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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

Panos said:
To see them on 14.7 RC3 you need to make a custom profile for the application, and is at the bottom of the settings....

Surprisingly the AMD Evolve client doesn't display the settings you force from the CCC on that area even if yuo make custom CCC settings for a program.
And I bet that the bad performance on TESO happens because Evolve applies it's settings, and since it cannot find a AMD profile for TESO does nothing, instead of applying the custom setting from CCC where I tried Default/Farp/1x1. :confused:

I will confirm if that is the case tonight, because I had Evolve off this morning when logged in TESO to get the hirelings and the fps were sky high. But didn't moved a lot around since I was going to work.
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Just to clarify, to test this I went to add one for Heaven and it said something on the lines of:

An AMD pre defined application already exists for the selected application, do you want to overwrite the pre-defined profile?
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So overwriting will instantly ruin it? Or that will just show the exact settings and then let you tinker?
 
Are there any drivers which anyone has found better than the 14.7 RC3

**First run of Unigine Valley

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yes 14.7rc3 caused me a 1 second blackscreen every 20 minutes or so. I went for the 14.8whql release from guru3d and I've not had one blackout in 2 hours of Tomb Raider :)

Also Tomb raider at 4k can cause throttling. I've solved this even with an overclock to 1080mhz core by simply adding a sharkoon silent eagle to the other side of the radiator so it goes:

outside case < silent eagle <radiator <amd stock fan

This means I don't ever get to 74 degrees anymore when under 100% load for hours so no throttling of clock speeds down to 860mhz which was happening at stock.

I recommend reducing core voltage by 25mv in afterburner 4.0.0 too as this knocks an extra couple degrees off and my card is still stable at 1080mhz core. Stopping the trottling has improved my framerate at 4k maxed out with FXAA from 48fps to 55fps on average in the same area following 10 minutes of heavy load. The 25mv was essential to stop throttling even at stock with the extra fan.

I didn't have long screws to add another fan so I took the screws out of the amd fan and put them through the case into the sharkoon and radiator. Then used sellotape brand sticky fixers to stick the amd fan back on the other side. Works a treat :)

With a better fan than the sharkoon silent eagle like a 2000rpm I think temps could be even kept under 70 permanently. Considering 290x cards don't throttle until 95c this is fantastic!

The 14.4 drivers basically are like a blackscreen fest for 4k and the 14.7rc caused less but still some blackouts.
 
bemaniac said:
yes 14.7rc3 caused me a 1 second blackscreen every 20 minutes or so. I went for the 14.8whql release from guru3d and I've not had one blackout in 2 hours of Tomb Raider :)

Also Tomb raider at 4k can cause throttling. I've solved this even with an overclock to 1080mhz core by simply adding a sharkoon silent eagle to the other side of the radiator so it goes:

outside case < silent eagle <radiator <amd stock fan

This means I don't ever get to 74 degrees anymore when under 100% load for hours so no throttling of clock speeds down to 860mhz which was happening at stock.

I recommend reducing core voltage by 25mv in afterburner 4.0.0 too as this knocks an extra couple degrees off and my card is still stable at 1080mhz core. Stopping the trottling has improved my framerate at 4k maxed out with FXAA from 48fps to 55fps on average in the same area following 10 minutes of heavy load. The 25mv was essential to stop throttling even at stock with the extra fan.

I didn't have long screws to add another fan so I took the screws out of the amd fan and put them through the case into the sharkoon and radiator. Then used sellotape brand sticky fixers to stick the amd fan back on the other side. Works a treat :)

With a better fan than the sharkoon silent eagle like a 2000rpm I think temps could be even kept under 70 permanently. Considering 290x cards don't throttle until 95c this is fantastic!

The 14.4 drivers basically are like a blackscreen fest for 4k and the 14.7rc caused less but still some blackouts.
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Ohh ok some nice information there :), will give the voltage I try (love a bit of undervolting).
 
Gibbo said:
Tessellation performance helps Heaven scores but does not transform them, but Tessellation being equal then AMD/NV might score similar.

Maybe time for a new Heaven benchmark pre-set, 1080P extreme but with no tessellation?
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We could, Maybe ask Kaap as he runs the Heaven 4 Thread, i run the Valley thread.

It would be interesting to see what if any the difference is between Nvidia and AMD with the tessellation off.

I will run mine at 1100, i guess a 780 would be the Nvidia GPU to compare mine to.

Panos said:
Yeah :/
My 295X2 @ 1030/1625 got 20298!!!!!!!!!!!! Explain that -_-


@Gibbo, you were right...... 1030 the card performs great.
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Cross Fire not running in that. :)
 
Sorry I might have missed it in the posts. But when I change level or something theres a huge spike of low fps then it recovers, Something that never happen with my 780TI, is this just how the card is designed?
 
Gibbo said:
Tessellation performance helps Heaven scores but does not transform them, but Tessellation being equal then AMD/NV might score similar.

Maybe time for a new Heaven benchmark pre-set, 1080P extreme but with no tessellation?
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R9 290 @ 1100/1407

1854

Not a huge difference, at that clock my score with extreme tessellation is about 1500, so about +20%

Who has a 780?

 
bemaniac said:
yes 14.7rc3 caused me a 1 second blackscreen every 20 minutes or so. I went for the 14.8whql release from guru3d and I've not had one blackout in 2 hours of Tomb Raider :)

Also Tomb raider at 4k can cause throttling. I've solved this even with an overclock to 1080mhz core by simply adding a sharkoon silent eagle to the other side of the radiator so it goes:

outside case < silent eagle <radiator <amd stock fan

This means I don't ever get to 74 degrees anymore when under 100% load for hours so no throttling of clock speeds down to 860mhz which was happening at stock.

I recommend reducing core voltage by 25mv in afterburner 4.0.0 too as this knocks an extra couple degrees off and my card is still stable at 1080mhz core. Stopping the trottling has improved my framerate at 4k maxed out with FXAA from 48fps to 55fps on average in the same area following 10 minutes of heavy load. The 25mv was essential to stop throttling even at stock with the extra fan.

I didn't have long screws to add another fan so I took the screws out of the amd fan and put them through the case into the sharkoon and radiator. Then used sellotape brand sticky fixers to stick the amd fan back on the other side. Works a treat :)

With a better fan than the sharkoon silent eagle like a 2000rpm I think temps could be even kept under 70 permanently. Considering 290x cards don't throttle until 95c this is fantastic!

The 14.4 drivers basically are like a blackscreen fest for 4k and the 14.7rc caused less but still some blackouts.
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I followed your advice. This is the first card ever that I reduced power while overclock more and was faster !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o

In the mean time left only one Piranha on the radiator, working at 80% and the system is pretty quiet also!!!!!! The 780 was screaming when it was running valley!!!!!

Thank you :) (we need to put your statue on a plinth also)
Over weekend going to explore more this beautiful and unknown beast. :)

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Panos said:
I followed your advice. This is the first card ever that I reduced power while overclock more and was faster !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o

In the mean time left only one Piranha on the radiator, working at 80% and the system is pretty quiet also!!!!!! The 780 was screaming when it was running valley!!!!!

Thank you :) (we need to put your statue on a plinth also)
Over weekend going to explore more this beautiful and unknown beast. :)

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You have 0 Power limit, set it to 20% in MSI AB and CCC as i explained in the Valley thread. :)

Less chance of throttling like that, it might help.
 
One issue I do have is that my AOC Q2770PQU monitor (1440p) which is connected by Displayport has real issues coming on once it goes in to power save mode (activated after 15 minutes). Sometimes it eventually comes back, other times I have to turn the monitor off and on again.

I always get this message afterwards

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I can't connect it via DVI because I'm using a DVI -> HDMI adapter in to my TV.

I could have course turn off power save, but I shouldn't have to.
 
humbug said:
You have 0 Power limit, set it to 20% in MSI AB and CCC as i explained in the Valley thread. :)

Less chance of throttling like that, it might help.
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Thank you.

But I had 50% power limit on the previous tests I run!!! and they were worst than the last one with 0% power limit and -25mV

That is why I am shocked........

Seems I need to forget the Nvidia methodology of Overclocking. More Power = more performance :P
 
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hi all well i got my r9 295 today with the asus pb278q monitor. All installed easily enough and the gpu temps are fine and dandy. The problem is for sum reason in bf4 and wow I can click on anything with my mouse. The cursor moves but nothing happens. Also there is a hell of a lot of screen ripping in BF4.

Any ideas whats going on? I have it connected with the the mini port display. When i used the dvi it would only goto 1080p?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated :)
 
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