1x4xx9
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Hey all... I've been on [H]ard|Forum since 2007, just recently found out about this place (if you frequent there too you will know me as Mr. Bluntman. And it was supposed to be 1x4x9 but I flubbed and double tapped the x 
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Anyways, in search of a viable DX12 option in an "elegant" single slot form factor long since lost since 2008/2009 on the consumer side, but still is a thing in the pro market as some of you may know.
Original thread here: https://hardforum.com/threads/my-recent-gpu-experiences-with-amd-as-a-long-time-nvidia-user.2023987/
Anyways, cutting to the chase, when I threw actual gaming loads at the card in a negative pressure case, and even in something as timid a workload as Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, I'm seeing temps up to 93°C at 100% (~4580-4600RPM) - it's just not fast enough to keep up with the given heatsink. And with the modded drivers, voltage controls are out. Pro drivers have terrible game performance, so that is out. Long story short, I am giving this card to someone running a FirePro W7000 4GB (basically GT 950/R9 280 performance with slower but double the VRAM) with much more active airflow across the GPU. And I found a good deal on a Dell XPS system pull on eBay. I expected slightly better than GTX 1080 performance because of the rewritten DX11 driver in the Adrenalin driverset, but when I read this...
https://www.techspot.com/review/2523-amd-vega-gpu-revisit/
I was surprised to see just how much performance improvement in some titles was presented. Slightly less expensive than a 1070 Ti, but 1080 Ti/Titan X Pascal or better performance in a few titles. In a nutshell, AMD kept working on improving performance even in GPUs going on 6 years old now, whereas nVIDIA only focuses on the current and last generation of GPUs more often than not. So in the end GCN 5.x ended up having longer legs in the end in more things than not than Pascal, and complete support for the DX12.1 support, something that Pascal lacks (is 12.0 only). But I'm excited to get it and see how it handles in a Ryzen 9 5000 series setup. Anyways, thought I'd share! Laters ^_^
)Anyways, in search of a viable DX12 option in an "elegant" single slot form factor long since lost since 2008/2009 on the consumer side, but still is a thing in the pro market as some of you may know.
Original thread here: https://hardforum.com/threads/my-recent-gpu-experiences-with-amd-as-a-long-time-nvidia-user.2023987/
Anyways, cutting to the chase, when I threw actual gaming loads at the card in a negative pressure case, and even in something as timid a workload as Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, I'm seeing temps up to 93°C at 100% (~4580-4600RPM) - it's just not fast enough to keep up with the given heatsink. And with the modded drivers, voltage controls are out. Pro drivers have terrible game performance, so that is out. Long story short, I am giving this card to someone running a FirePro W7000 4GB (basically GT 950/R9 280 performance with slower but double the VRAM) with much more active airflow across the GPU. And I found a good deal on a Dell XPS system pull on eBay. I expected slightly better than GTX 1080 performance because of the rewritten DX11 driver in the Adrenalin driverset, but when I read this...
https://www.techspot.com/review/2523-amd-vega-gpu-revisit/
I was surprised to see just how much performance improvement in some titles was presented. Slightly less expensive than a 1070 Ti, but 1080 Ti/Titan X Pascal or better performance in a few titles. In a nutshell, AMD kept working on improving performance even in GPUs going on 6 years old now, whereas nVIDIA only focuses on the current and last generation of GPUs more often than not. So in the end GCN 5.x ended up having longer legs in the end in more things than not than Pascal, and complete support for the DX12.1 support, something that Pascal lacks (is 12.0 only). But I'm excited to get it and see how it handles in a Ryzen 9 5000 series setup. Anyways, thought I'd share! Laters ^_^