MSI Afterburner v4.2.0 Released

TheRealDeal · 8 Dec 2015 at 11:34

Avenged7Fold said:
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A good point, could be AMD pulling another Bulldoder where they release a product with the idea of catering to newer tech at the expense of older tech. Bulldozer got a lot of stick on release for having bad clock for clock speeds and because very few games made use of all the cores, scores were as bad or lower than i3s in many cases. The opinion on FX chips some what changed as more cores were being used.

I like to think this is the GPU equivalent but with Memory speed being sacrificed for bandwidth to cater for higher resolutions at the expense of low resolutions.

The poor performance at 1080p is AMD's driver overhead and not the memory speed. Under the few dx12 games that have been benchmarked things look better. You can see this on the 2 and 3 series as well.

Avenged7Fold · 8 Dec 2015 at 11:44

Is the overhead really making that big of a difference?

I saw the API benchmark thread but i dont think it has much practical relevance to gaming

TheRealDeal · 8 Dec 2015 at 11:49

Avenged7Fold said:
Is the overhead really making that big of a difference?

I saw the API benchmark thread but i dont think it has much practical relevance to gaming

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/31.html

Pretty much the whole amd range with differing memory and speed gain on there Nvidia counter parts as the resolution goes up. I don't know the ins and outs but this has been put down to driver overhead under dx11. This goes away under dx12 where AMD are good in this regard.

Avenged7Fold · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:02

Maybe that is where some of the considerable driver performance bumps are coming from. Best pull the trigger on win10 soon then

humbug · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:53

TheRealDeal said:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/31.html

Pretty much the whole amd range with differing memory and speed gain on there Nvidia counter parts as the resolution goes up. I don't know the ins and outs but this has been put down to driver overhead under dx11. This goes away under dx12 where AMD are good in this regard.

at least use a review with later Drivers

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/23.html

Mtom · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:56

Good news, i gotta try this.

TheRealDeal · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:16

humbug said:
at least use a review with later Drivers

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/23.html

I would have done but had just woke up and couldn't think of a card that had just been released to get a later review.

humbug · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:17

TheRealDeal said:
I would have done but had just woke up and couldn't think of a card that had just been released to get a later review.

Good afternoon

TheRealDeal · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:18

humbug said:
Good afternoon

Was a late night gaming session. I retired at 6 am

humbug · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:19

TheRealDeal said:
Was a late night gaming session. I retired at 6 am

You're worse than me :eek:

TheRealDeal · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:20

humbug said:
You're worse than me

I am getting better with age used to be until i fell asleep in the chair around 1pm

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trawetSluaP · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:40

Guys, how do I access the Lightning features?

Couldn't find them!

LoadsaMoney · 8 Dec 2015 at 22:08

Might need the updated version thats just gone up

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/msi_afterburner_4_2_updated.html

whyscotty · 8 Dec 2015 at 22:45

trawetSluaP said:
Guys, how do I access the Lightning features?

Couldn't find them!

Download the new one above

trawetSluaP · 9 Dec 2015 at 20:51

Thanks guys, I like have the extra temp readouts for VRM etc.

One issue I have is that if I put any voltage over 1.2 the drivers crash immediately.

BluD · 9 Dec 2015 at 22:34

Anyone know whats going on with GPU usage in this version? Im getting like 100% on gpu1 for like 1 second then gpu 2 for 1 second switching between them constantly. Only started when i installed this version. Doesnt seem to have effected performance, just monitoring. The usage graph looks like one of them heart monitor things

pandem0nium · 10 Dec 2015 at 13:50

Just spotted this, might be helpful for fury X owners:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/3tljrf/sapphire_trixx_how_to_remove_voltage_limit_0075mv/

Orangey · 10 Dec 2015 at 14:46

That link has a lil bit of misinfo, VRMs are actually rated for 150C.

And of course, you can always cool them...

Avenged7Fold · 10 Dec 2015 at 15:16

I would like to see the limit of these things with a proper waterblock on them

LoadsaMoney · 12 Dec 2015 at 14:11

Anyone know what im doing wrong here, just popped the Crimson Hotfixes on, and im still getting the bloody core clock bouncing, even though ive got a profile set in Afterburner.

Got a profile with the clocks just upped to 1042, and i ran through FS to test after i popped them on, and seemed to be working, as cores were showing as running at 1042, but when i tried GTA V, cores are back to bouncing, only way to stop them, is to turn the frame pacing off, but with that off in GTA V, i get a weird tear right along the top of the screen when turning.

Do i have to re-install AB, and create my profile again, or do i need to turn the ULPS off in AB ?

Currently got the 'Unofficial Overclocking Mode' set to Disabled.

EDIT: Although not sure if the ULPS is off, as its not ticked in AB, but when im doing nothing, instead of my second card having a single led lit Green, its Blue.

EDIT2: Just restarted again, and now its going to single Green.