Offical Radeon VII Thread

Even that AMD discontinued the product as expected it still does a great job. I recent upgraded to a Ryzen 3800x with Gigabyte Master x570 and a Corsair MP600. That gave some more speed to the card from the old Skylake Z170 setup.
 
jesdals said:
Even that AMD discontinued the product as expected it still does a great job. I recent upgraded to a Ryzen 3800x with Gigabyte Master x570 and a Corsair MP600. That gave some more speed to the card from the old Skylake Z170 setup.
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Unfortunately you'll see no further driver improvements for the card in new releases. Just look at the latest driver release to see the issues that still aren't fixed on the VII. Now the 5700's are out they won't get fixed. Same with my Vega 64 it's the way of the world I guess.

TBH the VII only ever existed because of the stupid prices of Turing GPU's and AMD used defective Instinct chips that they would have had to write off. Bingo the VII was released so it always had a short shelf life from inception. You win some you lose some :)
 
Falck said:
It doesn't feel defective to me :bleh:
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You know what I mean Falck :lol: Maybe I should have used the word 'failed' Instinct chips that they then used for VII cards so as to avoid writing off the inventory. Clever move if you ask me and I actually ordered one on day 1 but when I read the reviews I quickly cancelled due to it being as loud and hot as my Vega 64.

Can't say I'm too impressed with the 5700XT but I'm interested to see what the AIB's can do with it to make it less noisy. If a Sapphire 5700XT comes out at £400 I might be tempted but as you know I'm no fan of the latest Adrenalin drivers which would put me off but that's just my opinion.
 
Yeah, I think you did a smart move jumping over VII. EOL after 5 months, great. They even pulled 106 BIOS stating that it wasn't needed somehow, or even could mess things up?.

Noise levels don't concern me, gaming is with headset these days... Although, can't complain, my B&W P9 paired with external DACAMP sounds great to me =).
 
Falck said:
Yeah, I think you did a smart move jumping over VII. EOL after 5 months, great. They even pulled 106 BIOS stating that it wasn't needed somehow, or even could mess things up?.

Noise levels don't concern me, gaming is with headset these days... Although, can't complain, my B&W P9 paired with external DACAMP sounds great to me =).
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TBH I really wanted the VII because I was hoping the dual fans would be like my old Sapphire Fury Pro which was whisper quiet but alas it was not to be. I was thinking of getting a 2080 as they are now under £600 but Nunz and Bill D have rightly persuaded me it's not a great upgrade for the price.

I'm still interested in the AIB version of the 5700XT and it seems that Powercolor are bringing one out for £$399 which means I can get £200 for my Vega 64 it's basically a no brainer to spend just £200 more to get a quieter card. Let's see where it all ends.
 
Yeah, I'd say RDNA looks good when considering price/perf.

But, that so called "finewine" AMD(ATi) remains to be seen with the new architecture. Still holding on to my VII. Even have my V64LC tucked nicely away in it's box.
 
Getting into the wagon late, but found a $499 deal for a Radeon VII to replace my aging GTX1080. :)

According to Amazon, it will be delivered on the 11th, hopefully it's before that.
 
Well, got my card way ahead schedule today :)

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acroig said:
So how you liking it?
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it's great, better than my GTX1080 for sure.

I have only 1 issue, somehow, it only works at PCIE x8. I don't know if it's my mainboard or the card; I don't think the performance hit is too high so I'm not concerned about it, yet...
 
lmchv said:
it's great, better than my GTX1080 for sure.

I have only 1 issue, somehow, it only works at PCIE x8. I don't know if it's my mainboard or the card; I don't think the performance hit is too high so I'm not concerned about it, yet...
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A few things.


Did you put the GPU into the x16 slot or the 8x slot?

There is a BIOS option to enable full PCIE speeds, something like Gen 1/Gen 2/Gen 3, double check that sizzle!

Make sure the card is seated properly as that can drop the PCIe speed.


I wonder if you're reading it under idle rather than under load? Does it hit x16 under load?
 
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Megaman said:
A few things.


Did you put the GPU into the x16 slot or the 8x slot?

There is a BIOS option to enable full PCIE speeds, something like Gen 1/Gen 2/Gen 3, double check that sizzle!

Make sure the card is seated properly as that can drop the PCIe speed.


I wonder if you're reading it under idle rather than under load? Does it hit x16 under load?
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Yes, in the first slot as indicated on the manual.

PCIE speed is in auto, setting it to Gen3 makes no difference.

The card is properly seated, I have removed it several times to be sure, it's tightly secure as well.

Both the BIOS and GPUZ shows x8, even with the render test from GPUZ it stays at x8.
 
Megaman said:
Interesting.... running the latest BIOS?
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Yes, rolled back to previous BIOS just to test and the result is the same

Bitey said:
No other cards in your other primary slots?.
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I have a Sound Blaster Z in the x1 slot, tried removing it and made no difference. Also, I have a nvme ssd installed as boot drive.

I wanted to test my GTX1080 to try to replicate the issue but now it doesn't post!, it works fine on my other computer though.

Really strange issue...

Well, I get ~9100 TimeSpy, it looks fine to me.
 
It shouldn't be limited by x8 but I wouldn't want my card running at the wrong speed just off principle. The fact that the 1080 doesn't post sounds like something is damaged. Did you force the card into the PCI slot? Maybe you nicked the slot internal..
 
Nunz said:
It shouldn't be limited by x8 but I wouldn't want my card running at the wrong speed just off principle. The fact that the 1080 doesn't post sounds like something is damaged. Did you force the card into the PCI slot? Maybe you nicked the slot internal..
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no, i did not force anything, the mobo seems ok.

I have found that the issues I had years ago with the Dell 2715Q (4K) monitor has started to happen again so that may be why it's not posting, it stalls in a "console output device connect startup", if I wait enough it shows the Windows screen.

I will test the Radeon VII card in my X99 mobo and the GTX1080 on the Z390 mobo again next week during my vacations just to be sure everything is ok.
 
lmchv said:
no, i did not force anything, the mobo seems ok.

I have found that the issues I had years ago with the Dell 2715Q (4K) monitor has started to happen again so that may be why it's not posting, it stalls in a "console output device connect startup", if I wait enough it shows the Windows screen.

I will test the Radeon VII card in my X99 mobo and the GTX1080 on the Z390 mobo again next week during my vacations just to be sure everything is ok.
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Is it possible that your Samsung 950 Pro NVMe is sharing the PCIe lanes with your video card? It appears your motherboard supports 2 M.2 drivers, just as my Crosshair vII hero does. The problem is, if you populate the wrong slot, or have 2 M.2 drives, it shares the PCIe lanes with the GPU, making it run at X8 speed, at least on the C7H. IE, one is tied to the GPU PCIe lanes and the other is tied to the chipset PCIe lanes. You may want to verify you have it in the correct slot. (on my C7H, the bottom slot is the chipset lanes, top slot shares with GPU). Check your manual.
 
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