Gamers Nexus reporting Rage Mode is not an overclock. It's just a mild power limit increase, which in turn allows for a slightly increased boost clock in games.
No lottery for this. I assume it's because they didn't want to release a card with >300W power limit.
Gamers Nexus also stating AMD has said Rage Mode only accounts for a 1-2% performance increase. AMD also claims smart memory access works automatically and the performance gains they have shown are simply from it being enabled, not because the games have support for it baked in.
ah OK, tp update my recent post, where I mentioned that Ryan also said this about Rage mode...I went back and read it, and see how I misread that. Here's the whole section, for context:
Automatic overclocking is not a new idea, even to AMD and its partners. So absent any further details on Rage Mode, I am curious how they’re implementing it and how they’re handling stability checks. Despite the one-click nature of automatic overclocking, I’ve found that previous implementations have had much higher friction in practice, especially when a system would crash during overclocking testing when it found an unstable GPU frequency. If AMD has a way to gracefully do this, that would greatly improve the experience, I believe.
Though regardless, users will need to keep in mind that any kind of one-click overclock stability testing will not be as rigorous as the stability testing done at the factory. So I don’t expect every last RX 6000 owner to use the feature, and I don’t expect it to put AMD’s partners out of business when it comes to factory overclocked video cards.
Meanwhile it should be noted that AMD has confirmed that Rage Mode is not warranty voiding. So users can still claim warranty coverage on their cards if they’ve used AMD’s official, user-friendly methods of overclocking.
The performance gains from overclocking, in turn, will vary with chip and board quality. Some chips barely make spec, others fly past it; so overclocking is always subject to the silicon lottery. To that end, AMD Isn’t offering any specific performance claims with respect to Rage Mode, but they are publishing a slide showing a combination of gains in their testing from Rage Mode and Smart Access Memory.
Basically, the first line of that fourth paragraph, I misread as still talking about Rage mode, because he used "Rage" and "Overclocking" a lot previously, and essentially called it overclocking in the line right before it: "AMD's official, user-friendly version of overclocking"
In this case, I see though, he's just talking about general overclocking when it comes to silicon lottery.
....I guess the demarcation is "voids warranty or doesn't" lol, if we want to not call Rage mode "overclocking." For now, Ryan is calling it that, but the other guys aren't. I guess the community will settle on something.
Still, what about SAM working on non 5xx boards, and of course it requiring Zen3 to even exist? (still catching up here, don't bite my head off, people )
I'm in the "no plan whatsoever to replace my 470X Taichi group" and depending on Q1 BIOS update, will strongly consider swapping my 2700X for a 5600X but otherwise, ...it's definitely less benefit for me...but considering that I'd be moving from a VEGA 64, I shouldn't complain anyway.