The Radeon VII Owners Thread

harmattan · 9 Oct 2019 at 13:42

Thanks for the quick responses, guys.

I don't believe the freqs jump in tandum with the fan revs, but will need to double check (although not sure frequency drives fan speed, thought it was driven by temps)
Temps stay ~40c, so idle
I'm using the most recent drivers for the VII (although the revv-ing was happening on at least the two prior official driver versions)

Jesaul · 9 Oct 2019 at 14:54

Please check. 19.7.5 has spikes to over 1300MHz on memory in idle.

Hades · 9 Oct 2019 at 16:08

I'm pretty sure that R7 elevated memory clocks are one of the known issues in the last few driver release notes.

Edit:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/33068550/

AMD Radeon VII may experience elevated memory clocks at idle or on desktop.

Jesaul · 9 Oct 2019 at 18:49

Please look at this beautiful core clock of 2500 MHz.

northun_munky · 9 Oct 2019 at 20:36

Jesaul said:
Please look at this beautiful core clock of 2500 MHz.

Beautiful!

I was getting spikes above 3000... madness

Breezer_ · 6 Nov 2019 at 13:23

Has the newest RDR2 drivers fixed overclocking? I have not had time to test out myself, been reading tho for a while that overclocking works with OverdriveNTool on any driver (have not tested this myself either).

Jesaul · 6 Nov 2019 at 13:24

Well, I'm playing RDR 2 on 2.5k monitor using high quality with 60 fps in benchmark

And it is on 19.5.2

Chud_Jenny · 6 Nov 2019 at 17:41

Breezer_ said:
Has the newest RDR2 drivers fixed overclocking? I have not had time to test out myself, been reading tho for a while that overclocking works with OverdriveNTool on any driver (have not tested this myself either).

In a word "NO". In wattman it's still broken, but it half works if you use Alt+R and set it up as a profile that way. Its not a good work around though as it only seems to work in 3D mode and sometimes just randomly stops the altered settings back to default clocks.

northun_munky · 9 Nov 2019 at 06:54

Struggling as to why nothing is being done about it? Really frustrating really. I appreciate that we are end of line now and AMD are concentrating on Navi but it's bad form that something inherent to why I bought one isn't usable....

Chud_Jenny · 9 Nov 2019 at 10:12

northun_munky said:
Struggling as to why nothing is being done about it? Really frustrating really. I appreciate that we are end of line now and AMD are concentrating on Navi but it's bad form that something inherent to why I bought one isn't usable....

I've just reported the issue again, might be worth doing the same?
https://www.amd.com/en/support
"Report Issues With the Latest Driver Release"

Jerry64 · 9 Nov 2019 at 10:54

@LtMatt can you shed some light on what's going on and if there is a driver fix incoming to fix these issues please

fizzy · 9 Nov 2019 at 13:29

Quick question - is the memory speed spiking on idle on radeon VII actually spiking or just a monitoring issue? Just launched wattman a few mins ago and it's already had a few spikes up to 1,315 MHz. If it is spiking, what's the best version of driver to use before spiking occured? Currently using 19.9.3.

edit - even does it if I set memory to a manual speed of 1000mhz in wattman.

Chud_Jenny · 9 Nov 2019 at 14:26

fizzy said:
Quick question - is the memory speed spiking on idle on radeon VII actually spiking or just a monitoring issue? Just launched wattman a few mins ago and it's already had a few spikes up to 1,315 MHz. If it is spiking, what's the best version of driver to use before spiking occured? Currently using 19.9.3.

edit - even does it if I set memory to a manual speed of 1000mhz in wattman.

If you're not getting crashing, it's going to be poor monitoring. Maybe try the latest build of hwinfo (sensors only) and minimise it to system tray and have a half hour game and check what that's quoting.
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

fizzy · 9 Nov 2019 at 15:01

Chud_Jenny said:
If you're not getting crashing, it's going to be poor monitoring. Maybe try the latest build of hwinfo (sensors only) and minimise it to system tray and have a half hour game and check what that's quoting.
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

Been using that for a while to check CPU speeds. It's also showing max Radeon VII memory speeds the same as wattman.

Chud_Jenny · 9 Nov 2019 at 15:46

fizzy said:
Been using that for a while to check CPU speeds. It's also showing max Radeon VII memory speeds the same as wattman.

Just having a game on GRID, using 950mv @ 1800Mhz with 1140MHz HBM.
I'll do a stock HBM run now and see what it quotes for you.

1000MHz HBM:

fizzy · 9 Nov 2019 at 16:33

Rather big pics there.

I've also noticed constant elevated gpu mem speeds when watching you tube videos in my browser. Still set to manual mem speed of 1000 mhz in wattman, and undervolted to 970mv.

Here's the readings from hwinfo after watching a few vids....

..in fact quick glance again and max is currently showing 1,392 Mhz. That can't be right surely?

Chud_Jenny · 9 Nov 2019 at 16:50

fizzy said:
Rather big pics there.

I've also noticed constant elevated gpu mem speeds when watching you tube videos in my browser. Still set to manual mem speed of 1000 mhz in wattman, and undervolted to 970mv.

Here's the readings from hwinfo after watching a few vids....

..in fact quick glance again and max is currently showing 1,392 Mhz. That can't be right surely?

Which driver are you running? One thing to check too is, do you have the latest chipset drivers installed too? I'm currently running a beta bios for my x470 Taichi with the new 1.0.0.4b agesa coding which fixes the boosting. I now get the full 44x multi vs 43.8x using 1.0.0.3 ABBA.

fizzy · 9 Nov 2019 at 17:27

Using latest chipset drivers, and graphics drivers 19.9.3 as mentioned previously. I'm using the 2.46 beta bios on my Taichi X570, but don't see how that would effect boost clocks on the Radeon VII?

Chud_Jenny · 9 Nov 2019 at 17:57

fizzy said:
Using latest chipset drivers, and graphics drivers 19.9.3 as mentioned previously. I'm using the 2.46 beta bios on my Taichi X570, but don't see how that would effect boost clocks on the Radeon VII?

The last driver that worked correctly for Wattman and any core OC wahere this:
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-adrenalin-2019-19-7-5
I'd give it a try and see if things change for you.

fizzy · 9 Nov 2019 at 18:24

I had a few versions already downloaded, but not 19.7.5. Had 19.7.2. Uninstalled driver, uninstalled MS auto installed driver after reboot, and then installed 19.7.2. Erm... :eek:

That's got to be a reading issue, can't see mem being able to run at double speed! Watching youtube and mem speed goes up a little but not as much as before - just an occasional really high jump now.