The thread which sometimes talks about RDNA2

Grim5 · 3 Dec 2020 at 10:58

varkanoid said:
Dont get hz mixed up with fps ! They may be connected but they are different things. Not talking about gaming at 60fps talking about a monitor with a 60hz refresh rate.

60hz I find awful yes, 75hz is the lowest I can stand now. I think its when you go 60hz > 144hz > 165hz then back down to 60hz is the most telling. I chose 75hz monitor because my kids have them and I tried it before getting my 75hz 32". As an example 30-45fps on my 75hz monitor is fine for me. Some people think this is awful.

how do I convince my work to get me a high refresh monitors, 60hz is puke

Grim5 · 3 Dec 2020 at 11:00

SAM is now fully functional on intel z490 boards and offers good performance results with a 6800xt and z490 motherboard and intel cpu

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rad...oost-on-intel-z490-with-resizable-bar-enabled

Curlyriff · 3 Dec 2020 at 11:10

Grim5 said:
SAM is now fully functional on intel z490 boards and offers good performance results with a 6800xt and z490 motherboard and intel cpu

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rad...oost-on-intel-z490-with-resizable-bar-enabled

Yeah pretty much same uplift percentage as with the 5000 AMD CPU's so no real surprises but good that it working on multiple manufactures.

Phate · 3 Dec 2020 at 11:49

Nice!

uscool · 3 Dec 2020 at 11:53

surely AMD will add SAM to Ryzen 3000 now

varkanoid · 3 Dec 2020 at 11:54

Grim5 said:
how do I convince my work to get me a high refresh monitors, 60hz is puke

Tell them you are getting bad headaches.

Curlyriff · 3 Dec 2020 at 12:38

uscool said:
surely AMD will add SAM to Ryzen 3000 now

Well they on the B450 & X470 so assume it will come once tested/validated.

Howling · 3 Dec 2020 at 12:42

I've been out of the loop for a few weeks... Has @Gibbo given us any idea what mark-up we should be expecting from OCUK on the 6900XT?

Curlyriff · 3 Dec 2020 at 12:46

Howling said:
I've been out of the loop for a few weeks... Has @Gibbo given us any idea what mark-up we should be expecting from OCUK on the 6900XT?

Nope because at moment AIB cards were talked about being January for the 6900XT and no idea what is dropping for the reference cards for the 6900XT with only known place being the AMD site.

FoxEye · 3 Dec 2020 at 13:12

Grim5 said:
SAM is now fully functional on intel z490 boards and offers good performance results with a 6800xt and z490 motherboard and intel cpu

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rad...oost-on-intel-z490-with-resizable-bar-enabled

In other words, SAM is now happy to pair with anyone, no matter what equipment they've got.

(I'm sorry, TLAs are the curse of the ITC world

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humbug · 3 Dec 2020 at 14:59

oof... ye just know this rankles Jens!

AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su has been ranked #2 on Fortune’s list of top businessperson for the year 2020, right ahead of rival NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/amd-c...-businessperson-for-2020-ahead-of-nvidia-ceo/

Zernath · 3 Dec 2020 at 15:33

varkanoid said:
Tell them you are getting bad headaches.

They'll just get Occupational Health involved, and those folks always side with the employer.

varkanoid · 3 Dec 2020 at 15:42

Zernath said:
They'll just get Occupational Health involved, and those folks always side with the employer.

Worked for me all those years ago, downside was I had to have specs but the company paid for the lot including a massive new monitor.

EastCoastHandle · 3 Dec 2020 at 19:56

Overclockers.ru claims that AMD gave a green light to AIBs to produce custom models featuring Radeon RX 6900 XT SKU.

https://videocardz.com/newz/custom-amd-radeon-rx-6900-xt-graphics-cards-are-coming

Zeeflyboy · 3 Dec 2020 at 22:45

FoxEye said:
In other words, SAM is now happy to pair with anyone, no matter what equipment they've got.

(I'm sorry, TLAs are the curse of the ITC world )

Unless you have an older Zen system...

The muppets who decided to lock it to 5000 series must surely now relent if intel is able to be using it? Pretty bad look to have it enabled on intel but not on their own pre-5000 series CPUs.

JediFragger · 3 Dec 2020 at 22:48

Zeeflyboy said:
The muppets who decided to lock it to 5000 series must surely now relent if intel is using it?

Strong-ish rumours of it working with B450/X470 too, hopefully they're right!

Shaolin Chicken · 3 Dec 2020 at 22:49

Now we just SAM working on Nvidia cards and AMD motherboards.

Grim5 · 3 Dec 2020 at 22:59

Shaolin Chicken said:
Now we just SAM working on Nvidia cards and AMD motherboards.

The motherboard support should be there on the latest bios, I think its waiting on Nvidia to add SAM to their Ampere cards with a new driver

Hotwired · 3 Dec 2020 at 23:14

Zeeflyboy said:
Unless you have an older Zen system...

The muppets who decided to lock it to 5000 series must surely now relent if intel is able to be using it? Pretty bad look to have it enabled on intel but not on their own pre-5000 series CPUs.

AMD never said that this feature will be exclusive to Radeon RX 6000 GPUs and Ryzen 5000 processors. However, those product lines are listed as supported on the technology page, simply because that’s what AMD tested (so far). Another reason is obviously the marketing and sales of their next-gen hardware, which at this point is completely out of stock.

Definitely a higher priority for Intel and Nvidia to prove they're not being left behind.

For that matter Nvidia still hasn't said a word so the gpu driver can be assumed to be more complex than enabling the option in the motherboard bios.

gpuerrilla · 3 Dec 2020 at 23:16

Grim5 said:
The motherboard support should be there on the latest bios, I think its waiting on Nvidia to add SAM to their Ampere cards with a new driver

Should be good also when RTX IO kicks in, all this 'free' performance benefits!