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[AMD] Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.2 Released

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I presume these are the drivers reviewers used?
 
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I Hope this "HDMI® Scaling: Radeon Settings now provides the option for the user to adjust their display image scaling on HDMI® connected displays. This option is available under the "Display" tab in Radeon Settings for supported configurations. " means I will have the overscan / underscan option back so that I can make the screen fit my HDTV.

been a problem for at least the past 4 driver releases.
 
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Installed fine with R9 390. But only have "old" Overdrive? Is Wattman an RX 4xx thing only??

Thanx.
 
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Sucks imho. Guess the 4xx series has some "different" things under the hood. Shame i hope they port it across to 3xx/2xx series if they can. Overdrive is useless imho.

Thanx.
 
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Kind of ironic that Wattman only works for a GPU that can't overclock.
lol yeah. Might be better with custom cards though.
 
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It's only been like 6 months now, no rush fixing Freesync...
 
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Regards Wattman in older GCN gpus i found this bit in SemiAccurate:
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Speaking of overclocking AMD's put together the best first-party overclocking tool I've ever seen with a tool that's integrated into their driver and dubbed Radeon WattMan. It's an attractive looking tool that gives users vastly more granular control over clocks speeds, voltages, and fan speeds, target temperatures than AMD's older OverDrive tool could ever muster. We liked this tool so much that we asked AMD if they had any plans to back port it to their older GPUs. The response was that WattMan is limited to only Polaris GPUs but that we should stay tuned. Not really the response we were looking for, but there's still hope.
Source: http://semiaccurate.com/2016/06/29/amds-radeon-rx-480-review/

I wouldn't hold my breath
 
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Would make sense for a company to make sure that new feature like WattMan works correctly on a new card that only has reference model that follow their design first.
If they can implement it on older cards that use reference VRM designs and parts they might just do that.

http://www.tomshardware.de/amd-radeon-rx-480-polaris-10-gpu,testberichte-242140-3.html

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The IR 3567B from International Rectifier is also a good old acquaintance (eg used on the Radeon R9 290) and a PWM controller quasi the heart of the digital power supply on this graphics card.

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AMD thus remains true to itself and deliberately avoids the path that Nvidia has taken with his undocumented new controller chip.

The well-known protocols and interfaces make then a follow-up, at least the programming of the usual tools much easier.

Overall, AMD sets this time on a rather unusual 6 + 1 phase design, which quite surprised given the announced TDP of 150 watts something.

For the six phases of the GPU power AMD is not set at the voltage transformers unlike Nvidia on a dual, but two single-channel N-MOSFETs: each a MDU1514 (30V, 66.3A, 6 milliohms) and a MDU1511 (30V , 100A, 2.4mΩ) per phase are driven by a respective CHL8510 as high-performance gate driver.

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The seventh phase is designed to supply the memory modules, which is again on the 3.3V line of motherboard slots, unlike the Fiji cards. Thus, design complexity significantly, since the power consumption of the modules is relatively low.

After all, we may find that it has left its chosen at Fiji way to place the gate driver on rear of board directly under the MOSFET, thankfully fall again - the thermal hot spots were namely not bad.
 
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Known Issues

A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay".
Radeon Pro Duo may experience a black screen in Total War™: Warhammer with the games API set to DirectX®12 and V-Sync enabled.
DiRT™ Rally may experience flickering terrain in some races when the advanced blending option is enabled in the games settings page.
Some Overdrive settings may not appear in Radeon Settings for Radeon Fury X when in AMD Crossfire mode.
Display may exhibit a minor flicker on Radeon RX 480 when Freesync is enabled on a games launch or exit.
Dota™2 may crash when using the Vulkan™ API and the user changes resolutions or quality settings.
Battlefield™ 4 may experience crashes when using Mantle. As a work around users are suggested to switch to DirectX®11.
Need for Speed™ may experience flickering on some light sources in AMD Crossfire mode.
Hitman™ may experience graphical corruption when the game is set to use DirectX®12 API and using zoom with weapons.
Frame Rate Target Control gaming profiles may fail to enable for some games.
Radeon Wattman may retain settings of an overclock after it has failed. If you have failed an overclock with a system hang or reboot make sure to use the "Reset" option in the Radeon WattMan settings page when the system has rebooted.
Low frame rate or stutter may be experienced Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ on Radeon™ RX 480.
Assassin's Creed® Syndicate may experience a game crash or hang when in game settings are set to high or greater.
Disabling AMD Crossfire mode on Radeon™ RX 480 may disable the device in Windows Device Manager. A workaround is to reboot the system to re-enable the device.
thats kinda awkward lol when these APIs are such selling points of yours
 
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thats kinda awkward lol when these APIs are such selling points of yours
It's a maybe case, not the absolute. although the 480 failed from p/w standard, you are trying way too hard here.
 
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Originally Posted by Dynomutt View Post

I Hope this "HDMI® Scaling: Radeon Settings now provides the option for the user to adjust their display image scaling on HDMI® connected displays. This option is available under the "Display" tab in Radeon Settings for supported configurations. " means I will have the overscan / underscan option back so that I can make the screen fit my HDTV.

been a problem for at least the past 4 driver releases.
It works for me since they move it to the Display tab. I can currently underscan it to 10% on my HDMI monitor.
 
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What's the problem with it?? Works fine on my 1080p Sony TV & R9 390@ 3200X1800. Something "funny" set in options? (some other scaling options interfering?).

Sucks you don't get Wattman unless you have RX 4xx. Overdrive seems pointless (needs fan control overhauled) but rather than do this for EVERYONE they make it a "feature" for the new stuff. If i could set a manual fan curve i would drop Afterburner as that's all i use it for.

Thanx.
 
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Originally Posted by Darkstalker420 View Post

What's the problem with it?? Works fine on my 1080p Sony TV & R9 390@ 3200X1800. Something "funny" set in options? (some other scaling options interfering?).

Sucks you don't get Wattman unless you have RX 4xx. Overdrive seems pointless (needs fan control overhauled) but rather than do this for EVERYONE they make it a "feature" for the new stuff. If i could set a manual fan curve i would drop Afterburner as that's all i use it for.

Thanx.
I flashed my bios with change Fan curve and overclock so I don't have to deal with Afterburner
 
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Originally Posted by LocoDiceGR View Post

I came here for WattMan but nope, rejected.
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They said that they think to support older generations too. But not 100% sure if they will do it
 
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Here I was hoping this driver would help with my 380X....

But nope :/

1. Wattmann is 480 only... meaning I need to stick with Sapphire Trixx to prevent card suicide (the single time I forgot to launch Trixx before launching Shadow of Mordor, left my room smelly for quite some time, as the ****ty default fan profile made the temp skyrocket, create lots of coil whine, and release that PCB varnish smell).

2. They put as "known issue" that the 480 throttles in a game... I can guess that my issues of 380X throttling will be even less fixed.

3. No mention to fixing some bugs of the CCCSlim thinking my GPU is a FirePro and asking me to disable Framelock/Genlock

I bought the 380X recently, the PC isn't even fully assembled (currently it is in a test-bench, no chassis yet), this is my first AMD card, and I am very, very disappointed with it.

Depending on how the prices go, I think I will sell the 380X and buy a 970. (and have a profit in the process! here in Brazil nVidia is doing their best to beat the crap out of AMD prices, right now the 970 is 60 USD cheaper than the 480, and 380X is very rare to find one in stock in first place).
 
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