“The hardware mod involves connecting the EVC2SE to the I2C bus on the GPU PCB,” Jedi95 explained.<\/p>\n
“With this mod implemented, it’s possible to adjust the power consumption and current draw that the VRM controller reports to the GPU using the EVC2SE software.”<\/p>\n
“This is similar to what a shunt mod would do on an Nvidia GPU, but it’s configurable in software.”<\/p>\n
Jedi95 said the card was “fun” to overclock without the power limits.<\/p>\n
“RDNA3 [the architecture on which the card is built] is capable of very impressive clock speeds when power isn’t a limitation,” they said.<\/p>\n
Jedi95 achieved a peak power draw of 696W, compared to the maximum of 600W on high-end overclockable RTX 4090s.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Reddit user Jedi95’s modified AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card.<\/p><\/div>\n
Combined with a clock speed of 3.33GHz, the card hit 18,335 points in the 3DMark Time Spy Extreme benchmark, exceeding the scores of some RTX 4090 benchmarks.<\/p>\n
PCGamer’s tests<\/strong><\/a> of the RTX 4090 Founders Edition saw it recording 16,654 points, for example.<\/p>\n Tom’s Hardware pointed out<\/strong><\/a> it also matched the best 7900 XTX benchmark results in Time Spy Extreme. The publication said the competing cards were likely cooled with liquid nitrogen.<\/p>\n AMD’s top-end card is substantially cheaper than Nvidia’s, with a recommended retail price of $999 compared to $1,599 in the US.<\/p>\n In South Africa, the RX 7900 XTX can currently be bought for R23,199 through Wootware, while the RTX 4090 starts at R35,999 from the same retailer.<\/p>\n Hitting that level of performance required pushing the AMD card to nearly double its thermal design power of 355W. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":492303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[577,82477,3838,84185,41606],"class_list":["post-492291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-amd-radeon-rx-7900-xtx","tag-nvidia","tag-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090","tag-overclocking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492345,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492291\/revisions\/492345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: AMD launches processors it says beat the Apple M2 and Intel Core i7<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"