If course there is. I think his point was that many of us found that the drivers for the 5700xt were unstable as hell just on a fresh install without doing anything to tweak them (which is exactly what I experienced)
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If course there is. I think his point was that many of us found that the drivers for the 5700xt were unstable as hell just on a fresh install without doing anything to tweak them (which is exactly what I experienced)
Yup keep shifting those goal posts.
Yep, one set of drivers for the 5700 that proved problematical and was sorted by a later driver release, I don't follow your post meaning, theres a difference between setting up, (or for that matter, leaving everything alone and just using the driver) and adjusting driver settings to such a degree, instability creeps in. I've done it in the past along with loads of others, and I've found for me personally, leave it alone until you know what its for and what it does.
What goal posts?
You're missing the point. "it works on my machine" doesn't mean that there weren't a lot of people who had a lot of problems with the 5700xt.
I've been a PC gamer for almost 30 years, I started off in the days when I still had to manually set IRQ values to get your hardware to work properly. I've spent my entire professional life for the last ~25 years working with PC hardware and software on a technical level, so with all due respect, I think I know the difference between "installing a driver & keeping everything at default" vs "installing a driver and tweaking it until it breaks".
The 5700xt is the only card I've ever had so many problems with, and given the various reports on the Internet, clearly I wasn't alone in that experience. It wasn't just a single driver which had problems, as I had multiple problems with multiple drivers, to the point where (as I posted above), I had 3-4 different versions ready to install at one point depending on which game I was playing, since what was stable for 1 game would crash constantly in another.
Strange how I've been able to "fanny about" with the 6800 drivers and yet the card has been rock solid the whole time.
I'm very glad it worked well for you, but that doesn't mean you should assume the same is true for everyone else, or that everyone who did have problems is "clueless".
Really? I thought it was from 5000 series?
I think it was originally, but then they added support for older CPUs
March 2021 by the sound of it though I've yet to try it on my 3900x. IIRc it has more benefit on the 5000 series CPUs but don't quote me on that:
AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs get go-ahead for performance boosting Smart Access Memory
It's an easy switch, providing you've got all the component parts required.
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Nothing but trouble with driver timeout issues with my gigabyte 5600xt
My red devil 6650xt been solid tho
My red devil 6650xt been solid tho
Yes, had to update the bios on my b550 board. With that done SAM is showing as enabled in the AMD software on my 3600, b550 & 6500xt. It's easy to find in the AMD software, enter SAM in the search bar and it will take you to the option screen for SAM and show you the status
.iirc There used to be a thread with them all compared between manufacturers somewhere on here. I doubt it's been maintained/updated to reflect current post covid policies though. Sorry I can't be more help
So I have owned the card for a couple of weeks and so far everything worked perfectly. I tried a variety of games: CP2077 at 1440p ultra with only one ray traced effect(shadows) and the fps stays in the 55-60 fps, as my monitor include free sync above 48fps I have not noticed stuttering and such.
AC Valhalla ultra over 60fps no problem same with dead stranding.
So overall a great experience. Once AM5 ryzen is out I’ll look in to a cpu upgrade.
Thanks all of you.
AC Valhalla ultra over 60fps no problem same with dead stranding.
So overall a great experience. Once AM5 ryzen is out I’ll look in to a cpu upgrade.
Thanks all of you.
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Good to hear. I upgraded to an AMD gpu around same time. Only ever been with Nvidia and never even used an AMD product as have Intel cpu. Was interested to know what they are like. Whilst I don't consider myself brand loyal, I do fall in that trap of sticking with products I know. Couldn't be happier though. This card will def last me a while. I'd only look to upgrade cpu if ddr5 ram gets cheaper as it looks like you will need to get that as well. But would be keen to see what difference an AMD CPU can offer performance in the gpu