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New A750 oscilating power draw and clock speeds in certain games

Izeezu
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Greetings,

I have bought my A750 FE a week ago and overall been rather happy. However I noticed an odd behavior I have to ask about.

I noticed the issue first when I was playing a game through noticeable coil whine coming from the GPU. However the coil whine is periodic with intervals of 0.5 seconds. Upon paying closer attention I also noticed that the coil whine period also coincides with GPU power draw drop, GPU clock speed drop, Core voltage drop, frame time increase and FPS decrease. Every half second I hear some whining sound for 0.2 seconds coming from the GPU and during the 0.2 seconds of whine my GPU power draw drops to 50w and my fps drops by %30. So far the only 2 games I have experienced this with are EVE online and War Thunder. I am attaching a screenshot of the arc control center graphs I managed to capture while replicating the issue. The stable parts of the graph are from when I am alt tabbed to my desktop however the issue is quite easy to replicate as soon as I tab back into the said games. I had a similar problem with an old graphics card I used which was hot spotting on the GPU die. It was quickly fixed after re-pasting but since this GPU is a week old I assume this is not the issue at hand here. Thanks in advance for everyone who tries to help and I will be eagerly waiting for your responses.

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RonaldM_Intel
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Thanks for the data! Happy to hear the issue with War Thunder is fixed now... I honestly can't say what happened because the vSync toggle in-game always worked for me.

The CapFrameX data you shared shows 5 instances of FPS dropping within the 54-60 FPS range. Is this the performance hit you normally observe? For testing purposes go to Arc Control -> Performance -> Performance Tuning -> Configure -> set the "GPU Core Power Limit" to 228W and "GPU Performance Boost" to a conservative 10%... don't worry this won't void the warranty. Click Apply and retest to see if there is any difference.

 

Best Regards,

Ronald M.

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RonaldM_Intel
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That is great to hear! I'm glad to hear you're happy with your Intel Arc A-Series GPU.

I'll close this thread now but if in the future you need something else don't hesitate to start a new one.

 

Best Regards,

Ronald M.

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