We reached out to both AMD and MSI on this issue, and MSI let us know that they are working on a new version of MSI Afterburner due out in June.ĪMD also responded with an official explanation about the Power Target in regards to this video card. The Power Limit cannot be changed either in MSI Afterburner or Radeon Software. However, we do have word from MSI that a new version of MSI Afterburner is in the works that may expose more functionality. Both applications right now support the same features for overclocking this video card, neither differ in functionality at this time.

You can use the latest MSI Afterburner, or you can use AMD Radeon Software’s Performance Tuning. To overclock the MSI Radeon RX 6650 XT GAMING X you can go about it two ways. That’s well above the Game Clock and Boost Clock, indicating incredible default performance out of this video card for the new 6650 XT GPU. This means on average we are getting literally 2700 MHz out of the GPU while gaming, without even touching overclocking. The frequency seems to resolve right above 2703 MHz and then falls toward 2703 MHz in the latter part as it settles down.

That means higher frequencies and performance. We’d only expect it to be above the Game Clock, not the maximum Boost Clock, but here it is doing just that.

As you can see, the MSI Radeon RX 6650 XT GAMING X video card is maintaining a GPU Boost well over the Game Clock, and even higher than the Boost Clock, which is phenomenal. The blue line represents the real-world in-game GPU frequency while playing games. We have also placed a green bar on the 2694 MHz marker which represents the GPU Boost Clock on this video card. In the graph above we have placed a red line on the 2523 MHz marker, which represents the GPU Game Clock on this video card. We use Cyberpunk 2077 for this with a very long manual run-through at “Ultra” settings recording GPU-Z sensor data. To do this we will record the GPU clock frequency over time while playing a game. We need to find out what it actually runs at, so we can compare the benefit of overclocking. Typically, GPUs today can exceed the “Boost Clock” dynamically. NVIDIA has GPU Boost, and AMD has its Game Clock and Boost Clock quoted frequencies. With both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, the GPU frequency is dynamic. Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 Game of the Year Editionīefore we find the highest stable overclock, we need to find out what the default GPU clock speed of the video card is.Overclocking MSI Radeon RX 6650 XT GAMING X 8G.AMD Radeon Raise The Game Bundle and FSR 2.0.

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