Radeon RX 6000 Series seems to have have issues with certain high FPS intensive games

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/26/2021 09:03 AM | source: hardware.info | 38 comment(s)

And with such games, we mean titles that need to push extremely high framerates; the result is visible frame drops. A substantial number of RX 6000 graphics card owners seem to acknowledge the problem.

Over at AMD's Community support page, a thread is filled with reports on frame drops in games like Rocket League, Fortnite, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. CPU-intensive games like CS: GO, according to Redditor Tricolor3s, for example, would show abnormally large drops. His RX 6700 XT would perform less well than the Vega 56 (which he owned before) in such a situation. For example, CS: GO shows drops from 400 to 150 with the 6700 XT, Fortnite records a drop from 400 to 50 fps. The cards' clock speeds would go up and down sharply, which see looks to be the root cause. AMD is aware of the issue and is looking into this. Thus far, a precise cause has not been fed back, but a solution is being sought.

Sources: AMD Community Forum (1), (2), Reddit

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JonasBeckman
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#5907716 Posted on: 04/26/2021 10:19 AM

Isn't that the CPU utilization issue after the 21.3.x drivers, at least it's better than the 5000 series had where the CPU utilization also had to be good or the GPU clocks dropped.
(Particularly D3D9 though AMD improved that in later drivers.)

Remekra
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#5907720 Posted on: 04/26/2021 10:53 AM

I have 6900XT and in Warzone I had to upscale my resolution to 5120x2160 ( I have 3440x1440 ultrawide), because when playing on native res I have over 130-150 FPS and every few seconds there is a frametime spike cause a stutter. In that moment clocks drop to a little over 1000Mhz or below. When playing on upscaled resolution I have around 90 fps and it is smooth, clocks stay high 2300-2400.
I have 3900X overclocked with ClockTuner to 4,4GHz when gaming.

kapu
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#5907721 Posted on: 04/26/2021 10:57 AM

It's problem with keeping up the clocks . You can counter this with profile, they tried ? Had this issue with DIABLO 3 , i manged to fix it with manual clocks on profile for game.
That said when i switched to 5600X ( from 3300X) problem solved by itself , so i guess it is driver issue with DX11 which is very much know , cpu bottleneck is huge there.

Problem is the same on Ryzen 5000 ??

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#5907725 Posted on: 04/26/2021 11:22 AM

easy create a profile with Chill no more issues

chispy
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#5907728 Posted on: 04/26/2021 11:33 AM

Exact same issue i have had for a long time when playing Fortnite , old dx9 games or some 3dmark benchmarks , monitoring the clock behaviour in gpuz shows clocks dropping from 2400Mhz to 500Mhz~1000Mhz on my 6900xt + 5950x cpu , same using Intel 10900k cpu :/ . AMD need to fix this issue with the massive downclocking on their gpus.

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