Friday, May 3, 2013

AMD Radeon HD 7990, CrossfireX, and Stutter? AMD may have a solution soon.

Unfortunately, every once in awhile, something will divide the community of the tech world and enthusiasts, much like the polarization of congress, this time it is AMD microstuttering. Most recently it has been the "confirmation" of microstutter, that has been ignored, much like Global Warming. Some AMD users have continually denied its existence despite AMD admitting to it, somewhat in a casual manner, and then showing its users they can fix it.  When you remove the nVidia GPUs completely out of the equation, in my mind you have a slam dunk case of, this is not a fanboy issue, this is an AMD issue.

An example of AMD vs. AMD Fixed vs. nVidia.  Ideally, you would want to be the green line (Geforce GTX Titan):

Jesus H. Jones.  Look at that orange microstutter!

I am not going into the details of the full story, it literally causes me a headache, both the idiots and the actual microstutter.  The point of this was that I wanted to leave a piece of good news. AMD has promised at least to give users an option to enable smoother frame rates (ala frame metering) to significantly increase image cohesion during transition.  In other words, they remove the majority of runt frames which seems to make the screen stutter for fractions of a second, and has been noticeable since about 58xx generation of AMD Radeon HDs.

Anticipate, the drivers will be made public around June/July time frame.  So.... September.
http://techreport.com/news/24748/amd-says-frame-pacing-beta-driver-due-in-june-july-timeframe

Here is a link to the site at the forefront of bringing a metric to observe the difference in AMD and nVidia single/multi GPU setups so that there is a "scientific" way to present to AMD and request it to be addressed.
http://www.pcper.com/

Specifically:
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-HD-7990-6GB-Review-Malta-Gets-Frame-Rated

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Frame-Rating-AMD-Improves-CrossFire-Prototype-Driver

And for you numb nuts saying that nVidia GPUs are no different, or cheating because they have "hardware" to enable frame metering, or whatever retarded excuse you have, here is AMD showing you they can fix it on AMD cards!  To me the difference is day and night on an AMD setup vs. nVidia setup.



1 comment:

  1. Thank god they are going to fix the stutter, I really regret going crossfire because of it.

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