MP 1,1-5,1 Driver RX580/cMP5.1 bootcamp/windows 10

[macha-one]

i have succesfully installed my rx580 8gb sapphire pulse in my 12 core mac pro 5.1.
I noticed there are some driver updates available from Amd. . Does anyone work on windows 10 with the rx 580 in a mac pro? Which driver should I avoid? Which one to use?
Is every rx580 driver safe to install on a bootcamp windows 10 system ?


So far the rx580works fine in windows 10 but i want to be sure if i get the most out of it now with the current driver.

 

[skizzo]

you are going to want the latest and greatest. The most recent driver for AMD Radeon Settings and related drivers are 19.8.1 (their naming system is year.month.release number for the month) which was released just a week or two ago. just go to AMD or Sapphire and download the package that detects your GPU and automatically installs the latest drivers

and if for some reason you want/need an older version then just download that version instead. as far as I know there are no known versions to avoid.

I recently got a 5700 XT and I had some serious instability issues at first. Those issues were not present when I would reinstall my RX580. It turns out it appears there was some corruption/incompatibility going on due to I ALWAYS just did "upgrades" rather than "clean installs" of the drivers. So I would recommend NOT doing an "express install" which installs over the current drivers. Do "custom install" and "clean install" to make sure you have the best stability. It removes all the older related drivers before installing the new ones

 

[orph]

just grab it from the AMD site, i just update when the driver tells me to.

i did try to use MSI afterburner and just hit bad crashes so now i only use watt-man for any GPU OC needs and FPS overlays, it's a tad broken but mostly works.

in windows i mostly run at 1000mhz or 1200mhz with an undervolt, the GPU fans stay near silent under load which i care about more.
radon chill is also worth using i have it set to 30-60FPS for most games and 30fps locked for games like civ or RTS

 

[macha-one]

Great to hear that skizzo. I am cloning my windows system now just to be on the safe side. Then i ll go for the driver update. Very curious about the performance.with the new driver in windows 10.


For the mac part , Now all i need is a confirmation on the currently available mojave firmware update.
Is the mojave installer that i can get from the applestore now (late aug )good to go for getting the correct bootrom update for metal and nvme use?
[doublepost=1566590733][/doublepost]I had a amd r9 280 installed before. Right clixking on the desktop gives me the radeon set up with the latest driver update 19.8.1 available under a button.
The rx580 is recogonised. Am i good to go to update from the app?

 

[orph]

i update from in the app

 

[skizzo]

just grab it from the AMD site, i just update when the driver tells me to.

i did try to use MSI afterburner and just hit bad crashes so now i only use watt-man for any GPU OC needs and FPS overlays, it's a tad broken but mostly works.

in windows i mostly run at 1000mhz or 1200mhz with an undervolt, the GPU fans stay near silent under load which i care about more.
radon chill is also worth using i have it set to 30-60FPS for most games and 30fps locked for games like civ or RTS

damn that's a really choked back clock speed isn't it?

I'm pretty sure I had mine undervolted to just over 1000mV, like 1005mV (I cant remember exact values due to I upgraded to 5700 XT for Windows 10 and all those new GPU values are stuck in my head instead lol)
And then I underclock to maybe 1320mhz
Even on demanding games like Assassins Creed Odyssey it would never go over 70*C
Maybe on a long night like 4 hour game marathon would I see 70*C+ temps and I still think then it would max at 72*C.
Though I do keep the PCIe fan ~2100+ RPMS when gaming so perhaps that is higher than most like to hear?
Just saying 1000mhz - 1200mhz sounds very very "cautious" to the clock settings I was using
[doublepost=1566591100][/doublepost]

Great to hear that skizzo. I am cloning my windows system now just to be on the safe side. Then i ll go for the driver update. Very curious about the performance.with the new driver in windows 10.


For the mac part , Now all i need is a confirmation on the currently available mojave firmware update.
Is the mojave installer that i can get from the applestore now (late aug )good to go for getting the correct bootrom update for metal and nvme use?
[doublepost=1566590733][/doublepost]I had a amd r9 280 installed before. Right clixking on the desktop gives me the radeon set up with the latest driver update 19.8.1 available under a button.
The rx580 is recogonised. Am i good to go to update from the app?

yes I upgrade from the AMD Radeon Settings app as well. just do the custom install instead of express. it takes longer because it has to go through an uninstall process and I think a reboot before installing the new drivers

 

[orph]

my GPU fans i think stay around 800-1000rpm with the settings i have, ill check later and get a screenshot

i mostly play older games or RTS or 4X so i don't need MAX speed to hit 60FPS and dont mind setting graphics to high most the time (ie not max)

yep i think im about 1005mV maybe a tad more, VDroop seems to be a problem & under load it looks like the card drops a bit to just under 1000mV so it has to be above 1000mV to compensate.
I think thats it or maybe just ASIC quality on mine is a tad low.

works fine at 1300mhz to with same settings when i need it.

the power use drops a lot from 1300mhz to 1000mhz from what whatman shows, of hand i cant remember but it's a big drop.

stock to under volt is a massive drop in power use and fan nose drop
1360-1000mhz is a nice power drop and fan nose drop

not relay played with it a lot for ages
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/sapphire-pulse-rx580-8gb-vbios-study.2133607/

 

[skizzo]

hey @macha-one this may not fully apply to you because you're on a RX580 and im on a RX 5700 XT but I just updated to 19.8.2 last night with a clean install of the display driver and Radeon settings drivers.

This made a huge difference in stability for me. Mainly when playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey. For whatever reason, that game would usually make Radeon Settings freeze up and it would then be a 50/50 chance if this freeze would either crash the Radeon Settings apps, crash the game, or crash my system (ie needs a hard power off via power button).

I was not sure if I was being too aggressive with my undervolt and that was the cause of the freeze/crash but that issue would happen even on stock OOTB settings. Only did it on that game, other newer games like Resident Evil 2 for example would still run fine regardless so the stability seemed specific to AC: Odyssey. So after using the same undervolt setting with the newer driver it is now clear it is more stable for me. With this finding I would change my recommendation to avoid 19.8.1