Thursday, January 19th 2023
AMD RX 7900 XTX OC Does Cross 3 GHz Barrier, But in Non-Gaming Workloads
AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XTX RDNA3 graphics card does cross the 3 GHz engine clocks barrier, but not in gaming use-cases, finds a ComputerBase.de article, in which the German publication compares the overclocking experience between the RX 7000-series RDNA3 and NVIDIA RTX 40-series "Ada" architectures. The RX 7900 XTX was found to hit engine clock speeds as high as 3455 MHz, but when handling the Blender rendering benchmark, and not typical gaming workloads.
The GPU could even be pushed to 3548 MHz with a power-draw of around 400 W, but it wasn't stable, the article notes. The top frequencies the GPUs could hit with gaming workloads were around 2.90 GHz. We could be happening with games is that more of the GPU's hardware resources are tapping into its power-limit (such as the memory controllers, caches, and other special SIMD functions, which could be impacting the engine clock boosting headroom. ComputerBase.de used a Sapphire RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ custom-design graphics card in its testing, which comes with three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and a higher overclocking headroom than what the reference-design cards are capable of.
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ComputerBase.de
The GPU could even be pushed to 3548 MHz with a power-draw of around 400 W, but it wasn't stable, the article notes. The top frequencies the GPUs could hit with gaming workloads were around 2.90 GHz. We could be happening with games is that more of the GPU's hardware resources are tapping into its power-limit (such as the memory controllers, caches, and other special SIMD functions, which could be impacting the engine clock boosting headroom. ComputerBase.de used a Sapphire RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ custom-design graphics card in its testing, which comes with three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and a higher overclocking headroom than what the reference-design cards are capable of.
68 Comments on AMD RX 7900 XTX OC Does Cross 3 GHz Barrier, But in Non-Gaming Workloads
I know... UGH I know... I'm sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's just that I'm not going to buy nvidia is all
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm not saying NV or AMD has a problem since it is literally irrelevant to this conversation at this point and yet you still cling to it, twist words and come back to the same conclusion which several people here have told you already, it is irrelevant, can't be verified and with this it is not a fact but a huge stretch that cannot be accounted for. Meaning, drop it.
You know what you call a person who does things and thinks exactly in the same way over and over and expects different result? Insane or crazy or delusional. You can pick which one is mostly close to you.
bro it's ok you don't have to shill so hard, i won't buy nvidia anyway
My AMD PCs have horrible reliability, and crash on the daily, as you can see above.
I see it like this, imagine nvidia, Intel and AMD are people. Nvidia and Intel break into your house while you're away and steal a bunch of stuff, later that same night, AMD gets the same idea and jumps in but now there's less to steal and they don't have as many pockets to carry stuff anyway. All 3 get caught, all 3 are guilty of the same crime, but to slightly different extents due to factors like getting there later and having less pockets.
I see them all as guilty that's for sure, and hate the anti-consumer stuff that all 3 do(and happily agree and call out any conpany doing it) but I'm torn because I love pc gaming, so I put the 'crime' aside and just look at the products, I'm not going to go easy on the least worst one just because they got there late and took less stuff.
But of course that's also correct, so far, it's the best value, quantifiably. But like usual, for anyone that owns previous gen high end, a 4070ti or 7900xt make very little sense, but the 7900xt makes the least.
Hate to think how many people would cry about a a card that did not work in 3DMark but ran games really well. and lets face it still hit 3.4GHz, this is a GPU their catching up with CPU's lmao. Shame that it cannot do the same with games which is were it would actually matter.
As for 8 pin connectors i have never had a issue with them on any card regardless of how many times i have plugged and unplugged them and on some cards i have unplugged then 50+ times without issue.
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The 7900XTX is a good card but I feel the price is still to high. It is better than other offerings but still a bit too high.