Friday, November 4th 2022
AMD's Navi 31 Might Clock to 3 GHz, Partner Cards Will be Able to Overclock
Based on details from a PCWorld livestream following AMD's launch of the Radeon RX 7000-series, it was revealed that AMD has designed the Navi 31 GPU to be able to scale as high as 3 GHz. In other words, it appears that AMD has power limited its cards, at least for the SKUs that the company has announced so far. This could be for many reasons, but most likely to try to find a balance between power and performance. The details of the 3 GHz scaling did however not come from AMD directly, but rather from Jarred Walton over at Tom's Hardware. That said, the information was apparently shared with the media by AMD at the event.
In the livestream, it was also confirmed that partner cards will be able to overclock, so expect to see some factory overclocked cards, with higher power draw. This could be why, in part, that ASUS went with a much larger cooler on its TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900-series cards. As ASUS didn't reveal any clock speeds or TDPs of its two cards, we don't really know what to expect, but we'd be surprised if these cards weren't factory overclocked to some degree when they launch in December.
Sources:
PCWorld (on YouTube), via @akoago (on Twitter)
In the livestream, it was also confirmed that partner cards will be able to overclock, so expect to see some factory overclocked cards, with higher power draw. This could be why, in part, that ASUS went with a much larger cooler on its TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900-series cards. As ASUS didn't reveal any clock speeds or TDPs of its two cards, we don't really know what to expect, but we'd be surprised if these cards weren't factory overclocked to some degree when they launch in December.
51 Comments on AMD's Navi 31 Might Clock to 3 GHz, Partner Cards Will be Able to Overclock
Remains to be seen whether they have much clock headroom left or not, I'll quietly hope for yes, but I tend to think they are still going to follow RDNA2 roughly, there's a few hundred mhz left, but nothing earth shattering. my 2c
I just want to see the 3Ghz in afterburner when I play, that's how I roll :)
I am very curious to see it being compared against a 4090 @ 79% Power Limit (79% of 450 Watts = 355 Watts).
It should result in very similar power consumption and give a more complete picture on who has the better product (if one ignores cost/personal preference).
Imagine if it was jsut set value, top end 350 watts, next one down 300 watt, 250, 200, etc just for every generation in the future.
With one unlocked crazy halo product for overclock records but that one would be very limited supply.
Haven’t they jank rigged coolers like their DUCII series’s of coolers for AMD cards before?
/s
Whatever have been presented is amazing as is at "stock".
522mm2 of mixed N5/N6 node, with biggest chiplet being 300mm2.
Killed one similarly priced product (4080 12GB).
Is poised to wipe the floor with other (4080 16GB).
Threatens product way above its weight category (600mm2 power hungry 4090 that costs twice as much and no, I'm not buying $1600 announced price, it costs 2300+ Euro here, good 400 more than it should after counting in 19% VAT)
So let's say 2.5GHz boost shader clock for reference and if frontend retains the 200MHz advantage then around 2.7GHz boost clock for the frontend which is just -10% from the 3GHz OC claim. (Think 6900XT ASROCK Formula OC level)
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