From PC World: AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX launched in mid-December offering a huge performance upgrade over its predecessor and more performance than Nvidia’s pricier RTX 4080. But it’s not all roses. Over the holiday break, a worrying number of users reported excessively high hot spot temperatures, hitting a whopping 110 degrees Celsius and slowing their GPU’s performance.
After first stating that those are normal operating temperatures, AMD is now doing an about-face, admitting that at least some 7900 XTX reference cards suffered from a manufacturing defect that affects performance. Here’s what the company told Hardware Luxx’s Andreas Schilling, who has been investigating the issue:
“We are working to determine the cause of the unexpected performance limitation of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards. Based on our observations to date we believe the issue is related to the thermal solution used in AMD’s reference design and is occurring in a limited number of cards sold. We are working to resolve this issue for the affected cards. Customers experiencing this unexpected limitation should contact AMD support.”
Here’s what you need to know about overheating Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPUs.
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