The Radeon RX 6900/6950 XT Owners Thread.

LtMatt · 21 Apr 2022 at 13:48

RSR said:
Did you use any sealer for the tiny smds or just use it sparingly?

I didn't bother, just used it sparingly a thin layer over the GPU.

Duckwave · 21 Apr 2022 at 19:42

@LtMatt

The results are in.

Not only did the 3080ti completely eliminate all stutters on Caldera (even on high settings), it actually feels infinitely smoother than my 6900xt even at lower fps. Rebirth was insanely smooth despite registering lower lows and lower highs than my 6900xt.

I have absolutely no choice but to keep the 3080ti. Perhaps I was just unlucky with the card I got.

LtMatt · 21 Apr 2022 at 19:52

Duckwave said:
@LtMatt

The results are in.

Not only did the 3080ti completely eliminate all stutters on Caldera (even on high settings), it actually feels infinitely smoother than my 6900xt even at lower fps. Rebirth was insanely smooth despite registering lower lows and lower highs than my 6900xt.

I have absolutely no choice but to keep the 3080ti. Perhaps I was just unlucky with the card I got.

Well glad you found a solution either way.

I will be putting up some footage of Vanguard/Warzone on the weekend running on the 5800X3D and the Toxic, performance is impressive.

varkanoid · 21 Apr 2022 at 20:19

Duckwave said:
How much are these going for?

Just seen a pre-order for £409.

RSR said:
@LtMatt Do you use LM on your 6900XT? As I was wonder if its worth swapping it out for as mine needs a repaste.

I did it too it knocked 20c off the hotspot temp and 10c off the GPU temp when I did like for like tests with Timespy and Superposition.

Duckwave said:
I have absolutely no choice but to keep the 3080ti. Perhaps I was just unlucky with the card I got.

Now leave this thread and never come back ! :cry:

Duckwave · 22 Apr 2022 at 08:40

LtMatt said:
Well glad you found a solution either way.

I will be putting up some footage of Vanguard/Warzone on the weekend running on the 5800X3D and the Toxic, performance is impressive.

Cheers

Like I said, I'm getting lower fps, but I've not had any cold boot issues yet, the game overall feels smoother, and no stuttering on Caldera.

I may need to RMA this before attempting to sell it.

One thing I'm gonna really miss is the sharpening. It's phenomenal and pretty much at no cost fps wise. Sharpening filter on Nvidia hits you for like 20-30fps!

gpuerrilla · 22 Apr 2022 at 08:52

Might be the local system issue @LtMatt ?

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2022 at 14:54

Duckwave said:
Cheers

Like I said, I'm getting lower fps, but I've not had any cold boot issues yet, the game overall feels smoother, and no stuttering on Caldera.

I may need to RMA this before attempting to sell it.

One thing I'm gonna really miss is the sharpening. It's phenomenal and pretty much at no cost fps wise. Sharpening filter on Nvidia hits you for like 20-30fps!

Just had a play on Rebirth, god I'm crap at this game these days far too slow. :cry:

Average appeared to be over 300 FPS. 1080P, low settings, but texture filtering/streaming on Ultra/Normal and cache and spot shadows on.

I'll share it here once its ready.

gpuerrilla said:
Might be the local system issue @LtMatt ?

Duckwave · 22 Apr 2022 at 15:04

LtMatt said:
Just had a play on Rebirth, god I'm crap at this game these days far too slow.

Average appeared to be over 300 FPS. 1080P, low settings, but texture filtering/streaming on Ultra/Normal and cache and spot shadows on.

I'll share it here once its ready.

Nice!

I've made the move to 1440p 240hz.

Lower fps obviously, but visibility is so much better.

How much of a fps boost would you expect going from a 5950x to your 5800X3D on WZ?

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2022 at 15:17

Duckwave said:
Nice!

I've made the move to 1440p 240hz.

Lower fps obviously, but visibility is so much better.

How much of a fps boost would you expect going from a 5950x to your 5800X3D on WZ?

It's definitely faster, but difficult to quantify by how much as FPS are so high. Definitely seeing higher GPU utilisation all round though which is resulting in the GPU working a bit harder.

Will try and put up a 1440P video too at some point give you a point of comparison.

Nexus18 · 22 Apr 2022 at 15:37

Duckwave said:
Cheers

Like I said, I'm getting lower fps, but I've not had any cold boot issues yet, the game overall feels smoother, and no stuttering on Caldera.

I may need to RMA this before attempting to sell it.

One thing I'm gonna really miss is the sharpening. It's phenomenal and pretty much at no cost fps wise. Sharpening filter on Nvidia hits you for like 20-30fps!

6900xt must need more vram....

I don't use any form of over sharpening as it introduces visual artifacts.

However I have read that is the case with Nvidia if you're using the geforce overlay but if you use the windows xp control panel to add the sharpening, there is little to no fps hit. Might be worth a try.

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2022 at 16:33

Duckwave said:
Nice!

I've made the move to 1440p 240hz.

Lower fps obviously, but visibility is so much better.

How much of a fps boost would you expect going from a 5950x to your 5800X3D on WZ?

Yes I tried the sharpening with my 3090 and honestly it is downright horrible compared to RIS.

Hurts performance, sharpens the desktop and just looks bad.

Nexus18 said:
6900xt must need more vram....

I don't use any form of over sharpening as it introduces visual artifacts.

However I have read that is the case with Nvidia if you're using the geforce overlay but if you use the windows xp control panel to add the sharpening, there is little to no fps hit. Might be worth a try.

You should probably get a 5800X3D Nexus, it seriously might help your 3080 with that 10GB frame buffer from those frame time spikes you get. I'm honestly not trolling you. :cry:

I'm seeing better 1% lows vs my tuned 5950X.

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2022 at 16:44

There goes the 200-250 FPS limit in Warzone at 1080P. :cry:

Must be averaging near 300 FPS in this video.

I expect similar FPS at 1440P too, the 6900 XT is not fully stretching its legs here.

Nexus18 · 22 Apr 2022 at 16:52

LtMatt said:
Yes I tried the sharpening with my 3090 and honestly it is downright horrible compared to RIS.

Hurts performance, sharpens the desktop and just looks bad.

You should probably get a 5800X3D Nexus, it seriously might help your 3080 with that 10GB frame buffer from those frame time spikes you get. I'm honestly not trolling you.

I'm seeing better 1% lows vs my tuned 5950X.

Was that using the geforce experience overlay sharpening? Shouldn't have affected desktop if using via the dated control panel as you can apply to game profiles only.

Tempted but no point with a 5600x that undervolts across all cores by -30 curve, I'll be doing new system with am5 chipset as I'm still using my b450 MSI tomahawk.

It does look a great chip though.

Maybe bang4buck could do with one to solve his frame latency spikes on the 3090 though :cry:

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2022 at 16:55

Nexus18 said:
Was that using the geforce experience overlay sharpening? Shouldn't have affected desktop if using via the dated control panel as you can apply to game profiles only.

Tempted but no point with a 5600x that undervolts across all cores by -30 curve, I'll be doing new system with am5 chipset as I'm still using my b450 MSI tomahawk.

It does look a great chip though.

Maybe bang4buck could do with one to solve his frame latency spikes on the 3090 though

I used the global setting in the XP Control panel, that was probably the issue with it sharpening the desktop then. I just followed the same steps I did with RIS tbh, (enable globally and away you go) but once I saw what it looked and performed like I kept it off.

Duckwave · 22 Apr 2022 at 17:53

Nexus18 said:
6900xt must need more vram....

I don't use any form of over sharpening as it introduces visual artifacts.

However I have read that is the case with Nvidia if you're using the geforce overlay but if you use the windows xp control panel to add the sharpening, there is little to no fps hit. Might be worth a try.

WZ has terrible AA. So you either deal with jagged edges, too much blur, or you use sharpening. I found AMD sharpening was amazing. Not ugly at all.

LtMatt said:
There goes the 200-250 FPS limit in Warzone at 1080P.

Must be averaging near 300 FPS in this video.

I expect similar FPS at 1440P too, the 6900 XT is not fully stretching its legs here.

Outrageous performance.

can you post a 1440p video please pal? If I’m going to be getting a 15-20% improvement, I’ll sell the 5950x

h4wks · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:04

Duckwave said:
Outrageous performance.

can you post a 1440p video please pal? If I’m going to be getting a 15-20% improvement, I’ll sell the 5950x

+1 for the 1440p test please. 5900x could go if I can get hold of the 5800x-3D.

LtMatt · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:05

Duckwave said:
WZ has terrible AA. So you either deal with jagged edges, too much blur, or you use sharpening. I found AMD sharpening was amazing. Not ugly at all.

Outrageous performance.

can you post a 1440p video please pal? If I’m going to be getting a 15-20% improvement, I’ll sell the 5950x

h4wks said:
+1 for the 1440p test please. 5900x could go if I can get hold of the 5800x-3D.

Yep will do mate. Give me a day or two. I'll most likely record it tomorrow morning then upload.

Would do it now but I'm already four cans of wife beater down and bad enough at the game as it is. :cry:

h4wks · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:17

love this. Try just playing the Plunder playlist maybe, you can keep respawning when you die and drop wherever you want.

RSR · 22 Apr 2022 at 20:51

varkanoid said:
I did it too it knocked 20c off the hotspot temp and 10c off the GPU temp when I did like for like tests with Timespy and Superposition.

Did you use anything to cover the SMD's or did you do a Matt?

JediFragger · 22 Apr 2022 at 21:10

RSR said:
or did you do a Matt?

YOLO!!!!!!!