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The AMD Driver Thread
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My LG 24UD58-B supports Freesync but in the Radeon Settings it is highlighted as Not supported. With an HDMI cable.
Maybe it asks for a DisplayPort connection.
Thanjs. Yes I believe it needs displayport for freesync.
The reason for asking is that I have a thread going in the monitor section about the Alienware AW3420DW. I bought it not expecting it to support freesync as it is not advertised with it. It is advertised with only gsync. But someone else checked with Dell who said it does support freesync too. We all assumed it was a mistake by the person on the helpdesk but it is actually showing as enabled in my Radeon Settings. So I am trying to confirm if that proves it does actually have freesync. It's currently looking like it does.
Soldato
@LtMatt Whats with the minimum clock freq slider not doing anything on my 5700XT? Is this a driver bug? This really shouldnt be there if it does nothing at all.
Caporegime
AMD Adrenalin 2020 Edition teased with “Radeon Boost” technology
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-adrenalin-2020-edition-teased-with-radeon-boost-technology
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-adrenalin-2020-edition-teased-with-radeon-boost-technology
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AMD Adrenalin 2020 Edition teased with “Radeon Boost” technology
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-adrenalin-2020-edition-teased-with-radeon-boost-technology
Not funny, TBH. Someone might attack it as being cheating. I don't like it. Hope there will be an option to turn it off.
sure it will be, though options are never a bad thing, however what would be good scenario is actually setting the ingame res higher then your own monitors i.e, having a native 1440p display but turning on the game to be at 4K and the game can down res from that point in between ideally whilst maintaining the desired frame rate.
This is a big boon to games that lack proper AA but is demanding non the less at high resolution.
So this way, you can have best of both worlds and I think gears 5 actually runs like this in a similar way.
How is it cheating? Competitive gamers already play low res, low poly, sometimes even no texture to get maximum framerate and responsiveness. It's dynamic res, just like dynamic chill, or cutting mad tessellation down to normal levels.
It's just another clever way to gain more performance without throwing more hardware grunt at it, just like RIS. If it works, people won't be able to tell the difference, and I'm sure it will be a toggle in the drivers if you don't want it.
Caporegime
I imagine cheating in the terms of benchmarking.
If it's the default option then that could allow AMD to gain performance improvements, at the cost of IQ that may not come across in an out and out benchmark.
It depends I guess if the res-drop is noticeable. It may just be a case that new tech comes along and makes current benchmarking paradigms redundant. Tech like this is designed to increase performance, and as long as everyone knows what is being benched, then it's not a cheat IMO. As long as it's not pretending to be something it isn't and it's clear that it's a performance or IQ improvement that you know is a trade-off that you're happy to make because you can't see the difference.
Otherwise you would discount the use of tech like RIS or AA. The former sacrifices res for performance and then filters to bring back higher-res-like details, and the latter sacrifices performance for improved IQ. Where do you stop? Is polygon culling a cheat because it improves performance and you can't tell the difference, even though it's not rendering the polygons you can't see? Is AMD's tessellation limitation a cheat which was an AMD response to Nvidia doing the exact opposite to choke all AMD and lesser Nvidia cards with vast amounts of unnecessary tessellation?
We shouldn't test cards with all their improvements turned off, because that's not a real world test, but it's just easier for the testers. You then end up with unrepresentative performance results and ever-more synthetic tests that are irrelevant to real world performance.
Caporegime
It all depends how noticeable that it is.
If there's a perceivable IQ difference caused by default driver optimizations then I have a problem with it from a benchmark point of view.
I mean the Heaven thread here years ago had people needing to provide a screen shot of their run to validate the IQ because there was noticeable tessellation differences that could be used via driver.
If you test 1440P with RIS but call it 4K results because it's on a 4K monitor, then that's a problem for example, but the use of RIS isn't inherently going to negatively effect the IQ as you can use native IQ with RIS and benchmark (Though I don't see the point from a benchmark POV)
If something is dynamically lowering the resolution it's going to pretty much void the point of benchmarking at X or Y resolution.
Yes, but if it works, then there's an argument that current tests have been made out-dated. Did G-sync or Freesync void benchmarks, because now the frame rate achieved is decoupled from whether it's a good game-playing experience? ie, high framerates become less relevant to whether the experience is "good" or "bad", where previously, high framerates were considered desirable.
Maybe this will do the same thing to the tipping point between the framerate and resolution trade off? It's an interesting idea that is certainly worth checking out.
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Still tempted ?
Eesh im actually having this happen here and there, even when watching a YouTube vid.
Soldato
So games are gona look like streams on twitch so when someone moves left or right quick and it goes a bit blury or the bitrate is low it looks blocky is that what we would see with that dynamic res switching thing? Sounds like that what it might be like to me.
Nobody outside of AMD knows yet. It might be like RIS, which sounds like it would be a low-res mess of upscaling, but actually works really well with almost no framerate impact and provides better visuals.
Caporegime
Remember it is December and as per usual fashion AMD generally every December release a driver that gives a decent performance boost on all their GPU's, not just the new stuff.
NAVI about to get even faster!
Yup
Soldato
Image Sharpening.. Adds DX11 games. 