I Can't Figure Out What's Wrong With This Gigabyte RX 6950 XT

Gigabyte sent over a RX 6950 XT that just didn't want to work as intended.
The reviews I reference in the video:
-TechTesters review of Gigabyte RX 6950 XT: • Gigabyte Radeon RX 695...
-TechPowerUp Sapphire RX 6950 XT: www.techpowerup.com/review/sa...
-TechPowerUp Gigabyte RX 6950 XT: www.techpowerup.com/review/gi...
DigitalTrends Gigabyte RX 6950 XT: www.digitaltrends.com/computi...
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[@Rspsand07]

It's so you can pair it with their power supplies without blowing up your house. It's a feature, not a bug.

[@missflusch]

Lmfao🤣

[@norfolkngood8960]

BWAAAHAHAAHA

[@AnnaDoes]

haha this is pretty great lol

[@thejollysloth5743]

Definitely a feature. You also spend less on electricity, and since energy costs are through the roof, Giga-Chad are doing us all a favor by writing 6950 XT on the card but have it perform like a 6800 non XT. You get the E-Peen status of having a monster GPU without having to pay $100 a month in electricity. We all win!!!!

[@misot90]

For maximum hilarity, you should put those in a custom T-72 Tank case with a custom radiator mount on top of the turret to serve as the cope cages. Perfect meme build I'd say.

[@1999jassim]

The massive coil whine is what's concerning here, this has to be a hardware issue rather than software.

[@Ahfeku]

Could be. Since gigabyte doesn't know what the f they doing with their cards either.

[@denizenofclownworld4853]

@@ReallyNotTrix1 Coil wine would never be a software issue. It also isn't anything to automatically worry about.

[@cppctek]

Coil whine is some what common. I had a ton of brand new cards with coil whine and the manufacturers never would do much about it. Although gigabyte is trash

[@vailpcs4040]

My bet is that one of the onboard fuses or MOSFETs are bad. It's probably only pulling power from 2 PCIe connectors, thus it can't scale up to full power. I'd be interested to know if you tried the FUSION OC scan tool at all.

[@saturnotaku]

@@cppctek Agreed. Gigabyte has the most severe coil whine of any GPU I've used.

[@HaikuOezu]

Ah, I see that even reviewers are subject to Gigabyte’s top tier support

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! At least they don’t discriminate when it comes to their support. 😂

[@George-qm6wi]

I guess that Steve from GN will have another video about Gigabyte if there's more than one unit that has this problem.

[@snitchmojo3717]

I'm still waiting for a GPU in RMA, stuck in ''Being Replaced or Replacement being tested'' for a month now

[@HaikuOezu]

@@snitchmojo3717 Jesus man, that's wild

[@snitchmojo3717]

@@HaikuOezu with no apparent way to contact them. In a span of 1 week, MSI received/test/replace/send the replacement when i had a defective motherboard

[@100500daniel]

I know why this card is drawing 290 wats. It's because it's a 6800XT that sneaked quality control and became a 6950. 🥴.

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Might be the answer, upvote for this

[@ozmobozo]

funny jew

[@robertkubrick3738]

I had the same thought.

[@poorNOOB]

Considering that this is Gigabyte, with its infamous revision-prone history, i thought that they might have more than one revisions of this model shipping out to reviewers and customers already.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah, that is definitely a possibility.

[@CollinTheSav]

*cough cough* Look at their Gigabyte Z690I DDR4 board and its massive recall *cough*

[@xalex7923]

absolutely

[@Eremon1]

Agree 100%. I'm allergic to Gigabyte.

[@liaminwales]

To be fair a lot of brands do silent revisions, Buldzoid has mentioned it a few times in reference to RAM OC.

[@mruczyslaw50]

The only time you see graphics card that consumes 298W of power and you say it's not enough

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I know right! I does feel pretty weird to point that out as a problem. 😅

[@Teksers]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Sillicon Loterry and you won it maybe?

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@Teksers I wouldn’t really call it winning the silicone lottery considering that it was underperforming a decent amount.

[@hadiamrane]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff But somebody else mentioned that on hwinfo it states "rx 6600", maybe that has to do with something?

[@valdeelrico]

I check videos and shorts. Did I miss the update on this. I'm looking to buy this exact card.

[@dealerauctionnightmare4689]

Why does hardware info show it as an RX 6600? 4:03 & 6:08

[@RyanRiopel]

I'm so glad you've stumbled on this issue. Imagine being a regular consumer and getting a kneecapped card, no doubt Gigabyte would just tell you to pound sand. Keep on the heat, that's a lot of money to pay to not get full performance.

[@quintrapnell3605]

I don’t think he paid for it but I’m still waiting for the resolution to this issue to come forward

[@kvotipuka4815]

Imagine you finally get your hands on a nice graphics card and its the one that hasn't passed through quality control...

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I know right! For $1200 you’d expect it to work properly.

[@RandomTechVideos]

Just like my friend who has had 4 $2,000 Samsung Odyssey G9 Neo monitors in a row that have ALL had dead pixels...

[@kvotipuka4815]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Yeah man holy s@@t for that price thats just... KZbin will delete my comment if continue 😅

[@aureliuse3469]

in March i finally get my Gigabyte 3060 Eagle, the sound of coil whine so bad, the build quality so bad because when i take my 3060 on my hand the body sound "kwerk krekk", and last the LED on my card so weird , i think my LED is leaking because some color blend randomly feel so bad, now i change my card to colorful, and no problem happening like in my Gigabyte

[@marcogenovesi8570]

We need no quality control where we are going

[@Tarukeys]

I had a 1080 Ti from Gigabyte and it went into flames in my case 4 months after the launch of the 30 series from Nvidia. No cards were available at non-stupid price so I had to fall back to my RX 480 8 Gb from MSI. I could be stuck with a lot worse but I'll never buy another graphics card from Gigabyte, NEVER. It's been more than 1 year and it still hurts, damnit. I'm glad my RX 480 is still a trooper, I still max out some games at 1440p but its days are counted. It's been overclocked for more than 5 years. It will celebrate its 6th birthday this summer. One hell of a graphics card I tell you. Best PC purchase ever.

[@StalewindFarto]

My Strix RX480 is plugging along nicely. Sapphire 590 and 6700 also have worked great for me, so I'm only buying those companies cards in the future.

[@sleeplessindefatigable6385]

Man, the RX480 will never die. That thing's going to be good for 1080p/60 until the heat death of the universe.

[@buggerlugz6753]

Back when there was value for money in GPU's eh...

[@gorjy9610]

I have one gtx970 with completely burned hole through PCB, also Gigabyte card. And it wouldn't be nothing special to talk about, mosfets die and sometimes card end up like that (decent brands will include fuses on board to prevent that but that's another story). Problem was that that was not main power line, you can expect something like that on Vcore but in this case problem was on f. logic 5V rail, rail that have maybe 100mAh draw and it's cool and not under any pressure (most card from that era use simple linear voltage regulators anyway for it). But Gigabyte find a way to screw even that up and use obvious reject parts

[@SakugaAsu]

Ya should go about repasting the gpu and replacing the thermal pads with a good cleaning. Should last even longer after that

[@dreamshakejake3736]

Gigabyte, you’ve done it again. Showing why you should go with literally any other brand when buying components for your build.

[@suprafastmafc]

They make really good boards IMO, but I wont touch anything else from them with a 10ft pole

[@stamasd8500]

Any updates on this? I'd be interested to hearing if Gigabyte ever figured out anything about this card.

[@nolannettles795]

Msi afterburner doesn't properly display amd power draw correctly

[@AnnaDoes]

RX 69 *clears throat for maximum effect* 50 XT - I would expect nothing less from this human. I love you

[@DigitalJedi]

That type of data being requested by a contact and HQ suggests something is very wrong somewhere. I'm guessing they'll be setting up a bunch of cards with the same configurations to test stuff on.

[@MandoMTL]

Seriously sounds like a bad batch.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@MandoMTL If there is no underlying hardware flaw I can see a BIOS update in the future to fix the issue. A bit like with the RX 580 where they managed to stay in PCIe specs by loading the rails differently, done through an update, at no performance cost.

[@Garrettdx1988]

I’m really surprised Gigabyte hasn’t just sent out a new card and had Dawid return that one. He’s literally already done all the troubleshooting. Doesn’t make me confident as a consumer that if a popular tech reviewer can’t get good customer service on a product the company literally sent to be reviewed, what chance do regular buyers have?

[@nelsonpiedade61]

none!!gygaTRASH..always on the dirty side of the HW community!

[@LawrenceTimme]

They send out 390w review samples to make the card look good on reviews then send the retail cards out limited to 290w to reduce heat and RMA. They accidentally sent you retail unit and 7 people at gigabutt are now under investigation for screwing up their evil plan.

[@chrispeters8555]

The fact that majority of us stress test our new builds and monitor temps and power draw during it… it’s rather impossible to get away with that! That’s a massive lawsuit waiting to happen!

[@megachonk9440]

I realize this is probably sarcasm, but in case it's not, they publish the specs for the card and a line-topping card is going to attract some serious enthusiasts who are going to take mere minutes to spot the problem. It's not like it's remotely difficult to know how much power your video card is drawing in 2022. There's definitely something wrong with that card, as another person pointed out probably failed mosfets. When he increased the power limit to 120% it should have drawn about 58 more watts. In reality, he was only drawing an additional 14 or 15 additional watts, so something is broken in that card. I'm just wondering why Gigabyte didn't just suggest this immediately after ruling out configuration and setup issues and offer to swap out the card. Sure, they might screw around with average customers, but they know this card is part being reviewed by somebody who is going to sell T shirts with whatever he names their card printed on them.

[@oOWaschBaerOo]

@@chrispeters8555 i mean, its not the first time it happened that cards with special bioses to look better/binned cards got send out to testers and reviewers LOL

[@MandoMTL]

Looks like a bad batch tbh. Might've sourced their PD components from different sources.

[@tombstonefreak]

+/- it's a pretty big possibility, that 390w on Gygabyte just go on fire, or just unstable and they downwolted retail version to 290w

[@vailpcs4040]

I recently had a stunningly similarly bad experience with their Waterforce X 360 AIO: after 2 weeks of firmware (via SD Card) and software (Fusion RGB) updates, including using different USB cables and motherboards / OS installations, I could not get the screen to display anything other than the stock startup image. For a premium, high-end custom LCD AIO that I wanted to use to display temps, this was the last straw. I don't know what's going on over there, but all the support I got was terrible and they clearly either did not read what I had written or did not care. I never got it to work (I have over 20 years in PC sales and service, repair, build and upgrade experience) and returned it, along with a 3080 Waterforce GPU and a Z590 mobo. I really wanted Gigabyte to pull through, but they forced me to go back to ASUS. Say what you will about Armoury Crate, but it actually works with their own products and doesn't require weeks of QA testing on my part to make their ecosystem work. This was a client build and I nearly lost a significant custom build sale over it. They wasted my time and money for the final time.

[@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks]

my 6900xt waterforce card has some weird T-Junction issues and other performance related BS, however, when it does behave it's a highly capable high performing card. When I first got it I bought 3dmark and got the card into the top 25 for port royal, on WC alone. it's a highly capable card, however it's very temperamental. but over all my issues with gigabyte just haven't subsided and it is what it is. they make a few good products and a few products you might wish were better.

[@lnfinyx]

I always only buy ASUS, they are always very nice and their products are well priced and perform very well! If there is a problem they will instantly try to help you figure out what's wrong, KEEP IT UP ASUS!

[@MrShadow1617]

@@lnfinyx Ironically, the ROG Strix lineup from Asus is almost always more expensive than all the other brands, doesn't matter if its mobo or GPU. However, it seems like you pay a little more for a lot more stability and higher quality hardware components.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I’m really glad you could return the parts. That’s outrageous, they really should be more willing to support their customers.

[@nickgarcia1292]

My own experience with gigabyte is just a couple of motherboards and those seem quite solid at least? At this point tho I would be wary of any of their other products after reading about so many issues there..

[@F4mouzzZTheRaper]

The sapphire model is just miles ahead

[@pubgchickens]

I am glad i have Sapphire 😅

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

The cooler on that Sapphire card is really impressive!

[@1jackpenner]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff I love sapphire with my whole heart, they make, beautiful well performing cards, and the innovation is honestly very nice, look at the 6950xt with an rgb header on it to sync your system instead of shitty software 🙂

[@Ruikesan]

It'd be pointless to trade in my 6900 for a 6950 but yeah if I didn't have it the 6950 is a great looking card at least.

[@Direwoof]

@@1jackpenner Ye id only ever buy EVG sapphire or ASUS cause they make teh most reliable stuff.

[@valkasolidor6727]

I do commend GB for sending you the card and corresponding with you somewhat openly thus far. The four day wait isn't pleasing, but in corporate world time that isn't terribly long or drama inducing just yet. I hope to see some kind of meaningful resolution.

[@DesocupadoXtremo]

Seems like they under planned the power delivery system, most of brands use mutiple supliers of the same components to increase suply, probly one of the supliers didn't meet demand for the PD of the card and it now it phisicly can't reach its full potential

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Agreed. Sounds logical imho

[@Jmeboy]

6:08 - The GPU shows up as an AMD Radeon RX 6600. Is it anything to do with that?

[@ksp1278]

Well spotted

[@fantum12000]

good eye, if the computer thinks its a RX 6600 it could be following normal procedure for the RX 6600 and not the RX 6950 xt.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh yeah! That is really weird. Nice spot. I’ll also mention that to Gigabyte and see what they say. 👍

[@michaeltyrrell3381]

They literally look exactly the same. Knowing Gigashites QC they probably put the wrong one in the box.

[@fantum12000]

@@michaeltyrrell3381 more than likely

[@Trusteft]

1: I follow Techtesters for few years now. Very different presentation to your channel for sure, but she is pretty awesome and one of few tech channels I follow. 2. Three things come to mind as for possible realistic reasons for this eh situation. a) Bad card. b) bad cables. c) bad capacitors. Good luck.

[@evilspoons]

It can't be the cables, he swapped out power supplies AND mainboards. Literally the only thing that was the same was the graphics card.

[@swizzler8053]

Nada 😍

[@MrShadow1617]

its either bad caps or bad power delivery components (chokes, inductors, etc.). If it was a bad card, then its questionable how it ran consistently with same results. Bad cables have already been ruled out, as dave replaced every single component in the test bed, even power supply cables.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Yeah! Their reviews are great. I’ll definitely follow up once I have more info on what’s going on.😃

[@fatrob88]

I remember talking about Tech Testers on a live stream we did a couple years ago haha small world. I hope you can solve this problem with Gigabyte. Take care man 💪🏻

[@Toutvids]

So 5 months later... where's the update you said you would make? Did Gigabyte ever get back to you? Did you RMA the card?

[@Eflaene]

I'm saddened that whenever I hear about a Gigabyte product, there's a big problem with it. They're meant to be a big player in the space, but it seems they're struggling.

[@sleepydragonzarinthal3533]

struggling to not take advantage of people's hype and desperation? Yeah, it's a real shame

[@narius_jaden215]

hmmm I've had some issues with gigabyte in the past but only really one actual brick (An aorus card that wouldn't stay stable). Other than that, i've had good luck. One had a wire that I had to push down that was getting hit by a fan xD that was a bit silly. My current card is a 6900 xt windforce and it's running pretty well for the most part.

[@OCDyno]

Gigabyte is almost as big a meme as asrock

[@Dempig]

I have a gigabyte mobo and gpu ( 3070 ti gamer oc) and have ZERO issues with either of them. Works great for me

[@vailpcs4040]

They USED to be great... now? Not so much. Avoid.

[@chrissavill8713]

Been a follower of Techtesters for quite a while and Nada knows her stuff! So I'm not at all surprised she helped you out with the bios as she has always been polite, professional, smart, amusing and extremely likeable in her videos.

[@AnnaDoes]

Yeah she was great and helped out immediately :D

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

For sure! They have a great channel with really good reviews 😃

[@HanSolo__]

Yeah. They are great guys. Love the quality they are delivering constantly.

[@wujekcientariposta]

My old 580 did exactly this when the vrm didn't make proper contact with the cooler. It didn't say anywhere it's throttling, it didn't show cooking vrm temps, it just capped power draw at a level the vrms could handle not cooled properly, while the core was like 40c. It took a while until I found the broken thermal pad, and once I replaced it it went back to normal. So maybe the same thing or a broken thermal probe for the vrms or something?

[@benvideokid]

Any update on this? Ive had two of these cards with similar issues and both cone out of the box randomly restarting my pc. I had to manually tune the card to get it running consistently

[@dcgoodlet28]

I've owned numerous gigabyte products over the years and have had mostly positive experiences but recently had to replace a z390ud mobo because it wouldn't allow me to enter bios, was really strange, i tried all the usual suspects but even after full reflash and cmos battery replacement lol it would lockup every time. Replaced with an msi mortar and haven't had any issues.

[@JGStonedRaider]

Audio died on my B560 Aorus so replaced it with a Z590 Gaming X...which the LAN died on. I now have an MSI Carbon Wifi and it hasn't died yet....yay!

[@dishsoap1]

MSI or nothing my friend.

[@MandoMTL]

MSI Mortar/Bazooka and above are the META.

[@rustler08]

@@MandoMTL I prefer the “VRM SUPERIORITY” meta. If it doesn’t have high-quality VRMs, I don’t want it.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Wait, MSI has become better nowadays? The last one I had had a RAM slot die at random, while my Gigabyte boards are running for years rock solid. Guess every company has a bad day. And then there is obviously Asus who for whatever reason has to name everything differently and make things super complicated.

[@albertdavis86]

love these videos man. keep it up!

[@joseprf2534]

I had a similar problem with and old RX 570 that got solved by disabling high precision timer in the BIOS. Not sure if it would make a difference in your case.

[@techoutlet6251]

Why is the card reporting as RX 6600 in HWinfo Also, could one of the PCIE Inputs be broken so that's why it's capped at 290W like the 6900XT as it is only using 2x8-pins? can you use the Nvidia PCIE Riser thing (PCAT I think) to measure?

[@CharcharoExplorer]

290W on the reporting means the card is using a total of 340-350W. The reporting in the top left you see, the software reading is GPU power only. Not GPU + VRM losses + VRAM. Your 6950 XT used 340-350W in testing.

[@JohnSulevan-li4gr]

Really

[@JohnSulevan-li4gr]

I had that problem i was worried but if your right I’m happy

[@CharcharoExplorer]

@@JohnSulevan-li4gr Yes, I am right. Cheers!

[@kingofstrike1234]

haven't watch fully, but why at 4:02 hw info detected the 6950 xt as 6600 ?

[@anthonyreynoza8535]

I didn't even catch that.

[@JBouBei]

A look into Gpu-z power draw sensors could've been interesting. Maybe it could've shown a faulty pin connector or something else related to bad power draw.

[@s3ns3rigaming33]

4:03 Why is this showing a RX 6600, not a RX 6950? Is that a problem with the HWinfo software or a problem with the card?

[@JarringSteak]

Fun and useful videos often! Clearly deserves a subscribe! :)

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Thanks! I really appreciate that. 😃

[@martinfletcher9699]

​@@DawidDoesTechStuff aint nothing wrong with ur card my dude 289watt is just the chip power draw amd power sensors can only show chip draw and not whole card draw. Hook up a wireviewer and watch the wattage be completely normal my friend and after that please edit this video since nothing is wrong and is only user error

[@indenkellerag]

What actually happened: Gigabyte boss: lets send some influencers graphics cards! Employee: ok Boss: you didnt send the retail one, right? You send the overclocked fake 6950xt that the reviewers have to get to review it differently Employee: **chuckles** i am in danger

[@pschroeter1]

As with all your videos, while I don't get most of your technical jargon and watch for your reaction and comments, I am proud I got your "sounds like a Geiger counter near the elephant's foot" reference.

[@gregggilbert]

Hi Dawid, Gigabyte (Aorus) 6900XT owner here, Noticed similar low power draw with mine (300W), In the end I just used a little application called 'More power tool' to override the limits and was able to get it to go all the way up to 380W.

[@rlifeh]

he made big mistake, you can't measure the power of AMD cards using software only and you will burn your card soon while it use more than 450W

[@CarbonPanther]

Since were with TechPowerUp already, they also have a BIOS Database (where you can even look at stuff like clock speed and Power limit handily next to the downloadable file) and uploaded their 2 BIOS' of this card and both show a max TDP of 289W for 0D62 (Quiet) and 0D63 (Default) Unless i missed something it really appears as if 289W is intended... No that can't be when 380W versions exist... Perhaps there's different revisions? Could you get in touch with all the reviewers you mentioned and ask them to look at differences in numbers etc. on their PCBs vs. yours? Maybe that'll show something? I also looked at some retailers and none of them were given TDP numbers (at this point in time) which is also unfortunate since other brands like Powercolor and Sapphire clearly state them. That also brought me to the Xtreme Waterforce edition of the 6950XT, we should compare it's BIOS and Power limit too, i'll do that right now. Edit: Nope Couldn't find anything about the Waterblock version yet... Also about the drivers i'm not so sure if downgrading is the best idea here since only the latest WHQL version officially supports the xx50 refresh.

[@OrjonZ]

He does not understand AMD TDP.

[@CarbonPanther]

Mate that does not explain why it's slower than a normal 6900XT. His card can't draw the "right amount" of power while at the same time giving less FPS.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I'm just guessing here that the 380W version is the "review model" and the 290W one is the retail model. Looking at techpowerup 289W is indeed the limit set in both BIOS they have archived there. And while at it I looked at the 5 GB RX 570 models for someone in a different comment, and they have that card set to 90W, while most other cards are running 120-125W I mean, I would have no issue if they make it a less power hungry model, but they have to declare that properly. Having a full power space heater model, and a more efficiency focused one isn't a bad idea. But saying one thing and doing the other is just bad.

[@circleofsorrow4583]

You never posted an update. What happened?!

[@sayparler]

Have you tried to ground the GPU/mobo/PSU? Or at least connect their ground point together with a wire?

[@thefkingman]

Not too sure about this shot in the dark, but your HWMonitor has the card listed as a 6600? at 6:08

[@shakhtardfc1]

Couple of things I've been meaning to ask you.. What happens to the pre builts you've bought over the years? And making a video where you have a choice of components, and your cat (Neko?) picks them.

[@AnnaDoes]

That would be an amazing video. It's officially on my list :) as for the prebuilts, we keep them around and salvage them for parts for future videos :)

[@shakhtardfc1]

@@AnnaDoes always good to know those parts go to good use in something other than those horrible prebuilds :D

[@1010WouldBang]

​@@AnnaDoes Does Dawid have some kind of sarcastic label for this storage space? Or does he just call it storage for old prebuilds or something? I really enjoy the videos, thank you so much.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

That’s a really good video idea! My prebuilt storage is called the “crap shack”

[@1010WouldBang]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Classic Dawid. Just pictured a shack in my backyard where I go to take dumps, lol.

[@morosek]

4:03 why it shows rx 6600?

[@mexu]

same probelm is there with my card and my fps are l;ow. how can i fix this?

[@maewemeetagain]

4:03 Are you just showing a different image as an example of "normal temps", or is the sensor reading the 6950 XT as a 6600? Could that have something to do with this?

[@sAwWwgm]

Where is second video, what's the conclusion to this problem?

[@weatherdream7343]

when you show the temps on your softawre, it Show "RX 6600" for your 6950xt, the problem seems to be with one of the component of the card if Gigabyte used a 6600 component (if it is the real temp of the card on your screen and not a screen fro manother card)

[@singledad1313]

I noticed that too.

[@DarkoPetreski]

The only component that will identify as a 6600 is the GPU of the 6600. And that is not the case.

[@weatherdream7343]

@@DarkoPetreski In that case, There maybe a part 2 incoming, Its possible that Gigabyte used rx 6600's components for their 6950xt to make the production cheaper, that would not be the first time that they made that kind of crap (like their PSU lol)

[@DarkoPetreski]

@@weatherdream7343 it's a new card, I think hwinfo just didn't display the name correctly. It's gonna get patched out. But the whole power limit thing is pure gigabyte incompetence, I agree there

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I guess it identifies as "RX 6600 family", like their cards tend to do. I still have an old HD 7770 here, that calls itself "HD 7700 series", despite there also being a HD 7730, 7750 and 7790, all with quite substantial differences in performance to each other.

[@Stinker4583]

"A gaiger counter near the Elephants Foot" your jokes keep beeing pure gold!

[@christopherjackson2157]

Could you provide some more details about the platforms you were testing on? It's an interesting conundrum for sure

[@legitscoper3259]

Asked Gigabyte support to tell me the Thermal Pad sizes for my GTX 1080... they replied with: "That's corporate secret" ... no, it's a part of the cooling solution.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

At that point might just measure it out yourself. Or well, ask them how much they want for replacement pads, because if it is so secret, they obviously should have more in stock.

[@legitscoper3259]

@@HappyBeezerStudios i did... Problem is that after years of compression the pads will not regain their original thickness... so it was a vague guessing game to get the thickness. And yes no, they didn't even sell replacements... they just was like: "or you buy a new card"

[@retrosimon9843]

This happened to me. Got a new 6950 XT. Ran a few benchmarks and played a few games. Then i started tinkering in the driver and the card got stuck in 290w mode as in the video and performance went down hard. But after resetting everything and starting over setting power limit to +20% performance was back and the card was sucking down 340w. 🤷‍♀😁

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

My first thought would be to check if it has a switch to change between some sort of "quiet mode" and "performance mode", some cards do that. on my 1060 there are actually 3 "profiles" that can be switched in software. Okay, turns out that the 289W is actually the limit set in the BIOS.

[@KimBoKastekniv47]

Nice to see TechTesters getting some recognition, she is very underrated.

[@deathsyth8888]

Have you tried turning the graphics card off and on again?

[@deathsyth8888]

Have you tried to give it words of encouragement? If not, threats of violence?

[@OcihEvE]

AMD: "Lets make a new GPU with 2 power draw versions. One for gaming, one for Mining" Mining crashes AMD: "Well... shit.. " Gigabyte: "We got this".

[@charlesfranks1902]

I really like this theory.

[@egonieser]

It's not a AMD problem. It's a Gigabyte problem.

[@superneenjaa718]

That's not how this works. It's the same damn chip i.e. navi 21. It'll consume as much power as you feed it. Gigabyte messed up somewhere in the board design.

[@Durkhead]

Did you try setting the fans Manually to max and/or uninstalling msi afterburner and using radeon software

[@noamtsur]

I have a feeling the coil whine and the power issues are related.. it might be a serious power delivery issue or maybe the sensor is misreporting and causing some other power issues

[@Brun_]

I sold my soul to AMD 10 years ago, and to me, anything else than Sapphire for AMD gpu's has never been an option. Their quality and performance never fail. I've never trust any of the other manufacturers. Gigabyte makes decent mobo's for Intel tho.. i guess..

[@bean420man]

Sapphire is the EVGA of the AMD world. But now with EVGA making AMD motherboards again, could they possibly make GPU's for AMD?

[@jacquesmarieemilelacan4113]

What about xfx and new hellbound edition of (I forgot name)?

[@1jackpenner]

Sapphire is my favourite gpu manufacturer, my first gpu was sapphire and so is my current one, and AMD gpu I get is sapphire no exceptions

[@Gatorade69]

Sapphire has always put out a good product.

[@NectarGaming]

How about power color?

[@FirstnameLastname-we6dh]

It sounds like there's a problem with power delivery and it's probaby a hardware fault on the GPU PCB. You could still try daisy chain 2 different output PCIe PSU cables into a PSU adapter cable and do this for all of the GPU power slots. Fixed a similar issue for me once.

[@jasonmay1978]

Stupid question. Are you using a shared/split power cable for any of the power inputs to the gpu? Or are you using 3 separate cables from 3 separate outputs on the psu? I only ask because i had a similar issue when doing oc on the 1080ti ftw3 i had. It wouldnt do nearly as well when using the split cable compared to the 2 individual cables. I dont use the built in pau gpu cables. Cables are cheap and CAN make a difference.

[@dutchguy1975]

Not sure if this GPU has shunt resistors but if so then I'm leaning towards a bad or a too low spec resistor being used

[@chainsaw2010]

AMD cards don't report the power they are really using. Make sure your not compairing your results to people with HARDWARE readouts from Clamps and the like. For example the 6900XT reports 255W power when its actually drawing about 300W

[@rlifeh]

your right

[@Bastelopa_wie_mein_Channelname]

That's right, but it doesn't explain the problem, since there are other RX 6950 XT for comparison, where the consumption is displayed up to about 400 watts. With the 6950 XT you have to add about 30%. However, this gigabyte card is stuck at 280 watts (+ approx. 30% in real). Something is wrong with the input supply. Unfortunately, this cannot be measured exactly with AMD, since there is no complete measurement control of the individual parts, as with Nvidia Cards.

[@rustler08]

Once again reinforcing my complete and utter lack of desire to buy Gigabyte products.

[@harrywilson7980]

Aorus is good just never buy gigabyte the Aorus devices never had an issue and they're rma process is amazing

[@rustler08]

@@harrywilson7980 ironically I own an Aorus Pro MoBo, but it is only because of the solid VRM performance it offered. I doubt I will ever buy a Gigabyte monitor or GPU.

[@fufudotcom600]

My gigabyte 6750xt has the same problem with power draw max at 220w while the others manufacture consume power when gamming like 280w+. Can this be claim of fix?

[@ChickenGuyFilms]

Did you find any solution? Im having same issues with power draw

[@RobertForslund]

You should have tried a Gigabyte powersupply, not because it would fix things but it would prbably have been a nice fireworks display! 😂 Something tells me Gigabyte have no intentions of getting to the bottom of this, that fits their business model if you ask me... 🙄

[@nexxusty]

Gigabyte is BY FAR the worst manufacturer. By far. I won't ever buy their products.

[@Erdie5]

There's worse in my world, but they have room for improvement for sure.

[@bigtitmaster]

Whats wrong with it, is that its a gigabyte

[@RoyTs6163]

Hi, got an idea. What if the switch to select performance/silence mode didn't work and the card is stuck in silence mode?

[@j.e.f4808]

David i have a question i wonder when you changed the PSU did it solved the coil whine for PSU? I mean okay GPU has a Coil Whine but is GPU issue can affect the PSU? Because i have a coil whine at PSU and a little on graphics card and if graphics cards issue affect PSU i need to know. And i am sorry for my poor english. I hope you can understand.

[@TerraWare]

My Strix 6800 XT draws more power than that Gigabyte 6950 XT lol. Could it be that maybe that's a regular 6900XT and they labeled it as a 6950XT, by mistake maybe? I don't know if that's possible but it is weird.

[@dkline9]

BIOS flash would have fixed that though, most likely.

[@CarbonPanther]

@@dkline9 Nope, both BIOS' have a 289W factory hard-limit.

[@dkline9]

@@CarbonPanther the Bios he got from the other channel that had a 6950XT running at normal specs should have fixed that. That's why he asked for them to send it over. If the BIOS was wrong, one from a working as expected card should have allowed his to draw the 390 watta

[@CarbonPanther]

@@dkline9 That's true i overlooked that, i would like to know what happens if you flash the 289W onto the 390W card though. And if any of these flashes are actually successful. Why did that new BIOS not change anything...?

[@dkline9]

@@CarbonPanther yeah, that is weird! Probably some weird hardware issue. If the BIOS isn't compatible, it just won't flash. If it did for some reason when it shouldn't have I imagine it would just start crashing under load.

[@apotato5563]

4:03 That's a RX 6600!

[@Shinedown2012]

does it do the same in a pc case? maybe that one needs to be grounded to the case?

[@blackiceecko1]

Do you know if all the gigabyte cards that are having problems are also a Sapphire cards? Back in the day I had a gtx 970 Sapphire and it blow a capacitor, the only gpu I ever had that had a problem and I wonder if they under clocked it to some how to keep it from drawing more power

[@jovanpejic]

This is not the first time that graphics (or motherboards, and especially the most famous power supply) from Gigabytes "break down" in testing. There's a lot of that on KZbin. As for me, if I buy a computer component, their products doesn't exist for me.

[@gururue5996]

Feel free to send it my way!

[@AnnaDoes]

XD

[@cdgames69]

Wow, so glad you got this out for Saturday's video

[@pacaro4644]

The amazing Gigabyte Tech and PR team at it again! How do people with KZbin still buy their products?

[@JackPecker911]

The problem is, it's made by gigabyte

[@vnkmy]

4:04 ; 6:10 Why *TF* does it say 'GPU [#1]: AMD Radeon RX 6600'? Is this a mistake made by Dawid or might Gigabyte just have straight up scammed you? lmao To add is as well that the GPU MHz speed is more in the range of the RX 6600 XT, than the RX 6950 XT. It says on AMD site that the *MAXIMUM* speed for the GPU is '2310 MHz'. Looking at f. e. the GPU speed at 1:20 it says '2483 MHz'. Which is, as mentioned before, more in the RX 6600 XT's range '2359 MHz - 2589 MHz'. Kinda strange, isn't it? Same goes in all the other game footage, correct me if wrong. But it seems they might have shipped the wrong card with the wrong firmware?

[@Kohilenn]

I noticed that at 3:40, you were using the pigtail of the 2nd PCIE cable and I read somewhere that each cable only delivers 150W. I can't really tell either way because of the angle of the camera, but that might just be a hunch especially if the 3090 Ti worked with the first PSU

[@hoof8670]

​ dont thats a bot

[@cowimpexd.o.o.5965]

Hello, i have a similar problem with aorus 6800xt and i am partial to solve that problem with afterburner, no bios nor any driver has changed anything

[@MajorCap]

Gigabyte has done a lot of oops

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Well, look on the bright side, Dawid. At least this particular Gigabyte product power-related issue didn't involve anything bursting into flame.... ...oh god, I've jinxed it, haven't I?

[@AnnaDoes]

FIRRREEEE

[@AnnaDoes]

thanks Phil

[@Elinzar]

Probably, that coil whine and a lot of heat in the backplate could mean something is shorted

[@philtkaswahl2124]

@@AnnaDoes Uh.... oops?

[@AnnaDoes]

@@philtkaswahl2124 we'll survive :D

[@Woody21369]

Does your Power supply have aggressive voltage spike protection? The 6950 XT does have randome voltage spokes that could mess with some power supplies....

[@kryptux2463]

Does it need three separate power connectors to get more wattage? i see you daisy chained it. maybe they can detect that?

[@interceptor001]

Whoever owned a lot of hardware knows there are problems with all brands on the market. No brand has a 0 problem history. But yes gigabyte seem to have more problems then others but at least the support in Germany/Austria is great. I have had bios problems with asus, msi and gigabyte. Funny enough the most stable bios of recent years had AsRock if only they knew what VRMs are. GPU problems I have had with asus and evga. From scratched 3090 strix to load balancing on the FTW3.

[@CarbonPanther]

This is the correct opinion. I bet you can find people in this very comment section complain about all big 4 Mobo brands, telling each other how bad their specific quality is, and somehow all of them will think they're right at the same time. Even if that technically means none of them can buy motherboards anymore cuz "they are so baaad"

[@GMRZR-gj4kb]

I'll solve this for everyone: It's a Gigabyte. The end.

[@dustinschings7042]

@dawiddoestechstuff did you ever get a resolution or at least an update from Gigabyte on this?

[@ChristopherHailey]

Glad to see Dawid has gotten to the point when manufacturers are sending him cool stuff, and he as made it past the 420 K subscription mark.

[@Tritiumfusion]

Could it be Windows that messes up the powerdraw with a dumb "Balanced" mode?

[@ashc3765]

That insane coil wine is very concerning. From my experience I’ve always found cards produce wine when there being used at very low loads and the wine goes away when cards are pushed hard.

[@superneenjaa718]

I mean they produce coil whine when pumping out too many useless frame like upwards of 1000 fps.

[@Eternalduoae]

Was it even possible to move the power limit sliders over in either the Radeon software or MSI Afterburner? I mean, could you /manually/ exceed 290 W?

[@bjornronaasen5953]

Did you check if it was running in PCIe x16? I had the exact same issue with the gigabyte 6900XT gaming OC - power draw was less than spec but also couldn’t get it to run at PCIe x16, only at x8. So RMA’d it. Tried everything but nothing worked.

[@lgonzalez1154]

Damn I run a 3080 ti from gigabyte now I'm worried! Although my card pull 388 watts!

[@Dracossaint]

it's probably just a dud, also keep in mind people are more likely to be vocal about something being wrong than something being right. Personally I stick to asus for graphics cards though.

[@vailpcs4040]

I actually had a properly performing 3080Ti Vision, so I know they *can* deliver a functional product in some cases.

[@lgonzalez1154]

@@Dracossaint I hope your right. ..like an idiot i bought it for 1400 from newegg when the prices started falling apart I should have waited a little longer

[@lgonzalez1154]

I'm running it on a water loop with water on both sides on the card

[@wordsmith451]

Not the first time I've heard about issues from gigabyte over the past few years. They've made some great stuff but they're inconsistent

[@SebastiaanFranken]

I'm curious what the powerdraw would be in Linux with Steam (in proton) games for example. That way you can (maybe?) rule out driver issues

[@carjunkyxl8018]

What is the powerdraw running TimeSpy? Because the card is already boosting to 2500 mhz and needs to draw 290watts for that. TimeSpy in my experience is a lot heavier to run.