Laptop GPU clock dips from 1200mhz to 600mhz, Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42 RH8N

carlmolina9
carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
edited December 2023 in 2020 Archives
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  • andylb
    andylb ACE Posts: 3,827 Pathfinder
    Please give far more detail, for example what are you doing at the time this happens? What is the relevance of the photo you posted in your question?

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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    @andylb playing a game, don't mind the photo.
  • andylb
    andylb ACE Posts: 3,827 Pathfinder
    Are you gaming with your laptop set on High Performance and your battery charged to 100% BEFORE gaming and KEPT plugged into the charger while gaming?

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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    @andylb yepp, my gpu drivers are still the ones that are available in this site, which I know in fact is outdated. 
  • GAMING6698
    GAMING6698 ACE Posts: 7,782 Pathfinder
    edited March 2020
    @andylb yep, my GPU drivers are still the ones that are available in this site, which I know in fact is outdated. 
    Yes, your driver is outdated .you have AMD Radeon rx560x so go through my link and download Radeon software after download install it .it will automatically update your GPU driver. download latest 20.2.2

    https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/radeon-500-series/radeon-rx-500x-series/radeon-rx-560x
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  • andylb
    andylb ACE Posts: 3,827 Pathfinder
    Follow my AMD walkthrough below

    The new AMD Adrenalin 2020 Control Center is designed to give support for your hardware and contains Mobile Driver support for this exact model, the Graphics Drivers on the Acer site are only base drivers. Click the link below to download the 2020 Control Center and the latest drivers for the RX560x will be automatically installed
    https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-2-1

    Most of the problems I have encountered answering questions similar to yours are that users do not have the GPU set up correctly in the Control Center and are gaming on their Dedicated Vega 8 GPU which gives poor performance and is not designed for gaming. I have your exact model and my gaming experience using the AMD 2020 Control Center is good, Follow these instructions

    First make sure you game with your battery charged to 100% BEFORE gaming and KEEP plugged into the main AC power while gaming. Make sure "High Performance when on AC", is selected in your Windows Power Plan and in Nitrosense. If you fail to do this your CPU will run at around 50% of capacity and you will experience poor game performance

    Open the New AMD 2020 Control Center and click the GAMING tab then click the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and select ADD A GAME, navigate to your games .exe file and double click it to add it, or you can select SCAN FOR GAMES and let the Control Center search your harddrive for games to add. After successfully adding the game click on the game and you will be taken to another window and click the LAUNCH GAME tab.
    Only in this way will your games use the Discrete Rx560x GPU, NEVER launch your game through a desktop shortcut or any other way, do it in the manner I have described.

    Please remember that online gaming may experience low fps and stutter due to the games servers and bottlenecking and that has nothing to do with your GPU.

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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    I did everything butt the problem still exists, just look at the picture on how the performance drops, 
  • GAMING6698
    GAMING6698 ACE Posts: 7,782 Pathfinder
    I did everything butt the problem still exists, just look at the picture on how the performance drops, 
    Two possibilities -
    1)you temperature is going high 90c+
    2) This game not optimize for you graphic.

    I can sure 2 possibility is right.you can check temperature in nitrosense 
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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    edited March 2020
    on the The Witcher 3 game you can see that the gpu clock runs at 603mhz locked, while on here on Ori the clock runs at 1200+mhz, why is that? 
  • GAMING6698
    GAMING6698 ACE Posts: 7,782 Pathfinder
    on the The Witcher 3 game you can see that the gpu clock runs at 603mhz locked, while on here on Ori the clock runs at 1200+mhz, why is that? 
    1st witcher 3 release in 2015 and gpu rx560x in 2018  witcher 3is not optimize for this graphic.

    And in image you send earlier in one there is 1234mhz may be fps drop in second one .are you playing while plug in.is this happening in this game only gpu locked?
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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    the 1234mhz on the witcher is the main clock before it hits 603mhz, that is the clock dip i'm referring to and also confused about why it
    is happening. But after some configuration i manage to let the witcher 3 at 603mhz, but still it's only 30fps even in the lowest setting, 
    it's supposed to be higher than that. I will update you when I test different games.
  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    Tried on MGS: Ground Zeroes but still locked at 603mhz, why is this happening? I'm plugged in while gaming. why
  • GAMING6698
    GAMING6698 ACE Posts: 7,782 Pathfinder
    edited March 2020
    Tried on MGS: Ground Zeroes but still locked at 603mhz, why is this happening? I'm plugged in while gaming. why
    Uninstall msi afterburner completely then restart and check if it solve .

    I have also Rx560x and i completed this game in average 48fps medium-high settings.
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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    I do not have msi afterburner.
  • GAMING6698
    GAMING6698 ACE Posts: 7,782 Pathfinder
    I do not have msi afterburner.
    Then you yourv fps ,gpu usage shown on left side ?
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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    It is just an fps monitor
  • GAMING6698
    GAMING6698 ACE Posts: 7,782 Pathfinder
    It is just an fps monitor
    I thing the main cause is temperature.When temperature increases clock speed decreases.so in starting, you are getting good gpu clock?
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  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    Here's my temps, but still stuck on 603mhz, yes at first 1minutes or so then it reverts to 603mhz.
  • carlmolina9
    carlmolina9 Member Posts: 22 Troubleshooter
    pls helpppppolppppopp^pppoppppppppppoppppp
  • GAMING6698
    GAMING6698 ACE Posts: 7,782 Pathfinder
    pls helpppppolppppopp^pppoppppppppppoppppp
    You are getting 90+C temperature when gpu clock decreases?
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