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PhireSide said:
Here is my 5600x/6700XT PC for comparison playing a video in Native 4K res. GPU seems to hover around 50%. When I had it set to 1440p, GPU util was 25% playing in fullscreen mode.

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My experience has been that AMD chips do seem to run hotter than Intel chips, for some or other reason.

BTW, my 5600x seems to be a pretty decent one. I am running -30 on Curve Optimizer on all cores (I did the 'per core' setting in Ryzen Master and it came back with the same results after an hour) and benching it shows it is performing above average. I still need to run a Cinebench cycle, but CPU-Z results are 646 (1T) and 4863 (12T) which seems above where these generally perform
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That hasn't been the case for quite sometime now, the 7000 and 9000 series do run hotter than the AM4 platforms but they still run under the Intel chips.
 
Lupus said:
That hasn't been the case for quite sometime now, the 7000 and 9000 series do run hotter than the AM4 platforms but they still run under the Intel chips.
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The last Intel system that I played around with (14th gen i5) would do about 5-10 degrees above ambient on idle, and 30-40 degrees above ambient while gaming. This was with a tower cooler with 2x 120mm fans. My 5600x pulling fresh air through a 240mm AIO is around 50 degrees on idle, and hovers around 70 degrees in Horizon Forbidden West.

Just finding a random Chieftec AIO from TPU shows that the Intel chips under a 250w configured power setting were all cooler than the AMD ones at 225w. I just took the top ten results as an example (Ryzen 9 7900x and Intel Core i7-13700k).

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Nothing wrong with AMD running hotter than Intel, just an interesting observation that I have found.
 
PhireSide said:
My experience has been that AMD chips do seem to run hotter than Intel chips, for some or other reason.
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That's probably due to physical layout - Intel cpus are still monolithic and larger while the AMD chiplet design is physically smaller and has less die surface area contacting the TIM below the heatspreader.

If the TIM + heatspreader designs are equally efficient, the Intel one will naturally be able to dissipate heat faster.
 
Crusader said:
No Firefox. No extensions. Seems to show similar regardless of browser used. (Tested Chrome, Edge & Firefox).

What's weird is that the Adrenalin software doesn't show the same spikes. Just the Win 11 performance tab.

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I'm just interested to know if the temps are normal. It's been years since I had a desktop PC. Haven't had any visual glitches or issues, so don't want to mess around with drivers just yet. Not even quite certain how to go about updating them. The Adrenalin software doesn't show an update option.
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I tested it on my side and the resource usage is accurately reported in both Adrenalin and Task Manager, well, depending on whether they actually report the correct usage. I assume it is a bug in Task Manager. There was a bug a while ago, but I won't be able to say whether it is related.
 
Crusader said:
How do you do that? I can't find any option for updates in mine.
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Open Adrenalin, go to the settings cog top right corner, and check the System tab. Drop down the driver details on the right. You have a RX 7000 GPU, so you would be on 32.0.22029.9039. RX 6000 is not on the same branch, but that is a whole other discussion.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I tested it on my side and the resource usage is accurately reported in both Adrenalin and Task Manager, well, depending on whether they actually report the correct usage. I assume it is a bug in Task Manager. There was a bug a while ago, but I won't be able to say whether it is related.
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Thanks. I think I'm not going to worry about it for now, until I actually experience any issues. From all accounts it looks like the temps are also within normal range too.
 
Crusader said:
Thanks. I think I'm not going to worry about it for now, until I actually experience any issues. From all accounts it looks like the temps are also within normal range too.
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Yeah, I would say that it is anomoly. Man, it is Windows. Also, the latest Adrenalin drivers have some issues. On my RX 7000 GPU it is misreporting the temps on the GPU. Rollback and it works. Ugh... Fans are ramping like crazy, but I already reported it to AMD.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Open Adrenalin, go to the settings cog top right corner, and check the System tab. Drop down the driver details on the right. You have a RX 7000 GPU, so you would be on 32.0.22029.9039. RX 6000 is not on the same branch, but that is a whole other discussion.
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I can see the driver info, but it doesn't have any option to update.

I think I'll stick with the current one. The whole "if it ain't broke don't fix it" thing.
 
Fulcrum29 is right on the money. If I look in my settings inside Adrenalin, I can see a prompt that opens up Install Manager:

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5600x repasted with some PTM7950. Going to give a few days for it to settle but thus far temps seem about 5-6 degrees better under moderate load

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Lupus said:
That is quite a bit of cooling what are your temps?
With my old 5600 with a 120m raidmax I never saw above 65 while gaming.
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Hovers around 60-65 degrees now with Starfield. I do keep the fans spinning at uber quiet mode (~400rpm until the CPU hits 75) and the pump at a static 1800rpm, but I myself do prefer air cooling as well.
 
PhireSide said:
Hovers around 60-65 degrees now with Starfield. I do keep the fans spinning at uber quiet mode (~400rpm until the CPU hits 75) and the pump at a static 1800rpm, but I myself do prefer air cooling as well.
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What case do you have? As those temps sound high for a 5600x, my 5700x3d used to just clip 75 on air.
The 9700x sits around 70 with air and it being a hot day. But I do have 3 fans in the front two on top one as in and one as out plus a rear exhaust
 
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