I have the Sapphire Pulse 5700XT. I have attached three screenshots of three different clock settings on MSI Afterburner and the respective GPU - Z readings.
View: https://imgur.com/a/DqzC5Vg
When I reset my settings in MSI it shows 2029 MHz but in GPU-Z it reads everything as default with the Boost clock being 1925 MHz. Why does MSI Afterburner (Radeon's software too for that matter) say 2029?
When I set the clock in MSI Afterburner to 1925 which is supposed to be the default Boost clock of the card, GPU-Z says that the GPU clock is now lower than default, while the Boost clock remains the same. How come?
Another example is OC to 2050 MHz. GPU-Z also says 2050 Boost clock but the GPU Clock is still significantly lower than default. Why is that?
I'm still new to all this so maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
Edit: I think I actually mostly figured it out. Looks like the first box in GPU-Z is the mid point of a linear graph for the clock speeds starting at 800MHz and ending at whatever your default boost clock is. 1815 MHz is the defaullt max gpu clock (no boost) according to the manufacturer. The Mystic Afterburner skin has a clock curve and voltage curve editor (under voltage curve tab). It's a linear graph and the midpoint is at 1414MHz by default. If I OC to 2050, that's +21 from the 2029 so the mid point gets moved up by 11 (it's techically 21/2). 1414+11 = 1425 and that's what the first box in GPU-Z says. If I UC to 1925 that's -104 from the default 2029 so the mid point gets moved down by 52 (104/2). 1414 - 52 = 1362 and again that's what the first box in GPU-Z says. So the only odd thing is that Afterburner and Radeon say my default boost clock is 2029MHz while GPU-Z says it's 1925MHz. 1925MHz is also the default boost clock according to the manufacturer but from what I understand it varies from card to card so maybe mine really does default to 2029. Another interesting thing is that back when I got the card and I was using the older Adrenalin Driver (before Adrenalin 2020) it always defaulted to 1989 and not 2029 so maybe the default setting is a driver+card specific thing idk.
View: https://imgur.com/a/DqzC5Vg
When I reset my settings in MSI it shows 2029 MHz but in GPU-Z it reads everything as default with the Boost clock being 1925 MHz. Why does MSI Afterburner (Radeon's software too for that matter) say 2029?
When I set the clock in MSI Afterburner to 1925 which is supposed to be the default Boost clock of the card, GPU-Z says that the GPU clock is now lower than default, while the Boost clock remains the same. How come?
Another example is OC to 2050 MHz. GPU-Z also says 2050 Boost clock but the GPU Clock is still significantly lower than default. Why is that?
I'm still new to all this so maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
Edit: I think I actually mostly figured it out. Looks like the first box in GPU-Z is the mid point of a linear graph for the clock speeds starting at 800MHz and ending at whatever your default boost clock is. 1815 MHz is the defaullt max gpu clock (no boost) according to the manufacturer. The Mystic Afterburner skin has a clock curve and voltage curve editor (under voltage curve tab). It's a linear graph and the midpoint is at 1414MHz by default. If I OC to 2050, that's +21 from the 2029 so the mid point gets moved up by 11 (it's techically 21/2). 1414+11 = 1425 and that's what the first box in GPU-Z says. If I UC to 1925 that's -104 from the default 2029 so the mid point gets moved down by 52 (104/2). 1414 - 52 = 1362 and again that's what the first box in GPU-Z says. So the only odd thing is that Afterburner and Radeon say my default boost clock is 2029MHz while GPU-Z says it's 1925MHz. 1925MHz is also the default boost clock according to the manufacturer but from what I understand it varies from card to card so maybe mine really does default to 2029. Another interesting thing is that back when I got the card and I was using the older Adrenalin Driver (before Adrenalin 2020) it always defaulted to 1989 and not 2029 so maybe the default setting is a driver+card specific thing idk.
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