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Radeon Pro 580 8 GB Preformance?

Just to add my experience, I am experiencing occasional frame drops in games, too. I'm a very casual gamer so I can't diagnose anything however the drivers seem like they could use work because it doesn't appear to be due to throttling.
 
nullonade said:
I am having this issue with PUBG as well. I get great FPS 75% of the time. I open up my inventory (not demanding really) and i drop to about 20 fps. Or sometimes just out of nowhere I will drop quite low. Same happens with Overwatch. HAS TO BE SOFTWARE/DRIVERS
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Yeah. Hardware issues typically wouldn't go away immediately after toggling between apps/resolutions, only to return under very specific software-related circumstances (loading new map, switching screens). It would be unlikely to have a hardware issue that would cause such specific behavior in such predictable manner. Hopefully we get a fix from AMD before long...
 
Playing with hellblade and warhammer total war with latest bootcamp drivers and never had the issue so far. Max temp reached 90 degrees i did installed all the software except for the "gaming recording" thing don't recall the name now.
 
graybot said:
Yeah. Hardware issues typically wouldn't go away immediately after toggling between apps/resolutions, only to return under very specific software-related circumstances (loading new map, switching screens). It would be unlikely to have a hardware issue that would cause such specific behavior in such predictable manner. Hopefully we get a fix from AMD before long...
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I can confirm that The fps drop is caused by thermal throttling. On The 17.1.1 bootcamp drivers the fan doesnt react at all. The video card reaches 94 degrees celcius. Setting The fan speed to 2700 with macs fan control keeps The temps around 75-80 and The fps stays consistent.
 
Granaten82 said:
I can confirm that The fps drop is caused by thermal throttling. On The 17.1.1 bootcamp drivers the fan doesnt react at all. The video card reaches 94 degrees celcius. Setting The fan speed to 2700 with macs fan control keeps The temps around 75-80 and The fps stays consistent.
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Is there software that can increase the fan speed in Windows? SpeedFan doesn't seem to work.
 
Granaten82 said:
I can confirm that The fps drop is caused by thermal throttling. On The 17.1.1 bootcamp drivers the fan doesnt react at all. The video card reaches 94 degrees celcius. Setting The fan speed to 2700 with macs fan control keeps The temps around 75-80 and The fps stays consistent.
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If that is true, then why does changing the Display Mode from Windowed to Full-Screen and back to Windowed fix the issue?

I did a 2-hour Overwatch session yesterday and I launched the game at 12fps, switched from Windows to FS and back to Windowed, and the game played at a solid 70fps the entire time. I can't believe my GPU was throttling displaying a static screen at launch and not throttling while actively rendering content for 2 hours straight.
 
Granaten82 said:
https://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
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Apologies, I had no idea Macs Fan Control was Windows too.

CWallace said:
If that is true, then why does changing the Display Mode from Windowed to Full-Screen and back to Windowed fix the issue?

I did a 2-hour Overwatch session yesterday and I launched the game at 12fps, switched from Windows to FS and back to Windowed, and the game played at a solid 70fps the entire time. I can't believe my GPU was throttling displaying a static screen at launch and not throttling while actively rendering content for 2 hours straight.
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We're probably talking about two different issues. What you are referring to is certainly software and I experience it occasionally. However I also experience random frame drops when doing certain things in certain games that shouldn't occur. I will try ramping up the fans and report back.
 
Granaten82 said:
I can confirm that The fps drop is caused by thermal throttling. On The 17.1.1 bootcamp drivers the fan doesnt react at all. The video card reaches 94 degrees celcius. Setting The fan speed to 2700 with macs fan control keeps The temps around 75-80 and The fps stays consistent.
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Try 17.7.2, no issue at all with the i5 at least.
 
Granaten82 said:
I´m also on the i5. Refuses to install any other driver with error 173.
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not the official of course it will be blocked as they don't bother to certificate driver so often for macs since they are unlikely used for gaming
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gian8989 said:
Did you install from http://www.bootcampdrivers.com/ ?
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yes, just don't install the ReLive at the end of the driver and software installation, is an optional software used to record your gaming, install everything else including the crimson software.
 
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Fantastic! Thanks guys! :D

Also if you have random slowdowns. Download msi afterburner and tick disable ULPS in the settings!
 
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PJivan said:
I'm confused, isn't ULPS a crossfire feature? Imac has only one gpu
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ULPS stands for Ultra Low Power State - energy saving feature. But I don't think it causes any fps drops. It's more like AMD processor function, not the GPU.

I installed newest unofficial drivers yesterday, will post soon results.

And Hello to everyone :)
 
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bandit9229 said:
ULPS stands for Ultra Low Power State - energy saving feature. But I don't think it causes any fps drops. It's more like AMD processor function, not the GPU.

I installed newest unofficial drivers yesterday, will post soon results.

And Hello to everyone :)
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From my knowledge it disable the second gpu either crossfire or cpu integrated one if bundled with an APU.
 
Just tested new drivers and the fps drop issue seems to appear only in 5k. But @1440p everything runs fine. Any solution/ideas?
 
bandit9229 said:
Just tested new drivers and the fps drop issue seems to appear only in 5k. But @1440p everything runs fine. Any solution/ideas?
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Am I understanding you correctly, that you are trying to game in 5K?

I don't think the card is up to that under any circumstances.

Humbly, Ylan
 
Ylan said:
Am I understanding you correctly, that you are trying to game in 5K?

I don't think the card is up to that under any circumstances.

Humbly, Ylan
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Unless he is playing Civilization 6 or pillars of eternity...those kind of games and some indie games will do.

Honestly a mostly game on my couch with a Roccat Sova and a further amplified 5mt USB cable (9mt in total) on 1080p so everything just runs a 1080p 60fps with ample ample margin.
 
So I also ran into the framedrops. Nothing seemed to fix it until i installed 17.6.2 from bootcampdrivers. Used display driver uninstaller in safe mode first. Now everything works smoothly.
 
Ylan said:
Am I understanding you correctly, that you are trying to game in 5K?

I don't think the card is up to that under any circumstances.

Humbly, Ylan
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Why not? Most of strategy games run fine in 5k in 50-60 fps until fps drop occurs. Then I have to alt-tab the game and it runs okay for next 5-10 minutes. I checked temperatures with GPU-Z and they're not higher than 80-85.

I used drivers uninstaller in safe mode also. I have no idea why only on 5k I have this problem when both temps and fps are fine.

@Granaten82 are you able to play any game with 4K/5K res without any fps drops?
 
bandit9229 said:
Why not? Most of strategy games run fine in 5k in 50-60 fps until fps drop occurs. Then I have to alt-tab the game and it runs okay for next 5-10 minutes. I checked temperatures with GPU-Z and they're not higher than 80-85.

I used drivers uninstaller in safe mode also. I have no idea why only on 5k I have this problem when both temps and fps are fine.

@Granaten82 are you able to play any game with 4K/5K res without any fps drops?
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Ok, sorry! I was thinking of CoD or such FPS, which will see a very low frame rate consistently.

Humbly, Rob
 
bandit9229 said:
Why not? Most of strategy games run fine in 5k in 50-60 fps until fps drop occurs. Then I have to alt-tab the game and it runs okay for next 5-10 minutes. I checked temperatures with GPU-Z and they're not higher than 80-85.

I used drivers uninstaller in safe mode also. I have no idea why only on 5k I have this problem when both temps and fps are fine.

@Granaten82 are you able to play any game with 4K/5K res without any fps drops?
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Playing heroes of newerth at 5k. Tried GTA 5 also without drops. Performance at 5k is about the same as the 2k performance of my old 2012 imac with 680mx! =D No drops on 17.6.2 drivers so far.

https://mega.nz/#F!dQ50BLKS!o-k34oCKh4b1NIEpCP32LQ

The name of the driver is: W10-x64-Crimson-ReLive-17.6.2-XG-Pro500-V2-bootcampdrivers[dot]com.zip
 
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