GPU-Z should show you the reason why your performance is limited, as I recall. On a mac right now so I can’t check.
You shouldn’t need to mess with the curve, just go into MSI afterburner and increase the total power usage and see if that helps.
LOL, I think I fixed it? Or somewhat close enough?
I reached 2000 on Heaven benchmark, and before I had 1420-1460.
The graph was all over the place in comparison:
Basically I increased the power limit & temp limit 5 or 6 %, and the voltage 1 or 2%. After some minutes the benchmark closed itself. Not good. So I put everything default, and this time I only increased the power limit by a 1%. Now it performs clearly better?
Still appears you’re being limited by power more than temps, but that may be normal for the card, if your benchmarks are comparable to others you’re good to go.
Still sounds a bit weird but a win’s a win :)
Yeah it’s not up there but whatever, it’s clearly better than before (edit: before 5044). I hope to buy a new one by October in any case.
I was thinking that if your card is being limited by total power draw, then you might improve performance by undervolting. Glad it’s working for you now in any case.
Not at all, undervolting would decrease available power. It looks like for whatever reason, his card isn’t drawing sufficient power at stock to consistently hit its thermal limit.
Adjusting the voltage curve would let the card hit a higher clock speed for a given total power draw. It’s still not clear to me if the card is physically unable to draw as much power as it used to, or if it’s just a software setting that needed to be changed. Turin’s fix suggests the latter maybe. Either way, glad it’s working better now.
He was already hitting 1900Mhz, clocks aren’t the problem.
The funny thing is that I totally knew it wasn’t performing as expected… and I knew it just by ear. Because I remembered how the gpu sounded when it was at max 100% sustained use (freaking noisy, that’s how) and the sound wasn’t bothering so much in the last months! Now it sounds like it should :P
Last bencharmk, Borderlands 3
BenchmarkResults 2022-05-26_19-52-55 => now
- FramesPerSecondAvg: 76.14
- FrameTimeMsAvg: 13.13
BenchmarkResults 2022-05-19_14-19-13 => hey this gpu is broken!
- FramesPerSecondAvg: 35.35
- FrameTimeMsAvg: 28.29
BenchmarkResults 2019-11-02_20-54-30 => original 2019 results
- FramesPerSecondAvg: 78.70
- FrameTimeMsAvg: 12.71
Aceris
10490
Yeah it was super weird. If the config was bad it could easily be running low clocks and low power, but high clocks and low power suggests some of the silicon was somehow not being used.
Surprise people, my gpu has returned to have the old, bad performance it had!
The difference is, this time I am not able to fix it, as much as I play around with MSI Afterburner. Crucially, I’m not able to make it hit the power limit like in here:
not even when putting the power limiter to the max (108%).
I tried already half a dozen variations and no dice, I’m tired. Fuck this, it will stay as is until I buy a new one. Backlog/indie time.
This is the way. You may even find it to be a blessing in disguise. I was without a GPU for a while and used that time to revisit old classics, and I wound up enjoying them more than newer titles.
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Weird thought, but you’ve tried it in another slot, right? I just wonder if the power delivery on the motherboard might be borked and therefore it’s not consistently drawing the expected amount from the PCIE.
On the bright side, the 4060 is going to be a nice upgrade :)
Finally the prices are approaching msrp here:
Then again, this tech released on Fall’20, at this point it should be below msrp.
They’re down to 850 USD (plus 75 tax) here so about the same I think. They’re not selling out at that price either, which is interesting.
Maybe the market for people who wants a gpu for >800€ is already all fulfilled and saturated.
Dejin
10498
At least the ones that haven’t decided they might as well wait for the rtx 40x0s.
