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The AMD Driver Thread

TonyTurbo78 said:
That's good news, how did you check it accurately?
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I set a high static fan speed and set the core to 1410 on state 6 and 1420 on state 7. Then once the temperature stabilised and core was locked at state 7, I would reduce and increase voltages and monitor the temperatures. With previous drivers doing so had no effect whatsoever on temperatures. With these latest drivers in this same test, adjusting voltages down gives reduced temperatures and increasing voltages does the opposite (obviously).

So I can get voltage down by .2mV in state 7 at 1450 core clock and +50% on Power Levels. On paper this is an underclock but in reality it is an overclock because with default voltages it will throttle to 1400. Now it will stay at 1450 and I get lower fans speeds as a bonus. I could go the other way and keep default fan speeds and get a higher core clock. But I prefer quieter.
 
ICDP said:
I set a high static fan speed and set the core to 1410 on state 6 and 1420 on state 7. Then once the temperature stabilised and core was locked at state 7, I would reduce and increase voltages and monitor the temperatures. With previous drivers doing so had no effect whatsoever on temperatures. With these latest drivers in this same test, adjusting voltages down gives reduced temperatures and increasing voltages does the opposite (obviously).

So I can get voltage down by .2mV in state 7 at 1450 core clock and +50% on Power Levels. On paper this is an underclock but in reality it is an overclock because with default voltages it will throttle to 1400. Now it will stay at 1450 and I get lower fans speeds as a bonus. I could go the other way and keep default fan speeds and get a higher core clock. But I prefer quieter.
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Good. I'll stick my wattage meter on later and hopefully see a big drop in watts at the wall.

Thanks
 
I just posted this in the owners thread but thought i'd paste it here too.

I just had a quick play with the new drivers on my vega 64 blower. Colour me impressed with the under volting!

so far ive set state 6 to 1000, state 7 to 1050, power limit to 30%, mem frequency to 1050. Nothing else changed.

It's gone from throttling at 85c and dropping down to 1536mhz to................... rock stable lines through heaven, time spy extreme... Heaven only got it upto 76c max. Timespy 70c, zero throttling as its well under the 85c temp limit.

Timespy extreme graphics score 7470 and heaven 1440p everything maxed is 1416 score.

Ive only run a few passes of each benchmark so it might be unstable or could have some more headroom. I'll have more of a play later and report back.

Matt.
 
calken said:
I would have thought that AMD would advertise that in the driver release - unless they are trying to cover the fact that features weren't ready for day one release?
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The simple fact is if every single bug fix was in the release notes, they'd be quite long. A small sample of bug fixes is listed, some get missed out. All that matters is that i know what's fixed.
 
AMDMatt said:
The simple fact is if every single bug fix was in the release notes, they'd be quite long. A small sample of bug fixes is listed, some get missed out. All that matters is that i know what's fixed.
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So was the Overwatch random crash and poor FPS bug fixed and just not mentioned?
 
DragonQ said:
So was the Overwatch random crash and poor FPS bug fixed and just not mentioned?
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That one is still WIP. If we call out an issue in the Known Issues section, it usually makes its way into the Resolved issues section once it has been fixed.
locodice said:
@AMDMatt So, apparently this guy on twitter said to me that OSD is coming with ''Crimson ReLive Redux Edition''

Proof: https://twitter.com/BlazeK_AMDRT/status/899989809053257728

I guess end of the year with the ''anniversary driver''..
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Terry Makedon released that screenshot as a teaser. No further comment. :)
 
AMDMatt said:
That one is still WIP. If we call out an issue in the Known Issues section, it usually makes its way into the Resolved issues section once it has been fixed.

Terry Makedon released that screenshot as a teaser. No further comment. :)
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Looks very nice. AMD have come a long way with driver features.

Hopefully the driver team get working on getting the most out of Navi asap so by the time it is released the drivers are in a much better shape then they have been for Vega.

Really hoping AMD get Navi right.
 
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