AMD’s Radeon RX 7000-series graphics playing cards (and their predecessors, the RX 6000-series) provide spectacular energy out of the field, particularly for gaming. But with a bit of further tuning you may get much more firepower out of them.
This information explains how one can get much more efficiency, effectivity, and film high quality out of AMD’s trendy graphics playing cards, utilizing software program methods to optimize and speed up their RDNA graphics architectures even additional. Let’s dig in.
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1: Faster via overclocking!
If you wish to overclock your PC’s graphics card, you’ll be confronted with many unanswered questions in the beginning. You want to concentrate to some staple items so the venture seems profitable.
Before you begin overclocking, you’ll want to know precisely which graphics card you’re tinkering with and which technical specs (e.g. clock frequencies) it has. We’ll be utilizing the $900 Radeon RX 7900 XT for our instance beneath.
First, seek for the GPU’s product web page (or dig out your handbook) and decide all of the specs related for overclocking (which we’ll element for this instance beneath). You’ll additionally want to put in TechPowerUp’s excellent GPU-Z software to truly be capable of truly monitor the related specs — resembling base, sport, increase, and reminiscence clocks — in actual time. Fear not, it’s free!
In the case of the reference AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, the instrument spits out the next technical specs:
- 1.900 MHz base clock
- 2.400 MHz increase clock (most)
- 2.300 MHz sport clock (common)
- 16 GB GDDR6 with 20 Gbps reminiscence pace (10 GHz)
Our objective is to extend the utmost attainable increase clock and thus the common sport clock in video games, and optionally maximize the reminiscence bandwidth by reaching the next reminiscence clock. Radeon graphics card homeowners can use the built-in overclocking perform within the firm’s AMD Software Adrenalin Edition slightly than turning to a third-party instrument like MSI Afterburner. AMD itself demonstrates how the overclocking characteristic works intimately within the video beneath.
Overclocked accordingly, you may anticipate to see as much as 10 to 15 % extra efficiency (or frames per second) in comparison with the manufacturing unit settings for the RX 7900 XT graphics card.
Important observe: By overclocking or undervolting a GPU, you modify essential parameters resembling the warmth dissipation and energy consumption of the graphics card. Please observe that incorrectly set voltages can’t solely lead to an unstable system, but additionally irreparable injury to the GPU. Overclocking isn’t as harmful as many individuals assume, however make sure to observe the information AMD offered above!
2: More environment friendly via undervolting
GPU producers all the time construct a security buffer into the manufacturing unit settings of their graphics playing cards, balancing the best attainable stability by making use of a bit of extra voltage than mandatory for a lot of chips. The voltage of many Radeon graphics playing cards might be lowered inside a sure vary with out inflicting crashes or instabilities, although like overclocking, the precise diploma of change will rely in your particular GPU’s particular person silicon high quality..
While overclocking is all about placing the efficiency pedal to the metallic, with undervolting, the objective is to function the graphics card with comparable efficiency whereas drawing considerably much less energy (and thus, spitting out considerably much less warmth), as defined in-depth in our undervolting guide.
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In the case of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT reference design, the voltage is 1.150 volts and may normally be lowered to 0.975 to 1.025 volts earlier than the graphics card begins to clock down massively. Here, too, the so-called “sweet spot” should be found manually so as to have the ability to enhance the effectivity to the utmost.
Once you’ve explored (and mixed) applicable overclocking and undervolting on your Radeon graphics card, it’s going to ideally not solely run sooner, but additionally extra effectively and cooler.
3: More secure via stress exams
To guarantee overclocked and/or undervolted graphics playing cards stay secure even beneath heavy hundreds, operating the next benchmarks and stability exams are a good suggestion.
Since hundreds (and particularly the load peaks) for the GPU and the VRAM behave in a different way in video games than artificial stress exams, you also needs to play a few of your favourite video games and examine them for stability. Ideally, the result’s a sooner, extra environment friendly graphics card that may be operated with absolute stability. Check out our complete information on how to benchmark your graphics card if you wish to go even deeper.
4: More lovely due to upscaling
Users who prefer to play video games in greater resolutions and benefit from the considerably improved image high quality are sometimes confronted by a scarcity of uncooked efficiency from their graphics card, particularly at 4K or ultrawide resolutions. But AMD has an answer for this as effectively.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is the title of the characteristic that first calculates photographs at a decrease decision internally after which “upscales” them to suit your monitor decision utilizing a software program upscaling course of. That technological mixture means the body charges and body occasions in supported titles might be elevated with out having to improve to a brand new graphics card.
AMD demonstrates how this works with the favored open-world racing sport Forza Horizon 5, which might be considerably accelerated with FSR 2.2, within the video beneath.
FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 is designed to ship the absolute best image high quality, with a remaining picture that appears much like or higher than native image high quality, whereas additionally boosting body charges in supported video games, AMD says.
In complete, greater than 200 video games assist FSR, together with many well-known video games, resembling:
- Anno 1800
- Resident Evil 2+3
- Resident Evil Village
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
- Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- World of Warships
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dying Light 2
- Forspoken
- Diablo 4
The efficiency and effectivity positive factors from including AMD FSR 2 are fairly spectacular, as AMD’s benchmarks reveal.
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5: Cooler due to Radeon Chill
AMD’s Radeon Chill helps maintain your graphics card (and thus your system, and room) cool and quiet.
This energy-saving characteristic conserves the battery of notebooks and reduces the facility consumption of gaming PCs by controlling the body charges based mostly in your in-game actions. When there may be intense motion, Radeon Chill runs the frames per second (FPS) as much as a set higher restrict (FPS restrict). If there isn’t any motion in occurring in your sport, the body price cap is routinely decreased, which saves power and permits the graphics card and the remainder of the system to run cooler and quieter.
AMD demonstrates how AMD Radeon Chill works within the video beneath.
Radeon Chill works with most titles that use DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and DirectX 12 from Microsoft in addition to the free graphics API Vulkan, which is generally used on Linux.
Just like overclocking and undervolting, Radeon Chill might be activated straight through the AMD graphics driver and the AMD Radeon Adrenalin software program.
6: Smoother due to AMD FreeSync
No distortion. No leaping visuals. Just gaming.
That’s how AMD describes its adaptive synchronization expertise for displays that assist a variable refresh price to keep away from “tearing” and cut back stuttering. AMD FreeSync expertise delivers easy, judder-free gaming efficiency at nearly any body price, with out distorted or clipped frames.
The newest higher-tier variations of FreeSync, AMD FreeSync Premium and FreeSync Premium Pro, additionally assist refresh charges of 120Hz and above, Low Framerate Compensation (“LFC”), and HDR gaming.
To use AMD FreeSync, FreeSync Premium, and FreeSync Premium Pro, a appropriate monitor is required. More than 900 displays from numerous producers have been licensed accordingly and assist the adaptive synchronization expertise.
This article has been translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.