Hi, I recently bought a MSI Gaming x RX480 4G card. I removed my prior Nvidia drivers using DDU and put in the RX 480, then installed Adrenaline. I'm new to AMD graphics cards and their wattman utility, so I'm trying to decipher what adjustments are reasonable and where to make them.
The card started up with the right clocks and a valid bios number, so I'm thinking it was flashed appropriately back to stock bios. However, when I tried to run Firestrike or Time Spy benchmarks, the card was crashing hard (blank screen, required full power and cmos reset to get running again).
I thought it might be the incorrect bios for the card, so I extracted the bios using GPU-Z and asked on MSI's forum for the bios that belongs with the serial number. The bios provided by MSI matches the SHA value of the one I extracted, so I have not flashed the bios and have relied on what the seller did.
I started from bios-default for the card (1303 / 1750 gpu/mem clock) and then disabled zero RPM, adjusted the power level higher, and used the slider to adjust GPU frequencies down 10%. Then I could game and even run benchmark programs without the hard crash, but it was like the card was briefly freezing every 2-3 seconds. When I looked at the longer graph in GPU-Z's clock, it looks like the card is throttling back frequently. When I only dialed the GPU back -7%, it was crashing mid-run.
I'm doing what testing I can on my end to see if this card is broken in some way or if there's something I'm overlooking, but the added confusion of new tools and different terminology is pretty high.
Does anyone out there have any thoughts about these sensor readings that were recorded running Time Spy/suggestions on what to try or might be wrong?
The card started up with the right clocks and a valid bios number, so I'm thinking it was flashed appropriately back to stock bios. However, when I tried to run Firestrike or Time Spy benchmarks, the card was crashing hard (blank screen, required full power and cmos reset to get running again).
I thought it might be the incorrect bios for the card, so I extracted the bios using GPU-Z and asked on MSI's forum for the bios that belongs with the serial number. The bios provided by MSI matches the SHA value of the one I extracted, so I have not flashed the bios and have relied on what the seller did.
I started from bios-default for the card (1303 / 1750 gpu/mem clock) and then disabled zero RPM, adjusted the power level higher, and used the slider to adjust GPU frequencies down 10%. Then I could game and even run benchmark programs without the hard crash, but it was like the card was briefly freezing every 2-3 seconds. When I looked at the longer graph in GPU-Z's clock, it looks like the card is throttling back frequently. When I only dialed the GPU back -7%, it was crashing mid-run.
I'm doing what testing I can on my end to see if this card is broken in some way or if there's something I'm overlooking, but the added confusion of new tools and different terminology is pretty high.
Does anyone out there have any thoughts about these sensor readings that were recorded running Time Spy/suggestions on what to try or might be wrong?
Last edited: