AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club

humbug · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:06

MOOGLEYS said:
I'm getting 2640 in valley with 1150/1500. I also get some weird usage drops as well.

290 or X?

I'm amongst the supperclocked 7970's...

#2328 - 7970 @ 1325 / 1900 - Uncle Petey

I feel so ashamed, i don't want to put my results in my own benchmark thread

thefogo · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:08

humbug said:
290 or X?

I'm amongst the supperclocked 7970's...

#2328 - 7970 @ 1325 / 1900 - Uncle Petey

I feel so ashamed, i don't want to put my results in my own benchmark thread

That's a monster 7970. I had two 7970 Lightning BE's and neither could hit over 1200

MOOGLEYS · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:11

humbug said:
290 or X?

I'm amongst the supperclocked 7970's...

#2328 - 7970 @ 1325 / 1900 - Uncle Petey

I feel so ashamed, i don't want to put my results in my own benchmark thread

Just a 290 gaming..

Although I'm liking the 290 tbh I'm finding it very inconsistent. It seems to work really well or really badly. BF4 with or without mantle is just not smooth lots of stuttering that is not there with the 780.

I think I will try some older drivers and see if they make a difference.

Kaapstad · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:11

humbug said:
About the same as me @ 1040 / 1350 that ^^^ i think mine was 10400 at that. 2 or 3% less.

Its 11347, but i get 10966 @ 1125 / 1450 and its a 290P not X, so that would seem right, perhaps even a little better.

Interesting.

humbug said:
Yeah. i'm more worried about Kaap now, his scores look low for a 290X

Here is mine at 1125/1450

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2866026

Score 10719

AMD Radeon R9 290X(1x) @1125/1450

Intel Core i7-4930K @4.0

Graphics Score 12240

Physics Score 13026

Combined Score 4878

Doing the sums again 12240 / 2816 * 2560 = 11127

I would say your Firestrike scores are spot on, don't forget the 4930k I am using is running a single card @PCI-E 3.0 X16 which gives me a few extra points.

LtMatt · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:12

MOOGLEYS said:
Just a 290 gaming..

Although I'm liking the 290 tbh I'm finding it very inconsistent. It seems to work really well or really badly. BF4 with or without mantle is just not smooth lots of stuttering that is not there with the 780.

I think I will try some older drivers and see if they make a difference.

Have you disabled Dices frame pacing? Cos they've implemented it (yes even for single cards on Mantle) and it causes more harm than it does good on single card. Type (or place into a user.cfg file) RenderDevice.FramePacingMethod 0 and hit enter.

MOOGLEYS · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:13

LtMatt said:
Have you disabled Dices frame pacing? Cos they've implemented it (yes even for single cards on Mantle) and it causes more harm than it does good on single card. Type (or place into a user.cfg file) RenderDevice.FramePacingMethod 0 and hit enter.

Not tried that will give it a go later...

Cheers

LtMatt · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:15

Put that into the console or place in a user.cfg i meant to say.

Kaapstad · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:16

humbug said:
290 or X?

I'm amongst the supperclocked 7970's...

#2328 - 7970 @ 1325 / 1900 - Uncle Petey

I feel so ashamed, i don't want to put my results in my own benchmark thread

If you can run Valley at a higher resolution it is a great CPU leveller and gives the GPU a chance to show what it can do.

humbug · 12 Apr 2014 at 19:18

thefogo said:
That's a monster 7970. I had two 7970 Lightning BE's and neither could hit over 1200

This the fastest 7970 Monster

#2477 - 7970 @ 1390 / 1950 - Locky

Beat me by a mile...

MOOGLEYS said:
Just a 290 gaming..

Although I'm liking the 290 tbh I'm finding it very inconsistent. It seems to work really well or really badly. BF4 with or without mantle is just not smooth lots of stuttering that is not there with the 780.

I think I will try some older drivers and see if they make a difference.

Don't play BF4 in DX at all now. haven't done for ages.

I tested out Crysis 3 yesterday. everything, including Texture on Very High and 4x SMAA. i didn't expect it to do it, not with 4x SMAA. so i was pleasantly surprised that it did, and rather well. 40 to 70 FPS. very smooth.

I'm going to play it all over again, just to admire how good it looks with those settings.

Kaapstad said:
Here is mine at 1125/1450

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2866026

Score 10719

AMD Radeon R9 290X(1x) @1125/1450

Intel Core i7-4930K @4.0

Graphics Score 12240

Physics Score 13026

Combined Score 4878

Doing the sums again 12240 / 2816 * 2560 = 11127

I would say your Firestrike scores are spot on, don't forget the 4930k I am using is running a single card @PCI-E 3.0 X16 which gives me a few extra points.

Ok, thanks Kaap

thefogo · 12 Apr 2014 at 20:09

Decided I'm going to sell one of my cards. I've been giving them a fair whack all day and honestly they're too noisy and it isn't worth it at 1080p. My top card's fan needs to spin to ~90% T_T
Don't buy a 3 slot card for crossfire I guess

Lesson learned.

LtMatt · 13 Apr 2014 at 08:35

thefogo said:
Decided I'm going to sell one of my cards. I've been giving them a fair whack all day and honestly they're too noisy and it isn't worth it at 1080p. My top card's fan needs to spin to ~90% T_T
Don't buy a 3 slot card for crossfire I guess Lesson learned.

Yeah they do need room to breathe. We're sorry to see you leave the crossfire club.

thefogo · 13 Apr 2014 at 11:21

LtMatt said:
Yeah they do need room to breathe. We're sorry to see you leave the crossfire club.

Yep, I should have gone with the Tri-X's to be honest. Oh well

I'll keep this until AMD's next big chip

If I use 2xMSAA on BF4 I still get over 100fps, so no worries

Frenzy · 13 Apr 2014 at 12:38

This is what I get in valley Humbug.

ExtremeHD preset
GPU 1100MHz
MEM 1400MHZ
+50% power
Score 2622

CPU 2600k @4.2GHz
RAM 1600Mhz 8 8 8 24 2T XMP

Img: http://imgur.com/LQalsvL

My GPU was at a solid 99% for the majority of the test. I saw one dip, my min FPS was 28.2 but this odd spike occurs which drops it down to what you see in the screenie.

GPU voltage hit a max of 1.219v

Bumped up the core to 1150MHz

Score 2684

http://imgur.com/nBuO0SL

Strangely this time around the gpu hit 100% usage...
Core voltage hit a max of 1.273v

All tests were with cat 14.3 betas and msi afterburner beta 19

thefogo · 14 Apr 2014 at 18:50

Can the 290's VRMs handle +200mV or will my card explode?

LtMatt · 14 Apr 2014 at 18:51

thefogo said:
Can the 290's VRMs handle +200mV or will my card explode?

If you can keep the temps low enough then yes. I'd personally stick to 100mv or 125mv or lower if on air though. The more voltage you add, the lower the vrms need to be kept to keep optimum efficiency. I don't know the specifics though im afraid.

humbug · 14 Apr 2014 at 18:52

thefogo said:
Can the 290's VRMs handle +200mV or will my card explode?

Which card? does it have good VRMs and VRM cooling?

LtMatt · 14 Apr 2014 at 18:53

humbug said:
Which card? does it have good VRMs and VRM cooling?

He's obviously talking about the card you both own.

thefogo · 14 Apr 2014 at 18:57

Yeah

I heard Trixx can go up to +200mV so was thinking of giving it a go.

humbug · 14 Apr 2014 at 19:01

LtMatt said:
He's obviously talking about the card you both own.

thefogo said:
Yeah
I heard Trixx can go up to +200mV so was thinking of giving it a go.

Oh its you

lol.... didn't read user name

thefogo · 14 Apr 2014 at 19:02