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The people over at uk.hardware.info have managed to overclock the HBM memory of the R9 Fury X by 20% through a Catalyst Control Center (CCC) glitch.

 

Apparently after every few system reboots, a Memory clock slider in CCC Overdrive became available:

 

Officially there is no option to adjust the memory clocks, but (probably due to a bug in the drivers) we did see a slider to adjust memory clock frequency after every other few reboots. Hence, we could also raise the memory clock.

 

In the end we managed to get a 3DMark Fire Strike score of 16963 points on overclocked settings, a nice increase on the standard 14098 points we achieved.

 

Given the extremely high memory bandwidth of HBM already, it is hard to say if a 20% increase would make a big difference in normal gaming - let alone worth the risk.

 

What does this mean? It could mean that the memory clocks are simply not adjustable yet until Afterburner or Trixx receive an update. Given time I'm sure someone will figure it out. The downside of this news is that we still don't know whether the core voltage can be unlocked yet, as CCC never allows voltage adjustment on any AMD cards - 3rd party software like AB or Trixx is necessary for that. Given the deliberate remarks of AMD that the Fury X is "an overclockers dream," one would hope voltage isn't completely locked down, but we will have to wait and see.

 

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It's a repost, someone else already beat you to it bro.

I was going to ask for game benchmarks. Where is the repost link?

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It's a repost, someone else already beat you to it bro.

you could be nice and link ppl like me that didn't see it :(

(this post is new to me xD)

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It's a repost, someone else already beat you to it bro.

Well, he posted it as news... It [The source] might have legit points but I was only asking because it doesn't look very trustful (no videos, GPU-z validations, etc...)

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They should of tested it on the 4K one.

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It's hard to say if 20% would make a difference? Well over clocking gddr5 makes no difference so do you honestly think that overclocking hbm which is overkill memory would make a difference? It will probably be a couple years before hbm is something that effects gaming in a meaningful way.

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It's hard to say if 20% would make a difference? Well over clocking gddr5 makes no difference so do you honestly think that overclocking hbm which is overkill memory would make a difference? It will probably be a couple years before hbm if something that effects gaming in a meaningful way.

20 % aka 600 MHz base total frequency means 614,4 GB/s, at stock still a crazy bandwidth

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It's hard to say if 20% would make a difference? Well over clocking gddr5 makes no difference so do you honestly think that overclocking hbm which is overkill memory would make a difference? It will probably be a couple years before hbm if something that effects gaming in a meaningful way.

 

 

Since when did overclocking GDDR5 not make a difference lmfao?

 

Any GPU limited game is going to benefit from it.

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Since when did overclocking GDDR5 not make a difference lmfao?

 

Any GPU limited game is going to benefit from it.

Yeah you are right. You are so right smart guy. I forgot about that extra 1fps you will get from an extra 400mhz on memory.

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you could be nice and link ppl like me that didn't see it :(

(this post is new to me xD)

He meant my crap :(

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He meant my crap  :(

 

Yours is fine, I should have searched beyond the news section before posting.

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Yours is fine, I should have searched beyond the news section before posting.

You wouldn't find it in news section, as I posted it as a question in GPU section...

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Yeah you are right. You are so right smart guy. I forgot about that extra 1fps you will get from an extra 400mhz on memory.

 

Here's a tomb raider benchmark:

 

Stock:

 

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OC:

 

Max FPS went up by 6, minimum went up 2, average up by 4.

 

That's a max increase of 9% FPS, that's nearly the difference between a 970 and a 980.

 

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IDK about you, but I'll take a 10% improvement for very very little increased heat output & power draw, especially since it's for free!

 

Keep in mind, at higher framerates, that 10% will make an even bigger difference.  If you were at 100 FPS, you'd be at 106-110 with that memory OC.  Totally worth it IMO, especially since it takes virtually zero effort.

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He meant my crap  :(

ah! x)

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Yeah you are right. You are so right smart guy. I forgot about that extra 1fps you will get from an extra 400mhz on memory.

1fps..yea

 

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614GB/s is hella fast.

That's up from 512GB/s. HBM looking pretty good.

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Here's a tomb raider benchmark:

 

Stock:

 

iGpsV.jpg

 

 

OC:

 

Max FPS went up by 6, minimum went up 2, average up by 4.

 

That's a max increase of 9% FPS, that's nearly the difference between a 970 and a 980.

 

iGpuC.jpg

 

 

GPU OC & VRAM OC:

 

iGpI2.jpg

 

 

Tests done by JayzTwoCents

iGoMA.jpg iGoO1.jpg

 

 

IDK about you, but I'll take a 10% improvement for very very little increased heat output & power draw, especially since it's for free!

 

Keep in mind, at higher framerates, that 10% will make an even bigger difference.  If you were at 100 FPS, you'd be at 106-110 with that memory OC.  Totally worth it IMO, especially since it takes virtually zero effort.

Dude, how many people are going to be able to overclock their VRAM even half as much as that? That's about 3x my maximum stable offset.

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Yeah, OCing the Vram definitely makes a difference. Going from 1250 to 1500 on my 290's memory was worth several hundred points in firestrike alone and about 3-4% gain in fps in gaming. Add that to the 5-10% gain from OCing the core and yeah, it's worth it. ;)

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Dude, how many people are going to be able to overclock their VRAM even half as much as that? That's about 3x my maximum stable offset.

The point about the post is that it does make a difference

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The point about the post is that it does make a difference

But for the average person in a demanding game? Not really, no. If you have to use a golden sample to prove your point, it doesn't hold up.

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I don't suppose they could have benchmarked a real game once they'd managed to overclock the HBM. Sure, memory overclocking helped in Battlefield 4 and Tomb Raider, but that was GDDR5.

 

Nice driver bug I guess.

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But for the average person in a demanding game? Not really, no. If you have to use a golden sample to prove your point, it doesn't hold up.

With my 760's I could only manage a 100Mhz offset which was pretty awful, despite that it improved performance by an average of 2%. More is more, memory OC's do make a difference period.

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