Ohh yeah I know. My post is regarding MPT. On the 6900XT people used it to increase power limit of the cards since they were power limited. However the 7900XTX Nitro is already using over 500w when overclocked, and supposedly 3 8-pin + PCIE slot can handle max 525w. So the card is technicallly running on the edge without MPT.
What you see quoted in reviews and manufacturer presentations is
PCI-SIG specification.
Hardware specs differs, see relevant section OP
here.
So in the case of MBA 2x8pin, you can pull 2x288W+75W(PCI-SIG) from slot, most decent PSU be 2x396W+75W(PCI-SIG) from slot, now 3x8pin
...
Next look at this data from my Nitro ...
See the 5% PL headroom on OC VBIOS +15% from Wattman, that run was on GFXCLKmin: 2648MHz GFXCLKmax: 2848MHz MEMCLK: 2748MHz VGFX: 1095mV ...
Tell me we are not powerlimited ...
A person could say "Hey your VGFX is high, so taking up powerlimit ..."
See this set of data on GFXCLKmin: 2748MHz GFXCLKmax: 2948MHz MEMCLK: 2748MHz VGFX: 1050mV
Now we put aside hardware power spec for 8pin is no issue. What about GPU VRM/PCB? The VRM quality and PCB layers used are very high quality, even on MBA and not the limiting factor.
For the very first time, AMD GPU is locked from power on.
We have no access to manipulate via ACPI, VBIOS, SW in OS.
Even EVC doesn't currently support RX 7900 series, as the VRM controller used by it, Elmor has no datasheets/registers information.
We have the limits a manufacturer places in VBIOS. And what the driver allows us, which again answer to SMU of GPU, which again we have no access, as far as we know currently.
The nice thing about being able to tinker on a card is
not just about increases ...
My RX 6800 XT Pulse on STD VBIOS, I ran for over a year with
reduced SOC voltage (+75mV),
reduced VRAM voltage (-100mV), stock GPU clocks/voltage and
increased VRAM clocks.
By
dropping SOC and VRAM voltage, the "headroom" created by reduction, meant the powerlimit was used more towards aiding GPU clocks.
As I also had a waterblock on RX 6800 XT, the temps were sweet, so nice sustained boosts ...