RX 480 gpu clock while gaming

[A_Skywalker]

Does anyone have idea why my card stays at 300 clock speed while gaming, I didnt turn on any power saving features or compatibility mode. Also it shows usage of watts which is unreal...
In games it perfeorms okay, but definately not like it should be.

 

[n0x1ous]

Does anyone have idea why my card stays at 300 clock speed while gaming, I didnt turn on any power saving features or compatibility mode. Also it shows usage of watts which is unreal...
In games it perfeorms okay, but definately not like it should be.

there is no load on the card. Your game must stop putting a load on the card when you minimized/alt+tabbed. Some do that, some don't I think.

use an overlay like RTSS to see whats really going on when gaming.

 

[IEC]

Because you are ALT+TABing, which reverts your GPU to desktop (2D) clocks. If you hover over the red "bumps"/spikes for core clock in GPU-Z you can see what it is peaking at while running the game.

 

[RussianSensation]

Set Windows (on the Desktop) to High Performance Mode. Sometimes that fixes issues with low clocks.
http://www.howtogeek.com/240840/should-you-use-the-balanced-power-saver-or-high-performance-power-plan-on-windows/

 

[Magic Carpet]

There is zero load on your card, hence you see the lower clocks. Absolutely normal.

A decade ago, we had full GPU clocks just idling around on the desktop, fans that made noise just from checking e-mail.

Can't believe, somebody complains about that 😛

 

[LTC8K6]

Does anyone have idea why my card stays at 300 clock speed while gaming, I didnt turn on any power saving features or compatibility mode. Also it shows usage of watts which is unreal...
In games it perfeorms okay, but definately not like it should be.

It's clearly not staying at 300 clock speed while gaming.

 

[A_Skywalker]

Thank you, how about the memory mhz, wasnt it supposed to be 7000? I get 2000 at max when I check the spikes.

 

[R0H1T]

Thank you, how about the memory mhz, wasnt it supposed to be 7000? I get 2000 at max when I check the spikes.

That's QDR, so 8GHz effectively, also you might wanna try hw64 & see how the GPU clocks over a complete gaming session.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

If you mouse over the red bar on the right you can probably see the clocks it was at when gaming.

 

[hsjj3]

If you look at the graph it's obvious there red area is much higher before than it is now right?

 

[LTC8K6]

Thank you, how about the memory mhz, wasnt it supposed to be 7000? I get 2000 at max when I check the spikes.

2000X4=8000.

Again, you are getting more...

 

[plopke]

The GPU load - GPU speed kinda overlap ?

Any reason in particular you are worried or asking this ? Are you playing a game that suffers from low fps ?

Everything in a computer these days will run at low speed if you not feeding it anything to do or will go into some turbo mode if you giving it lots of stuff to do , just look at your CPU frequencies


Put your game in window mode or GPU-z on a second monitor and check than the speed while you playing.