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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

I dont get stuttering but I get random frame rate drops in SoM. I also get rainbow lightning flashes. I'm sure it will get fixed in future and thankfully I am mostly done playing it for now. I'm not sure if it's game issues or AMD drivers but SoM is an "NVIDIA" game it seems too. Which can't help. I notice when a game has an NVIDIA splash screen it means I'm about to get ****ed. ironically AMD games worked perfectly well on NVIDIA cards.

I'm not saying its suspicious but.... Y u do dis NVIDIA?
 
You'll be maxing out your VRam on Shadows of Mordor at that res on maximum settings. Bonkers really, as there's no need for the game to consume so much memory.
 
RobHague said:
I dont get stuttering but I get random frame rate drops in SoM. I also get rainbow lightning flashes. I'm sure it will get fixed in future and thankfully I am mostly done playing it for now. I'm not sure if it's game issues or AMD drivers but SoM is an "NVIDIA" game it seems too. Which can't help. I notice when a game has an NVIDIA splash screen it means I'm about to get ****ed. ironically AMD games worked perfectly well on NVIDIA cards.

I'm not saying its suspicious but.... Y u do dis NVIDIA?
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Which drivers are you using Rob? We added a profile for SOM in the 14.9.2 drivers so using those drivers may help with the rainbow lightning flashes if you're using a newer or older version. Those frame drops sounds like you're running out of vram which is possible in this game as it's very vram hungry.
 
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AMDMatt said:
Which drivers are you using Rob? We added a profile for SOM in the 14.9.2 drivers so using those drivers may help with the rainbow lightning flashes if you're using a newer or older version. Those frame drops sounds like you're running out of vram which is possible in this game as it's very vram hungry.
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Yeah I am using the 14.9.2 drivers :) its when the lightning flashes on the ground its rainbow coloured. Which is kinda cool but XD

I am sure I am running the same settings as I was on 2x 970s and they didnt drop frames like this. But maybe I optimized something with the AMD Gaming Evolved software and its upped the textures. Will check that!

EDIT: Good catch. Seems my settings were defaulted to Ultra. I notched it down to High and the frame drops stopped. I will see if this solves the rainbow lightning flash too (as soon as I see some lightning lol).
 
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Guys I'm hoping someone can help.

I have just upgraded my GTX580 SLI combo to a Gigabyte 295X2 and can't seem to get anywhere near the performance I should expect.

I have a i7-2600K @ 3.4 on a Z77 Sabretooth mb and 16 gb ram., psu is 850W.

Have the latest beta drivers and I know that crossfire is working as I've enabled the logo that shows in the top right hand corner.

I have a 1440p monitor and get the following results:

Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor:

Average 21.42, Max 313.79, min 2.25

Dragon Age Inquisition average is 30.1

Both on ultra.

Can anyone shed light?

I completely uninstalled the Nvidia drivers before installing the 295x2.

I'm pulling my hair out, figuratively speaking
 
quonker said:
Guys I'm hoping someone can help.

I have just upgraded my GTX580 SLI combo to a Gigabyte 295X2 and can't seem to get anywhere near the performance I should expect.

I have a i7-2600K @ 3.4 on a Z77 Sabretooth mb and 16 gb ram., psu is 850W.

Have the latest beta drivers and I know that crossfire is working as I've enabled the logo that shows in the top right hand corner.

I have a 1440p monitor and get the following results:

Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor:

Average 21.42, Max 313.79, min 2.25

Dragon Age Inquisition average is 30.1

Both on ultra.

Can anyone shed light?

I completely uninstalled the Nvidia drivers before installing the 295x2.

I'm pulling my hair out, figuratively speaking
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What PSU? And how are temps?
Shadow of Mordor is pretty VRAM heavy so you may need to look in to that.
 
PSU is an OCZ 850W and the card temps are pretty low, presume as the benchmarks are pretty short.

I've seen other people post much higher results, I've checked bios settings and it is rather frustrating.
 
I just ran the bench at 2880x1620 with everything max and average fps was over 100. That's with 970 SLI.
What GPU usage are you getting? And is your card going to full 3D clocks?
 
Loving my 295x-2, it has solved almost all my crossfire woes.

Quick question, what kind of temps are these rated to run up to? Do AMD rate them safe for up to 95degrees like the rest of the 290 range?

So far I'm not breaking 70degrees, but curious how much headroom I've got with that
 
Asa said:
Loving my 295x-2, it has solved almost all my crossfire woes.

Quick question, what kind of temps are these rated to run up to? Do AMD rate them safe for up to 95degrees like the rest of the 290 range?

So far I'm not breaking 70degrees, but curious how much headroom I've got with that
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75C is the max temp iirc.
 
quonker said:
Guys I'm hoping someone can help.

I have just upgraded my GTX580 SLI combo to a Gigabyte 295X2 and can't seem to get anywhere near the performance I should expect.

I have a i7-2600K @ 3.4 on a Z77 Sabretooth mb and 16 gb ram., psu is 850W.

Have the latest beta drivers and I know that crossfire is working as I've enabled the logo that shows in the top right hand corner.

I have a 1440p monitor and get the following results:

Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor:

Average 21.42, Max 313.79, min 2.25

Dragon Age Inquisition average is 30.1

Both on ultra.

Can anyone shed light?

I completely uninstalled the Nvidia drivers before installing the 295x2.

I'm pulling my hair out, figuratively speaking
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Thing is both the games seem to run reasonably well but clearly something is amiss

just played Farcry 4 for 30 mins, plays okay really but noticed temps of the GPU not getting over 40 deg, seems as if it's almost not really kicking in.
 
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