AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

Dicehunter · 13 Jan 2015 at 17:43

new boy said:
I dont have a 295x2, so sorry for party crashing, but I have a question for the 295x2 owner, so where better to ask?

Is a 295x2 capable of driving ANY game (including AAA++++++ games) @ 4k if your willing to settle for say medium settings and 40fps. Or are we not there yet? Lets presume atleast BASIC crossfire support, not games that dont reconise the 2nd GPU at all.

At medium easily, I just tried Crysis 3 at 4K medium *Most demanding game I know of* and was getting 80+fps and max minus AA was around the 30 mark.

LtMatt · 13 Jan 2015 at 17:44

295x2 will run games at high to near maximum settings at 4K, great card for 4K gaming.

Dicehunter · 13 Jan 2015 at 17:57

AMDMatt said:
295x2 will run games at high to near maximum settings at 4K, great card for 4K gaming.

I play mo0st of my games at 4K and get easily over 40-50 fps which is fine for me, Obviously not the case with games like Crysis 3 though.

Oh Matt any chance of nudging the driver guys to properly implement adaptive V-sync into their drivers like Nvidia did like 2 years ago ?

Not Free/G-Sync, The adaptive V-sync that turns itself off sub 60 fps and turns itself on over 60 fps i.e http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/technology/adaptive-vsync/technology

LtMatt · 13 Jan 2015 at 17:58

Dicehunter said:
I play mo0st of my games at 4K and get easily over 40-50 fps which is fine for me, Obviously not the case with games like Crysis 3 though.

Crysis 3 is a complete hog though.

Dicehunter · 13 Jan 2015 at 18:16

AMDMatt said:
Crysis 3 is a complete hog though.

True, I just played Thief and Hitman and was getting 80+fps which is silly numbers at max settings 4K, No AA obviously

LtMatt · 13 Jan 2015 at 18:18

Dicehunter said:
True, I just played Thief and Hitman and was getting 80+fps which is silly numbers at max settings 4K, No AA obviously

Nice.

Dicehunter · 13 Jan 2015 at 18:33

AMDMatt said:
Nice.

Hitman and Thief, Obviously not the most graphically intensive games out there but still pretty IMO and at max settings minus AA at 4K these numbers at least to me are still impressive

Hitman

Thief

LtMatt · 13 Jan 2015 at 18:40

You could probably add a smidge of AA and SSAA respectively to those and still keep largely playable fps.

Dicehunter · 13 Jan 2015 at 18:41

AMDMatt said:
You could probably add a smidge of AA and SSAA respectively to those and still keep largely playable fps.

With my eyes I would probably not even notice the difference

Panos · 13 Jan 2015 at 19:03

new boy said:
I dont have a 295x2, so sorry for party crashing, but I have a question for the 295x2 owner, so where better to ask?

Is a 295x2 capable of driving ANY game (including AAA++++++ games) @ 4k if your willing to settle for say medium settings and 40fps. Or are we not there yet? Lets presume atleast BASIC crossfire support, not games that dont reconise the 2nd GPU at all.

Yes.

Games that do support CF, you will get more at higher settings.

But all depends the games.

Crysis (all 4 of them) are superb. Tomb Raider, BF4, Elite, Thief, Beyond Earth, War Thunder to name a few.

Basically all well written game more or less.

But if you try to play Rome 2, TESO, SWTOR, World of Tanks, it all depends :mad:

TESO you can have areas with 120 fps, and areas with 30 fps. For no particular reason.
WOT doesn't support CF and runs on 1 CPU core. So depends how strong you are there.
SWTOR same applies as above.
Rome 2, i surrender...... One day you play at 60fps + the next day at 25. And you cannot understand what's wrong.

PLEASE NOTE. Same issues applied to the above games when I had my single GTX780, not only with the 295X2.

Dicehunter · 17 Jan 2015 at 22:40

Has anyone by chance removed the stock TIM and put some of their own stuff on ?, If so what were the temps like ?

blasterbolt · 17 Jan 2015 at 23:20

Well I pulled my 295x2 out of my gaming rig since at 4k in inquisition/far cry 4 rome 2 and shadows of mordor it did not do what i had hopped at all.

In inquisition in dx 11 with high settings I was getting close to 50 fps as an average with 0 AA mantle dropped me by 10 fps but it just did not feel smooth at all.
Mordor I got about 30-40 fps with a mix of ultra/high settings with 0 AA "not the ultra texture pack as that dropped to a terrible 9 fps!"

Rome 2 got between 30-40 fps medium to high settings.

Far cry 4 in 4k got a crappy 29-33 fps on ultra/high settings 0 AA.

Creed Unity was a bloody joke at 4k high settings 0 AA i got about 20-30 fps and stuttering all over the place!

I tried the 295x2 in 2k and I got almost the same fps as in 4k which i just dont get.

I used a mates 295x2 to try some crossfire and that was a knightmare as the system black screened and refused to word with 2 of the in the rig even though its got a 1300w gold psu in it.

Stuck 2 970s in my rig oc'd the crap out of um and I am getting the same fps in 4k as I was with the 295x2.

In 2k I can max all the games and they look fantastic . Not sure if my card aint performing like it should but I am very very unhappy with it since i paid £700 and replaced it in 4 months .

Bonjour · 18 Jan 2015 at 00:48

Inquisition at 4k would be murder for any card. Same for Mordor.

At 4k, in those games in particular, you may be running out of VRAM.

VincentHanna · 18 Jan 2015 at 01:06

Blasterbolt, a few of the games you mention don't have Crossfire profiles yet (Far Cry 4) so they would only use one of the GPU's in the 295x2 and therefore you would get the performance of 1x 290x which is obviously not going to be great at 4k.

Bonjour · 18 Jan 2015 at 01:08

If they're running of a single gpu, then that's not a bad showing at all.

Dicehunter · 18 Jan 2015 at 01:08

blasterbolt said:
Well I pulled my 295x2 out of my gaming rig since at 4k in inquisition/far cry 4 rome 2 and shadows of mordor it did not do what i had hopped at all.

In inquisition in dx 11 with high settings I was getting close to 50 fps as an average with 0 AA mantle dropped me by 10 fps but it just did not feel smooth at all.
Mordor I got about 30-40 fps with a mix of ultra/high settings with 0 AA "not the ultra texture pack as that dropped to a terrible 9 fps!"

Rome 2 got between 30-40 fps medium to high settings.

Far cry 4 in 4k got a crappy 29-33 fps on ultra/high settings 0 AA.

Creed Unity was a bloody joke at 4k high settings 0 AA i got about 20-30 fps and stuttering all over the place!

I tried the 295x2 in 2k and I got almost the same fps as in 4k which i just dont get.

I used a mates 295x2 to try some crossfire and that was a nightmare as the system black screened and refused to word with 2 of the in the rig even though its got a 1300w gold psu in it.

Stuck 2 970s in my rig oc'd the crap out of um and I am getting the same fps in 4k as I was with the 295x2.

In 2k I can max all the games and they look fantastic . Not sure if my card aint performing like it should but I am very very unhappy with it since i paid £700 and replaced it in 4 months .

The games your complaining about need at least 3 cards to get playable frames at 4K, Far Cry 4 is crap anyway *Also doesn't have xfire support yet* even Kaapstad fired it up and deleted it minutes later and we all know how much he loves to benchmark, That should tell you something about it's performance right away and he's running 4 x 980's and a 5960X.

Unity, Well it's Unity, Don't expect much from Ubisofts latest garbage.

Rome 2 is hugely CPU intensive so upping the res to 4K is just a big no no.

SOM I play at 1440/1600 and get really great frames with my 295X2 but at 4K it becomes a real resource hog.

90% of the games I've tested with the 295X2 play brilliantly at 4K max settings and no AA, It's just the resource heavy ones i.e Rome 2, SOM, Unity etc... that you need to lower to 1440/1600 to get good FPS.

blasterbolt · 18 Jan 2015 at 09:34

Yhea dicehunter I tired to lower the res to 1440p and all that happened was I got 2-3 fps more then when i ran the games in 4k. It seemed to make no difference my card cant run any of the games at 60 fps. I tried the new omega drivers I tried playing with the profile settings and ran games in borderless windows to try and get near 50+ in 1440p and nothing worked.

The 1 game it did manage to get a steady 60 fps was Battlefeild 4 with mantle running.

On another note though its bloody annoying thats Ubisofts games run like crap on the AMD side . I know they have teamed up with NVIDIA but even so...........

LtMatt · 18 Jan 2015 at 09:36

blasterbolt said:
Yhea dicehunter I tired to lower the res to 1440p and all that happened was I got 2-3 fps more then when i ran the games in 4k. It seemed to make no difference my card cant run any of the games at 60 fps. I tried the new omega drivers I tried playing with the profile settings and ran games in borderless windows to try and get near 50+ in 1440p and nothing worked.

On another note though its bloody annoying thats Ubisofts games run like crap on the AMD side . I know they have teamed up with NVIDIA but even so...........

Crossfire does not work in borderless window modem you need to use full screen.

blasterbolt · 18 Jan 2015 at 10:40

Guess thats why it made zero difference to my fps then xD.

Can anyone tell me if when they drop from 4k to 1440p if they get a decent fps increase because all the titles I have said gave me only 3-5 fps increase at best and I just dont understand why I get those results.I would have hoped for a far better gain for lowering the res.

Dicehunter · 18 Jan 2015 at 13:31

blasterbolt said:
Guess thats why it made zero difference to my fps then xD.

Can anyone tell me if when they drop from 4k to 1440p if they get a decent fps increase because all the titles I have said gave me only 3-5 fps increase at best and I just dont understand why I get those results.I would have hoped for a far better gain for lowering the res.

Alien Isolation maxed at 4K with SMAA-T1X I'm looking at a 90fps average and at 1440 I'm looking at around a 170fps average.

Batman Arkham Origins maxed at 4K no AA gives 90 fps average and at 1440 it gives 190 average

I'll do some more when I get home