I believe the issue is macos runs the card at a constant higher frequency. My card (Shapphire RX570 itx) does 300-1240 mhz, but I havent seen it go below 700mhz in macos idling.
Can everybody run this command to check if their card idles at the minimum frequency/power?
ioreg -l |grep \"PerformanceStatistics\" | cut -d '{' -f 2 | tr '|' ',' | tr -d '}' | tr ',' '\n'|grep 'Temp\|Fan\|Power\|Clock\|Utilization'
Code:
$ ioreg -l |grep \"PerformanceStatistics\" | cut -d '{' -f 2 | tr '|' ',' | tr -d '}' | tr ',' '\n'|grep 'Temp\|Fan\|Power\|Clock\|Utilization'
"Device Utilization %"=4
"Fan Speed(%)"=0
"Core Clock(MHz)"=733
"Memory Clock(MHz)"=1000
"Fan Speed(RPM)"=0
"Temperature(C)"=52
"Total Power(W)"=61
$ ioreg -l |grep \"PerformanceStatistics\" | cut -d '{' -f 2 | tr '|' ',' | tr -d '}' | tr ',' '\n'|grep 'Temp\|Fan\|Power\|Clock\|Utilization'
"Device Utilization %"=20
"Fan Speed(%)"=0
"Core Clock(MHz)"=1144
"Memory Clock(MHz)"=1500
"Fan Speed(RPM)"=0
"Temperature(C)"=53
"Total Power(W)"=75