These charts are all kinds of confusing. So is a RX480 8gb a worthy upgrade from a GTX970 from a performance perspective?
This might be a good place to ask. I got a 1060 a couple of months ago but I'm considering getting a 480 since that supports freesync and my monitor does too. Would it be worth it?
I guess my 280X is all but abandoned now. Sucks.
I guess my 280X is all but abandoned now. Sucks.
Just for Wattman. It is a rebranded 7970 after all.Yep. I have the same card and have this feeling. F*cking great.
I guess my 280X is all but abandoned now. Sucks.
Yep. I have the same card and have this feeling. F*cking great.
Just for Wattman. It is a rebranded 7970 after all.
I guess my 280X is all but abandoned now. Sucks.
Yep. I have the same card and have this feeling. F*cking great.
I mean the 280X is basically a rebranded 7970 which is really old.I guess my 280X is all but abandoned now. Sucks.
Yeah I guess there are driver updates, although I'm suspicious of them to be honest. With my older card I swear it kept getting slower with each update. I don't think I've updated my drivers since Doom.
And I'm not too pissed, my 280X has served me well for almost three years, but I admit I didn't do my homework and didn't know it was a rebranded 7970 from 2011 when I bought it.
AMD doesn't gimp the performance of older cards.
AMD doesn't gimp the performance of older cards.
I guess my 280X is all but abandoned now. Sucks.
Maybe they will do something about it later?? But i doubt it. Our cards are considered "old" now and when you think better. 280 and 280x really are old because they are rebranded 7970.
I remember my 280x not supporting VSR when AMD released it, but some less powerful GPUs did, and i felt bad about it. But later AMD added VSR support for 280x, 1440p only but it's better than nothing i guess.
Good strategy, at least they can improve things later on. There's always incentive to buy AMD cards with that strategy. TBH, I just think they have a vested interest in improving their drivers and software, it was their worse attribute, it was never their hardware. So fps gains with better drivers is pretty much guaranteed.They only gimp them when they're new.
It also helps that AMD used the same architecture for several generations and did a lot of re-badging.
come over bb we can radeon and chill ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Seriously. It's like opposite day, now that nVidia had a couple of high-visibility stinkers recently.AMD has really stepped up their driver game in the last year.
Only for the Wattman stuff, apparently, not a huge deal unless you're into GPU oc'ing
Not like you want to push the 280X beyond 1440P in most cases anyway.
Don't forget FreeSync Borderless Fullscreen Support which is HUGE
AMD has really stepped up their driver game in the last year.
Better catchphrase!Radeon Chill sounds like it works exactly like the Optimal Power setting that Nvidia has.
This might be a good place to ask. I got a 1060 a couple of months ago but I'm considering getting a 480 since that supports freesync and my monitor does too. Would it be worth it?
It actually performs quite nicely at 1440p and 1800p in older games using GeDoSaTo. I even tried 4K on Valkyria Chronicles but I couldn't hold 60fps there.
Oh really? Well shame on AMD for restricting it for no reason. I knew 1440p was no issue for 360 era ports, but 1800p as well huh?
Still waiting for Vega 😐🏧
I'm sure the lack of hardware for it in the GCN 1.0 chip had nothing to do with it. Yeah.
If you can downsample with GeDoSaTo there's literally zero reason AMD couldn't have let you customize the downsampling resolutions instead of restricting it to 1440p. Not talking about Wattman here.
The method AMD uses to implement downsampling is different. AMD does it in the hardware scaler, as such it is pretty limited in comparison to gedosato.
Your point still holds up.Oh, I see, thank for the clarification
Does that include the 280X?Lmao, Wattman support for literally everything but the 270-280 series.
Like, why 260, 285 but not 280 and 270? Why the R7 260?
Does that include the 280X?
Yeah, I was about to edit my post after I actually read the thread. Sincere apologies!Already answered above
That's pretty interesting. But it looks like a GUI for presentmon lol
Bar chart magic!
Chill sounds really good.
I don't care about the power consumption but it reduces frametimes as well?
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Ew. That makes zero sense with the stuff on the website "CHILL is for you -- if you experience performance drops while playing.". Repeat frame stutters are nasty.If you can't meet the 16.7ms interval, you've not got a frame ready in your buffer to keep things smooth and so the last frame might be repeated. This will look like stutter/hitching/judder
Can I get a link to that monitor?I was in your position a few months ago. Freesync is pretty awesome especially on my 43" 4K monitor. Drivers have matured to the point where both cards have pretty similar performance so if you can get a 1:1 swap just do it.
Still, you might want to wait till the end of the year and see what Vega is (assuming they do announce it this month)
Ew. That makes zero sense with the stuff on the website "CHILL is for you -- if you experience performance drops while playing.". Repeat frame stutters are nasty.