R9 Fury series, yet many people have had success with the tool on a whole slew of different graphics hardware. While there may be other tools that already work on your hardware to stop downclocking, this is potentially another option available to you.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=404465

Orcvader · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:46

But... isn't this an already known bug that AMD recognises?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD_Radeon_Software_Crimson_Edition_16.2.aspx

Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption

Stas823 · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:49

"Change.org"
pointless.

sammarbella · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:51

Stas823 said:
"Change.org"
pointless.

Reporting privately to AMD is even more pointless.

Never underestimate public exposition factor.

Colzy · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:52

Err right. Not sure a petition is the correct solution here!

Gze · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:55

What does it actually affect?

sammarbella · 26 Feb 2016 at 23:58

Gze said:
What does it actually affect?

Performance.

GPU timings are downclocked at the worst imaginable time in order to increase power saving affecting FPS and smoothness of gaming and multimedia playback without option to disable that behavior in GPU GUI settings.

Third party tools like ClockBlocker (AKA viagra for AMD GPUs

) and Afterburner are used to prevent that.

Orangey · 27 Feb 2016 at 00:37

Online petitions are a joke.

LtMatt · 27 Feb 2016 at 08:51

sammarbella said:
I started a new change.org petition.

Title:

Description:

Link:

https://www.change.org/p/radeon-tec...e-the-new-power-saving-to-recover-performance

Originally posted and more info in Guru3D initial thread: (updating OP)

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=406100

Edit: (spreading the petition in other forums)

Overclock.net

leshcatlabs.net

reddit.com

From an overclocking perspective i wouldn't mind this feature, though i don't think it's required for regular users. Nonetheless, I'll ensure this reaches the right people within AMD.

Tute · 27 Feb 2016 at 09:48

I can't see a change.org petition making a difference but it does at least look like this has been acknowledged and is being worked on at AMD.

I'm not sure what else you can expect really.