Other cards have had this issue, it'll be a driver bug and fixed in time.
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The RX 7900 GRE as of 20/03/2024 - Not such a flawed product?
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Other cards have had this issue, it'll be a driver bug and fixed in time.
Well my card (Nitro +) arrived and I installed it over lunch and gave BF2042 a quick blast. Seems like a great card, Hotspot was hitting 87 but I am not bothered as the card itself is very quiet and I don't have the best airflow in my case. I assume anything around 90 is more than fine for the hotspot under full load ?
Yes, no problem.
Caporegime
90c is ok for the Hot Spot, i've set a custom fan profile in the drivers for my Sapphire Pulse, its a little more aggressive than the stock profile and still quiet, but with it my Hot Spot temp tops out at 80c.
Will have a play this evening when I finish work, what have you undervolted your card to as well humbug ?
Caporegime
Yes and overclocked it, and increased the power limit, all the stuffs.....
Helldivers 2, i have all the settings maxed out at 1440P, last night tho i changed from native render scale to quality, that's why its 123 FPS, normally its at 99 or 100 FPS, something around there.
I'm going to put it back to native render scale, 100 vs 120 FPS i can't feel much difference, but i can see they difference in image quality.
7800 XT.
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Interestingly my voltage starts at 1050mv (I am guessing because these were originally mobile intended parts ?) will try dropping a few mv thoughYes and overclocked it, and increased the power limit, all the stuffs.....
Helldivers 2, i have all the settings maxed out at 1440P, last night tho i changed from native render scale to quality, that's why its 123 FPS, normally its at 99 or 100 FPS, something around there.
I'm going to put it back to native render scale, 100 vs 120 FPS i can't feel much difference, but i can see they difference in image quality.
7800 XT.
Caporegime
7900 GRE? Yes, probably because its lower clocked out of the box so it needs less volts, i can run it with a 3000 Mhz clock setting and +10% power at around 1050 Mv, but that's as low as it will go without crashing. I have set it to 1100 to make sure its stable. default clock setting is around 2550 Mhz.
Edit: default volts are 1150 Mv.
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Caporegime
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Yes it seems you have enough headroom as the default Nitro fan curves are more for noise output than cooling. Hell I have my 4090 running about 42/43c atm full load with custom curve (2000rpm max, case under desk cannae hear it nearly at all) but I do limit it to around 300w so am cheating slightly 
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Thanks for the words of wisdom
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Soldato
I’d say so yes, this would be great for 1440p though
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If nvidia did use their resources to drown out competition they might risk running foul of anti-monopoly laws. It's in nvidia's best interests to allow other companies just enough of the market so nvidia can point to those companies and say "See? We're not a monopoly".
It would also reduce their profits, both in the short term and the medium term (few if any companies think about the long term and it's more uncertain in tech anyway, so the long term isn't relevant in this context). Why sell cards that cost more to make when they can sell cards that cost less to make at the same price? Short term profits. If they sold better cards people would keep them longer before buying a new card. Medium term profits.
And they don't care much about the GPU market anyway. They're quite open about that. It makes sense. There are far more profitable markets for the general type of kit that nvidia makes - massively parallel processors. We may call them GPUs, but they're not strictly limited to graphics. Then there's the "professional" graphics card market, where manufacturers can sell a card that costs slightly more to make than the consumer model for 5-10x of the price of the consumer model. Vastly higher profit margin. Consumer graphics cards for gamers are at best a third rank consideration.
Man of Honour
I doubt it because the problem was specific to the 7900GRE. The 7900GRE had shorter overclocking sliders in the software, so overclocking was limited by the software and not by the capabilities of the card. Absolutely a bug and not done deliberately to maintain a larger performance separation between the 7900GRE and the 7900XT. Definitely not.
Caporegime
Yeah....
Outside of China it was only available in prebuilds, the artifisial locking of core and memory clock was for that reason, better protect the prebuild system warranty, this is usually at the request of the prebuild manufacture.
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Soldato
I have to turn the MV down to 950 to get the core of my sapphire 7900 gre to 2650. At stock it sits at about 2350. I cant wait until they fix the overclocking this thing will be a beast.
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Gains of 10% probably once unlocked. Bringing it to within 8-10% of stock 7900XT
Caporegime
f you get any crashing after hours of gaming that's why, if not, congratz, 100 Mv off the voltage is pretty good 
Man of Honour
Who has one of these then? What is the undervolting like on them and how many watts have you shaved off the power draw. I don't like the power draw on these cards but you can't ignore the performance for the price, almost 4070ti performance for a similar price to a 4070 non super. I was looking at a 4070 super as my 3070 is almost using all of it's vram (7892mb) while playing ETS2 with mods and I am getting texture popping but it only has a extra 4Gb of vram over my 3070 and like I said the price to performance of the 7900 GRE cannot be ignored. The downside is losing DLSS.