Download AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 20.12.2 driver (6800/6900 only)
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OnnA
Passus
OnnA
mikeysg
I went to the AMD webby and saw that it's specifically for the 6800XT and 6900XT, vanilla 6800 isn't included. I think it has to do with the LED on the reference cards, with 6800XT and 6900XT having LED and the 6800 doesn't. Doesn't bother me as mine's the Sapphire Nitro+ RX 6800 and Sapphire has its own RGB setup (which I don't bother with).
As for buggy driver, so far, when I play Metro Exodus with RT, it crashes or freeze randomly. For other games I play - Metro Exodus (without RT), Serious Sam 3 BFE (plus The Jewel in the Nile expansion) and Serious Sam 4, Gears of War, Gears of War 5, UT3, Cyberpunk 2077 - no issue thus far.
Stormyandcold
leszy
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidia-please-read-major-drop-in-performance-with-new-drivers-446-14-vs-460-79-benchmarks.435665/#post-5865556
Perhaps it is better, to spend time helping people with problems with NVidia drivers, than wasting on criticizing Radeon users?
We should probably follow the example of the NVidia forum? For example here:
"This isn't an nvidia feedback channel
further to that,
Performance reports require the user to submit a gpuview or gpu-z log.
How to generate an event trace log for GPUView to troubleshoot performance issues / low FPS / game stutter
..."
leszy
AMD surprised us positively with the performance of the new cards. Hardly anyone expected such a big jump. Their only weakness so far is the RT performance. The question is whether it is worth supporting NVidia's dirty marketing just for performance at RT. I know, I'm biased because personally, I don't like RT in games. Games made with RT performance in mind, have simplified graphics. Less detail, simple textures, empty walls and a reduced number of objects. That's are the costs that have to be paid for the additional ray tracing lighting effects to maintain acceptable performance. I know a lot of people like it, but for me it's stepping back. In those few games currently supporting RT, I didn't notice anything that would knock me off my feet. However, I noticed worse overall graphics quality compared to many games in recent years. In my opinion, the ten-year-old Deus Ex: Mankind Divided had much better ambient graphics than today's Control.
Stormyandcold
Astyanax
A2Razor
IMO, there's no such thing as "selling your soul" in picking a product based on its specifications and your requirements. e.g, Need software that only supports CUDA? Want mature raytracing right-now, or high RT performance? Playing some game that's impacted heavily by API overhead, or that doesn't work well with AMD's drivers? Encountering stuff like display corruption, lockups, and other deal-breaker tier issues?
- Effectively that's just free market capitalism, the way things should be. Voting with your wallet.
Hell, I was prepared to go back to NVidia this generation if the RX 6000 series didn't work out for me {and if I saw a Geforce 3080 available, frankly, I would've bought one}. There was a period of time with my Fiji and Vega that I went back to my old NVidia hardware purely in that it just worked without workarounds for display corruption. {something so basic as being able to use a text-editor [IDE in idle states] not working right due to buggy power-management that AMD NEVER QUITE FIXED -- for their older generation hardware}
If AMD wants to maintain its current customers and future customers, they need to fight for them. Fortunately, at least so far **knock on wood**, I've not had any deal breaker tier bugs this time around.
Yet that's not a reason to neglect their past generations of hardware, which have MASSIVE outstanding driver bugs {and hardware quirks}.....
I half expect given the issues such as corruption were acknowledged, yet never fully fixed, that the Radeon team is --incapable-- of fixing them without hardware change. If they simply gave up, yet were capable, that's flat out unacceptable ... at the same time blatantly listing issues as 'resolved' when tons of people still have them happen is "not cool". I mean, if someone is plagued by such, can you blame them for going NVidia? I certainly can't, and like I've mentioned here and in other places a few times, I was mighty close to going Green-Team this time around.
Bottom line: When a customer buys a product, they deserve a functional product. I don't understand why, when for example, tricks such as locking the HBM clocks, or raising voltage, or disabling power management, alleviate issues that such options can't be implemented as optional bandaid solutions "officially" either.
Agonist
https://i.imgur.com/thhzXQih.jpg
DannyD
AlmondMan
Nothing like being embraced by a worm.
itpro
Guys relax. You either have faith or not.
I am kidding about being a bad anti-amd guy. This driver only has updated control settings. Not even worth mentioning. π
Problem is, after Fury era, Polaris, Vega and Navi failed miserably. No drivers, no proper support. We expected amd to give us the new golden gpu series like hd5000 and HD7000 series. Back then was true fine wine. Afterwards red became dark.
We expected new omega driver with tons of fixes for old gpus. AMD cannot code proper drivers in 2021! Hire some devs noob Lisa. I doubt she knows her thing.
Ryzen saves ATI for the last 2 or 3 years.
GhostXL
Crazy Serb
aka2k
I just wish AMD could code a proper OpenGL driver for Windows. If I had the money I would jump to Nvidia because of that (middle end GPUs are costing two kidneys in my country right now). And to have CUDA for 3D rendering, since AMD has no equivalent.
Digilator
Chastity
PrEzi
https://www.amd.com/de/technologies/radeon-prorender
Plus you always have ProRender which supports virtually everything AND runs on AMD cards perfectly π