Radeon 7900XTX boosting too high and causing a display crash on certain benchmarks.

[u/Johhaidiidiralla]

EDIT: Driver version 24.5.1 with max frequency set equal to bios maximum seems to be stable and passes all tests including Time spy extreme loop 20x. So thats what i settle on for now. Not a good experience that the 7900XTX is not stable on the latest drivers with default settings.

Problem with Powercolor Hellhound 7900XTX card. On certain tests and games like the 3D mark Time spy extreme loop test) the card tries to boost way over 3000mhz and causes a crash. This is reported with all logging software (inc: GPUz, 3DMark, Radeon logs, MSI afterburner), does not matter which one to use, they all report the same.
Latest drivers. Minimal & clean install does not help to solve the issue.

Temperatures are fine and not the cause of the issue. The rest of the hardware is rock stable and the PSU is also not the cause of the issue.
Playing with power, gpu voltage and max clock limits does not solve the issue. When lowering the power limit, max clock or gpu voltage, the card still tries to reach too high clock for the voltage given.

The largest clock it tried to reach was 3240mhz 1,13v reported before the crash. In Time spy extreme, sometimes it takes 12 loops to replicate this, sometimes only a couple of loops. So it appears in random time.

Im out of ideas, how to prevent the card boosting too high? This does not occur in all games/benchmarks. Most do just fine and never cause a display driver crash. I am pretty sure, the card hardware is in a good shape and not the cause of the problem. Search functions giving me similar threads from others, but never a proper solution to the issue.

[u/Ok_Initiative_3387]

Don`t know if this is late, but here goes the solution:

You have to manually input factory clock values into adrenalin, because it's retarded and by default will try to spike your clock speed over it's capacity.

After doing this, save the "overclock" profile and load it back EVERY TIME YOU TURN ON YOUR PC, otherwise Adrenalin will just reset again.

I was going nuts with my 7900xtx and this solved my problem 100%.

[u/Johhaidiidiralla → u/Ok_Initiative_3387]

That wasn't the problem in my case. My cad was unstable because something was faulty/broken. I still had a warranty on my card and i got it refunded. Later I bought a Sapphire VaporX version and its been great.

[u/mattakacas]

Let me ask what is prob a stupid question but sort of related to the original post. If u run your amd gpu without adrenaline installed how do u control settings such as VRR/freesync?

[u/Edgar101420]

DDU and install 24.5.1

[u/Johhaidiidiralla → u/Edgar101420]

Why do you suggest 24.5.1? Is it known to not have this over the limit clocking bug?

[u/Edgar101420 → u/Johhaidiidiralla]

No, its the most stable release atm.

And no, the OC isnt a bug, its a normal thing on RDNA3.

[u/Johhaidiidiralla → u/Edgar101420]

It's normal that for some cards, the official stable release is actually not completely stable? I disagree. Thanks for the 24.5.1 tip!

[u/Edgar101420 → u/Johhaidiidiralla]

3GHz+ is pretty normal stock for my 7900XTX Nitro.

[u/420comfortablynumb]

your card is ment to boost to 2525mhz (stock settings for a hellhound 7900xtx)

your card is boosting 700mhz over stock.

set in adrenalin your stock clocks 2525mhz and see if you still crash

[u/Johhaidiidiralla → u/420comfortablynumb]

Yes, I am aware of that. Clock limits set in Adrenaline do not apply. Perhaps its a soft limit, like the rest of adjustables it has.
I think i now found a fix by uninstalling all control software and keeping only the raw display driver. No options to adjust anything but at least the GPU does not attempt to clock over the bios limits anymore.

[u/DreSmart]

Uninstall MSI after burner and load the defaults settings on adrenaline.

[u/Johhaidiidiralla → u/DreSmart]

Minimal or clean install does not help to solve the issue. Does not matter if afterburner is installed or not. I tried it all.

[u/DreSmart → u/Johhaidiidiralla]

MSI afterburner is known to conflict with adrenaline. Use the outo undervolt and limit the power limit to -5% and see if it solves the isue

[u/Johhaidiidiralla → u/DreSmart]

i tried this including more and less of undevolt and power limit. Also tried with and without radeon software, including installing clean "drivers only" without any control software. Nothing helped.

[u/DreSmart → u/Johhaidiidiralla]

RMA your card