BF3 & 6950 2GB

[Nevakonaza]

Hello there,

Noticed something odd past couple of rounds in BF3 since installing MSI Afterburner and enabling the monitoring.

Seems no matter what map i play on or whats going on...My GPU speed is showing as 725MHZ?

Stock for my card is 850 MHz,and i have mine clocked at 900Mhz (max Catalyst will allow).

Is it just a wrong reading from Afterburner?

Clicky for screenshot-
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/shaneathome/bf32012-01-1218-38-43-73.jpg

 

[Deception]

Whats Afterburner reading on the program itself? Might be conflicting with CCC

 

[ALXAndy]

Hello there,

Noticed something odd past couple of rounds in BF3 since installing MSI Afterburner and enabling the monitoring.

Seems no matter what map i play on or whats going on...My GPU speed is showing as 725MHZ?

Stock for my card is 850 MHz,and i have mine clocked at 900Mhz (max Catalyst will allow).

Is it just a wrong reading from Afterburner?

Clicky for screenshot-
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/shaneathome/bf32012-01-1218-38-43-73.jpg

I had the same issues. No matter how much I overclocked Afterburner was showing that I was at stock speed (in the chart to the right).

You need to realise that the 69xx series Radeons have TDP throttles. So basically as soon as the driver whiffs you using more than the max TDP they will throttle and down clock your card.

This was done to prevent people being able to run things like Furmark, and showing just what greedy sods they are. It also stops you from causing thermal damage to the GPU also.

Nvidia did it with the 570 and 580 too. After the 470/80 horror shows (showing how much power they used) they decided to stop people running Furmark to destroy a card.

I still don't know how to remove this throttle, but apparently Afterburner has a thing where you can edit the CFG files? I still can't find precise info on it.

 

[MOOGLEYS]

I don't get that with mine...?

 

[Awahwah]

Nor mine, clocks in sig and bf3 uses all freqs

 

[DarkHorizon472]

No issues with mine either. Unlocked shaders, overclocked to 6970 speed and it runs fine.

 

[Nevakonaza]

Okay now just tried GTA IV,And thats using the full 900Mhz...very wierd,I wonder why in BF3 its not fully using my GPU.

BF3 runs very well though,Not having any performance issues or anything.

 

[cobbly123]

No problem with mine and thats with full 6970 bios