PC Graphics

[njtank17]

I just bought myself recently a Sapphire Nitro+ 7900xtx to replace my reference 6950xt. I love the card itself but noticed that I still have the same problem I did before with high power consumption on idle when not doing anything demanding. After doing some digging around and hearing from others, it seems the culprit is the VRAM usage. I noticed this also that whenever for a split second it goes down, the power usage also goes far down. On idle at desktop, I notice power usage to be between 65-88w. Fiddling with settings, the VRAM clock speed goes to about 909MHz and is usually consistent. Is this normal and if not, is there any fix or potential long term damage?

[FunkZ]

Common complaint, several threads on this:

https://community.amd.com/t5/graphics-cards/7900-xtx-high-idle-power-and-high-vram-speed-on-idle/td-...

https://community.amd.com/t5/graphics-cards/7900-xtx-very-high-idle-power/m-p/613770#M99201

AMD did address this in one of its later driver updates last year.

I'm on 24.1.1 and idle power is 15-20W and VRAM clock speed 50-100MHz

[njtank17]

I am on 24.1.1 as well and my clock speed is still going to 909 with 60-80w usage. Hasn't done anything for me.

[FunkZ]

Reading through those threads I linked there could be several causes, like running disparate refresh rate and/or resolution monitors or having apps running in the background utilizing graphics memory. It's likely going to take trying some of the recommended solutions to find what's causing it.