Overclocking with Adrenalin sucks!

[Nebell]

My 7900 XTX showed real crappy performance. It was a bit below reference. In Borderlands 3 reference is about 103 fps and Nitro+ 107 fps. I was like wtf, I'm getting less than reference (102 fps).
So I tried Asus GPU Tweak (and Afterburner, but prefer Asus UI better). My best score in Borderlands 3 is a bit over 130 fps, which is almost in stock 4090 territory (136 fps).
How can AMD mess up that badly?

 

[travm]

My 7900 XTX showed real crappy performance. It was a bit below reference. In Borderlands 3 reference is about 103 fps and Nitro+ 107 fps. I was like wtf, I'm getting less than reference (102 fps).
So I tried Asus GPU Tweak (and Afterburner, but prefer Asus UI better). My best score in Borderlands 3 is a bit over 130 fps, which is almost in stock 4090 territory (136 fps).
How can AMD mess up that badly?

Maybe AMD doesnt want to smoke their own hardware?

 

[NightReaver]

My 7900 XTX showed real crappy performance. It was a bit below reference. In Borderlands 3 reference is about 103 fps and Nitro+ 107 fps. I was like wtf, I'm getting less than reference (102 fps).
So I tried Asus GPU Tweak (and Afterburner, but prefer Asus UI better). My best score in Borderlands 3 is a bit over 130 fps, which is almost in stock 4090 territory (136 fps).
How can AMD mess up that badly?

You didn't even describe how you overclocked it....did you just hit the button that says "overclock"? If so, yeah, its not great. Works just fine for manual tweaking which is what people should be doing anyways.

 

[Starfalcon]

The manual settings let you go pretty far into crazy. I was able to push mine pretty far before it started crashing, although my memory wouldnt go very much higher than stock.

 

[Nebell]

Maybe AMD doesnt want to smoke their own hardware?

What do you mean? My GPU doesn't go above 70 degrees Celsius (158F for the Americans) and that's with ~50% fan speed.

 

[Nebell]

The manual settings let you go pretty far into crazy. I was able to push mine pretty far before it started crashing, although my memory wouldnt go very much higher than stock.

You didn't even describe how you overclocked it....did you just hit the button that says "overclock"? If so, yeah, its not great. Works just fine for manual tweaking which is what people should be doing anyways.

I set 3400mhz GPU clock and 5500mhz vram clock in Asus GPU tweak. 1090mv voltage. Doesn't crash, it works fine and completes both TimeSpy and Port Royal without problems.
But it doesn't really boost high. It stays in 2750-2850 range with 68-70C (158F) gpu and about 92C (198F) hotspot temps. Fans at around 50%.

Before when I was overclocking with Adrenalin my TimeSpy score was 22k and Port Royal 14.5k.
After I uninstalled it and tried Asus GPU Tweak and went for a higher overclock on both gpu and vram I got 28k TimeSpy and 17k Port Royal, and Borderlands went from 102 fps to 128-130 fps (built in benchmark). That's a huge difference and I wasn't doing anything different with Adrenalin compared to Asus GPU Tweak. It was basically set vram clock, gpu clock, power limit, undervolt and change fan speed.

What's weird is that it actually was boosting higher with Adrenalin overclock, but the performance was abyssal. I'm not alone with this, other people have reported the same issue with Adrenalin, it must be some weird bug.
Coming from Nvidia I'm not disappointed with AMD drivers, I actually prefer the interface, but the shit doesn't seem to be stable.

 

[travm]

What do you mean? My GPU doesn't go above 70 degrees Celsius (158F for the Americans) and that's with ~50% fan speed.

I mean their software might be playing it safe
Overclocking and most specifically over volting can smoke a chip without exceeding temperature limits. In your case you're likely ok to push it some without much worry. But if you think you cannot destroy a chip without overheating it, you are wrong.

 

[Nebell]

It's probably a bug. I reinstalled the drivers and now overclocking with Adrenalin works normally.

 

[riev90]

It's probably a bug. I reinstalled the drivers and now overclocking with Adrenalin works normally.

Do you have 2 rigs? One with XTX gpu, the other is using Z690 with bent cpu socket pin?

 

[Nebell]

Do you have 2 rigs? One with XTX gpu, the other is using Z690 with bent cpu socket pin?

Nope, it's the same rig.

 

[SamiiRoss]

It's probably a bug. I reinstalled the drivers and now overclocking with Adrenalin works normally.

undervolt first then overclock vram. you will see a good bump in fps.