Gigabyte Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming OC 8 GB Review 24

Gigabyte Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming OC 8 GB Review

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Clock Speeds

For this test, we first let the card sit in idle to reach thermal equilibrium. Next, we start a constant 100% gaming load, recording several important parameters while the test is running. This shows you the thermal behavior of the card and how the fans ramp up as temperatures increase. Once temperatures are stable (no increase for two minutes), we stop the load and record how the card cools down over time.

GPU Clock, Voltage Temperature, Fan Speed over Time


Looks like there's still a bunch of driver issues with monitoring. Fan RPM kept returning to zero no matter the actual fan speed. GPU voltage and GPU clock would go exactly to zero when idle, which seems unlikely to be correct, too.

Voltage-Frequency Analysis

The card will dynamically adjust clock and voltage based on render load, temperature, and other factors.

For the graph below, we recorded all GPU clock and GPU voltage combinations of our 1920x1080 resolution benchmarking suite. The plotted points are transparent, which allows them to add up to indicate more often used values. A light color means the clock/voltage combination is rarely used and a dark color means it's active more often.

GPU Frequency and Voltage Analysis


Clock Profiles

Modern graphics cards have several clock profiles that are selected to balance power draw and performance requirements.

The following table lists the clock settings for important performance scenarios and the GPU voltage that is used in those states.

GPU
Clock
Memory
Clock
GPU Voltage
Desktop0 MHz200 MHz0.000 V
Multi-Monitor0 MHz1750 MHz0.000 V
Media Playback53 MHz200 MHz0.731 V
3D Load1719 - 1860 MHz1750 MHz1.106 - 1.118 V

As mentioned further above, some sensor readings in the AMD driver simply come back as zero when the card is idle.
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