This is not just a rx 7000 issue, this issue exists for every amd user using two monitors. The thing is u know this but yet you make this a more positive video. im stilll having to run my monitors that are native 1440p 165 hz Gigabyte M32Q + 1080p 144hz AOC 24g2 @ 120hz & 60hz respectively . It's not good enough to just surrender to that, which is what your suggesting. More needs to be said about this .

I just disabled HDR on my 1440p ultrawide screen and power draw decreased from 45W to around 10W. Mindblown. And disappointed that I can't use HDR without major energy consumption... Thank you for the video!

It seems that a higher RR would be more logical 145 146 instead of lower and does odd = even matter?

@@sirbughunter my friend when ever you enable hdr you will get more consumption. Your monitor should come with tdp or power usage one without hdr one with hdr. For example my m32Q 1440p monitor pulls and extra 38-40watts when enabling HDR

It seems to me with a frame limiter and freesync premium you achieve similar results to this method but it would be more dependent on monitor model with my alternative.

Can't wait 😁😁

ic ic i wait i wait.

So in my case with 120hz, 119 or 118hz?

@@thiagodelgado3128 118 for example

​@@AncientGameplays can you make an video undervolting a 6900xt

Hahaha, I do what I can 💪

Disappointing they are still having issues like this. I wonder if they ever fixed it on the RX400/500 series cards? After exiting a game, my RX480 8GB would idle at 40-ish watts at the desktop. It was in the known issues forever until I got a 6700XT. The fix for that was to force close (via Task Manager) one of those AMD applications. It's been so long I've forgotten which.. And I can't look on my own computer because my motherboard fried. A mosfet or something popped and there's some kind of liquid running down the back of my Asus ROG B450-F Gaming II. Had a 5900x in there since last June(?) and all was well. Turned my computer off and it never started back up lol. Ridiculous. No PBO either. Just Curve Optimizer. I swear I think Windows 11 killed it. I had deleted the hibernation mode file and disabled it, but somehow accidentally put it to sleep instead of shutting it down. Because I went to shut it down, saw that it actually went to "Sleep", so I "woke it" then shut it down. That killed it. Asus ROG B550-F Gaming Wi-Fi II is supposed to be here tomorrow. Almost went MSI.. and maybe I should have. Either way, assuming it didn't fry everything on my computer, I'll email Asus and Newegg about it and see what they have to say.

And if it killed my 5900x and 6700XT.. and my RAM, etc., I'm gonna be furious. Sorry for the totally off topic venting/ rant. I've been lost without my PC lol. I'm addicted to computers.

Try CRU then 💪

@@AncientGameplays Does CRU even work for 7000 series? :o But I'm not having any issues, just explaining what works for me to get really low idle power draw :D

for me it dropped to 50W-70W idle, which is still quite a lot imo

@@Skerathh wallpaper engine or something similar in the background ?

@@Drejkol my other monitor is set at 60hz and the main one at 165hz but the draw is still around 40W. Didnt test out the custom resolution but it might still help reducing it

@@Drejkol Actually just tested out the custom resolution and it totally disables my monitor once i put the custom 163hz so definitely wouldnt be doing that lol

@@Drejkol nop, no background processes whatsoever

Thank you!

Glad i could help

I have 2560x1440 @ 165Hz + 1920x1080 @ 120Hz. Even If I decrease the 1440 to just 60Hz and the 1080 to 30Hz, my 6800 still draws 36W :( Did you do anything other than drop refresh rate 1 Hz lower than max, and select CVT?

@@dkDankeyKang No, I just did that.

same

lower hz more, i have 144hz monitor and it only allowed me to create when I gave 141hz (143, 142 i have same error as u)

Thanks for the trust

Great!

I'm on a single 120Hz 1440 monitor and an hitting 60w to 100W on a brand new 7800xt just in KZfaq. 30W on desktop idle, this fix didn't help unfortunately. Considering trying to return for a 4070 because this is unacceptable.

Yes I know, i will do it to benchmark CPUs

Fico contente de ter ajudado! Um abraço!

@@AncientGameplays estava falando ptbr com o cachorro? na hora soltei um WTF?

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Its easy, Afterburner is the best for monitoring (much more advanced) and Adrenalin is better for OC/UV as you can't undervolt easily with Afterburner

biggest difference for me is the fan tuning. Adrenalin allows you to set Zero RPM and does not use any cpu cycles, msi afterburner will always run in the background even if you are not using the OSD, consuming like 1-2% cpu , which admittedly most people wont care about ,but I am one of those trying to squeeze every last drop of performance.

I second this specially for the MSI OSD display, as I've been trying to figure out forever how to make mines look like KZfaqrs that do benchmarks, mines look cheap and basic as well with no names besides it.

I like doing this, find my oc settings through the amd software, run msi save profile, reinstall the drivers for the minimal and have msi auto apply upon startup. I hate using amd wattman because sometimes even though your oc is stable it would reset randomly >.> OSD I just use HWinfo + rivatuner

Thank you as well!

it dropped from 50 to 15 for my 6800xt! But I like the ReLive Desktop feature :(

you're the real mvp here. Thank you.

@@Flynnycore Hello I have the same as you. Can you please explain where to click to disable this?

Can you tell me what board and CPU you got? This is total power draw right?

That vram at 2500Mhz is the issue! Hope this helps!

Any luck? I have LG C2 with 4K 120Hz too but this fix doesn't work for me.. tried 60-120 Hz and did the custom for 118-119 Hz, unfortunately no change.

@@Snodrage I have the same, a 48" C2 and 65" QNED80 and can't even get a custom resolution between 60 Hz and 120 Hz to be created as I get pixel clock error. My VRAM is pegged at 2000 MHz with my 6900XT at any refresh rate at any available refresh rate above 60 Hz. 10-bit color is the standard I am seeing for the QNED, temporarily have the C2 disconnected for installing wall mount.

Wow, thanks man, it really worked on my LG C1! I created a custom 118Hz resolution with CVT enabled and now my idle power draw is down from 100W to 20W, wow. Thanks so much man ❤.

​@@Snodrage Can confirm it worked for me on my C1

144hz don't do it for me, i had to go as low as 120hz

@@voice5sur5 Somewhat same thing here: 120 Hz without a second screen adn 100 hz with a second screen to get it idle properly.

The video in the pinned comment explains how to use this method but I thought that more people might see this in this comment section because this one is more recent

Dual monitors have to be more tweaked I suppose, you can try and use one monitor in the iGPU/motherboard connection

same with my 27gn950 4k monitor

Did u guys find fix? I have same issue with my dell monitor

lower hz more, i have 144hz monitor and it only allowed me to create when I gave 141hz (143, 142 i have same error as u)

True

why

Thanks!

you're welcome

Try this 💪

@@AncientGameplays it works :D NICE!

Great upgrade

Having the same problem.

Use CVT or CVT blanking or if it still doesn't work use CRU with the video you have in the pinned comment

My monitor is a 170 Hz acer, I had the same issue. I've just gone into the windows display settings and dropped the Hz from 170 to 165 as that was the next one down. The GPU board power went from around 48w to 50w and is now sitting on 18w to 26w. Vram clock went from 909mhz solid to 32mhz to 56mhz.

mine is like 8 watts lmao

Thanks!

I sincerely believe so, how much will it take though? Don't know...

I do what I can hahaha

Obrigado eu!

that's not a new method lol, Adaptive sync/VRR/Freesync should be always enabled... it's 2024

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No you don't actually. You feel the difference only if you can't do the basic steps on your AMD card, that's all. I've tested several AMD and NVIDIA cards and I can easily say that

​@@AncientGameplays I'm sure for a good portion that's true. However, I've tried a 6800xt, and after installing any drivers it wouldn't post. Went into safe mode, fresh windows installs, complete DDU. The most extreme of things. And still it just wouldn't post with any driver installed. returned it. Then got a 7900xtx and at first it was ok, it was great performance in allot of the newer games, but then some older ones like assassins creed origins ran terribly. 70fps in the main city. Just odd performance. But then the "new" drivers came out and games would just crash on me. Out of no where I'd get a "Driver timeout" SO then of course I went through the proccess of completely fresh wiping the previous, chipset first, then drivers, and vise versa. No matter what I did the problems persisted. And huge frame spikes. Went back to the previous drivers? and boom ran fine. Each time this happened, I got a Nvidia card after and never, have I ever, needed to do such things. There is a clear quality difference between the two. Even in this video you mention the issues many people with 7900xtx have suffered. I like AMD, and I'm a bit of a fanboy for AMD. I want to see them continue to succeed. But I'm also not into personal incredulity. I can see the quality difference. AMD works well so long as your current build, bios and all things align with the stars and it likes you. I don't want to make excuses for AMD, or any glitches by labeling them basic steps as some kind of acceptable norm. It's not acceptable. Be they simple, complex, or easy. Deff when paying 1000+ Friend from work (I work at microcenter) also had to return his 7900xtx, second monitor only had video artifacts. We hooked it up to our test bench and the results were replicated. But on the 3rd test bench it worked fine. This is absurd. Turning on metrics within AMD caused lag spikes when using it. Replicated even on latest drivers. We tested it, that's right again on 4 test benches ranging from AMD to Intel current, and previous gens. 2 lag spiked, 1 didn't, and 1 did once in a while. If we throw every issue away as "well just don't use it" or "Not a big deal, use Afterburner" It's an endless perpetual excuse for something that is broke. one test bench, when the driver crashed during a certain test, it literally corrupted the entire windows install. We test things heavily at microcenter in our tech department. It looks like a mad scientist lab behind the doors. there is without a doubt, without a single doubt, more issues on AMD then on Nvidia, and overall your performance will be more consistent across a large scale of games, not just the ones tested here, or on other channels known to work well perpetually. At the microcenter I work at in rockville md, we get so many AMD cards back for THESE very issues. I have real data I deal with on the daily. Not just the experience of a sole individual. We actually now give out a disclaimer to those looking to do their first build. that if you Choose AMD an advanced user is recommended. We never get an Nvidia return, or have any issues ever stated aside from literally coming DOA. Again, this is based on actual daily data and statistics. There is a difference in quality, and certainly in ease of use and reliability. This isn't to say not buy AMD. But to ignore the endless list of possible issues is not just ignorant, but dishonest to those watching. We should never allow our EGO, or desire to protect what we love to cloud our judgment. With this said, saying I do not have a smoother experience on Nvidia than I did on AMD is rather silly. I'll let that one slide. Very aggressive, and honestly delusional. I like you, I love your videos. But you're not an engineer, and you don't have the data I have based on thousands and thousands of people that we deal with. No, if someone pays 1000+ it should work, and it should all work. All the time. Aside from a shadow flicker or something in 1 game that requires a patch. Remember, this is real Data, it's not based on 1 individuals data or a following of those who are getting good results. this is based on Unbiased data from random people. your comments are littered with people having issues. having a fix, or something you can do yourself doesn't make it ok. It makes it something that's broke, that YOU'RE needing to fix YOURSELF. And instead of spending that valuable time playing and enjoying your games or content, you're spending it watching videos on how to maybe fix what's broke. It's not ok.

Great to hear! 💪💪

That should be a given, everyone should enable it...

You did well, but check if you monitor can handle 142, because unless it is a 144Hz, you might lose the ability to use freesync

@@AncientGameplays thanks for the warning, it is a 144hz monitor so i think i'm good.

Yes, it shows in the video.

Great to hear that!

Not really, its 30W of SOC+Core+MISC, its not that bad, but yeah, on gaming its way more efficient than Intel counterparts, not even comparable

@@AncientGameplays found the article, cant link but search hardsquirrel Power consumption of Ryzen 5000 series CPUs This holds true for me as well. My everyday use PC is based on 5900x, and I recently made Intel i5-12400 PC to replace failing NAS and PLEX etc system. Latter pulls 7 with short jumps to 11w when idle, without much tinkering with C states, AMD pulls 30+. I'm measuring from wall, not with hardware monitors. Like I said, AM4 had one crucial sensor hidden, no idea about AM5. I don't have AM5 myself, but I've read people reporting 50W pull. Same inefficiency on AMD is seen on low usage. All of which is very strange because AMD laptop series do not have this issue(I tested an AMD-based miniPC myself), and AMD is very efficient on high usage

Try to change just the refresh rate or just the timings option

Its really reducing the power, guaranteed, that is seen in the temps

You can tell by the GPU temperature and VRAM frequency both decreasing that there is less power draw. My 6900XT VRAM stays at 2000 MHz when my displays, OLED TVs, are set to 120 Hz and only drop down to 10-500 MHz if I am at 60 Hz or below refresh rate.

go back to 23.12.1

Great!

great!

It does, not for multi monitors

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Thanks haha

Because tge resolution increases aswell

Small update. Got VSR 2 displays to work at 27w. Had to limit my 1440p display to 48 hz (from 75) and my 1080p display to 144hz (from 240) I guess it's some kind of bandwidth issue, like hz multiplied by display size. Thanks for the video, it would have been hard to nail it down without.

try lowering even more your HZ. My case is a 144hz but this only worked if it was set lower than 120hz

Need for speed unbound?

@@AncientGameplays that must be it! It looked good. Thank you!

That makes absolutely no sense though

@@AncientGameplays i know right? Doing this on my gf RX590 also did the same thing. We both have a full AMD build PC.

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Maybe he doesn't even need it, ai didnt

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Not like this though

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@@AncientGameplays Unfortunately on the zowie XL2546K I cannot set the refresh a few numbers under, only to 200, but I had to drop it to 144 to get the 7 watt idle, I suppose I'll have to switch it back and forth :p

It isnt, this is a bug

Because you have a dual monitor setup and a very odd one, this is not an "amd issue" lol. Put those odd configs in kost nvidia cards ans the same happens...