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Bit disappointed with my 390x

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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Is it the rest of my system that's slowing it down?

I was hoping that it could max games like Dirt Rally (which uses the very good Autosport engine I believe), Wolfenstien: NO, GTA V (only advanced setting is view distance to half and some of the non-advanced settings aren't maxed), Fallout 4, Just Cause 3 etc but it can't, and this is with 2x or no AA and at 1080p. I see that some big releases this year are recommending a 290x as the GPU which is not very far from a 390x I think?

I know some of those games have dodgy performance because of the game engine/ not my GPUs fault but I was hoping that the 390x would be able to power through that. It hasn't been much of a step up from my 7970!

The rest of my system is:

Z87 sabretooth
4770k @4.8GHz
8GB 2400MHz RAM
750GB 850 Evo SSD
1080p monitor
Windows 7

It's not as if I have anything running in the background either- only Dropbox, and the game client. Rarely even chrome.

Is there anything holding my GPU back?

(Before the Nvidia crowd pop out the woodwork, yes I did consider the 980 but it was £50 more expensive for no real improvement in benchmarks.)
 
Your rig's close to being as good as it gets at the moment, Everyone has similar issues regardless of the gpu or the cpu etc. The new Tomb Raider can drop a 980ti below 30 fps at 1080p if you max everything. Claimed requirements are as good as useless nowadays so don't take them into account.
For gaming the performance provided by a 4770k with a 4.8 clock and a 850 evo will be hard to beat.
The only upgrades I'd be looking at doing to that in the near future would be the ram and the OS.
You're good to go.
 
I could run GTA V at 4k res some AA most sliders and settings at high or v high etc but low post processing on my 290 trix.

The 390X is a bit faster but not a lot but it should run games at 4k with tweaked settings or 1080p with max settings no problem.:confused:
 
By the way when I say "run at max settings" I mean 60fps or at least 50 if the option is there to drop the screen refresh rate down to this. Am I just expecting too much from the GPU?
 
did you have nvidia before, when i changed from 970's to 290 crossfire i could not get them to run right untill i did a fresh windows install, im guessing my drivers were borked
 
I did some googling...

The performance of this card is pretty good for where it sits in the hierarchy, predictably (other than FA4) pretty much identical to the GTX 980... you shouldn't be having any performance problems with it.



 
I play GTA V at 1440p, FXAA, high-very high, DoF and Motionblur off (i hate those), and just about fix 60fps.
 
That dirt rally one is interesting- with maximum setting, when I run the benchmark I get 45fps.

Is it throttling or anything? It usually sits at 75c+ after half an hour of gaming.
 
Definitely something wrong there, on my old 290X at 1440p, GTA V ran superb, minimum was about 57, mostly sat in the 60s/70s, sometimes hitting 80+, that was with everything on, maxed, apart from the shadows on Soft, and the MSAA off, 290X was only at 1080 on the core.

As was said above, id get Afterburner on, and see if you have a bouncing core clock, as i know it happens on some 390s, as well as the Furys with the Crimsons (if thats what you're running), as i can't use them due to that, so still on pre-Crimsons, using the 15.9.1 Betas.
 
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almoststew1990 said:
That dirt rally one is interesting- with maximum setting, when I run the benchmark I get 45fps.

Is it throttling or anything? It usually sits at 75c+ after half an hour of gaming.
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And the one in the Benchmark is not even a 390X, its a 390P.
Something is wrong. your not getting anything like the performance you should.
 
Im getting a solid 60 fps on a non oc 980ti fully maxed at 1440p (just advanced blending turned off), on a 5 year old i5 2500k :).

Just go with nvidia, and i am saying that as an ex amd user.
 
I just ran the Dirt rally benchmark on my stock clocks rig. It's a 4790k, Fury Tri-x (1040mhz model) with 8 gb's of 2133 ram and Win 10 pro. I ran everything maxed out and had it at 1440p via vsr on my 1080p monitor.

min: 43.41,
avg: 54.16,
max: 72.43.

I'm on the latest crimson driver with the Tomb Raider hotfix.

Are you far off that?
 
Lokken86 said:
What is your 3d mark score?
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Which version of 3D Mark would I use?

nashathedog said:
I just ran the Dirt rally benchmark on my stock clocks rig. It's a 4790k, Fury Tri-x (1040mhz model) with 8 gb's of 2133 ram and Win 10 pro. I ran everything maxed out and had it at 1440p via vsr on my 1080p monitor.

min: 43.41,
avg: 54.16,
max: 72.43.

I'm on the latest crimson driver with the Tomb Raider hotfix.

Are you far off that?
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I get 45fps average so not too far. You're also well below the review benchmarks!

arc@css said:
Card in the right PCI-E lane (if applicable)?

Motherboard bios update?
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Yes the card is in the right PCI-E slot but I haven't updated my bios in yonks- will the bios make a difference considering my card is essentially a 290x from 2013, around the same time my motherboard was released?
 
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