The RX 6000 series Owners' Club

[pavle]

I do not know where you could buy an X-clamp, perhaps try one of the older cards' clamp, e.g. HD 2900 XT or similar, they had a big core and such a clamp (if it's of the same dimensions).
But foremost when you get the card from RMA process, just leave it as it is and do not open it up if the temperatures are good enough.

 

[chris189]

Thanks @pavle the only problem with stock hot spot performance is it hits 106-110°C overclocked on the gigabyte eagle cards. With an x-clamp installed from the rx 480 it achieves 83°C hot spot with max overclock with the delta fans of course so its a trade off.

I think I will leave it stock & talk about it with u guys for a while & we will vote on it if I should pull it apart or not to fix the temperatures or just bare the high hot spot temps & runs reduced underclocks with reduce undervoltages.

 

[Fatal Fighter]

Guys, is it possible that Gigabyte sells coolers of their cards separately? I need this one's cooler https://www.techpowerup.com/review/gigabyte-radeon-rx-6900-xt-gaming-oc/2.html, as my watercooled card is very difficult to be sold in my country

 

[Garlic]

New card

 

[kapone32]

Guys, is it possible that Gigabyte sells coolers of their cards separately? I need this one's cooler https://www.techpowerup.com/review/gigabyte-radeon-rx-6900-xt-gaming-oc/2.html, as my watercooled card is very difficult to be sold in my country

I am putting a block on one of those cards next week. You can get the shroud if shipping won't be too expensive.

Well I hooked it all up anyway because I couldn't bare to wait. It's working fine but they don't quite achieve maximum rpm. Just about 6,000 rpm max vs 6,150 rpm with a single fan hooked up but it's all good.

It dropped my hot spot in 3dmark Time Spy by -21°C, from 106°C to 85°C which is amazing. It's also amazing how hot the RAM gets on the GDDR6.

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AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING (3dmark.com)
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Modded Gigabyte Eagle AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 4.5Ghz 3700X 4K ULTRA Rise Of The Tomb Raider - YouTube

This is insane but it also shows how flexible PCs are

 

[Garlic]

Hey guys, is there anyway to increase core voltage on my toxic that doesn’t require me taking it apart.. thanks

 

[Fatal Fighter]

I am putting a block on one of those cards next week. You can get the shroud if shipping won't be too expensive.

Thank you so much!
But I decided to try once again and sell the card here in my country, for about 1300$.
Is the price too high?

 

[keento]

Do you know why I cant use "more power tool" softwar with my rx 6600 ?

 

[Kabouter Plop]

Anyone else has this scrolling thru animated backgrounds inside steam ?

Only happens inside steam not in firefox and only with hardware acceleration on for web pages, i dont think my gpu is dying its happening to consistently resizing window makes it less glitchy tho but does not go away.

 

[Athlonite]

Do you know why I cant use "more power tool" softwar with my rx 6600 ?

did you read the how to on the website for it

 

[chris189]

@keento Did you figure it out. It's quite easy. Dump your BIOS file with GPU-Z & load it into the tool, then you can dial er' in bro.

 

[keento]

@chris189

yes i figured out

but it didnt help

i've read it doesnt really change the gpu bios but registry instead

 

[jerseydevil24]

I have msi rx 6600 with power limit 0 % + , gpu 54 degrees 2670 mhz, watt 100 max, has someone can tests after modifying the bios? 120 watt and power limit of 20% efficiency increment will be greater? in the adrenaline drivers gpu limit mhz 2900 mem 1900 mhz but it does not go in games in this mode ?

 

[tpu7887]

Got my RX 6600 XT yesterday

Image below: HWiNFO 64 "Maximums"

So I have a 6600 XT and I've overclocked it a bit because why not? During a physics benchmark my GPU's hot spot temperature got up to 102 deg C while the GPU temperature's maximum was only 69. This seems like a big difference to me. At idle the difference is only 3 deg C. Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 maximum temperature (GPU) is 63 deg C, with the hotspot at 83. The card's usual TDP is 135 watts which I increased to 162. This isn't to run the card at 162 watts, I've adjusted the clocks so that the average stays well below 135, the increased maximum is mainly there to increase performance when handling complex scenes, so the framerate doesn't drop below my monitor's VRR minimum.

Is it likely my card will hit these high temperatures again during real world use? I assume it's not safe for the card to be hitting over 100C. Once I set things up to use I don't check on them routinely. I don't want to end up with a broken or damaged card

 

[Athlonite]

That's quite a big difference between hotspot and package temp on that 6600XT which one do you have specifically

 

[tpu7887]

That's quite a big difference between hotspot and package temp on that 6600XT which one do you have specifically

It's the Gigabyte 6600 XT Gaming OC 8G. I've done more testing - It's only during synthetic benchmarks that the difference is is over 30 degrees - games are ~14-18

 

[Athlonite]

It's the Gigabyte 6600 XT Gaming OC 8G. I've done more testing - It's only during synthetic benchmarks that the difference is is over 30 degrees - games are ~14-18

Ah well that's not so bad then

 

[Kabouter Plop]

wattman is reseting upon safe shutdown sometimes now, i heard this is an old bug that returned and that disabling fast startup fixes it.

 

[kapone32]

Got my RX 6600 XT yesterday

Image below: HWiNFO 64 "Maximums"
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So I have a 6600 XT and I've overclocked it a bit because why not? During a physics benchmark my GPU's hot spot temperature got up to 102 deg C while the GPU temperature's maximum was only 69. This seems like a big difference to me. At idle the difference is only 3 deg C. Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 maximum temperature (GPU) is 63 deg C, with the hotspot at 83. The card's usual TDP is 135 watts which I increased to 162. This isn't to run the card at 162 watts, I've adjusted the clocks so that the average stays well below 135, the increased maximum is mainly there to increase performance when handling complex scenes, so the framerate doesn't drop below my monitor's VRR minimum.

Is it likely my card will hit these high temperatures again during real world use? I assume it's not safe for the card to be hitting over 100C. Once I set things up to use I don't check on them routinely. I don't want to end up with a broken or damaged card

It is likely that your card does not have enough Thermal Paste on the GPU die and sub optimal thermal pads. The funny thing is Gigabyte GPUs are about the easiest to take apart. If you have never done it before watch several videos on Youtube on taking it apart before trying. You will need to use a good thermal paste and you may want to replace the thermal pads as well as they are so hot that they meld to the memory chips. Use good thermal paste like Noctua NTH2, MX-5 or some equal.

I have had to do this with every Gigabyte card I have bought since the Vega 64. I just bought a 6500XT and was experiencing the same thing as you (triple fan cooler). When I took the card apart even the super small die for the 6500XT did not have enough paste and the pads had disintegrated to some degree.

 

[tpu7887]

It is likely that your card does not have enough Thermal Paste on the GPU die and sub optimal thermal pads. The funny thing is Gigabyte GPUs are about the easiest to take apart. If you have never done it before watch several videos on Youtube on taking it apart before trying. You will need to use a good thermal paste and you may want to replace the thermal pads as well as they are so hot that they meld to the memory chips. Use good thermal paste like Noctua NTH2, MX-5 or some equal.

I have had to do this with every Gigabyte card I have bought since the Vega 64. I just bought a 6500XT and was experiencing the same thing as you (triple fan cooler). When I took the card apart even the super small die for the 6500XT did not have enough paste and the pads had disintegrated to some degree.

Are you sure it's a thermal paste issue? Because the GPU temperature didn't rise to above 70 deg C and the fans were nowhere near their maximum yet. Having a >30 degree variation from one spot on a chip to another seems more like a problem from a lot of current going through a small part of a chip. Though GPUs are pretty big and don't have IHS like CPUs do, so I get where it could be a paste issue.

 

[kapone32]

Are you sure it's a thermal paste issue? Because the GPU temperature didn't rise to above 70 deg C and the fans were nowhere near their maximum yet. Having a >30 degree variation from one spot on a chip to another seems more like a problem from a lot of current going through a small part of a chip. Though GPUs are pretty big and don't have IHS like CPUs do, so I get where it could be a paste issue.

If it is not the GPU die then it could be the thermal pads on the memory. The thing though is that the cooler on that card is a triple fan variant so the GPU should not even be going to 70. It is not the IHS but the amount of Thermal Paste that is applied by Gigabyte from the factory. Like I said I have a 6500XT which is about 1/6 the size of a 6800XT and was seeing the same temps until I changed the Paste and pads. Now it maintains 60 C and the hot spot is around 69-75.

 

[GerKNG]

my collection so far.
Super happy with the performance and overclocking. but the reliability and drivers are still not on Nvidias Level. (Radeon Software unuseable until reboot, task bar flickering through sometimes, artifacting in R6 Siege since over a year (finger wide bar flickering across the screen for a few miliseconds every couple minutes)).

but still beside from just Raytracing Performance, RDNA2 won the current generation for me.

 

[DoLlyBirD]

Are you sure it's a thermal paste issue? Because the GPU temperature didn't rise to above 70 deg C and the fans were nowhere near their maximum yet. Having a >30 degree variation from one spot on a chip to another seems more like a problem from a lot of current going through a small part of a chip. Though GPUs are pretty big and don't have IHS like CPUs do, so I get where it could be a paste issue.

6700 XT Hotspot Temperature 95c anything to worry about?

Playing RE3 remake with RT on, max settings 1080p 100fps cap, the hotspot temp on my Sapphire Nitro+ is hitting 95-98c with 100% GPU load, GPU core temp was around 68%, coming from a 5600 XT I never saw the hotspot temp go above 80-85c with a manual fan curve, is this normal behaviour or should...

www.techpowerup.com

Seems to be fairly normal for RDNA2 as I asked the same question and there are 2 pages of replies, just make sure your case airflow is adequate and set a custom fan curve on the GPU, apparently the hotspot can hit upto 110c without thermal throttling, after that you might see some so the GPU will literally lower the clocks and voltages as to not damage the GPU

 

[tpu7887]

If it is not the GPU die then it could be the thermal pads on the memory. The thing though is that the cooler on that card is a triple fan variant so the GPU should not even be going to 70. It is not the IHS but the amount of Thermal Paste that is applied by Gigabyte from the factory. Like I said I have a 6500XT which is about 1/6 the size of a 6800XT and was seeing the same temps until I changed the Paste and pads. Now it maintains 60 C and the hot spot is around 69-75.

The cooler's fans were only spinning between 1750 and 1900RPM out of their maximum of 3300-3400RPM - it looks to me like 70 deg C GPU temperature was their target.
If I was programming the fan profile, I probably would've done the same.
Worst case gaming - so no frame limiting + fully loaded card makes the hot spot 84-88 degrees after max power is increased from 130 to 162 watts?
Sounds very reasonable to me!

Seems to be fairly normal for RDNA2 as I asked the same question and there are 2 pages of replies, just make sure your case airflow is adequate and set a custom fan curve on the GPU, apparently the hotspot can hit upto 110c without thermal throttling, after that you might see some so the GPU will literally lower the clocks and voltages as to not damage the GPU

What was running on your card when you noticed a hot hot hotspot?
How high were your temps? (GPU/Hotspot)?

 

[sam_86314]

Here's my new toy.

It was $687 before tax. Pretty close to MSRP, and more than I'd usually consider paying, but it's the exact model I've been wanting, and I'm in a pretty good place financially right now.

I'm currently running it on the Quiet BIOS, underclocked to 2250MHz @1100mV with the power limit set to the minimum. I dabbled with overclocking a bit and determined that the minimal gains I got in performance weren't worth the extra power usage and heat. Underclocking served me very well with my 5700XT, so I'm going to be doing it with this card too.