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The Radeon RX 6900/6950 XT Owners Thread.

Well that was an exercise in frustration in dialing in a quick OC. Nothing to do with the card, more it being in combo with Threadripper - 3DMark really doesn't like high core counts.

Settled on 2700mhz core and 2130mhz ram, +5% pwr.

Had to disable smt for Timespy giving 20867 and put the TR into legacy mode for Firestrike to get 34981 or gfx test 1 takes a big hit - but it drops the cpu score down from 32000 to 27000.

Really looking forward to Zen 3 TR now!
 
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https://www.3dmark.com/spy/21128608

Had a spare few hours so played around with TimeSpy and got 21,905. I'm not a fanboy but I have to admit AMD played this one perfectly, soundly beating most 3090 scores without exotic cooling or hardwear mods on an NVIDIA favoured bench. I'm in Portgal at the moment for work so not on the UK board any longer, managed to hit number 12 worldwide on air so pretty happy. Think thats me done untill new drivers or I manage to get a good block for the loop I have planned. With FSR and a 6900xt I can use my G9's and Q80T properly in the near future. Good time to be a tech enthusiast! On a side note as I think most of you will agree, putting together a rig now has been a nightmare, to get 2 working g9's I went through 5 monitors. When i can finnish the loop with a decent non Alpha cool block I'll be done for 15 months or so TFG. Done for the minute !!!!!

https://ibb.co/YLCgD1H
 
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amigafan2003 said:
Well that was an exercise in frustration in dialing in a quick OC. Nothing to do with the card, more it being in combo with Threadripper - 3DMark really doesn't like high core counts.

Settled on 2700mhz core and 2130mhz ram, +5% pwr.

Had to disable smt for Timespy giving 20867 and put the TR into legacy mode for Firestrike to get 34981 or gfx test 1 takes a big hit - but it drops the cpu score down from 32000 to 27000.

Really looking forward to Zen 3 TR now!
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Yeah Firestrike Standard has a problem whereby to get the best possible graphics score you need to disable half the CPU cores with a 5900X or a 5950X, otherwise GPU utilisation does not stay at 99% throughout the first test and some of the second.

I have scored 71000 in graphics score doing that with my 6900 XT, but physics and combined takes a nosedive and i end up with a worse overall score.

For the two mentioned CPUs above, the same behaviour does not happen in Extreme or Ultra Firestrike. Not sure if you tested those.

But as you noted, Firestrike, Extreme Ultra and regular Timespy do not scale with CPU cores, you get diminishing returns.

Timespy Extreme does scale though, so you should be able to put up much better physics numbers there if you run it.
Dragon2012 said:
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/21128608

Had a spare few hours so played around with TimeSpy and got 21,905. I'm not a fanboy but I have to admit AMD played this one perfectly, soundly beating most 3090 scores without exotic cooling or hardwear mods on an NVIDIA favoured bench. I'm in Portgal at the moment for work so not on the UK board any longer, managed to hit number 12 worldwide on air so pretty happy. Think thats me done untill new drivers or I manage to get a good block for the loop I have planned. With FSR and a 6900xt I can use my G9's and Q80T properly in the near future. Good time to be a tech enthusiast! On a side note as I think most of you will agree, putting together a rig now has been a nightmare, to get 2 working g9's I went through 5 monitors. When i can finnish the loop with a decent non Alpha cool block I'll be done for 15 months or so TFG. Done for the minute !!!!!

https://ibb.co/YLCgD1H
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Good going. Were you using 21.6.1?

What was wrong with the G9's? Not familiar with the monitor.
 
LtMatt said:
If you can afford it, do it. The 5950X is the best gaming and workstation consumer CPU available. It is the best CPU to pair with the 6900 XT and you’ll get SAM in every game also for an extra 5-10% additional performance in games.
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Thanks everyone who gave input! I have the Ryzen 5950X shipping to me on Monday, and it will get here on Wednesday. I'll keep using my 32GB 3600 MHz CL16 Ram, and will set infinity fabric to 1800.

But, now I'm trying to decide what motherboard to pair it with. I'm considering the ASRock Taichi, or maybe an ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Formula (same as my son's), or ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero.

RECCOMENDATIONS?

With my new X570 I'd love to have similar or better features vs what I have in my current MSI MEG Godlike Z490. It supports PCIe 4.0 in the 1st two PCIe slots, but only has PCIe Gen 3.0 in the M.2 slots. For that reason, the Godlike came with a small PCIe 4.0 daughterboard that supports TWO Gen 4.0 x4 M.2 drives in PCIe slot 2. I'm using a pretty fast 2TB EVO plus so I don't use the M.2 daughterboard, but might get a faster M.2 like a Sabrent Rocket or 980 Pro someday. I really like the Godlike for the many USB 3.2 and Thunderbolt 3 ports, built-in Wifi 6, 10Gbps LAN (plus 1 Gb also), more fan and RGB headers than I'd ever need, Corsair's proprietary RGB headers, an OLED status screen, and RGB.

The Taichi I'm considering has enough USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Gen 2 type C for my needs, plus internal type-A and type-C for the front panel ports similar to my Godlike. It has three PCIe Gen 4 x16 slots and three Gen 4 x4 M.2 slots (ROG only has two M.2 Gen 4 slots). It's Wifi 6 module is in a key E slot, so it is upgradable to make it more future proof. And I can add a ASRock Thunderbolt 3 AIC R2.0 Card later if I need it. The Ethernet is only 2.5 Gbps, but I think that's as fast as my Asus GT11000AX Router with AX92U AI mesh nodes can run anyway. It's also got RGB on it. But I'm not sure how I feel about having a fan for the chipset, which I worry may get noisy.

Then I have to decide what to do with the old parts. I'll have the leftover 11700K and MSI Godlike, some old 3200 MHz CL16 16GB RAM, a 1TB 7200 RPM HGST drive, and an unused Liqtech RGB AIO. I could sell it off piece by piece; or I could buy a case, PSU, and SSD to build a complete PC if a system is easier to sell (or I could give the PC to my daughter's fiancé who has my old Xbox One S for gaming). I have a spare ASUS GTX 1080 that could go in the PC, if it's going to be used for gaming where integrated graphics wont be enough; but I'm keeping my spare ASUS 6700XT OC card. My brother has my old GTX 1070 with HIS 4th gen i7 8-core and Z97 board, and he's not complaining; but these parts could give him a nice upgrade, if he is willing to buy a bigger case and new PSU (he is broke and can't buy anything, and after building my PC I may soon be in the same boat if I don't sell my extra parts).
 
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Yeah I used to be the same with the positive pressure, but now i just reconfigured my fan speeds slightly ( and I removed 1 exhaust - did have 4 at one point) and I now have my top fans as exhaust with 3 intake and 3 exhaust.

I just have my intake at a slightly higher RPM vs exhaust. Using a Phanteks P600s here.
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Josh Racey said:
Yeah i was thinking that, it will be blowing warm air onto it the moment. I have 6 120mm fans as intake 3 directly below the gpu and a ekwb elite 360 aio with fans as exhaust. Just doing a a stress test and the junction is maxing at at 97°c it drops down so quickly i wasnt noticing the peak during the benchmarks
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I have 2 Corsair ML140 RGB fans in the front as intake, and two SP140 fans on the bottom as intake; then 2 ML140 fans pulling air up through the Corsair 280MM AIO RAD as exhaust, and 1 ML140 RGB on the rear as exhaust = 4 intake along the front and bottom, and 3 exhaust in the top and rear.

My CPU and GPU tend to stay below 60-70 degrees when gaming (70 during TimeSpy), with the GPU set for 303W and XMP overclocking on via BIOS. Unless my son changed things, I don't recall messing with power limits for CPU and motherboard, or case fan speed. In the AMD stress test the GPU is in the 70's and edge temp never goes above 97 degrees. I hardly ever hear case fans in normal usage, and my 6900 XT fans are set at about 30% at 50 degrees, 40% at 75 degrees, 50% at 85 degrees, and 80% at 90 degrees, so it's also pretty quiet when not benchmarking. I could probably start running my fans slower and experiment with that.
 
Had a play with the sliders in the driver, got best time spy score yet:
Graphics Score 19530 (min Freq:2350, max Freq:2555, VRAM: 2150(this is the slider max), Power 5%)
The min/max frequency sliders dont seem to affect the score much, just maxing the VRAM adds ~350-400 points.
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Increase power to 15%(full) and min to 2400 and max to 2650 and got 19931.
 
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LtMatt said:
I really wouldn't go below 2300Mhz min frequency and 2400Mhz max frequency. You will get such a big undervolt running these clocks that you can encounter stability issues if you go too much lower.
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Was playing outriders with 2285mhz max / 500mhz min / 1075v and had a driver crash. Forgot about the min frequency, will runnin it at 2300mhz only be like that ingame or on any desktop/video tasks aswell (ie clockdown idle)
 
Loxa said:
Was playing outriders with 2285mhz max / 500mhz min / 1075v and had a driver crash. Forgot about the min frequency, will runnin it at 2300mhz only be like that ingame or on any desktop/video tasks aswell (ie clockdown idle)
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Card will still downclock at idle. Raising the min frequency will keep the clock up in game, and it appers to stop voltage dropping as well so should give more stability.
 
My card doesnt seem to like going lower than 1100mv anything lower and the driver crashes straight away. I gave up on MPT as the various PL and TDC I tried just crashed the driver.
2050mhz memory and 15% power I broke through 18000 overall score (20101 graphics) so thats me happy.

Will just leave it at stock its like the 5700xt I had before I was happy with the noise and temps at stock so the 6900xt can just stay that way. Still quieter than the 3080FE I had.

:)
 
varkanoid said:
My card doesnt seem to like going lower than 1100mv anything lower and the driver crashes straight away. I gave up on MPT as the various PL and TDC I tried just crashed the driver.
2050mhz memory and 15% power I broke through 18000 overall score (20101 graphics) so thats me happy.

Will just leave it at stock its like the 5700xt I had before I was happy with the noise and temps at stock so the 6900xt can just stay that way. Still quieter than the 3080FE I had.

:)
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Nice one. Yeah if you unlock the power limit using MPT, you may need more voltage as the card will boost higher.

If you want to undervolt you can leave MPT alone and just focus on voltage and or core clock.
 
Hi guys, I just bought the 6900xt nitro+. My cpu is Ryzen 5900x. What are the best settings in Radeon software. Also, I saw in the game Hunt showdown, I had low fps between 95 and 180 and I looked at the boost clock and it was between 1600mhz and 2400 mhz. Should I set min freq?
 
kephrentv said:
Hi guys, I just bought the 6900xt nitro+. My cpu is Ryzen 5900x. What are the best settings in Radeon software. Also, I saw in the game Hunt showdown, I had low fps between 95 and 180 and I looked at the boost clock and it was between 1600mhz and 2400 mhz. Should I set min freq?
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Are you looking to run quiet and undervolt to keep noise, temps and power draw down, find a nice steady overclock and tuning profile for performance gaming, or do you want balls to the wall overclocking for the Firestrike/Timespy threads? Pick your poision.

In terms of recommended stock settings, I roll with this.

1. Remove all auto created game profiles by right clicking on the application tile as shown below.
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2. Head to Global Graphics and enable these settings.
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NOTE! Adjust image sharpening to your preference. I like 80% default, but in some games I up this to 100% in application profiles.


3. Head to the Gaming tab and click the two arrow Scan icon located in the upper right hand corner on Radeon Software. This will detect all installed games and add a profile that you can individuall customise.
NOTE Application profiles act independantly of the Global Graphics options so can you may want to disable image sharpening (or any other of the features I have not mentioned) for one particular game.

4. Head to the Display tab and enable FreeSync/Adaptive Sync if your monitor supports it. Set the BPC to 10Bit if your monitor supports it. Set Pixel Format to Full RGB 4:4:4.
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5. Head to the Performance > Tuning tab. Here you can select some Auto Underclock and Overclock options. Alternatively, you can fine tune things much further by clicking Manual > Advanced and doing it yourself.
A good place to start is to leave the core clock at stock, up the power limit to +15% and drop GPU voltage down to 1125mv and test. Set memory to 2012Mhz and click Apply located in the upper right hand corner.
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You're good to go and start playing.
 
kephrentv said:
I want more fps but i want to run my computer with nice temp and not too much noise.
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Right, so sounds like the middle option then. Try what I said in 5. using Manual setttings. That will be a good place to start.
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Also, what is the fast timing on your vram?
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Fast Timings does what it says on the tin. It slightly tightens the memory timings on the GDDR6 memory. It should be enabled for gaming and or benching to get the best performance.
 
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