The Radeon VII Owners Thread

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 10:49

nashathedog said:
It does but it costs performance, even if I overclock it as well.

Mine never ever changes the default mv, it's 1061mv everytime since the first boot to now, it seems to be holding itself back I just ran half of time spy with 1955 mhz cos and 1150mhz hbm. 58.c core and 91.c Junction but then it just bailed and gave me 0 score for seemingly no reason

But it can definately handle it, maybe more, seems to be no reason it stopped, apart from the driver or power limits, maybe we will get our +50% back like vega

JediFragger · 10 Feb 2019 at 10:51

Illuminist said:
I will do this properly tomorrow for everyone to see

Nice work

Chud_Jenny · 10 Feb 2019 at 10:58

vapor matt said:
I think this shows just how good the thermal interface used as standard is, even he says its not worth changing and should last a long time.

Ye, not sure if you followed this years CES? He's got a new pad in the works with "Thermal Grizzly" and an improved paste too. (ground finer in production)
It's going to be interesting to see how much the t-junction temp will reduce when running on water.

Lev · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:01

What is the stock core speed and mV on the R7?

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:03

Lev said:
What is the stock core speed and mV on the R7?

It varies between users that's what we are trying work out
The core is 1750-1785ish

KrisWragg · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:06

Just ordered one of these, guessing it won't ship for a few weeks though

Could have had a Gigabyte card on Tuesday via a competitor but £50 more and 1 year less warranty.

Will patiently watch you guys trying to eek more out of it

Should be a massive upgrade over 290 crossfire in my desktop which is currently beat by my laptop with a 1070 maxQ in a lot of things!

Vince · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:08

What are people getting on memory?

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:18

There is still something wrong though, I can't play a game with out the sparkles appearing

Bloot · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:22

Illuminist said:
There we go, proof it can be overclocked and undervolted and the HBM also, I KNOW there is a dip there, it needed slightly more mv than i gave it but its 1:30am and i will carry on tomorrow.
Point is, the memory doesn't go down to a locked 800mhz, it stays at 1150 for me 1245 for @Vince
And I can make the core lock at a much higher mhz which gains scores in benchmarks.

I will do this properly tomorrow for everyone to see

@Vince nice working with you

How did you achieve this? I can't even get mine to 1900

I can only get oc frequencies in window mode not in fullscreen

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:25

Bloot said:
How did you achieve this? I can't even get mine to 1900

This I was going to explain to everyone today.
Vince discovered that the auto memory overclock button worked and really well.

I then discovered you can lock the core at 1900 with both white bars, adjust the mv to your liking. set +20% power limit, adjust the fan curve then press apply.
THEN
Press the auto memory overclock button and hit apply.

It will apply the memory and core oc with the manual fan curve and other tweaks you did

nashathedog · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:47

Illuminist said:
Me and vince just been playing with this. It worked for me too, I got 1150 hbm with the button

I haven't touched the auto settings I'm presuming you can use all three together but obviously set each up one after the other so in which order and how do you know it's finished

nashathedog · 10 Feb 2019 at 11:55

nashathedog said:
I haven't touched the auto settings I'm presuming you can use all three together but obviously set each up one after the other so in which order and how do you know it's finished

I'm presuming you can't both auto overclock and auto undervolt as it's not letting me.

I just did the auto memory overclock & then did a run of the Far Cry 5 benchmark and the memory sat between 1200 and 1220 while the core sat at around 1750.

How long do you leave it automatically testing for?

Vince · 10 Feb 2019 at 12:03

Looks like im not the only one who's memory just goes 1200+ and is happy. This bodes well for when they really get these drivers nailed. 1900+ core clocks and 1200+ memory is not that "out there"!

nashathedog · 10 Feb 2019 at 12:12

Vince said:
Looks like im not the only one who's memory just goes 1200+ and is happy. This bodes well for when they really get these drivers nailed. 1900+ core clocks and 1200+ memory is not that "out there"!

When you do one of the auto tests how long are you leaving it for? I ask because it say's apply straight away.

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 12:24

nashathedog said:
When you do one of the auto tests how long are you leaving it for? I ask because it say's apply straight away.

That's because it does it instantly

And you cannot combine the autos. Like I tried to say before.
Do manual set this how you like. Apply. Then do auto memory oc, then apply

You will get the manual and the memory oc together

nashathedog · 10 Feb 2019 at 12:41

Illuminist said:
That's because it does it instantly

And you cannot combine the autos. Like I tried to say before.
Do manual set this how you like. Apply. Then do auto memory oc, then apply

You will get the manual and the memory oc together

I'll try that.

It's odd as when I do auto core overclock it crashes in the Far Cry 5 benchmark, When I auto overclock the memory I get the exact same Far Cry 5 benchmark score as I get when I auto undervolt it.

I'm going to do some more tests with other games now.

Vince · 10 Feb 2019 at 12:43

Illuminist said:
That's because it does it instantly

And you cannot combine the autos. Like I tried to say before.
Do manual set this how you like. Apply. Then do auto memory oc, then apply

You will get the manual and the memory oc together

nashathedog said:
When you do one of the auto tests how long are you leaving it for? I ask because it say's apply straight away.

Exactly as tim says, set everything core wise up in manual overclocks so set your power limit, fan curve, undervolt, whatever you fancy, if you drag the flags for core to meet and set an mv you can lock the core at that. After click auto memory and apply it... run your bench and see what happens, fwiw my core is not a great one and i can only lock it right now at around 1850 without more volts and then my memory only does 1180 rather than 1235.

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 14:01

Vince said:
Exactly as tim says, set everything core wise up in manual overclocks so set your power limit, fan curve, undervolt, whatever you fancy, if you drag the flags for core to meet and set an mv you can lock the core at that. After click auto memory and apply it... run your bench and see what happens, fwiw my core is not a great one and i can only lock it right now at around 1850 without more volts and then my memory only does 1180 rather than 1235.

I wonder if you increase the default mv, that the auto memory oc will go higher ...

nashathedog · 10 Feb 2019 at 14:28

@Vince @Illuminist

That got me a better result in Firestrike extreme, The first result is stock, the second is with just the power limit max'd & the third is with the tweaks and auto memory overclock. I'm not sure what's going on with my cpu though?

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/18241004/fs/18227926/fs/18261261

Vince · 10 Feb 2019 at 15:10

nashathedog said:
@Vince @Illuminist

That got me a better result in Firestrike extreme, The first result is stock, the second is with just the power limit max'd & the third is with the tweaks and auto memory overclock. I'm not sure what's going on with my cpu though?

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/18241004/fs/18227926/fs/18261261

I do think that when they get the driver properly sorted that it will be a lot like vega for overclocking. Just messing around now shows it has some legs for overclocking/undervolting when the drivers are properly sorted I see this being a lot like vega.