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Post by camouflagedcow on Jul 6, 2020 17:35:07 GMT
Hello yall,
I have been having issues recently maintaining a good framerate in my games. My MacBook Pro dGPU works perfectly fine for about 20 or so minutes (Vega 20), but then it downclocks from 1200 MHz all the way down to 317 MHz and stays there.
I have disabled turbo boosting, both in Intel XTU and in Windows, as a way to see if it was related to power draw, and so far that has been no help. The processor (i9-9980HK) is drawing around 15 watts as reported by MSI Afterburner. The thermals have been staying around 75 degrees Celcius with the fans on full blast (with Macs Fan Control), so I wouldn't think it was also thermally limited. I reinstalled the latest Red drivers but that also didn't help. This has also been happening in a variety of games, from Doom Eternal to Dark Souls Remastered.
What should I do?
Thanks!
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Post by goldmaster11 on Jul 6, 2020 18:11:28 GMT
I don’t think the GPU issue can be resolved on the Vega 16 and 20. I have a 2018 model with the same GPU and have this problem with all April 2020 drivers. MorePowerTool doesn’t support these GPUs.
I have this issue playing both War Thunder and Cold Waters, which aren’t very demanding games to run. Even when the fans are at full blast with Turbo Boost disabled, I’ll eventually have CPU or GPU throttling depending on my driver version.
Soon, I’m going to get a high-end 16” and test my luck with MorePowerTool plus an external cooling stand and thermal pads.
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Post by camouflagedcow on Jul 6, 2020 22:30:43 GMT
Oh that's absolutely fantastic news! /s
Thanks, Apple.
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Post by zxmustang on Jul 12, 2020 4:07:30 GMT
I don’t think the GPU issue can be resolved on the Vega 16 and 20. I have a 2018 model with the same GPU and have this problem with all April 2020 drivers. MorePowerTool doesn’t support these GPUs. I have this issue playing both War Thunder and Cold Waters, which aren’t very demanding games to run. Even when the fans are at full blast with Turbo Boost disabled, I’ll eventually have CPU or GPU throttling depending on my driver version. Soon, I’m going to get a high-end 16” and test my luck with MorePowerTool plus an external cooling stand and thermal pads. FYI I have the high end 16" you are talking about and it does the same exact thing downclocking after like 20 minutes of playing. Dont bother. |
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Post by waaghals on Jul 12, 2020 17:30:54 GMT
In my experience MSI afterburner seems to confuse the driver, at least on my 560x (MBP 2018). This results in the GPU clocking down to 300mhz (or less) and staying there no matter what I do.
This puzzles me as I am certain it used to work before.
You might try to update to one of the newer BETA versions of Afterburner, but I am not sure it helps.
Also, If you haven't done so already, try to use Rivertuner Statistics Server (actually bundled with Afterburner) to lock all 3d framerates to 60fps. There is no point in running a game higher as the internal screen does not support it.
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Post by zxmustang on Jul 12, 2020 19:37:32 GMT
In my experience MSI afterburner seems to confuse the driver, at least on my 560x (MBP 2018). This results in the GPU clocking down to 300mhz (or less) and staying there no matter what I do. This puzzles me as I am certain it used to work before. You might try to update to one of the newer BETA versions of Afterburner, but I am not sure it helps. Also, If you haven't done so already, try to use Rivertuner Statistics Server (actually bundled with Afterburner) to lock all 3d framerates to 60fps. There is no point in running a game higher as the internal screen does not support it. Its not the driver or afterburner. Its something in the bios on the card. That will need to be updated to stop the GPU from throttling itself to nothing. |
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