I see. I honestly was interested in seeing how the 980Ti fares in the overhead test with DX12. :nerd:
I am not overclocking it. I see no point at this moment as I am not hunting for score or anything. Just messing with software. And still no proper Windows 10 driver... Going on vacation for a week, so it may be here as I return.
You don't want to overclock it? Omfg, everyone is waiting to see what you can do with it.. it's important.. The image of the card is at stake. If you can do a 1250MHz oc on it or 1300, it'll do 19-20k definitely. Because pretty much as we could already tell from the 17.2k score Fox got, it's on par with a reference 980 Ti stock for stock. Had Hilbert done the review with that driver it would've been different..
nope, May 31st was the first one. there have been 4 so far (353.06 353.12 353.30 353.38) It may look that long but its really the frequency of drivers
Those drivers have no code for Fiji, so as I had to add device ID into inf file, I picked one of tonga's and replaced it. so it used Tonga settings and stuff. And then I did same with Hawaii. But strangely, after reboot even Hawaii gets similar score like Tonga now. Maybe there is something what driver does differently or reads differently right after manual installation which changes after reboot. 3.5 years. 1st big boost 1 month after HD7970 came as review driver was bugged beyond belief. I had semi-transparent textures if I used certain type of AA. Then 9 months afterwards 2nd big boost with 12.11 betas. since then it is small thing here and there. Edit: and then apparently windows 10 wddm 2.0 drivers gave me another big boost for HD7970. Considering performance it had in reviews and that I bought it based on that as it was good enough. That card delivered probably greatest boost over time in history.
LOL. The 900 series GPU has been out for nearly a year. The Fury GPU is new, some of the technologies it utilizes are new, and some are from a previous generation such as you mentioned the GCN. Just because it is utilizes GCN tech doesn't mean the GPU isn't a new design. That's as if comparing Kelper to Maxwell and saying since they both use shaders nothing is different about them. Also, Maxwell did see 15-20% gains after the first 6 months due to driver optimization. Since the 980 and 980ti ARE THE SAME GPU the 980ti will not see these gains, the drivers have been optimized already. The Fury has not even begun that journey. I will say that the undecided part to this is how well or how much effort will AMD put into their drivers, that has not been anything but a let down over the past couple years.
You cant install older drivers unless you edit the .inf file and add references to the new device id.
No. The only thing that's changed on Fiji is the memory controller and honestly even that isn't that different -- Tonga was already partially setup for HBM. It's a scaled Tonga chip. They slightly rearranged the CU's to fit more but their pipeline is exactly the same. Maxwell split the crossbar up and did a whole bunch of other stuff to the underlining pipeline of the cores themselves. Fiji didn't do anything like this. The only significant gains AMD can possibly realize out of this via memory reduction. It's pretty obvious that in games like GTAV maxed out, Fury is overflowing the HBM and pulling from system memory. Their engineers claimed they can work around this via drivers. They clearly haven't done it yet -- but if they can make gains there, you'd see some improvement in those titles.
that's what I want to do you are not getting 1k more with a driver I gave the hint back a few and can easily see where he gains his fps+ . Thanks for the bios fox I want to look around and get familiar with it but fox you really should disclose a MAJOR change in drivers when comparing drivers.
Hey, that's it. I was scratching my head why I could not replicate it. I probably left RadeonPRO running And it Forced Global profile I was testing with Witcher 3 Hairworks. Thanks for confidence man. Maybe you just misread that I could not replicate it after reboot.