AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.1 for Radeon RX 7900 series Released

[TheinsanegamerN]

Their employee literally said on reddit

AH yes, the most reliable source of news *nutkick*

 

[Xeanoa]

Ah yes the famous reddit anecdote.

The question is does anyone else confirm it?

7900 XTX, this was addressed in 22.12.2 already.
Two displays, 2560x1440@144 Hz + 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz
Idle power draw is about 33-35 W.

 

[R-T-B]

AH yes, the most reliable source of news *nutkick*

I question reddit as much as anyone but a verified employee post is a verified employee post.

 

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yesterday received my rx 7900 xt nitro+
office work 4k@60 via hdmi
set up custom resolution, selected CVT reduced blanking (and reset driver via cru-1.5.1 / restart64.exe)
traced for some hours with gpu-z 2.52.0 and 0,5s sampling while doing office work.
average power draw ~26W. (significantly more than my short-time replacement rx 6600 - but ok, that one is unbeaten in idle power consumption)
here the distribution (x .. watts, y .. occurrences in trace):
- it seems gpu idles between 20-22 watts
- whatever actions in my office work pull the draw ~ +15 watts

YET, interestingly the GPU-Z's active tracing is keeping the GPU voltage up&down.
when I have only the adrenalin perf view opened, the GPU voltage is then quite stable around 110mV and the TBP is steady at 17W

I can just conclude that
* adrenalin 23.1.1 at least fixed the idle 4k@60 single monitoring mem clock that stays very low
* rx 7900 xt is quite sensitive about polling some values of it, which kicks the GPU voltage (it's like quantum world where observation affects the system)

 

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yet another update: the adrenalin driver is still a bit "buggy".
there are some conditions that lead to the power consumption go higher than would usually be necessary.
e.g. youtube video playback fullscreen 4k@60 the gpu would suddenly consume ~100W. execute cru-1.5.1 / restart64.exe. same video playback -> ~50W
also the desktop idle consumption sometimes would want to stay in the 40-ies until a driver restart, goes then immediately to the 17W region.
thus, get yourselves the cru tool and have a shortcut to the restart64.exe on desktop: https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7345-custom-resolution-utility.html
AMD, come on!

 

[willcf15]

yet another update: the adrenalin driver is still a bit "buggy".
there are some conditions that lead to the power consumption go higher than would usually be necessary.
e.g. youtube video playback fullscreen 4k@60 the gpu would suddenly consume ~100W. execute cru-1.5.1 / restart64.exe. same video playback -> ~50W
also the desktop idle consumption sometimes would want to stay in the 40-ies until a driver restart, goes then immediately to the 17W region.
thus, get yourselves the cru tool and have a shortcut to the restart64.exe on desktop: https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7345-custom-resolution-utility.html
AMD, come on!

Yup, was gonna update myself. Jumped on a 7900 xt deal and found that it does pretty well idling with my particular single monitor (20 watts at 4k/144), but with two monitors hooked up, idle wattage is closer to 90 (second monitor is 1440p/144).

Also as a side note, the lowest you can set the power limit is 90% of TDP, which I found pretty disappointing. I was hoping to set it at something like 80% to match the 250W flagships of yesteryear

 

[StefanM]

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.1.2 for AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 Series Graphics and Forspoken​

Highlights​

• Support for:
  • Forspoken™
  • IREE compiler using MLIR interface on Vulkan.
  • Additional Vulkan® extensions. Click here for more information.

Fixed Issues​

• AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition may fail to launch with the error message “Delayed Write Failed” on Microsoft® Windows® 11 version 22H2.
• Poor performance and load time may be observed while playing SpaceEngine™.
• Missing or flickering textures may be observed while playing Emergency 4™.

 

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Yup, was gonna update myself. Jumped on a 7900 xt deal and found that it does pretty well idling with my particular single monitor (20 watts at 4k/144), but with two monitors hooked up, idle wattage is closer to 90 (second monitor is 1440p/144).

Also as a side note, the lowest you can set the power limit is 90% of TDP, which I found pretty disappointing. I was hoping to set it at something like 80% to match the 250W flagships of yesteryear

now I was playing around with tuning and I have the impression that - with current drivers - there is almost nothing to get. the best state is stock clocks & voltages, SAM enabled, maybe RAM OC ~2750, but I cannot assess a perf boost.
my old rx 6900 xt I could UV and reduce clocks a bit and had 220-250w TBP and just few percent less perf. thus I was able to increase efficiency by a bit.

the rx 7900 xt just does not seem to be wanted to be tuned at all.

the nitro+ provides 2 bioses.
bios 1 goes "stock" up to 370W TBP. I find it just too power hungry and haven't played with it much. yes, here it is possible to UV and save 30-40W, because it is 'insanely' overvolted.
bios 2 seems to be like the "normal" with ~305W TBP. currently using for playing.

I still have the impression that there is potential in the drivers because some aspects are not reflected in the tuning page yet as rdna3 is different to previous single chip physical design. maybe things improve over time, even then with the upcoming _promised_ HYPR-RX

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 23.1.2 for AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 Series Graphics and Forspoken​

Highlights​

• Support for:
  • Forspoken™
  • IREE compiler using MLIR interface on Vulkan.
  • Additional Vulkan® extensions. Click here for more information.

Fixed Issues​

• AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition may fail to launch with the error message “Delayed Write Failed” on Microsoft® Windows® 11 version 22H2.
• Poor performance and load time may be observed while playing SpaceEngine™.
• Missing or flickering textures may be observed while playing Emergency 4™.

idle power consumption again.. now 4k@120 10bpc
with 23.1.1 it used to be ~40w
with 23.1.2
- without monitoring and just peek the consumption ~25-30W
- with active monitoring, it idles ~40+W

as stated before the 7900 seems to be very sensitive to active monitoring. the less the pc is peeking in with any tools, the less the idle power consumption. funny..