The AMD Driver Thread

humbug · 10 Jul 2020 at 16:16

Edited: ^^^^ i misread the overall score, the GPU score in that review is actually 8,855, i'm scoring 7% higher than that.

Mine isn't a great example of an AIB one, i'm sure Reference ones are running the same clocks at least. Which makes me wonder if drivers since that review have actually improved by about <10%

FredFlint · 10 Jul 2020 at 17:53

looks like hardware scheduling is not in the new driver as its gone from the setting.

humbug · 10 Jul 2020 at 18:07

FredFlint said:
looks like hardware scheduling is not in the new driver as its gone from the setting.

Yeah... WTF AMD?

pallys · 10 Jul 2020 at 18:11

Hi, was thinking of upgrading - how are people finding the drivers now - have AMD more or less resolved the black screen + 100% fan crashing issues?

Lokken86 · 10 Jul 2020 at 18:36

Well my laptop got another 1fps in borderlands 3 so there

5t3v0 · 10 Jul 2020 at 20:03

This driver is dodgy as. I too see about 1 fps better performance in Borderlands but at the expense of temps which are 5C hotter (hotspot is hitting 94C) and fan is screaming at nearly 2300rpm where as was about 1940 before with the same fan curve. Looks like clock speeds have risen which would explain the performance and temp increases. Really not happy with this and backing this garbage out right now. Such high hopes.... dashed again

Edit: So seems the 96C hotspot was an anomalous spike as further testing revealed it to consistently peak at 85C. Reverting back to 20.5.1 yielded similar temps and fan speed so I'm not sure when it last ran at 1900rpm under full load on this OC - maybe that was only in a better optimised game than BL3. So am back on 20.7.1 with the max fan dropped from 60% to 55% which is keeping rpm under 1900 but with a temp penalty of +3C. Performance is on par but time will tell how stable it is and if the temp spikes reoccur and cause problems

Edit2: Zero fan option is broken again when using advanced control. Had to edit in the XML. FFS

SkeeterUK · 10 Jul 2020 at 20:26

keep to whql

LtMatt · 10 Jul 2020 at 22:49

humbug said:
Yeah... WTF AMD?

It’s in the 20.5.1 Beta driver for Navi only, for now...

NightSt@lk3r · 13 Jul 2020 at 18:10

I've also seen a 5C increase in GPU temp with the 20.7.1 drivers, other than that they seem okay so far.

Dying_Snail · 13 Jul 2020 at 21:31

Same here but not all the time it seems to be 50/50, in F1 2019 during a interview I've found this to heat up my card for some reason compared to on track action, on the 2.4.1 drivers I get about 90-94c hot-spot/junction temp, with these 2.7.1 it 50/50 that I'll get 97-100c.

Been testing for the last few days swapping between drivers and not once on the 2.4.1 have I seen it go over 94c, and the increase in temp also brings a increase in fan speed and noise obviously, strange (not the fan speed the higher hot-spot/junction temps).

humbug · 13 Jul 2020 at 21:41

What is the continuous safe temp of the hot spot? @LtMatt ?

Dying_Snail · 13 Jul 2020 at 21:49

Good question but apparently AMD have said 110c but that is the temp that it will downclock not shutdown from what I know and have read.

LtMatt · 14 Jul 2020 at 06:09

humbug said:
What is the continuous safe temp of the hot spot? @LtMatt ?

Up to 110c is fine, ideally 109c or lower to avoid core click throttling.

humbug · 14 Jul 2020 at 12:17

LtMatt said:
Up to 110c is fine, ideally 109c or lower to avoid core click throttling.

Ah ok, i'm usually around 95c to 103c

LtMatt · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:54

humbug said:
Ah ok, i'm usually around 95c to 103c

That's fine then, you won't be losing nay performance.

humbug · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:55

Thanks.

Kenrou · 14 Jul 2020 at 15:52

110c is NOT ok.

C64 · 14 Jul 2020 at 17:26

If I had a 5700xt i'd remove the plastic shroud and fans and cable tie 120mm fans to the heatsink

Dying_Snail · 14 Jul 2020 at 17:38

C64 said:
If I had a 5700xt i'd remove the plastic shroud and fans and cable tie 120mm fans to the heatsink

Bit extreme for me that, but hoping once my refund comes for a faulty corsair psu bought from elsewhere, I'll get the Lian-li lancool 2 mesh and put too 120mm fans on the shroud it should help I know been under 100c most of the times isn't to bad but ever little helps and I'll feel better too.

Most non navi cards don't report the hot-spot/junction temp so I'm led to believe, so we don't really know how other cards perform in that regard, maybe other cards get just has hot.

If anyone knows about any test that have been done with other cards on hot-spot/junction temps it would make for some good reading/watching just to compare.

C64 · 14 Jul 2020 at 17:39

Dying_Snail said:
Bit extreme for me that, but hoping once my refund comes for a faulty corsair psu bought from elsewhere, I'll get the Lian-li lancool 2 mesh and put too 120mm fans on the shroud it should help I know been under 100c most of the times isn't to bad but ever little helps and I'll feel better too.

Most non navi cards don't report the hot-spot/junction temp so I'm led to believe, so we don't really know how other cards perform in that regard, maybe other cards get just has hot.

If anyone knows about any test that have been done with other cards on hot-spot/junction temps it would make for some good reading/watching just to compare.

well if its a keeper may as well not like you can damage it i bet 2x 120mm cable tied to the heatsink gets that scary hotspot down to 70's 80's
I'm waiting on a 5700xt deal myself at the moment for £300 or less but will definitely do the fan thing have my fans ready

this is one thing i've noticed in these new gpus why are all the fans so small and small bladed ? small = noise whimpy fan blades = noise