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R9 390 Poor Performance?

LeightonJ

LeightonJ

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Hi,
literally just bought a Sapphire R9 390, and on battlefield 4, at 1080p, high settings and no AA, im getting around 60fps and dipping to around 50fps, sometimes but very rarely spiking up to 90fps briefly. This just doesnt seem right, seeing as i have a friend with a single 660ti getting the exact same if not better fps than me. This just seems very low for what the benchmarks say it should do, which they say it should get around 80fps average at ultra! not sure what could be the problem? I always have this feeling something is wrong with my pc, just really does seem like i should be getting higher frames?
Thanks for any help!
 
Run a quick synthetic benchmark and compare it against others around the same score to make sure your card is working ok first, then if its scoring as it should be people might be able to help ya with the battlefield settings as it might be just that game.

Unigine Heaven/Valley or 3dmark firestrike are probably a good way of checking the gpu is working fine. Also whats the rest of your PC specs, are they equal to or better than your buddies?
 
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LeightonJ said:
Hi,
literally just bought a Sapphire R9 390, and on battlefield 4, at 1080p, high settings and no AA, im getting around 60fps and dipping to around 50fps, sometimes but very rarely spiking up to 90fps briefly. This just doesnt seem right, seeing as i have a friend with a single 660ti getting the exact same if not better fps than me. This just seems very low for what the benchmarks say it should do, which they say it should get around 80fps average at ultra! not sure what could be the problem? I always have this feeling something is wrong with my pc, just really does seem like i should be getting higher frames?
Thanks for any help!
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What are your system specs? PSU?
 
as above, we need to know your entire system spec inc PSU, CPU, mobo will help and also resolution your gaming at. Run firestrike and post up your score. Also please post up the driver version your running. this will give us an idea of what could be wrong :)
 
System specs are:
i5 3570k
MSI Z77A-G45 MOBO
2x4GB and 1x8GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3
EVGA Supernova G2 850W PSU

Not quite sure how the AMD drivers work, i installed the latest radeon software (16.1) and as it was installing it said installing latest graphics driver or along those lines, but this is my first time with AMD card I'm not sure how to check what driver is on the graphics card., its not as it easy to see as it is on nVidia cards!
My specs are pretty similar to my mates too.
cheers for helping us out!
 
LeightonJ said:
System specs are:
i5 3570k
MSI Z77A-G45 MOBO
2x4GB and 1x8GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3
EVGA Supernova G2 850W PSU

Not quite sure how the AMD drivers work, i installed the latest radeon software (16.1) and as it was installing it said installing latest graphics driver or along those lines, but this is my first time with AMD card I'm not sure how to check what driver is on the graphics card., its not as it easy to see as it is on nVidia cards!
My specs are pretty similar to my mates too.
cheers for helping us out!
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Open up crimson, click on system and look under Radeon Software version should be 16.1

Only thing I see wrong with your setup is the RAM is very strange. Your Motherboard is a Dual channel memory setup, having two 4GB in dual and then a single 8GB isn't how you should have that setup.

Am I wrong here guys?

Like above I would run some bench tests and see if we can match your scores up to how a 390 should be running.
 
a 660Ti wont be running Bf4 at 1080p at 60FPS+ at all. Your friend is running at 720p or less and low settings.

If your compareing VS benchmarks then your also wrong.
Your PC isnt set up right, and the CPU is not the best, so you cant compare the two.
 
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LeightonJ said:
Hi,
literally just bought a Sapphire R9 390, and on battlefield 4, at 1080p, high settings and no AA, im getting around 60fps and dipping to around 50fps, sometimes but very rarely spiking up to 90fps briefly. This just doesnt seem right, seeing as i have a friend with a single 660ti getting the exact same if not better fps than me. This just seems very low for what the benchmarks say it should do, which they say it should get around 80fps average at ultra! not sure what could be the problem? I always have this feeling something is wrong with my pc, just really does seem like i should be getting higher frames?
Thanks for any help!
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660ti won't be getting that at all. two your ram is in single channel and will have an effect on performance.

also what is your cpu clocked at as BF4 is very much cpu dependant; if you're at base clocked and not OC; that will hold back your frames.

also drivers what are you running?
 
I knew my RAM is in single channel, i'm going to buy a second 8GB stick down the line when i can afford it, im currently saving for a new monitor, looking at benches online quickly but apparently single vs dual barely has any effect on fps?
3570k is stock @3.4 boost @3.8, aiming to overclock this in the future with a watercooler, would this really have much effect on fps in battlefield 4?
Later tonight i will do some synthetic benchmarks and post the results up!
Also, my friend is NOT running at 720p low settings. we were in the same game, looking at the same spots in the games, running at identical graphical qualities, so we could see what our fps's were doing when explosions were going off and such. strangely, his was at 60fpsish normally, but when a big explosion went off his fps dropped by 5 or so, where mine was at around 65 and didnt budge at all even when big explosions happened. however mine just randomly spikes to 80-90fps sometimes for a couple seconds or so. But then i can also be wondering around a part of a map where not much is going on whilst im running to another flag or something and id go down to about 45fps and its hard for it to get back up to 60 once that happens!
 
I had 2 660Ti's in before, would they conflict even though they're nvidia?
I'll give it a go tonight after benching, cheers!
 
If you are talking about gaming online, then your stock clock 3570K can actually bottleneck your 390 at 1080p.

For now just turn the settings up from high to ultra as, I think your GPU is not being stressed to 100% due to CPU holding it back, and you have headroom on the GPU side for higher graphic settings.

You should look into overclocking your 3570K.
 
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If you are talking about gaming online, then your stock clock 3570K can actually bottleneck your 390 at 1080p.

For now just turn the settings up from high to ultra as, I think your GPU is not being stressed to 100% due to CPU holding it back, and you have headroom on the GPU side for higher graphic settings.

You should look into overclocking your 3570K.
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If i got a corsair h60, and i've heard of 3570K's hitting up to 4.5GHz, would that remove the bottleneck? I'm not very clue'd up when it comes to CPU's!
 
LeightonJ said:
I had 2 660Ti's in before, would they conflict even though they're nvidia?
I'll give it a go tonight after benching, cheers!
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Yes, very likely to - more likely than if you'd previously had another AMD card. You'll need to clean them off as savagesam suggested.

If still having problems then it might be worth looking at
usage of CPU & GPU, temps of them etc.

Good luck! :)

Edit: Before fans of one side or another jump in and derail the thread - I mean it's more likely you'll have driver problems when switching between vendors if not cleaning up drivers, not having a go at either side...
 
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