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The AMD Driver Thread

shankly1985 said:
They was a video from huddy couple weeks ago, explaining the difference between 2x and 3x..
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:rolleyes: There was also a video by the same lot claiming the memory clocks of Fury X are hardlocked and cannot be altered via software.

For all their suggestions the chip has been "tweaked" for 390-series, they have nothing to show for it; there's yonks of evidence pointing to the exact opposite, however.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
What tweaking? faster memory and small OC.

Tests have confirmed an 390x clocked at 290x speed is the same performance.
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390X uses much faster memory - no 290x can overclock it's memory to such a speed.

The GPU core is also using a more mature 28nm process, allowing for much lower running temperatures and of course it facilitates the higher core clocks.

All in all it's a solid 10-15% faster than the 290x, even more so once overclocked.
 
shankly1985 said:
Do you happen to have igpu enabled do you? When I have had that in the past, it'd because when I removed drivers, the display would switch over to igpu.
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Havn't got an IGPU.

Just ran FS, says it was using the 15.200.1046.0, which is correct, but Afterburner is showing this :-

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Is that right, as im sure it only showed the Catalyst Version on its own before, the 9.14.10.01128 part wasn't there, although thats the correct 3D driver for these 15.7s, as checked the CCC ?

I could be wrong though, and it has always been showing that part as well, just my heads mashed with the **** on ive just had :p

Its all i can think of, the change of monitor, as ive never had it before, and thats all ive changed, just wondered if it was something to do with that, and going from DVI to DP.
 
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Dave2150 said:
390X uses much faster memory - no 290x can overclock it's memory to such a speed.

The GPU core is also using a more mature 28nm process, allowing for much lower running temperatures and of course it facilitates the higher core clocks.

All in all it's a solid 10-15% faster than the 290x, even more so once overclocked.
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290X Lightning reaches 390X speeds on both memory and core at which point there's no difference. Look it up.
 
Captain_Bosh said:
Only if you have a 285 or Fury X I think
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I have a Fury X and this might let me test my 4K capture card as well..... Please please please work but no time tonight :(

If it works, we are in business chaps and I will be able to test the Titan X against the Fury X at 4K :cool:

Fingers crossed.
 
People shoud remember that when they compare performance improvements in games, they compare to omega drivers. Not beta drivers that already contain same game optimisations. Ofc these drivers have lower overhead than previous omega or beta drivers, which helps a lot in cpu bound situations.
 
Dave2150 said:
390X Lightning would obviously be faster than a 290X Lightning....... You're comparing a premium overclocked 290x to a standard 390x.
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Theey sport the same exact core anyhow. Lightning is the most relevant comparison since its memory chips are specced to reach 1600 MHz, making apples to apples, clock for clock comparison with 390-series easy.

You were claiming 390-series has been tweaked to be more powerful; this is just not true as the chips are the same.
 
Little disappointed that this only affects DX10 and above games though, no OpenGL or Mantle support :(

Also, what version of drivers are in Win10 Preview by default as I don't have the framerate limiter.
Also, should VSR be present at all on a 7950?
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Also, what version of drivers are in Win10 Preview by default as I don't have the framerate limiter.
Also, should VSR be present at all on a 7950?
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As far as I know, 15.200.1023.10 drivers are the latest drivers through win10 update.

VSR should be on 7950 as I have 7970 and it has it. Limited to 2560x1440 though.

Reading through different forums there appeart to be some problems though with VSR activation. As user a) on 290x has vsr, but user b) on 290x don't. At same os.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Well that was great, what a **** on ive just had.

Uninstalled old drivers, but when the screen goes black while uninstalling, mine didn't come back on, kept saying 'No Signal Detected', so i didn't know when the drivers were off, so i waited about 5 minutes to make sure, before hard restarting.

Had to do a Start Windows Normally (due to hard restarting), and then had to run the Cat Uninstaller again to remove it, before restarting again, and installing these.

Never had that before, ever, but im on a new monitor now via DP (was on DL-DVI before), so is that the problem, and am i going to have to dig out my old screen, and rig it back up everytime i want to pop new drivers on, or just carry on doing what ive just done ? :D
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I had that before i started using iGPU for 3rd and 4th monitor & TV, when screen goes black, wait about a minute, then hit Enter, then wait another 10 seconds or so, then Enter again. Should reboot from there on its own :)
 
MyBrains said:
I had that before i started using iGPU for 3rd and 4th monitor & TV, when screen goes black, wait about a minute, then hit Enter, then wait another 10 seconds or so, then Enter again. Should reboot from there on its own :)
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Thanks, will that work for Win 7 ?

If so, will give it a go next time it happens :p
 
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