Hi Folks, Hi AMD Devs.
There must be a little bug again in your 20.11.2 driver release.
I use my RX5700 Gaming X on a Asus B350-F Board with 16 gb of DDR4 3000 Memory and a 600 Watt BeQuiet PSU since December 2019 driving an Iiyama Black Hawl 75 hz 1080p Freesync Monitor. Until Radeon Software 20.11.1, with GPU set zu 75 hz refreshrate, the VRAM of my card was clocked to idle (200 mhz), even when adding a 60 hz LG screen to enlarge the desktop.
After installing 20.11.2, the VRAM of my card constantly runs at may speed (1750 mhz) and only clocks to idle when I set the refresh rate to 60 hz.
This behavior cannot be wanted an normal. I understand that at way higher refresh rates the VRAM does NOT downclock in idle state (240 hz for eg). But after a year having the VRAM clocking down in Idle with a 75 HZ refresh rate I cannot believe that ahigher VRAM clock is suddenly nessecary.
I have to add: When I lower the refreshrate to 60 hz, the VRAM clocks down as it used to to with all previous drivers at 75 hz.
Please AMD fix this issue ASAP.
At the rest of the users here: Do you experience the same? It seems that Jayztwocents also experienced this issue in his RX6800 test video. In his live demo he shows radeon software in an idle state with the VRAM clockt at max speed. He does not mention it - but he is more used to Nvidia drivers...