AMD Sapphire Vega 64 overclock
AMD Sapphire Vega 64 overclock
Yo so here I am, just built a new computer with a vega 64 slapped in it. But I am.... Getting weird results from my overclocking. A brief review: I ran some benchmarks, got some numbers. Downloaded MSI, tried to set my clock speed to 1730. It was at 1630. Benchmarks didn't crash, but score didn't increase. Referred to the charts MSI provides in MSI Afterburner. It showed that my graphics card was running at 1300 from start to finish. Even though.... Literally the baseline is 1630. IT says so in my AMD drivers, in MSI, shit, literally everywhere. And the benchmark test gave me totally different numbers. Said my core clock speed was 2400. Which, unless AMD pulled a miracle out of their ass and surpassed Nvidia alongside literally every gpu to ever exist, that... Isn't true.
I can't figure out what's going on. I can't overclock. MSI is giving me incorrect readings. Valley is giving me incorrect readings. Yet for some reason, if I crank MSI afterburner up to 2000 megahtz, I'm still crashing as though my GPU is overclocking. I'm stumped. This is... Bizarre to say the least. How in the world can I be crashing from too high of an overclock, when MSI isn't properly overclocking and I'm running base speeds while simultaneously getting false readings from Valley? Odd.
Edit: to amend a few of the things that I said, this isn't the single blower founder's edition so I'm not sure what base clocks should be, I'm running windows 10 if that matters, mobo is an Asrock taichi x399, and from what I can tell there are no restrictions to overclocking in the drivers or in the bios... also, there is plenty of temperature headroom. This gpu is maintaining 50 to 60 c under stress. So I can't see thermal throttling as an issue...
Additional update, I tried installing AMD's Overdrive software to see if perhaps it would be capable of overclocking my GPU and it locked up the system. After some reddit post browsing I discovered someone had troubles running this on their Ryzen system 2 years back because something with the software couldn't handle two drivers trying to access the hardware at the same time. I am running a thread ripper build, and the symptoms he described matched mine perfectly. So, AMD Overdrive might be off the table.
I haven't explored AMD's software no. And since updating the bios hasn't been done either, I didn't think it would be a big issue, especially with manufacturers adding flash buttons to simplify things. But still, online people seem to steer clear of bios flashes like it's a major problem, suggesting it's easy to brick your mobo. This raises my question—should I do it? I haven't really looked through the bios updates to understand what they offer or fix, so I wasn't sure if it was necessary.