AMD’s Radeon RX 7000-series graphics playing cards (and their predecessors, the RX 6000-series) supply spectacular energy out of the field, particularly for gaming. But with slightly further tuning you will get much more firepower out of them.

This information explains easy methods to get much more efficiency, effectivity, and film high quality out of AMD’s fashionable graphics playing cards, utilizing software program tips to optimize and speed up their RDNA graphics architectures even additional. Let’s dig in.

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1: Faster by way of overclocking!

If you wish to overclock your PC’s graphics card, you’ll be confronted with many unanswered questions initially. You want to concentrate to some basic items so the challenge seems profitable.

Before you begin overclocking, you should know precisely which graphics card you’re tinkering with and which technical specs (e.g. clock frequencies) it has. We’ll be utilizing the $900 Radeon RX 7900 XT for our instance beneath.

First, seek for the GPU’s product web page (or dig out your handbook) and decide all of the specs related for overclocking (which we’ll element for this instance beneath). You’ll additionally want to put in TechPowerUp’s excellent GPU-Z software to really have the ability to really monitor the related specs — reminiscent of base, recreation, enhance, and reminiscence clocks — in actual time. Fear not, it’s free!

In the case of the reference AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, the instrument spits out the next technical specs:

• 1.900 MHz base clock
• 2.400 MHz enhance clock (most)
• 2.300 MHz recreation clock (common)
• 16 GB GDDR6 with 20 Gbps reminiscence velocity (10 GHz)

Our objective is to extend the utmost potential enhance clock and thus the typical recreation clock in video games, and optionally maximize the reminiscence bandwidth by attaining the next reminiscence clock. Radeon graphics card homeowners can use the built-in overclocking operate within the firm’s AMD Software Adrenalin Edition reasonably than turning to a third-party instrument like MSI Afterburner. AMD itself demonstrates how the overclocking function works intimately within the video beneath.

Overclocked accordingly, you possibly can anticipate to see as much as 10 to fifteen p.c extra efficiency (or frames per second) in comparison with the manufacturing facility settings for the RX 7900 XT graphics card.

Important word: By overclocking or undervolting a GPU, you modify essential parameters reminiscent of the warmth dissipation and energy consumption of the graphics card. Please word that incorrectly set voltages cannot solely lead to an unstable system, but in addition irreparable injury to the GPU. Overclocking isn’t as harmful as many individuals assume, however remember to comply with the information AMD offered above!

2: More environment friendly by way of undervolting

GPU producers all the time construct a security buffer into the manufacturing facility settings of their graphics playing cards, balancing the very best potential stability by making use of slightly extra voltage than vital for a lot of chips. The voltage of many Radeon graphics playing cards will be lowered inside a sure vary with out inflicting crashes or instabilities, although like overclocking, the precise diploma of change will rely in your particular GPU’s particular person silicon high quality..

While overclocking is all about placing the efficiency pedal to the metallic, with undervolting, the objective is to function the graphics card with comparable efficiency whereas drawing considerably much less energy (and thus, spitting out considerably much less warmth), as defined in-depth in our undervolting guide.

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In the case of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT reference design, the voltage is 1.150 volts and may normally be lowered to 0.975 to 1.025 volts earlier than the graphics card begins to clock down massively. Here, too, the so-called “sweet spot” have to be found manually so as to have the ability to improve the effectivity to the utmost.

Once you’ve explored (and mixed) applicable overclocking and undervolting on your Radeon graphics card, it can ideally not solely run sooner, but in addition extra effectively and cooler.

3: More secure by way of stress checks

To guarantee overclocked and/or undervolted graphics playing cards stay secure even beneath heavy masses, working the next benchmarks and stability checks are a good suggestion.

Since masses (and particularly the load peaks) for the GPU and the VRAM behave in a different way in video games than artificial stress checks, you also needs to play a few of your favourite video games and examine them for stability. Ideally, the result’s a sooner, extra environment friendly graphics card that may be operated with absolute stability. Check out our complete information on how to benchmark your graphics card if you wish to go even deeper.

4: More lovely because of upscaling

Users who wish to play video games in increased resolutions and benefit from the considerably improved image high quality are sometimes confronted by a scarcity of uncooked efficiency from their graphics card, particularly at 4K or ultrawide resolutions. But AMD has an answer for this as nicely.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is the title of the function that first calculates pictures at a decrease decision internally after which “upscales” them to suit your monitor decision utilizing a software program upscaling course of. That technological mixture means the body charges and body instances in supported titles will be elevated with out having to improve to a brand new graphics card.

AMD demonstrates how this works with the favored open-world racing recreation Forza Horizon 5, which will be considerably accelerated with FSR 2.2, within the video beneath.

FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 is designed to ship the very best image high quality, with a closing picture that appears just like or higher than native image high quality, whereas additionally boosting body charges in supported video games, AMD says.

In whole, greater than 200 video games help FSR, together with many well-known video games, reminiscent of:

• Anno 1800
• Resident Evil 2+3
• Resident Evil Village
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
• Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• World of Warships
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Dying Light 2
• Forspoken
• Diablo 4

The efficiency and effectivity good points from including AMD FSR 2 are fairly spectacular, as AMD’s benchmarks reveal.

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5: Cooler because of Radeon Chill

AMD’s Radeon Chill helps maintain your graphics card (and thus your system, and room) cool and quiet.

This energy-saving function conserves the battery of notebooks and reduces the facility consumption of gaming PCs by controlling the body charges based mostly in your in-game actions. When there may be intense motion, Radeon Chill runs the frames per second (FPS) as much as a set higher restrict (FPS restrict). If there is no such thing as a motion in taking place in your recreation, the body charge cap is robotically diminished, which saves vitality and permits the graphics card and the remainder of the system to run cooler and quieter.

AMD demonstrates how AMD Radeon Chill works within the video beneath.

Radeon Chill works with most titles that use DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and DirectX 12 from Microsoft in addition to the free graphics API Vulkan, which is generally used on Linux.

Just like overclocking and undervolting, Radeon Chill will be activated instantly by way of the AMD graphics driver and the AMD Radeon Adrenalin software program.

6: Smoother because of AMD FreeSync

No distortion. No leaping visuals. Just gaming.

That’s how AMD describes its adaptive synchronization expertise for screens that help a variable refresh charge to keep away from “tearing” and cut back stuttering. AMD FreeSync expertise delivers clean, judder-free gaming efficiency at just about any body charge, with out distorted or clipped frames.

The newest higher-tier variations of FreeSync, AMD FreeSync Premium and FreeSync Premium Pro, additionally help refresh charges of 120Hz and above, Low Framerate Compensation (“LFC”), and HDR gaming.

To use AMD FreeSync, FreeSync Premium, and FreeSync Premium Pro, a appropriate monitor is required. More than 900 screens from varied producers have been licensed accordingly and help the adaptive synchronization expertise.

This article has been translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.