robotbeatrally
Okay guys, I have to change my tune here. I got the 500W bios to work.
 
My old rig was an 6700k on an msi z170a gaming m7 motherboard.
...and I was never going over 420w with the new bios.
 
I finally got ahold of a 5950 and I built a new rig with an MSI x570 godlike.
I benched port royal and noticed my card is now pulling between 470-490 throughout most of the bench.
 
So maybe this is hardware related after all?
 
I do have the dreaded not china/ old with red lips card. So I thought I was just in the sucky card group.
 
But it's running with much more stable clocks on this rig and the 500w bios is appearing to work suddenly out of the blue.

Keep in mind that some people managed 470-490W sustained on their current systems with the XOC Bios already, but then after they rebooted, it was right back to 420W.  
In order for you to know if it's SUSTAINED Long term, you have to:
 
1) Reboot (soft reboot) the system and run the benchmark again.
2) Power off the system (PSU hard power off, unplug/rocker switch off from wall), power on, then run the benchmark again.
3) (Yes I know) Play some other game, like some modern title, close the game, then run the benchmark again.
 
And check the sustained power draw in GPU-Z (and hwinfo64--pay close attention to the DIFFERENCE between the TDP% and TDP Normalized % in HWinfo64!) when checking.

USMC1419
 
 
So, this is the XOC BETA bios? 

Kylearan
 
 
Keep in mind that some people managed 470-490W sustained on their current systems with the XOC Bios already, but then after they rebooted, it was right back to 420W.  

This is with the ftw3 beta bios in the first post, and i've restarted and run port royal several times, it's sustaining 460-490 throughout the bench still.
 
Not sure why it draws so much more power on this set up.

robotbeatrally
Okay guys, I have to change my tune here. I got the 500W bios to work.
 
My old rig was an 6700k on an msi z170a gaming m7 motherboard.
...and I was never going over 420w with the new bios.
 
I finally got ahold of a 5950 and I built a new rig with an MSI x570 godlike.
I benched port royal and noticed my card is now pulling between 470-490 throughout most of the bench.
 
So maybe this is hardware related after all?
 
I do have the dreaded not china/ old with red lips card. So I thought I was just in the sucky card group.
 
But it's running with much more stable clocks on this rig and the 500w bios is appearing to work suddenly out of the blue.

Between your old and new system, the biggest factor i could see is you're running pcie 4.0 now.

Im also limited to 420 watts on port royal. Im on x299.

Can you check gpuz sensors after you do a port royal run?

 Do you realize buy doing all those change of bios and els and take many hours by test and test you can gain a .5fps at 4k ?
 
 Some of you stuck on this and become crazy at the end ! Comon guys a port royal score of 14200 vs 15200 can give you a gain of 2fps at 4k gaming ! And if you play at 1080p then you bought the wrong gpu.
 
 If i have 45 fps in cyberpunk will i notice it if i have 46.5fps ? ENJOY UR STUFF and ur games with this beast card. Stop asking urself wrong thing while you own the most powerfull gpu in the solar system lol.
 
Peace 

robotbeatrally

USMC1419
 
 
So, this is the XOC BETA bios? 

Kylearan
 
 
Keep in mind that some people managed 470-490W sustained on their current systems with the XOC Bios already, but then after they rebooted, it was right back to 420W.  

This is with the ftw3 beta bios in the first post, and i've restarted and run port royal several times, it's sustaining 460-490 throughout the bench still.
 
Not sure why it draws so much more power on this set up.

Maybe its something to do with the motherboard. I also have a day one Taiwan red lip card and its able to draw 510W sustained and peaks at over 535W while on my MSI Z490 Godlike. While testing it on my friend's Asrock H470 Phantom, it was only drawing 450W.

oscar92070

robotbeatrally

USMC1419
 
 
So, this is the XOC BETA bios? 

Kylearan
 
 
Keep in mind that some people managed 470-490W sustained on their current systems with the XOC Bios already, but then after they rebooted, it was right back to 420W.  

This is with the ftw3 beta bios in the first post, and i've restarted and run port royal several times, it's sustaining 460-490 throughout the bench still.
 
Not sure why it draws so much more power on this set up.

Maybe its something to do with the motherboard. I also have a day one Taiwan red lip card and its able to draw 510W sustained and peaks at over 535W while on my MSI Z490 Godlike. While testing it on my friend's Asrock H470 Phantom, it was only drawing 450W.

Well there you go. It draws 500+ on your mobo, but the exact same card draws only 450 on your friends mobo.

Is this the key?

changboy
 Do you realize buy doing all those change of bios and els and take many hours by test and test you can gain a .5fps at 4k ?
 
 Some of you stuck on this and become crazy at the end ! Comon guys a port royal score of 14200 vs 15200 can give you a gain of 2fps at 4k gaming ! And if you play at 1080p then you bought the wrong gpu.
 
 If i have 45 fps in cyberpunk will i notice it if i have 46.5fps ? ENJOY UR STUFF and ur games with this beast card. Stop asking urself wrong thing while you own the most powerfull gpu in the solar system lol.
 
Peace 

Interesting point - yes, 45 to 46.5 would actually be smoother for gameplay with my Gsync compatible TV since 45 FPS is the cutoff for Gsync to work with the LG CX.

Both my msi pro a z390 and my x570 aorus elite was only able to draw 450w max. Xoc bios does do something at least. Before the bios the max I would get is 410 420w. My pci express slot does get north of 75w on both systems. Anyone know if there is a way to limit it via software instead of hardware modding. For those people that have it working what motherboards are you running.

jollib
Both my msi pro a z390 and my x570 aorus elite was only able to draw 450w max. Xoc bios does do something at least. Before the bios the max I would get is 410 420w. My pci express slot does get north of 75w on both systems. Anyone know if there is a way to limit it via software instead of hardware modding. For those people that have it working what motherboards are you running.

Running on a EVGA Z490 Dark and I am getting power limited off the PCIe slot with the XOC bios.  Any other Dark users having it work?

glocked89
Can you check gpuz sensors after you do a port royal run?

Here's the run 3dmark dot com/pr/641714
 (Sorry not sure if I can link the URL properly it keeps removing it)
 
Here's about what GPUZ says when I drag my mouse across the little graphs.
 
Temp                           (72-73 Deg)
GPU Clock                    (2010-2055)
Memory Clock               (1244.5)
Board power                 (470-490)
GPU Chip Power Draw    (280-299)
Power SRC Power Draw  (108-109)
PCI Slot          (74-75)
8 Pin Power    (128-135)
8 pin #2 PWR (128-135)
8 pin #3 PWR (120-130)