[EastCoast]

Miners tend to hunt for best best balance, not best performance... Overclocking and raising the limits to the max would make mining less profitable.
For gaming or benching you will mostly benefit from increasing the limits (if you can properly cool the hardware) in order to hit and keep at boost frequency, because you are loosing performance when you hit the limit and gpu downclocks even for a split second. I have most or all (can't really remember) of the power and current limits raised as well.

I still have not seen and demonstration of raising the limits to the max on 5700 series of cards gaming. So the same would apply to those who are gaming with them.
I asked earlier for sources, links, videos, pics and all I'm getting is what you think miners can and cant do.
🤨

 

[sf101]

Use gpu-z to get your gpus bios. open mpt and select your gpu at the top, now hit "load" and select the bios. now you can changes the values. once you're done, select "write sppt" at the bottom and restart your pc.

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(no need to flash the bios)

Are you sure you dont have to flash bios.. you could do write before the 2020 drivers but after it didn't work anymore like that unless i somehow missed something since then?

 

[EastCoast]

Washer Mod. I unscrewed 2 on the same side 1st. Once all of them were on I made 4 turns each then 2 turns the 1 and 1 (something like that) catty corner.

Plastic Washer:
M3 6mmx3mmx1mm

Temp Update:
I am seeing 4-5C drop in HotSpot Temps
Vregs stay 50C or lower. Before around 52C-54C
Ambient temps up by 2C.
So, yeah, it's working. But I put washers on all the backplate screws not just for GPU. That's why I'm seeing nice improvements on the vreg temps.

 

[Takla]

Are you sure you dont have to flash bios.. you could do write before the 2020 drivers but after it didn't work anymore like that unless i somehow missed something since then?

Yes I'm 100% sure you don't have to flash anything. Writing to registry works with newest drivers just fine. I'm using it right now. The only reason to flash bios is memory timings.

 

[strumf666]

I still have not seen and demonstration of raising the limits to the max on 5700 series of cards gaming. So the same would apply to those who are gaming with them.
I asked earlier for sources, links, videos, pics and all I'm getting is what you think miners can and cant do.
🤨

Feel free to try it yourself, or google it; I am to lazy to flash back and make a comparison...

 

[EastCoast]

Feel free to try it yourself, or google it; I am to lazy to flash back and make a comparison...

I have and it (soft table mod, increasing wattage, etc) shows 0 difference. I tried it myself and....0 difference in performance.

This is using:
-Washer mod
-Fujipoly thermal pads
-Kryonaut

 

[poah]

I have and it shows 0 difference. I tried it myself and....0 difference in performance.

This is using:
-Washer mod
-Fujipoly thermal pads
-Kryonaut

TBF kryonaut increased my GPU temps by 5c

 

[EastCoast]

TBF kryonaut increased my GPU temps by 5c

Lowered my by 3C. But I use a thick layer as it's thin.

 

[EastCoast]

After a week of playing different games I deleted my SPPT and went back to default settings for power consumption. I simply didn't see any performance advantage increase it for gaming.

 

[poah]

After a week of playing different games I deleted my SPPT and went back to default settings for power consumption. I simply didn't see any performance advantage increase it for gaming.

I just run my PL fully open on my red devil (WC)

 

[EastCoast]

I just run my PL fully open on my red devil (WC)

ok...
I did the same but no performance improvement.
Are we doing this just to see if we can?

 

[poah]

ok...
I did the same but no performance improvement.
Are we doing this just to see if we can?

some games use the extra power others don't.

 

[EastCoast]

some games use the extra power others don't.

What games??

 

[EastCoast]

Is 1150mV common for these cards when undervolting to 2150Mhz?

I didn't know you could drop the voltage .50mV?

 

[tolis626]

Is 1150mV common for these cards when undervolting to 2150Mhz?

I didn't know you could drop the voltage .50mV?

I don't know about common, but my card could do 2150MHz at 1.14V. Too bad the memory on it was a dud and could only be stable at up to 1800MHz. Any higher and I'd get random crashes.

Also, increasing the power limit does indeed work, unless you're hitting some other limit before power. I had mine running with a 250W PL and gains depended on the game/benchmark. Warzone saw no improvements, as it was already staying around 200-220W with a constant clock. Witcher 3, Superposition and Timespy did see measurable differences and would consume the full 250-something W I allowed. Seeing improvements or not is very software dependant.

 

[EastCoast]

I don't know about common, but my card could do 2150MHz at 1.14V. Too bad the memory on it was a dud and could only be stable at up to 1800MHz. Any higher and I'd get random crashes.

Also, increasing the power limit does indeed work, unless you're hitting some other limit before power. I had mine running with a 250W PL and gains depended on the game/benchmark. Warzone saw no improvements, as it was already staying around 200-220W with a constant clock. Witcher 3, Superposition and Timespy did see measurable differences and would consume the full 250-something W I allowed. Seeing improvements or not is very software dependant.

Thanks, I have the memory at 1800mhz, 2150 at 1150mV in COD. So it appears that is what these cards can do on average?

 

[tolis626]

Thanks, I have the memory at 1800mhz, 2150 at 1150mV in COD. So it appears that is what these cards can do on average?

Again, I don't know about average. I think it's better than average, but slightly so. Thing is, COD, especially multiplayer, doesn't really push the card. Try testing with other games, or benchmarks like Superposition or Timespy.

With that said, a 5700XT at these clocks is pushing close to the performance territory of a 1080ti/2080. It really punched above its weight class and can still more than hold its own today. Max score I've got in Superposition with it was 5625 (granted, at 1900MHz RAM, which long term was really unstable), whereas the 2080 scores about 6000-ish if memory serves me right. It took seeing a 3080 and a 6800XT in action to make me wanna upgrade.

 

[adversary]

Please, one question about EKWB waterblock for 5700 XT. They have it in stock. But does it fits every AIB 5700 XT card? I mean, is there difference between 5700 XT cards?

I have two of them, 5700 XT 8GB ASUS TUF and RX 5700 XT 8G Gigabyte AORUS.

I would like to order watercooling block (already have custom EKWB watercooling) for one of my 5700 XT, but can I be sure it is going to fit? Or, can I be sure it will have proper contact with chip, memory, VRM, etc.

 

[Solohuman]

Hey, is anyone with 5700XT having problems updating to 21.6.1 WHQL drivers?
I'm going from 21.3.1 to those & upon rebooting when it's all done, the win desktop settles down & then the whole system throws up that QR code error screen.
Have chipset drivers up to date with 2.17.25.506 but still get this problem.
Reverting back to 21.3.1 solves the problem entirely. I have NO interest in using non WHQL drivers so just wondering if anyone else has this issue?

 

[EastCoast]

Hey, is anyone with 5700XT having problems updating to 21.6.1 WHQL drivers?
I'm going from 21.3.1 to those & upon rebooting when it's all done, the win desktop settles down & then the whole system throws up that QR code error screen.
Have chipset drivers up to date with 2.17.25.506 but still get this problem.
Reverting back to 21.3.1 solves the problem entirely. I have NO interest in using non WHQL drivers so just wondering if anyone else has this issue?

That driver is old. But I don't recall issues with it when I had it.