Updating your graphics card's clock speed inside the BIOS doesn't work at all.
Updating your graphics card's clock speed inside the BIOS doesn't work at all.
After a month of trying everything I can think of, the Ryzen 3 2200g APU is still slow and has high usage spikes. I thought about overclocking but couldn't figure out how to change it in BIOS because nothing seems to work. Benchmarks show my clock jumping from 400mhz up to 1100mhz, then dropping back down. This causes stuttering when playing games. Even though the settings save to the BIOS, the clock never goes higher than 1100mhz; something else is stopping it from going up. I can overclock the CPU alone by changing the multiplier in BIOS, which gives a small performance boost and keeps the clock at 3.85ghz. Uninstalling Ryzen Master didn't help either. The graphics card (iGPU) also works fine if I use the program to change its speed, but that makes me nervous because when it isn't working, it drops back down, especially since I only have one fan and no UPS for power outages during BIOS updates. I'm wondering what is causing this problem and why my changes in BIOS aren't taking effect? Maybe a BIOS update could help? I don't have a backup battery because power cuts happen often, so I worry the update will fail. So far, I've checked temperatures, set the power plan to high performance, installed drivers, tried different versions with DDU, and adjusted driver settings. There is also another problem: my RAM isn't running fast enough. It can only handle 2866mhz because it's a 3200mhz kit, but memcheck gives me errors if I try higher speeds like 3000 or above, even with very loose timings of 19-19-19 and low voltage of 1.35v. Is this okay to replace the RAM or update the BIOS? Here is my computer setup: CPU/iGPU: Ryzen 3 2200g (with Vega 8 graphics card) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H rev.1.x (supports Ryzen 2000 series) RAM: 3200mhz G.Skill Trident Z, 2x4gb sticks with timings of 16-18-18 (OC'd to 2866mhz; anything higher is unstable).
I bumped up the voltage for the SOC to fix this. It wouldn't speed higher than the base clock unless I added more power.
It was solved just by raising the SOC power supply a little. Somehow, it couldn't speed past the base clock unless I added extra voltage to boost it further.