The RX 6000 series Owners' Club

[AleXXX666]

mine is Sapphire Pulse RX6600

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oc 16% + vram 8%
i'm happy as f**k, this little a** gives very decent framerate in Hitman 3 in 2K res with help of FSR tech. same deal with GTA V in 2K runs pretty good.

Well the weekend passed and I am going to share my experience with the 6800XT. As I stated before I had the card installed in my X399 build with a 2920X that boosts to 4.3 GHZ on the best cores. Using that system I got Firestrike scores of 25814 and the TWWH2 battle benchmark gave me 92.4 FPS. I ran a few others and they were all about 10 to 15% faster than my Vega 64.

On Saturday my Antec A400 arrived and it took about 45 minutes to change everything (MSI X570 Pro>>MSI X570 Unify)(RX5700>>6800XT)(Nepton 280<<<A400)(Gigabyte 650B>>XPG Gold 750) . When I ran the same benchmarks with my 5600x @ 4.7 ghz. TWWH2 gave me a 154 FPS average but Firestrike was a ridiculous 35133 almost 10000 points higher.

When it comes to raw Gaming TWWH2 is still a resource hog so I will say the lowest we got was 47 FPS at anypoint in time playing a 180 Turn Campaign. Older Games like Grim Dawn 170 FPS with no deviation. The clock would run anywhere from 1800 to a more consistent 2300 MHZ.

The next thing that I will do is BAR enabled or disabled. It would seem that even that has a discernable improvement but I don't have enough data to state that.

What I can say is that the 6000 series are up to 85% faster than the 5000 series. You will not fully realize that though unless you pair it with a 5000 series chip. As the 5600X is the lowest in the stack I can see that your experience should be at least the same if you have a 5800 and up.

The Caveat is the size of the card. As far as I am concerned a triple slot is way too big.

you can pair with Intel Alder Lake too, lol

 

[Kabouter Plop]

Forgot to mention but there new whatsapp desktop beta app that no longer has drag lag but had 2x black screen gpu driver crashes in a row

 

[fullinfusion]

 

[Kabouter Plop]

Seriously i dunno if its my memory being faulty or my gpu im getting fed up with these gpu driver crashes and black screens

 

[Valantar]

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It's frustrating how hard it is to get ahold of those reference cards here in Sweden, given how goddamn gorgeous they are. Not that I'm complaining about my Liquid Devil (at all!), but honestly I'd much rather have a reference card and have added my own water block. Such a gorgeous design.

 

[fullinfusion]

It's frustrating how hard it is to get ahold of those reference cards here in Sweden, given how goddamn gorgeous they are. Not that I'm complaining about my Liquid Devil (at all!), but honestly I'd much rather have a reference card and have added my own water block. Such a gorgeous design.

Yeah man I had a hunch to check out the AMD site and checked and low and behold I was able to get one. I always go for reference, why? dunno but I just love how clean the card looks and really cant find any fault with it at all. It sure works nice and the performance tab is nice and clean too.

 

[Athlonite]

Seriously i dunno if its my memory being faulty or my gpu im getting fed up with these gpu driver crashes and black screens

What driver are you using maybe try the one version before it see if that makes a difference if it doesn't then chances are it's not a driver/GPU problem it's a Beta App problem report the issue to the App devs

 

[Valantar]

Yeah man I had a hunch to check out the AMD site and checked and low and behold I was able to get one. I always go for reference, why? dunno but I just love how clean the card looks and really cant find any fault with it at all. It sure works nice and the performance tab is nice and clean too.

Lucky you! I spent a few afternoons furiously F5'ing their site back when I was buying my card, but this was in the midst of the worst of the shortage, so I had no chance whatsoever even knowing the exact time of stock refreshes.

 

[Kabouter Plop]

What driver are you using maybe try the one version before it see if that makes a difference if it doesn't then chances are it's not a driver/GPU problem it's a Beta App problem report the issue to the App devs

If had this with previous drivers as well even did clean install exactly did the same it feels like hardware issue but i dunno what is causing it
edit: read there may be issues with last 2 drivers especially with YouTube i do not remember if i had a tab open in background but i do use wallpaper engine so perhaps wallpaper engine and any accelerated video is causing gpu driver hangs.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Signing up to this club.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

If there are any people switching from green to red camp here -- Have you made the switch then discovered that red camp runs games like absolute garbage till the second or third time you load up the same game? Its like its caching stuff. At the same time its awkward because I can load up a game of BF4 and that game ran absolutely flawlessly.

Ive never had this phenomenon when moving between Nvidia cards. Warframe ran like absolute butthole the first time as did guildwars 2 but the more i played the better my fps got although im still not getting the same smooth performance in that game as i did my 1080Ti.

Im just curious if this is the way AMD did things. First time back with AMD since the ATi 6970 in 2010 so im not 100% upto date with the way they do things.

 

[INSTG8R]

If there are any people switching from green to red camp here -- Have you made the switch then discovered that red camp runs games like absolute garbage till the second or third time you load up the same game? Its like its caching stuff. At the same time its awkward because I can load up a game of BF4 and that game ran absolutely flawlessly.

Ive never had this phenomenon when moving between Nvidia cards. Warframe ran like absolute butthole the first time as did guildwars 2 but the more i played the better my fps got although im still not getting the same smooth performance in that game as i did my 1080Ti.

Im just curious if this is the way AMD did things. First time back with AMD since the ATi 6970 in 2010 so im not 100% upto date with the way they do things.

It does in fact have a Shader Cache you can find under Advanced Graphics setup. That said I can't say I've experienced this kind of behaviour. I mean as a Beta Tester I might reinstall a new driver multiple times a week and most times a clean install so that would wipe anything cached by AMD

 

[HD64G]

If had this with previous drivers as well even did clean install exactly did the same it feels like hardware issue but i dunno what is causing it
edit: read there may be issues with last 2 drivers especially with YouTube i do not remember if i had a tab open in background but i do use wallpaper engine so perhaps wallpaper engine and any accelerated video is causing gpu driver hangs.

My PC started getting unstable a week before and after a day or so there were BSOD even when windows was loading. I just re-seated the RAM Dimms and all perfectly stable now. So, the RAM settings or the DIMMs themselves could create many stability problems.

 

[Kabouter Plop]

My PC started getting unstable a week before and after a day or so there were BSOD even when windows was loading. I just re-seated the RAM Dimms and all perfectly stable now. So, the RAM settings or the DIMMs themselves could create many stability problems.

If had 1 stick not post before finding out 3 pins where dirty cleaned it up with alcohol and posted fine issues went away now im starting to have issues again now today if not had issues its seems to be happening random like days at a time stable followed by bunch of crashes rapidly in a row
running hci memtest pro now + heaven i never get errors, this getting extra frustating cos makes me wanna go back to Nvidia except their drivers are awful to gsync experience is the worst freesync always works.

 

[Beer4Myself]

got a 6600 mech since april ... the worst thing on this card is the original fancurve ... it goes from 0-60% fanspeed if the gpu hits 52 degrees and if you got 60 degrees instant 100% fancurve and also plastic everywhere ... after the two years i snap the plastic off and may change to some of my f12 arctic fans with zipties

 

[Kabouter Plop]

It does in fact have a Shader Cache you can find under Advanced Graphics setup. That said I can't say I've experienced this kind of behaviour. I mean as a Beta Tester I might reinstall a new driver multiple times a week and most times a clean install so that would wipe anything cached by AMD

If had no issues like that ever my shader compilation lag went away when i upgraded to 980 pro 2 tb nvme and now i have 2 not in raid tho.

 

[Lew Zealand]

If there are any people switching from green to red camp here -- Have you made the switch then discovered that red camp runs games like absolute garbage till the second or third time you load up the same game? Its like its caching stuff. At the same time its awkward because I can load up a game of BF4 and that game ran absolutely flawlessly.

Ive never had this phenomenon when moving between Nvidia cards. Warframe ran like absolute butthole the first time as did guildwars 2 but the more i played the better my fps got although im still not getting the same smooth performance in that game as i did my 1080Ti.

Im just curious if this is the way AMD did things. First time back with AMD since the ATi 6970 in 2010 so im not 100% upto date with the way they do things.

I see this on occasion in a few games but I most obviously can induce this by loading up Horizon Zero Dawn and running the benchmark on my 5600XT. The first run through is trash with horrendous frame dips especially the first time the camera moves through the town market square. Second time you run the benchmark it works fine, nice and smooth. The issue is reduced on my 6600XT and it also seems to have reduced with more recent drivers. I'm on the 6400 PC with the new drivers, lemme try it now.

In terms of daily use, this effect is the difference I notice most often between Nvidia and AMD cards. Most games have zero problems with this, especially DX11 ones and I'm trying to remember the others. Heh, the other big one may have been Minecraft with the old drivers.

Edit: The RX 6400 in a PCIe 3.0 Dell Optiplex 9020 (so PCIe bandwidth limited) worked flawlessly with a mix of Medium settings at 900p (what this card can play at) at 70fps average. No fps dips. Actually with 70fps I should bump that to 1080p. OK I need to try the 5600XT again and that PC doesn't have the new driver yet. Test a few things there with the old driver including Minecraft, and then I'll try the HZD benchmark again to see if there's been some sort of change there.

 

[Kabouter Plop]

Just read this in notes latest drivers

Display may flicker black during video playback plus gameplay on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
It does not flicker black it stays black for me, i run wallpaper engine normally i have disabled that for now altho i use scenes not video backgrounds but i guess this triggers 3D load during video calls that trigger same issue

 

[INSTG8R]

Just read this in notes latest drivers

Display may flicker black during video playback plus gameplay on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
It does not flicker black it stays black for me, i run wallpaper engine normally i have disabled that for now altho i use scenes not video backgrounds but i guess this triggers 3D load during video calls that trigger same issue

It would be great if you could use the Bug Report Tool and file this with the details. Thanks

 

[kapone32]

Just read this in notes latest drivers

Display may flicker black during video playback plus gameplay on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
It does not flicker black it stays black for me, i run wallpaper engine normally i have disabled that for now altho i use scenes not video backgrounds but i guess this triggers 3D load during video calls that trigger same issue

There seems to be an issue with the Driver with logging (among other things). I cannot see my Gameplay results in Adrenline home, the Stress test finishes but then says it failed. I put in a new board and I am not getting the shutdowns but it is so sporadic that there must be bug for the Gaming scenarios. If I can't play TWWH I am not happy.

 

[Athlonite]

the Stress test finishes but then says it failed

same here with the exact same OC settings from previous driver to this one. The previous driver passed when the test was run but now says Failed no matter what settings I run even stock still says Failed WTF AMD

 

[kapone32]

same here with the exact same OC settings from previous driver to this one. The previous driver passed when the test was run but now says Failed no matter what settings I run even stock still says Failed WTF AMD

I hope that we will see a response from AMD on when these issues will be resolved. I am sure AMD Reddit is on fire.

 

[nolive721]

For me and few others on Steam or forums, there are issues on simracing games like RF2 or AMS2 with Ctd or abnormally dark graphics to name a few


I know it’s niche compared to FPS or sport games users base but what came after 22.5.1 drivers was not good for us

 

[GoldenX]

The 6500 XT I got for testing needed an RMA.
GPU prices fell to the ground due to Argentinian economic madness, the usual.
Told the vendor to get me a 6600 instead, I would pay the difference.
Thanks to the lower prices, I paid next to nothing.
So now I own a Sapphire Pulse RX 6600, and I'm loving it.

 

[AleXXX666]

It's frustrating how hard it is to get ahold of those reference cards here in Sweden, given how goddamn gorgeous they are. Not that I'm complaining about my Liquid Devil (at all!), but honestly I'd much rather have a reference card and have added my own water block. Such a gorgeous design.

what is the point of having ref design AND replacing HS with waterblock? PCB is PCB lol