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The AMD Driver Thread

opethdisciple said:
I know what I want.... but can I really spend £500 on a GPU? Money isn't the issue, it's just £500 is a lot for a leisure activity.

My comfort zone used to be around £330.

I'm planning an upgrade to 1400p 144hz monitor. No GPU at £300 - £350 is gonna cut the mustard at 1400p?

I badly need a new monitor. Current monitor is holding back my current system. I upgraded to a 1700 from a 3570k and now it's too fast for the monitor.
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I remember those prices did get you the best.
 
Installed the new driver, BIOS checker patch worked ok; there aren't any profiles in the gaming section yet... wonder if that populates as you play things rather than scanning your system at install now?
 
Radeon GPU Profiler, the first PC graphics tool which allows for low level, built-in hardware thread tracing. Take performance beyond expectations. As much as Mantle aimed to inspire the next generation of APIs, Radeon GPU Profiler aims at taking the next step in helping PC game developers enabling Vulkan and DirectX 12. Radeon GPU Profiler is a groundbreaking hardware event visualization tool that provides detailed timing information on Radeon graphics through custom, built-in hardware thread-tracing. Unlike the black box approach of the past, PC game developers now have unprecedented, console-like in-depth access to a GPU and can easily analyze Async Compute usage, event timing, pipeline stalls, bottlenecks and other performance inefficiencies. Here is what some developers who tried it have to say about the tool:

  • “RGP very quickly became an indispensable tool in my optimization workflow. I’m sure that other graphics programmers will fall in love with it, just like I did!” Yuriy O’Donnell, Rendering Engineer, DICE
  • “With Radeon GPU Profiler, AMD has produced a high-quality tool that fills a much-needed role of providing deep performance introspection and analysis of modern GPUs beyond simple hardware counters.” Baldur Karlsson, Senior Technical Architect, RenderDoc
  • “AMD Radeon GPU Profiler is nothing short of a revelation in GPU performance analysis for Vulkan on Windows and Linux. I was able to gain insights into Source 2 Vulkan in VR that I had previously never known. We are able to figure out exactly where the work is happening in the frame. It just works for every Vulkan workload we have thrown at it. RGP has now become my go-to tool for GPU performance analysis.” Dan Ginsburg, VR Developer, Valve
 
opethdisciple said:
I know what I want.... but can I really spend £500 on a GPU? Money isn't the issue, it's just £500 is a lot for a leisure activity.

My comfort zone used to be around £330.

I'm planning an upgrade to 1400p 144hz monitor. No GPU at £300 - £350 is gonna cut the mustard at 1400p?

I badly need a new monitor. Current monitor is holding back my current system. I upgraded to a 1700 from a 3570k and now it's too fast for the monitor.
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There was a time not that long ago when people were frequently bemoaning the lack of new games pushing the envelope, in some cases putting the blame at the feet of consoles (i.e. "nothing worth upgrading for"). However I think that has changed in part because of advances in monitor tech, for a long while it was basically 1080p at 120hz or perhaps some higher resolution at lower refresh. However we now have as you highlight both higher resolution and higher refresh rates which is driving the demand for more gpu horsepower (1440p@144hz is well over double the pixels per second of 1080p@120hz) even if games didn't progress at all in terms of demand; meanwhile the impact of Brexit on Sterling (roughly 15% devaluation) has made things more expensive followed up by the cryptocurrency gold rush.

As for gpu prices I've been buying 3d accelerators since the 90s and never spent over £240 (GTX280). Generally used to be around the £150-200 mark. My current RX480 8GB I got lucky with as found one under £150 about six months ago so pulled the trigger despite at the time not being desperate for more power.
 
erazor51 said:
Radeon GPU Profiler, the first PC graphics tool which allows for low level, built-in hardware thread tracing. Take performance beyond expectations. As much as Mantle aimed to inspire the next generation of APIs, Radeon GPU Profiler aims at taking the next step in helping PC game developers enabling Vulkan and DirectX 12. Radeon GPU Profiler is a groundbreaking hardware event visualization tool that provides detailed timing information on Radeon graphics through custom, built-in hardware thread-tracing. Unlike the black box approach of the past, PC game developers now have unprecedented, console-like in-depth access to a GPU and can easily analyze Async Compute usage, event timing, pipeline stalls, bottlenecks and other performance inefficiencies. Here is what some developers who tried it have to say about the tool:

  • “RGP very quickly became an indispensable tool in my optimization workflow. I’m sure that other graphics programmers will fall in love with it, just like I did!” Yuriy O’Donnell, Rendering Engineer, DICE
  • “With Radeon GPU Profiler, AMD has produced a high-quality tool that fills a much-needed role of providing deep performance introspection and analysis of modern GPUs beyond simple hardware counters.” Baldur Karlsson, Senior Technical Architect, RenderDoc
  • “AMD Radeon GPU Profiler is nothing short of a revelation in GPU performance analysis for Vulkan on Windows and Linux. I was able to gain insights into Source 2 Vulkan in VR that I had previously never known. We are able to figure out exactly where the work is happening in the frame. It just works for every Vulkan workload we have thrown at it. RGP has now become my go-to tool for GPU performance analysis.” Dan Ginsburg, VR Developer, Valve
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That's very good. But do devs not already have tools like this?
 
They've fixed the buggy RX480 win7 installer.
Wow, not only added the colour/saturation etc sliders, there's more.
Any time recording, audio was always quiet. Now they've added an audio booster, same for mic' :D
May even check Chill out.

Also found out what was wrong with DOOM. Audio speeds up when system audio is over 48k. Weird!
 
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Rolled back to 17.7.1

I have 3 displays..

1 = DP Panel (Primary)
2 = HDMI
3 = HDMI

17.7.2 seem to use the GPU for video playback like YT and VLC Player, also they dont lower my memory clock when i turn off my primary DP panel and the DP panel stays on even though its off visually, 17.7.1 and previous drivers turn off the DP panel completely and display 2 becomes the primary display with the memory clock reduced to 300MHz. These new drivers make the memory clock stay at 1750MHz.

Shame really but then i dont see any extra perf with these and the Enhanced Sync seems to do bugger all for me in the games i play, just creates stutter so i'll stay on 17.7.1 :)
 
MyBrains said:
Rolled back to 17.7.1

I have 3 displays..

1 = DP Panel (Primary)
2 = HDMI
3 = HDMI

17.7.2 seem to use the GPU for video playback like YT and VLC Player, also they dont lower my memory clock when i turn off my primary DP panel and the DP panel stays on even though its off visually, 17.7.1 and previous drivers turn off the DP panel completely and display 2 becomes the primary display with the memory clock reduced to 300MHz. These new drivers make the memory clock stay at 1750MHz.

Shame really but then i dont see any extra perf with these and the Enhanced Sync seems to do bugger all for me in the games i play, just creates stutter so i'll stay on 17.7.1 :)
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Did you turn on Vsync in games? I left every game off for Vsync, the Enhanced sync should be on by default, to keep the FPS at the monitor refresh, I use the frame limiter tool in the driver as well.
 
Raelgun said:
Did you turn on Vsync in games? I left every game off for Vsync, the Enhanced sync should be on by default, to keep the FPS at the monitor refresh, I use the frame limiter tool in the driver as well.
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Yea i tested everything on and off and with/without frame limiters after reading your previous post. The games i play run smooth enough as it is though thanks to FreeSync so i guess im not missing much. Just DayZ has some crazy stuttering sometimes but thats Early Access for yer.
 
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