The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Weird Powerplay Problems with Radeon 3410

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Silvr6, Apr 3, 2009.

  1. Silvr6

    Silvr6 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    173
    Messages:
    429
    Likes Received:
    114
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Alright so I've got myself an HP DV2 and i'm seeing some odd behavior (or maybe its normal) I haven't used an ATI mobile card for a while. I'm used to nvidia cards, and I always disabled powermiser in order to get the best performance. Heres the deal.

    From what I've noticed the 3410 Dynamically adjusts its clock based on what your doing with the system.

    With power play enabled but using the max performance setting at idle these are the clocks:

    110 Core 800 Ram

    Powerplay in battery mode
    110 Core 500 Ram

    When I goto fire up an HD movie using the UVD capability the clocks are as follows:

    Powerplay Max performance

    550 Core 1000 Ram

    Powerplay Max Battery

    550 Core 1000 Ram

    Now While gaming this is where it pisses me off :mad:

    The clocks go from

    110-450 Core and 800-1000 Ram

    This is in either max performance mode or in the battery saving mode. The clock speeds seem to ramp up and down with the action on the screen, I was testing with Team Fortress Classic running in windowed mode so I could watch the clocks via everest.

    Now if I disable powerplay all together and repeat the same tests in TFC as above the clocks stay at 450/800

    So with power play disabled its keeping the core at 450 but the ram speed isn't ramping up.


    If you look at the results for when a HD video is playing powerplay actually overclocks the GPU and Ram speed for the video higher than the clocks for when you try to game. This small bit of overclocking is even active after disabling power play.


    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]

    As you can see in the above pictures there are various states that corespond with the behavior i'm seeing, i just wish I could lock in the lowest and highest ones without this throttling crap


    Has anyone else seen this behavior and is there anyway to just lock the clocks at a certain speed. I can't seem to find any overclocking tools that support the newest mobile ATI cards.
     
    Silvr6, Apr 3, 2009
    #1
  2. Silvr6

    Silvr6 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    173
    Messages:
    429
    Likes Received:
    114
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Ok so ready on Ati's website it seems the dynamic clock modulation i'm seeing is normal, I just wish I could get to have the full clocks 100% of the time when I want them, not when powerplay wants me too, silly ATI :eek:
     
    Silvr6, Apr 3, 2009
    #2