Why is my Sapphire RX 7650 GRE dropping clocks in Elden Ring?
Fighting huge bosses was a coin toss; my FPS would plummet from 60 to 30 instantly, which is just infuriating when you're one hit from death. The Sapphire RX 7650 GRE 8G was swinging between 1.8GHz and 2.2GHz, causing frame times to bounce between 16-35ms. I tried FSR Performance mode, but the aliasing was so bad the edges looked like jagged saws—completely unacceptable. I went into the AMD Adrenalin software, locked the minimum frequency to 2100MHz, and added a +25mV voltage offset. The frequency curve in RTSS went from a jagged mess to a flat line, and my 1% lows finally stayed above 52 FPS. The card hit 82℃ immediately after the lock, so I had to aggressively tweak the fan curve to hit 80% speed at 65℃. Now it stays around 74-79℃. It's a bit loud, but the performance is finally consistent.
