The Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX 6800 XT houses “Rage” mode in the BIOS

With most of the season’s major hardware launches now completed, the rumor mill is turning to the biggest remaining launch – the Radeon RX 6000, or “Big Navi”. Most of the leaks currently show that AMD’s statements about competitive performance against Nvidia are realistic, while hearsay claims that the cards are loud at the same time. On the other hand, new modes in the graphics card BIOS may be remedied.

No less than Igor Wallossek from Igor’s Lab has in fact got hold of a BIOS belonging to an Asus ROG Strix Radeon RX 6800 XT, where no less than four power modes are glimpsed. Armed with the tool Morepowertool, Wallossek digs out how the upcoming AMD graphics cards can handle the relationship between power budgets, permitted maximum temperature and maximum fan speed.

No less than four profiles exist, under the names Quiet, Balanced, Turbo and Rage, all with unique features and power budget management. Out of cardboard, it is apparently the most extreme mode Turbo, which allows fan speeds up to 2,250 RPM, temperatures up to 95 ° Celsius and a Power Limit which allows six percent higher power budget than nominal.

According to Wccftech, the various modes are not representative of the final products, but are rather intended to show what parameters AMD’s partner manufacturers have to move with in the Radeon RX 6000 series. Worth noting are also the available ranges for the GPU frequency, up to 2,800 MHz, the memory frequency which is increased up to a maximum of 1,075 MHz, 17,200 MHz efficiently, and the power budget which can be increased between 6 and 15 percent.

Wallossek concludes its analysis with the conclusion that the Rage mode will allow higher power budgets and frequencies than the other modes – where the result in power consumption is expected to result in a power output of about 20 watts higher than the other modes – 320 watts compared to 300 for a Radeon RX 6800 XT running in non-Rage modes.

Do you adjust current profiles with associated parameters yourself, or do you leave the work to the graphics card manufacturer? Discuss in the forum!