Power Spikes on a 7800-XT

[mgilbert]

I have a PowerColor RX7800-XT Fighter. It's power runs at 270 watts when gaming, but there are regular spikes to 330 watts and more, also spikes below the 270 watt baseline. See below, circled in red. Is anyone else seeing this, or should that power graph be flat at 270 watts while gaming?

 

[Nebulous]

Nope. It's supposed to fluctuate depending on the load at the time of gaming. Unless it's overheating and/or crashing under gaming load, that's normal behavior.

 

[mgilbert]

Nope. It's supposed to fluctuate depending on the load at the time of gaming. Unless it's overheating and/or crashing under gaming load, that's normal behavior.

It seems to be working fine, and I understand that it will fluctuate. My concern is those very brief, hard spikes that are well above the 270 watt limit.

 

[Nebulous]

My 3080 spikes way above that.

 

[EarthDog]

I dont see anything wrong either? Afterburner reads an occasional spike with a 3070 and 4090.

 

[freeagent]

Running F@H I have seen my 4070Ti spike to ~400w more than a few times. I can only imagine the bigger cards..