I gained almost 1000 points on Timespy rolling back my drivers. (rx 6800)

It really is battered house wife syndrome

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He brought me flowers and called me baby, see he still loves me. Don't worry officer I walked into a door.

at least your gpu didn't stop working after the update lol

Getting some random crashes in Overwatch, all other games seem to be fine. Have not tracked any sort of data to confirm performance decreases. (Using a 6800XT)

Release drivers for 6800 XT were just fine. Every game just worked and I let the gpu mine at night so I can buy games with bitcoin. That worked no problems as well. Current drivers crash on mining all the time and most games seem to have weird jitters here and there.

Ps. Here's my result:

Total score doesn’t matter

GPU score does

This is misleading

CPU didn't change and neither did anything else, I'd understand if it was within 5% margin of error, but this is much bigger- and OP also responded with GPU-only numbers in the comments.

But they haven’t? I can’t see scores anywhere from OP

Update chipset and bios too. I was having stability issues all over the place until i did these things. All problems disappeared.

Also try disabling Amd's radeon software, fucking tanks your cpu score

for my rx560 it was stability in OC which changes with drivers

with 5600xt it is frametimes

i used 20.4.2 with rx560 which was fine because it allowed me to run 1325 core and 2050 mem with stock voltages plus freesync worked

now with 5600xt i use 21.3.1 and frametimes are really smooth and freesync works no issues

now i need stronger psu to oc my 3800x and 5600xt combo since 520w ain't cutting it and that psu would have a use in future

520w is plenty for that combo

Same here. I went back windows 8.1 and got almost 20 frames more. Butter smooth with all the less over head

That's strange as I have a rx 6900 xt and don't see any difference between the drivers.

Oh god. Just bought a 6800xt for exorbitant prices.. are drivers a mess or just for artificial bench?

I’ve had a 6800xt since January 1st playing games like COD Warzone, COD Cold War, Rocket League, Rust, MSFS 2020, DCS World and have had zero issues. Absolutely nothing. I also didn’t get any degradation in performance with the newest driver.

Thanks for this! Have you played around with undervolting or left it stock?

The main issue is instability for me, sure the card isn’t performing as well as it does with previous drivers as seen in my OP but the constant driver timeouts. Black screens and Adrenalin refusing to load is what is taking its toll. Just see if you get lucky with the latest driver as some posting in this very thread have had, if not I’d try rolling back to 21.2.3, they’re the best I’ve found after hours and hours of trial and error

Hmmm that sucks. I have a Vega64 and have never had driver issues in all the time I've had it. I've heard Nvidia owners are having driver issues of their own. Sounds like an arms race with no QA..?

Some of my games would crash/be very unstable on my RX 580 with the newest drivers... All problems went away when I went back to mid-2020 drivers .__.

So as I’m sitting here thinking of getting a 6800xt what you’re saying is AMD still ruins everything with their drivers and I need to Nvidia?

Is this why some older titles have recently started playing like ass? I have a 5700 flashed with the xt bios, and specifically GTA V and Assassins Creed 4 have been running at ~30fps recently. This is strange, because I'm able to play Cyberpunk, Far Cry 5 and some other more recent titles without a hitch. I thought it was the bios update on my mobo so I rolled it back and didn't fix it. Maybe I should roll back on these drivers.

Aged like moldy yoghurt left out in the sun 😉

Installed 21.3.1 with V56, swapped it out for a 6700XT. Everything has been working smoothly thus far (including Timespy etc with scores where they should be).

My 6800 run almost 10 degree Celsius hotter than normal after the update (RD2)

Same thing with the gtx 970, performes worse after 399

I love my 3600X but man am I always staying the fuck away from AMD GPUs, I want to think 0% when it comes to having a plug and play GPU that has no driver issues. I have seen way too many horror stories here, fuck that. My 660ti, 1060, and now 2070 have had 0 issues with any and all driver updates.

Call me ignorant or stupid, but do you play videogames it video editing? Did performance increase in those or are you getting errors in games?

I'm not defending AMD or anything, but complaining about one application to measure performance when said application may not have been the main focus of AMD driver team. If all you do is run Timespy then report an issue to AMD. Maybe try a game.

I have multiple games to test but timespy was the easiest to bench as it saves my scores.

Stability is my main concern. Black screens, crashes, driver timeouts, Radeon Adrenalin not working, drivers uninstalling themselves. All in the space of a couple of days, now back to the previous driver and it’s working amazingly well as it was before for 2 months.

Okay, thank you. I wasn't trying to be an asshole, just wondered if you only care about Timespy and not the other areas you just mentioned