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The AMD Driver Thread

Minstadave said:
What are you expecting Vega to be? AMDs rebirth? The 480 is so mediocre it's not looking great.
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As I explained already, do not look at 480 performance to compare with what Vega will be like.

Look at Fury X in Doom with Vulcan, seems to be better than a 1080 already. As long as games are made properly using DX12/Vulcan making use of proper async, I can see Vega coming out on top in those titles vs 1080Ti.

Anyway, when big Vega comes out and does easily beat the 1080 which you guys seem to think it won't, I will come back and say I told you so :p;)

Sh4rkie said:
Right there with you :). I have zero brand loyalty between the two camps and will always go with what suits me best. I've had plenty of Nvidia and AMD cards and never had problems with either, heck i started off with Cirrus Logic cards back in the day.

For me it doesn't have to be cutting edge or top of the line just fulfil my needs will hitting the vfm marker.
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:)
 
I don't doubt big Vega has the potential to beat a 1080, but NV has got the 1080Ti and Titan coming up too.

AMD always find a way to under-deliver, I'm pretty sure this gen will be no difference.
 
Minstadave said:
I don't doubt big Vega has the potential to beat a 1080, but NV has got the 1080Ti and Titan coming up too.

AMD always find a way to under-deliver, I'm pretty sure this gen will be no difference.
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Why are you discussing this in an AMD drivers thread? OT much?

Can we get this thread back on topic please? I expect to come in here for amd drivers news or help someone who might need it. Not to dig through 1080 is best thing since sliced bread.
 
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Minstadave said:
I don't doubt big Vega has the potential to beat a 1080, but NV has got the 1080Ti and Titan coming up too.

AMD always find a way to under-deliver, I'm pretty sure this gen will be no difference.
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Yeah, and I think big Vega will beat the Titan P in new games that use DX12/Vulcan which implement those technologies properly :)

For me the R9 290 did not under deliver, nor did my 7950/7970 :D

I got my Radeon R9 290 GAMING 4G from the members market for £135 over a year ago which served me very well. Got a huge increase in performance with Vulkan drivers in Doom which I tested yesterday. The card keeps giving. It is getting relegated to live a easy live in my partners PC now though :)

shankly1985 said:
Why are you discussing this in an AMD drivers thread? OT much?

Can we get this thread back on topic please? I expect to come in here for amd drivers news or help someone who might need it. Not to dig through 1080 is best thing since sliced bread.
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Quite right. Went off track there.
 
bought wolfenstein the new order the other day and went to play it tonight, no matter what settings i use it seems to

cause massive stutter at random times, even though the steam fps counter says it is mostly 60 and drops to 45 at times.

what gives? im running 8 gig ddr 4, with a intel 6600k cpu and a radeon rx480 8 gig.

there a driver issue there? im running the latest beta ones for doom vulkan which runs awesome oh im only running a 1200p monitor as well.
 
nashathedog said:
We're also starting to see games that won't allow you to turn settings to max if you only have a 4gb card, even at 1080p.

It's not just about having the grunt anymore, Games are taking the ram usage over 4 gb's through the texture files as seen in titles like Rise of the Tomb Raider, Gears of War and Forza which all do it even at much lower resolutions..
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Most of those games kill even GTX1080 at 4K and people have to compromise on the settings to get playable FPS. Having 8GB will not magically transform a GPU at 4K because you are having to turn the settings down anyway.

Only when going multi GPU will 4GB become a problem.
 
ICDP said:
Most of those games kill even GTX1080 at 4K and people have to compromise on the settings to get playable FPS. Having 8GB will not magically transform a GPU at 4K because you are having to turn the settings down anyway.

Only when going multi GPU will 4GB become a problem.
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The cause of excessive memory usage is changing meaning high memory usage no longer goes hand in hand with big performance hits.

Nowadays more and more games use the memory up through texture files rather than demanding settings like SMAA & God Rays etc and the texture setting does not have anywhere near as big a hit on performance as the others do. With Rise of The Tomb Raider I had it set up at 1080p and with very high texture the fps sat in the 70's or 80's but the ram demand caused it to stutter making it a mess and unplayable, Dropping the textures to just high had hardly any effect on the fps but fixed the stutter issue.
 
Chaps,

Still rocking my 7990 on 15.11

Has Crimson been updated to allow Crossfire to be disabled on 7990's at all, so I can potentially update the drivers?
 
Power efficiency on, It was fixed a long time ago, I still occasionally run gpu-z with the sensors page stretched out so I can double check that it's still working after a gaming session and when in game it sits at the 1040mhz stock clock continuously.
 
I'm still on 16.5.3 with my Fury X, any point updating to 16.7.1/2? Haven't noticed anything significant for the games I'm playing in the release notes since. I used to update with every release, is this what is recommended/what everyone else does?
 
I used to update every time a new one came out, but not now.

Im still on the 16.3 hotfixes, as what im playing at the moment, and willl be playing is working fine, will only update to the latest when i get around to playing the latest DOOM, as need them for Vulcan.
 
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Over the last few days (since installing the 16.7.2 Crimson drivers) I've had a total of 3 drivers stopped working game crashes during about 18 hours of gaming. It's the first driver issue I've had since Crimson fixed the idle clocks bug, It's rare so for now I'm going to leave them installed as it only happens in Dying light where I also get some visual corruption that's not seen in any other games I've tested for it. Every other game I've tried does not exhibit either issue so I'm not that bothered with it only being in Dying light as I'm just about finished with it.

heartburnron said:
I'm still on 16.5.3 with my Fury X, any point updating to 16.7.1/2? Haven't noticed anything significant for the games I'm playing in the release notes since. I used to update with every release, is this what is recommended/what everyone else does?
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As Loadsa said if you wish to play Doom you should get the latest driver which is 16.7.2.
 
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