Odd RX 480 Ramping

[ryanf257]

Hi there fellows,

 

Been gaming for a while on my system, all is fine and well, temps are okay and clocks are high. Just now, I noticed my system was bit loud, so I messed with the fan curves (based on system temp as my CPU cooler does the 1700x great, but the airflow is below average). That all seems fine, but my GPU is using 74% at idle... It's doing fine in games, but I have no clue why this suddenly started. 

 

I did restart, but it still persisted. Here's a screenshot of all the monitoring stuff, help is appreciated. 

[sazrocks]

Windows GPU monitoring is pretty useless IMO. What does afterburner say for usage?

[ryanf257]

8 hours ago, sazrocks said:

Windows GPU monitoring is pretty useless IMO. What does afterburner say for usage?

It says my memory clock is maxed out and core clock goes between 800 and 1100mhz at idle.

[sazrocks]

1 hour ago, ryanf257 said:

It says my memory clock is maxed out and core clock goes between 800 and 1100mhz at idle.

How about usage?

[ryanf257]

14 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

How about usage?

That was in the 70s

[sazrocks]

On task manager’s processes tab which process was using 70%?

[ryanf257]

50 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

On task manager’s processes tab which process was using 70%?

Radeon Settings. The “Host application”

[xFluing]

Same thing is happening to me, it's not as bad, but I'm also getting "3D mode" clocks and about 20-30% usage when messing around in radeon settings.

[ryanf257]

3 hours ago, xFluing said:

Same thing is happening to me, it's not as bad, but I'm also getting "3D mode" clocks and about 20-30% usage when messing around in radeon settings.

Have you tried uninstalling AMD settings apps?

 

[xFluing]

On 2/21/2018 at 8:55 PM, ryanf257 said:

Have you tried uninstalling AMD settings apps?

 

I didn't, because I never thought of this as an issue, I did re-install drivers recently but I didn't bother to check because this behaviour seems completely normal.