The Radeon VII Owners Thread

Illuminist · 9 Feb 2019 at 22:54

Azrael1 said:
To be fair to AMD though all the reviews did mention the fan noise. Undervolting is an extra - I'm pretty sure they don't tell you that you have to do it to get the card running. So not sure why you feel short changed ?

That's like me buying a graphics card and random person 1 on the forum has it and can oc it by 400 Mhz and mine overclocks to 200 Mhz and sending it back as its not fit for purpose.

No it is nothing like that
Undervolting 140mv and have a cooler faster running quieter card versus one you cannot touch at all or games crash and is too loud to hear over and so hot it throttles, is a variance in product quality.

Illuminist · 9 Feb 2019 at 22:58

Like having a car you can't drive over 60mph without it making a horrific noise when everyone else, can drive faster and no noise at all

Illuminist · 9 Feb 2019 at 23:01

Also you don't spend 650 on an amd card to just never be able to touch it or it crashes.. ..

Azrael1 said:
To be fair to AMD though all the reviews did mention the fan noise. Undervolting is an extra - I'm pretty sure they don't tell you that you have to do it to get the card running. So not sure why you feel short changed ?

That's like me buying a graphics card and random person 1 on the forum has it and can oc it by 400 Mhz and mine overclocks to 200 Mhz and sending it back as its not fit for purpose.

Gerard · 9 Feb 2019 at 23:07

Just for the people that didn't know.

Illuminist · 9 Feb 2019 at 23:11

Gerard said:
Just for the people that didn't know.

How can he keep a straight face doing that hahahaga

spook2575 · 9 Feb 2019 at 23:41

Illuminist said:
How can he keep a straight face doing that hahahaga

But mine didn't come with a pci cover!

L-Digital82 · 9 Feb 2019 at 23:49

I’d be interested if people could share their cards default and optimal discovered settings so far for comparison.

I’ll start, haven’t really been able to get any extra juice out of mine, even keeping default clock and only increasing power limit or memory speed reduces my time spy score, however it does undervolt like a dream so it’s nice and quiet for me.

Sapphire

Default
Clock speed 1802
Voltage 1038mv

Optimal
Clock speed 1802
Voltage 915mv

When running heaven with either of these settings the frequency actually seems to sit around the 1750 mark.

Vince · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:05

Ive been playing around anybody else tried the auto memory overclock?

1235mhz memory and a big uplift in benchmarks.

Scougar · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:41

1235mhz? Holy heck

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:42

Vince said:
Ive been playing around anybody else tried the auto memory overclock?

1235mhz memory and a big uplift in benchmarks.

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

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:45

L-Digital82 said:
I’d be interested if people could share their cards default and optimal discovered settings so far for comparison.

I’ll start, haven’t really been able to get any extra juice out of mine, even keeping default clock and only increasing power limit or memory speed reduces my time spy score, however it does undervolt like a dream so it’s nice and quiet for me.

Sapphire

Default
Clock speed 1802
Voltage 1038mv

Optimal
Clock speed 1802
Voltage 915mv

When running heaven with either of these settings the frequency actually seems to sit around the 1750 mark.

Sapphire
Default - 1800
1061mv

Optimal - 1800
980mv benchmarks
1061mv games

Press the auto overclock memory button
1800 core
1150 hbm

8931 in timespy

Vince · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:45

Scougar said:
1235mhz? Holy heck

It goes faster too... quite a bit faster infact with these clocks. my best runs so far!

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:47

Press the reset to default on wattman.
Then press the auto memory overclock button people! Tell us what you get

Vince · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:49

Illuminist said:
Sapphire
Default - 1800
1061mv

Optimal - 1800
980mv benchmarks
1061mv games

Press the auto overclock memory button
1800 core
1150 hbm

8931 in timespy

Im not sure we can count the default, mine varies reboot to reboot. Ive had defaults as low as 1037 rebooted reset the driver and im at 1111mv.

My "actual" clocks with the memory button thing though is
1771 core
1235 hbm

Illuminist · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:55

Press the auto memory overclock button then press apply we really wanna know what you get

malachi · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:58

So who has gone from Vega 64 to Radeon 7, what's the verdict? Especially at 4k?

TrixX · 10 Feb 2019 at 00:59

Vince what's your Threadripper running? CPU score is quite low for Timespy:

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/4768602

Dave2150 · 10 Feb 2019 at 01:00

Sure you aren't getting performance regressions with higher HBM clocks?

I get a timespy graphics score of 8957, at stock gpu/memory but with 970mv underclock. My overall timespy score is low due to having a 6700k quad core:

Davedree · 10 Feb 2019 at 01:00

Not a great graphics score in time spy, only about +4-5fps compare to my lc64. How about fs normal,extreme and some real game benches.

Dave2150 · 10 Feb 2019 at 01:04

Davedree said:
Not a great graphics score in time spy, only about +4-5fps compare to my lc64. How about fs normal,extreme and some real game benches.

Was your LC64 at stock? Drivers for Radeon VII don't' properly support overclocking yet, so most are running stock, just with undervolts for temps/noise.

Here's my first firestrike: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/33315642?

Games are 20-30% faster on average for the ones I've played so far.