Overclocking AMD Navi graphics cards in Linux with Uplift Power Play

Описание: Gpu-Z:

AMD graphics cards of Navi 10 and Navi 14 generations have good performance with low power consumption thanks to the 7-nm technology used in their production.

Unfortunately, you can fully use their capabilities only after some manipulations with utilities like More Power Tool and Radeon Bios Editor, and others. At the moment they most fully disclose the possibilities of Radeon RX5600/5700 models and very limited RX5500XT.

The full capabilities of these video cards can be disclosed by editing the Radeon PowerPlay tables. With the help of dynamic software modification of voltage and frequency tables of AMD video cards, it is possible to reduce their consumption and squeeze out more hashes.

In Linux-like systems, this can be done by standard means (OverDrive). On Linux operating systems with a graphical environment (e.g. xubuntu 18.04) this is very easy to do with powerupp (developed by azeam), which is a graphical add-on for the UPP (Uplift Power Play) console utility by sibradzic.

Many other similar utilities can be found on the web, but, based on the author's experience, a combination of these utilities is the most convenient and easiest to use. In addition, they are convenient because, except for Navi 10 and 14 video cards, they can be used as an alternative to ohgodatool / wolfamdctrl on Radeon RX4xx/5xx, Vega, and Radeon VII video cards.

Let's take a closer look at how PowerPlay tables work in PowerUp on Linux using Xubuntu 18.04 as an example.

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev build-essential python3 python3-pip

pip3 install upp

git clone github.com/azeam/powerupp.git

cd powerupp && make && sudo make install