Hello everyone,
I recently got a 6800 XT Red Dragon, and on day one, it started hard crashing the PC in some applications, like TimeSpy and Metro Exodus. Some benchmarks it handled without crashing, like Heaven and Superposition. I hadn't overclocked the GPU.
I went to check in AMD Adrenaline what the GPU max clocks were set by default, and to my surprise, it was 2444 MHz. It always defaults to 2444 MHz, even after cleaning drivers with DDU and reinstalling or using AMD's factory settings.
Now, this is really weird, because when you go look at the specs for 6800 XT Red Dragon, the boost clock is supposed to be set at 2310 MHz by default. So I lowered the clocks manually to 2310 MHz and TimeSpy didn't crash anymore. (Metro Exodus still did, but that's only when forced to run on the extreme settings for ray tracing). I'm guessing the factory overclock they did at PowerColor is too much?
Do you guys think I should just return the card to the vendor? Or maybe there's a way to change the default setting of the GPU clock speeds? It's clearly not at all how it should be out of the box.
CPU: Intel i7-11700K
RAM: HyperX (4x8GB), DDR4 3200Mhz
MOBO: Asrock Z590 Pro4 ATX
PSU: Asus ROG-STRIX-750W, 80+ Gold
I recently got a 6800 XT Red Dragon, and on day one, it started hard crashing the PC in some applications, like TimeSpy and Metro Exodus. Some benchmarks it handled without crashing, like Heaven and Superposition. I hadn't overclocked the GPU.
I went to check in AMD Adrenaline what the GPU max clocks were set by default, and to my surprise, it was 2444 MHz. It always defaults to 2444 MHz, even after cleaning drivers with DDU and reinstalling or using AMD's factory settings.
Now, this is really weird, because when you go look at the specs for 6800 XT Red Dragon, the boost clock is supposed to be set at 2310 MHz by default. So I lowered the clocks manually to 2310 MHz and TimeSpy didn't crash anymore. (Metro Exodus still did, but that's only when forced to run on the extreme settings for ray tracing). I'm guessing the factory overclock they did at PowerColor is too much?
Do you guys think I should just return the card to the vendor? Or maybe there's a way to change the default setting of the GPU clock speeds? It's clearly not at all how it should be out of the box.
CPU: Intel i7-11700K
RAM: HyperX (4x8GB), DDR4 3200Mhz
MOBO: Asrock Z590 Pro4 ATX
PSU: Asus ROG-STRIX-750W, 80+ Gold
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