AMD Crimson memory clock problem.

[Guest]

Hi, I have a R9 280 graphics card, and few days after crimson came out; I updated. At the time everything was working fine, the next day I noticed that both GPU clock and Memory clock were clocked down due the card idling, then after applying the OC I went to run some tests, I did furmark and valley.
Then I went and tweaked the setting more and found out that the memory Clock was always stuck to the highest value it wouldn't down clock when the card was idling, so I did a factory reset and then it was stuck to the default of 1250 Mhz all the time even when idling, I reinstalled the drivers but still it's always stuck like that. It no longer lowers the value when idling. I would like some help with this please.

 

[RobCrezz]

Why is it a problem?

 

[Guest]

Why is it a problem?

It's because if I move the slider for memory clock then that becomes the starting point for example;
the default is 1250Mhz and I move it to 1275Mhz then instead of seeing 150 MHz on the left I see 1275MHz as start/default vaule and can no longer lower it.
Plus it uses that OC all the time even when there is 0 activity; this only happens for the memory clock, the GPU core clock seems to be at 0 when idling, so I'm asking if anyone else has had this issue or is there nothing to worry about?

 

[ImNotSaneYet]

Yeah, I've got the same problem.. Once I click the Memory Clock button.. the default will be like 1400MHz on my 7870.
And it stays 1400 in GPU-Z .. temps are over 40c .. but they should be around 30 when idling.
Core clock bumps up to 400.

Core clock should be 300.. and memory clock 150MHz when idling.

These things make me want to ditch AMD so bad.

With CCC I did not have this problem. In games with Vsync on, the card sometimes didn't even clock to the overclocked settings until necessary. And clocked back down to 300/150MHz when doing nothing.


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So a little update on this thread. I uninstalled the ''Radeon Settings'' with AMD Installer and rebooted. Things were fine.
Also now, I installed the MSI Afterburner. It works great.. doesn't have this idle clock bug.

Bottom line, get rid of AMD overclocking utility, get the Afterburner.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, I've got the same problem.. Once I click the Memory Clock button.. the default will be like 1400MHz on my 7870.
And it stays 1400 in GPU-Z .. temps are over 40c .. but they should be around 30 when idling.
Core clock bumps up to 400.

Core clock should be 300.. and memory clock 150MHz when idling.

These things make me want to ditch AMD so bad.

With CCC I did not have this problem. In games with Vsync on, the card sometimes didn't even clock to the overclocked settings until necessary. And clocked back down to 300/150MHz when doing nothing.


.....

So a little update on this thread. I uninstalled the ''Radeon Settings'' with AMD Installer and rebooted. Things were fine.
Also now, I installed the MSI Afterburner. It works great.. doesn't have this idle clock bug.

Bottom line, get rid of AMD overclocking utility, get the Afterburner.

I've reinstalled Crimson multiple times now to see if it would fix it, but nothing has worked, even the beta version didn't fix it. Like you said this problem was not present in CCC. I will switch to Afterburner and see if that fixes it for me.

Edit: For the past few days I've been trying to fix this but nothing has worked, people have said on other forums that if you have multiple monitors then memory clock wouldn't go down (I have 2), which makes sense I guess but on the first day of crimson it wasn't like this, core was at 300 and so was memory; that must have been the bug then 😀.

 

[chaosdraconis]

Installed oc guru from gigabyte and used it to set the clocks to default. after that opened overdrive and it was back to normal (150-2000)...
P.S: i have gigabyte 280x

 

[DerekKddj]

Installed oc guru from gigabyte and used it to set the clocks to default. after that opened overdrive and it was back to normal (150-2000)...
P.S: i have gigabyte 280x

Thansks man!! this worked for me...now gpd at idle is clock@300MHz and memory@150MHz