[SOLVED] Rx 5700 overheating issue?

[Cvint]

Ive heard of the 5700xt overheating but what about the 5700? There is non blower options but they are more expensive...

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Avoid buying the blower-type cooler GPU model. Get any custom AIB card. Both the cards do overheat, but according to AMD this is normal. The custom AIB cards do not overheat that much.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Even though AMD claimed this behavior to be normal, I have my doubts regarding this new NAVI architecture. Get a more power efficient card from NVIDIA.

This is just my own opinion though. You can buy the card if you wish.

According to them:

AMD says that temperatures of up to 110°C with its RX 5700-series graphics cards are “expected and within spec” for typical gaming usage. The company’s latest GPUs, utilising the RDNA architecture, are known to crank out some heat, but according to AMD’s latest community update that’s within the safe operating range of the graphics card and nothing to worry about.

But there are gamers who are still complaining about system shutdown, and restart when this happens. As per one report:

AMD has deployed the same AVFS (Adaptive Voltage and Frequency Scaling) strategy that it uses for Ryzen to maximize performance of its GPUs.

AVFS deploys a network of on-die sensors across the entire chip rather than relying on a single point of measurement. Rather than calibrating voltages and frequencies at the factory and preprogramming a series of defined voltage and frequency steps that all CPUs must achieve, AVFS dynamically measures and delivers the voltage required for each individual CPU to hit its desired clock frequencies. This allows for finer-grained power management across the CPU, improving both performance and power efficiency across a range of targets.

The 110-degree junction temperature is not evidence of a problem or a sudden issue with AMD graphics cards.

The 5700 XT is designed to continue boosting performance until it hits its thermal junction threshold. From the company’s blog post:

Paired with this array of sensors is the ability to identify the ‘hotspot’ across the GPU die. Instead of setting a conservative, ‘worst case’ throttling temperature for the entire die, the Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs will continue to opportunistically and aggressively ramp clocks until any one of the many available sensors hits the ‘hotspot’ or ‘Junction’ temperature of 110 degrees Celsius.

Operating at up to 110C Junction Temperature during typical gaming usage is expected and within spec. This enables the Radeon RX 5700 series GPUs to offer much higher performance and clocks out of the box, while maintaining acoustic and reliability targets.

Honestly speaking, I'm reluctant to buy these new NAVI GPUs, even though AMD claims this behavior to be normal.

 

[tennis2]

I would echo MM's recommendation to wait a little while longer for axial fan cooling solutions to permeate the market.

I don't agree with the other comments regarding power efficiency and whatnot.

• Reviews have shown that the 5700 sits between the RTX2060 and RTX2060 Super on performance and yet the 5700 draws the same power as the RTX2060.
• "Heat" is consumption (watts), and temperature is dependent on cooler quality and/or fan speed.

 

[cryoburner]

I don't agree with the other comments regarding power efficiency and whatnot.

Yep, the high temperatures are down to the blower-style cooler on the reference cards, not efficiency. Efficiency is fine, about on par with Nvidia's cards, due to Navi using the newer 7nm manufacturing process. Nvidia's efficiency may pull ahead again once they too move to a newer process for future cards, but I wouldn't expect those until at least sometime next year.

It would have been nice if AMD used an open-air design for their reference cooler like most partner cards do, or if partner cards were available with better coolers closer to launch though.

As for the initial question, temperatures tend to be more reasonable on the 5700 than on the 5700 XT, due to it having 10% fewer cores and somewhat lower clocks. Tom's hardware found them to be fairly reasonable in their review, though its certainly possible that temperatures could be somewhat higher with your setup...

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-rx_5700-rx_5700_xt,6216-6.html