RX 570 only using 90watts

[CryingWimp]

I just picked up a used Gigabyte RX 570 Gaming 4GD for my Step dads PC. After doing some test to make sure it was working properly I noticed it was limited to 90watts. I assumed it must of been used for mining with a custome 90watt power limit bios since rx 570 are supposed to be 150watts.

 

 I flashed to a bios from Gigabyte and it still has a 90 watt limit, GPUz shows the new bios and still showing the 90watt limit.

 

I can't find anything online about 90 watt versions of a 570, is this a shady gigabyte thing or do I need to do more than just flash the bios to get it back to a 150watt tdp?

 

Cheers

[Light-Yagami]

Try testing GPU only, see crank the power limit. See if it draws more with no CPU load. Other users have also had this issue. I'm not too familiar though

[Lakshya Siddhi]

what you are seeing might be the IDLE power usage, try stress testing it using Heaven Benchmark or AIDA 64 and then see the power draw, it will be higher..

[CryingWimp]

22 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

Try testing GPU only, see crank the power limit. See if it draws more with no CPU load. Other users have also had this issue. I'm not too familiar though

 

22 minutes ago, Lakshya Siddhi said:

what you are seeing might be the IDLE power usage, try stress testing it using Heaven Benchmark or AIDA 64 and then see the power draw, it will be higher..

Testing in valley its around 90 watts throttling voltage and core clock to stay at 90watts. Its rated 1244mhz boost and dipped into the 800s at times to stay at 90watts. I still have the power slider +\- 50%, it'll go up to 138 watts at +50% but still power throttle to under 1100mhz often.

 

Everywhere online is saying 150watts with +\- 50% for up to 225watts.

 

I just checked all the bios on techpowerup they are showing 90watts, maybe gigabyte shady has 90watt models. They don't mention the TDP on the web page.

[Lakshya Siddhi]

3 minutes ago, CryingWimp said:

 

Testing in valley its around 90 watts throttling voltage and core clock to stay at 90watts. Its rated 1244mhz boost and dipped into the 800s at times to stay at 90watts. I still have the power slider +\- 50%, it'll go up to 138 watts at +50% but still power throttle to under 1100mhz often.

 

Everywhere online is saying 150watts with +\- 50% for up to 225watts.

 

I just checked all the bios on techpowerup they are showing 90watts, maybe gigabyte shady has 90watt models. They don't mention the TDP on the web page.

Trying running everything at stock (with no clock and voltage adjustments) and see the results...

[CryingWimp]

Just now, Lakshya Siddhi said:

Trying running everything at stock (with no clock and voltage adjustments) and see the results...

90 watts is everything at stock settings.

[Lakshya Siddhi]

Uninstall the exiting drivers using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) and do a fresh install of the latest drivers form the AMD website........

[CryingWimp]

I tried it in both my Stepdads PC and mine to rule out any of his parts. Clean windows install + drivers.

 

Anyone know if changing the power limit is separate from the Bios? Will flashing the bios always reverse a changed power limit edit?

[CryingWimp]

5 minutes ago, Lakshya Siddhi said:

Uninstall the exiting drivers using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) and do a fresh install of the latest drivers form the AMD website........

It was a fresh windows install on my Stepdads PC, after I noticed the issue I tried a bios from Techpowerup, I then tried a bios directly from gigabyte.

 

I took it home to my place after, still with the official gigabyte bios on it, to see if it had the same issue on my spare PC. I always get my drivers directly.

 

I'm so confused why its 90 watts. All the reviews of Rx 570s  showing them pulling 160-180 watts depending on model. All the reviewers were not sent this model though.

[Lakshya Siddhi]

3 minutes ago, CryingWimp said:

It was a fresh windows install on my Stepdads PC, after I noticed the issue I tried a bios from Techpowerup, I then tried a bios directly from gigabyte.

 

I took it home to my place after, still with the official gigabyte bios on it, to see if it had the same issue on my spare PC. I always get my drivers directly.

 

I'm so confused why its 90 watts. All the reviews of Rx 570s  showing them pulling 160-180 watts depending on model. All the reviewers were not sent this model though.

The drivers you are saying are probably the default windows drivers which are out of date, you should always ditch them and run DDU and install the latest ones from the website.....

[CryingWimp]

3 minutes ago, Lakshya Siddhi said:

The drivers you are saying are probably the default windows drivers which are out of date, you should always ditch them and run DDU and install the latest ones from the website.....

Bad wording on my part. I have the latest drivers from AMD. I checked the option to do a clean isntall.

I'll try DDU, never knew it was recommended on a fresh windows install.

 

Thanks for the help BTW!

[squallypo]

On 3/27/2021 at 2:21 PM, CryingWimp said:

Bad wording on my part. I have the latest drivers from AMD. I checked the option to do a clean isntall.

I'll try DDU, never knew it was recommended on a fresh windows install.

 

Thanks for the help BTW!

hey i just noticed this issue myself too, what was the outcome of it in your case? did you manage to fix it/Solve the issue?i hope you are still around in the forum

[squallypo]

7 minutes ago, c00face said:

I also have a RX 570 and running into issues. It seems to be the new driver. My fans are also not working even trying to manually override it with MSI.

 

I got it all to run, it has something to do with the curve performance. Go to your Radeon Software, performance tab, tuning, global tuning, and manually set everything.

can you share your configurations my problem is the 90w limit

[squallypo]

18 minutes ago, c00face said:

how and where are you checking to see that you have a 90w limit?

I posted my own thread in the forums with my issue if u wanna check it out https://linustechtips.com/topic/1361992-rx-570-gigabyte-gaming-4gb-90w-board-power-limit/?tab=comments#comment-14909824