Hardware & Technical Will your next GPU be a Radeon VII (7)

[Manticore]

Are their drivers any better than before?

 

[Morbad]

Are their drivers any better than before?

AMD's? Been a long time since I had the impression that AMD and NVIDIA differed significantly in overall driver quality, at least when it came to drivers for consumer OSes.

However, AMD's consumer driver packages normally don't work with Windows Server and their Radeon Pro driver packages often don't support the consumer Radeon cards. This is meaningless for most people, but I've generally preferred the Server variants of Windows, even for my gaming systems and it's been getting progressively more annoying to use consumer versions of Windows.

 

[Chris Simon]

I was just pointing out that reacting well to undervolting isn't exclusive to AMD.

As for which cards are more fun to tinker with, I've been pretty annoyed with both AMD and NVIDIA since they started locking down their firmware.

On that, we can agree. I hated when AMD "locked" their BIOS. You can still kind of alter it (for example the power limit) or you can do some hardwire mods (shunt mod, etc.), but the time when you could write your own BIOS are definitely over, unfortunately.

 

[mazi]

I had a long session with the Rift. In my settings it was hovering around 90Fps and dropping to around 70ish in stations. Looks like the station penalty is not too bad. Hope to get the Pimax base station soon so I can seriously optimize settings for the 5k+