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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

Mal X said:
tripple cooler !!!!! about the same size as mine, no yours is bigger, the 7990 has a very low profile cooler.............hence it runs so bloody hot :mad:

mind you, i still prefer it to those new Nvidia cards ;)
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I will point you to something, that everyone brushed under the carpet.....

The "reputable" websites doing reviews are using the 13.12 AMD drivers to compare the 980 against the 290X. Others do not state what drivers they used for the AMD at all.
And they haven't stopped there. Even the drivers they use for the GTX780/780Ti are ancient ones from February. Whiile everyone knows that the April drivers, gave a flat 12% boost on the 780/780Ti. (look at the Nvidia discussion thread for posts of that period).
 
Just got my 295x2 working today...

18FPS is WatchDogs w/ FXAA,
22FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
23FPS in Witcher 2,
54FPS in Risen 3.
55FPS Crysis 3.

A single GTX 780 ti was getting:

40FPS in WatchDogs (albeit a few drops when turning),
35FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
25FPS in Witcher 2,
70FPS in Risen 3.
35FPS Crysis 3.

Anyone know what's up? All games maxed in 1400x3440. I didn't change any settings from switching these graphics cards. Went from 14.4 to 14.7 drivers, same thing. Superflower 1200w Platinum PSU. Thanks.
 
SquirrelMadness said:
Just got my 295x2 working today...

18FPS is WatchDogs w/ FXAA,
22FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
23FPS in Witcher 2,
54FPS in Risen 3.
55FPS Crysis 3.

A single GTX 780 ti was getting:

40FPS in WatchDogs (albeit a few drops when turning),
35FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
25FPS in Witcher 2,
70FPS in Risen 3.
35FPS Crysis 3.

Anyone know what's up? All games maxed in 1400x3440. I didn't change any settings from switching these graphics cards. Went from 14.4 to 14.7 drivers, same thing. Superflower 1200w Platinum PSU. Thanks.
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Strange ... did you do a clean build, if not are you sure you removed the nvidia drivers and cleanly as possible ?
 
Also, check temps and clocks, e.g. while running Heaven. Try increasing the power limit in MSI Afterburner. It sounds like your card doesn't get enough power, or is throttling because of reaching a high temperature (~75C). Run Heaven/Valley benchmarks too see whether your results are where they should be.
 
SquirrelMadness said:
Just got my 295x2 working today...

18FPS is WatchDogs w/ FXAA,
22FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
23FPS in Witcher 2,
54FPS in Risen 3.
55FPS Crysis 3.

A single GTX 780 ti was getting:

40FPS in WatchDogs (albeit a few drops when turning),
35FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
25FPS in Witcher 2,
70FPS in Risen 3.
35FPS Crysis 3.

Anyone know what's up? All games maxed in 1400x3440. I didn't change any settings from switching these graphics cards. Went from 14.4 to 14.7 drivers, same thing. Superflower 1200w Platinum PSU. Thanks.
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Hummm make sure ULPS is disabled in Afterburner, those figures look like a single chip is running
 
Panos said:
I will point you to something, that everyone brushed under the carpet.....

The "reputable" websites doing reviews are using the 13.12 AMD drivers to compare the 980 against the 290X. Others do not state what drivers they used for the AMD at all.
And they haven't stopped there. Even the drivers they use for the GTX780/780Ti are ancient ones from February. Whiile everyone knows that the April drivers, gave a flat 12% boost on the 780/780Ti. (look at the Nvidia discussion thread for posts of that period).
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i couldn't care less about that Nvidia 980, i'd never buy a Nvidia card anymore :cool:
 
CF or SLI requires full screen mode, windowed is always going to be a single GPU result. Your min FPS is a bit low, I've had 27.3 on my best run (clocks 1018/1625, -60mV and +50% power limit). From what I've seen a low min FPS is indicative of a lack of power to the card or throttling down due to overheating. Tune your settings to avoid that.
 
SquirrelMadness said:
Just got my 295x2 working today...

18FPS is WatchDogs w/ FXAA,
22FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
23FPS in Witcher 2,
54FPS in Risen 3.
55FPS Crysis 3.

A single GTX 780 ti was getting:

40FPS in WatchDogs (albeit a few drops when turning),
35FPS in Assassin's Creed IV,
25FPS in Witcher 2,
70FPS in Risen 3.
35FPS Crysis 3.

Anyone know what's up? All games maxed in 1400x3440. I didn't change any settings from switching these graphics cards. Went from 14.4 to 14.7 drivers, same thing. Superflower 1200w Platinum PSU. Thanks.
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Few basic steps and thoughts.

a) your CPU is an i7 920 @ 2.7Ghz :/ Overclock it as much as you can. It will always bottleneck your GPU unfortunately.

b) Use the MSI Overlay to display gpu usage per core, temperature and speed, when you play games. Keep an eye on them for throttling (it will lower your GPU speed).

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Since you are there, make it to show your CPU load and temps also.

c) I would advice to tone down power to cut some heat, and overclock the VRAM. Try to get to this setting. Some are on -100mV also.

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d) Use the 14.8 WHQL drivers (not the beta) from here
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/amd-catalyst-14-8-whql-(14-201-1008-august-12)-download.html

e) Before you install the drivers use DDU to clean up the system from any Nvidia drivers (and since you will be there the AMD ones also before you put 14.8).

After all the above. Let us know your findings. :)
We are here to help.
 
Shiari said:
CF or SLI requires full screen mode, windowed is always going to be a single GPU result. Your min FPS is a bit low, I've had 27.3 on my best run (clocks 1018/1625, -60mV and +50% power limit). From what I've seen a low min FPS is indicative of a lack of power to the card or throttling down due to overheating. Tune your settings to avoid that.
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Isnt this the guy with the custom WC setup? So I doubt its temp restrictions. Id say its the CPU holding you back more than anything...

What FPS you getting in 1920x1080 in those games?
 
Got mine up and running and enjoying the noise profile however there IS some weird throttling going on, bf4 eyefinity the clocks seem to hold at 1018, crysis 3 will see some skipping around to the 970ish mark, same with sniper elite 3.

The question is why? So far temps haven't got above 66c so im 9c or thereabouts away from the throttle limit so according to AMD the clocks should be rock solid, yet for some reason they do move around some.
 
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Gerard said:
Got mine up and running and enjoying the noise profile however there IS some weird throttling going on, bf4 eyefinity the clocks seem to hold at 1018, crysis 3 will see some skipping around to the 970ish mark, same with sniper elite 3.

The question is why? So far temps haven't got above 66c so im 9c or thereabouts away from the throttle limit so according to AMD the clocks should be rock solid, yet for some reason they do move around some.
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Its the cards power limit that is the issue.
bump it up to 25-30% and you will get correct core/no throttle/ in, intensive games.
 
Gerard said:
I'll give that a try, pretty impressed with it so far though :)
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Welcome :)

Yeah. Who could guess that some of us, will have that monster card, and our systems will be so quiet even after 5 hours gaming at 100% load.
No more hair dryers :D

If you read higher up on this discussion page, you will see what I proposed to SquirrelMadness to raise the power limit to 50% and lower the mV as much as it can go.
Most of us are on -60mV to -70mV, to reduce heat and power consumption, while the card isn't affected at all. :cool:
Some even managed to make the card run at -100mV :mad::D
 
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Panos said:
Welcome :)

Yeah. Who could guess that some of us, will have that monster card, and our systems will be so quiet even after 5 hours gaming at 100% load.
No more hair dryers :D

If you read higher up on this discussion page, you will see what I proposed to SquirrelMadness to raise the power limit to 50% and lower the mV as much as it can go.
Most of us are on -60mV to -70mV, to reduce heat and power consumption, while the card isn't affected at all. :cool:
Some even managed to make the card run at -100mV :mad::D
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Seems to have worked anyway, yeah the noise is massively muted with this card compared to having even 1 reference card in crossfire. Its really weird looking at afterburner on the desktop and seeing idle gpu at 36c or so, with 3 screens on air it would usually be in the late 40's to 50's or thereabouts.

So far this card delivers on amd's claims, as opposed to the 7990, loved the look of that card but retail cards were almost nothing like the review samples. Really bugs me that no site took amd to task on that comparing retail boards to samples sent out by amd. :mad:

Just have to get my cabling sorted out tomorrow and get a pic of it uploaded. :)
 
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Just remember guys you will not be able to reduce mv to -100 or -90 or -80 with more than 1 monitor attached to the card. -55mv is what i use :) with 2 high res monitors attached. and 30% power limit.

You dont need to have more than 40% power limit even 35% is fine and wont throttle
maxing out the powerlimit will heat the card up more and you will see diminishing returns @ stock speed anyway but from my experiance 1150/1690 clocks i use require no more than 35% power limit to stop throttling this is not due to heat its due to power @ those clocks.

my cards max temps are 55c-59c with those clocks and full single slot waterblock..

When you have a full watercooling system the fan on these cards that are cooling the VRMS can get loud the only reason why i opted for waterblock is to get better vrm cooling so i would not recommend going higher than 1120 on air due to vrms and noise but i dont have that issue anymore.
 
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