GPU Underclocking itself

[Adri]

So I bought a new laptop like a week ago since my old one died and building a computer with current current gpu and ram prices didnt seem like a good investment.

I bought a Lenovo ideapad 320 15ast.

the displayed specs were:

CPU: A6-9220

RAM: 8GBs

GPU:AMD Radeon 530 2GBs of VRAM
STORAGE: 128GBs SSD

As soon as i started it up i updated windows and such, then when i went to the radeon control panel I couldnt see the dedicated graphics card, went to the BIOS and switched to "switchable graphics" and i was able to see it BUT the card didnt have the specs I expected, they were far off but it wasnt what I expected. 

I installed MSI Afterburner and for some odd reason the graphics card SHOULD be reaching a core clock of 891MHz and memory clock of 900MHz , on idle it sat at 300MHz and 150MHz then when I finally started playing csgo it was only reaching 660MHz core clock and 900MHz memory clock.

Later out I downloaded the new amd software adrenalie 18.2.1 I found out there should be a lot more options like crossfire, chill and such but they werent available.

Now I installed arma 3 and its playable? its weird but the card doesnt seem to be reaching the potential, I know its a laptop but after i updated the AMD software the dedicated graphics card switched from being an AMD Radeon 530 to a AMD R7 M440, I take it its more efficient and has better performance as its more recent.

I tried doing a clean uninstall of the amd software and its drivers but didnt seems to change much. I also turned off any settings related to power and screen brightness.

This is still alot better than my old pc but doesnt perform at it should.

[Crunchy Dragon]

What are the temperatures? It might be downclocking itself to avoid overheating.

[Jurrunio]

Crossfire is not supported and AMD software will hide it rather than dimming it down, that's for sure.

 

I dont think M440 has Radeon Chill since my old RX 470 doesnt have one, though it's possible I overlooked it.

[Adri]

@Crunchy DragonI just did a stress test with kombustor and it was in the 60º ish max was 63

 

[Adri]

At one point I could see the Chill option but the performance was worse so i rolled back the drivers

[Adri]

At one point I thought of buying an actual pc with the new Amd Ryzen 3 2200g or the Ryzen 5 2400g and 8gbs or 6 gbs of ram but im moving from place to place quite a lot and I visit my great grandmother quite often, sometimes I also have school work so this was the best option that I could think of.