Drivers & Software

[FrutyX]

I own a Sapphire RX 7600 Pulse, and after updating to 24.6.1 driver version, I started hearing a coil whine. This is happening even when I am just browsing in my browser (Google Chrome). Of course, you can also hear that during playing games. 

The GPU usage mostly sits at 1% to 2%, while running just a browser, so it's not even busy, however, I have noticed to compared to the previous version, It's using 10W more.

I have downgraded to 24.5.1 and the problem seems to be gone, it's using less W and the Memory temps seems to be a bit lower. 

I also saw on reddit, that I am not the only one with this issue on this specific driver....

[Sikey]

try to undervolt your video card, this usually helps to reduce coil whine.

[HewinFM]

I'm experiencing coil whine on my desktop, idle, moving windows around, and scrolling my browser.

Downgraded to 24.5.1 and it goes away and I can live in silence again.

AMD please fix.

i7-13600K

RX 6750XT

[humanaut]

Same here with a stock clocked RX 6700 XT... It was never a coil whine free card, but only in some gaming scenarios, but with 24.6.1 it went crazy... I care less about coil whine if it happens while gaming, since I use a headset, but in Windows, while browsing the internet, it is unacceptable... As more people suggested it, reverting to 24.5.1 completely solved the issue. Please fix this in the next driver release!

[tdmzr]

  Same here, I have RX 6600 XT and my card had a little coil whine depending on the game but it was negligible. And now (on 24.6.1 driver) while browsing, this sound killing me.

[Cory_]

+1 same

[LongBranch]

Thank you so much for posting this bro. This happened to me as well, I have a rx 6700, I have no issues with it but after this update things went downhill. Buzzing while playing games, I even get frame drops consistent with the buzzing sound. When the buzzing stops my fps dips for a few seconds. I really hope AMD fixed this because it’s really annoying.