[SOLVED] XFX RX 6800 SWFT is not performing to my expectations ?

[Sym166]

Hello all,

I just did my rig update and something is not quite right. This card is advertised for smooth 2k/4k gaming. People say temps and fps is lovely but at the moment 4k even at low is terrible. 2k is ok-ish but not higher that medium settings and I am not talking about newest game titles. 1080p is fine but temps jumping from 62 to 80c sometimes playing on ultra. Upgraded from my rx 6600 xt (lovely btw). On that card I never reached 70c with 60/144fps lock, depends on game.



GPU: xfx rx 6800 swft 16gb

CPU: ryzen 9 7900

RAM: 32gb corsair ddr5 6000mhz cl30

PSU: 850W corsair 80+ gold

Mobo: msi mag b650 tomahawk wifi



Latest drivers installed with amd adrenaline. Anyone experience same issues? Also gpu usage 99%, cpu usage around 20%.

 

[logainofhades]

Use DDU to wipe your driver, and then reinstall. Titles being played would be useful to know also.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Definitely consider ddu as the person above stated. Did you get the card new or used btw? The rx 6800 I would say is effectively equivalent to an rtx 3070/3070ti despite having 16gb vram. But you should be able to play 1440p high/ultra decently.

What exact psu do you have and how old is it? If it’s too old perhaps that’s a factor also?

 

[Sym166]

Ok, so I will reply to you guys after some tests.

As adviced, used DDU, wiped drivers and reinstalled. This made HUGE difference in fps and even temps. Both cpu and gpu dropped by approx 15-20 celsius. Thank you sir.

PSU is brand new Corsair 850W 80+ gold, full atx or something like that. All my components from above, they brand new. CPU temps I am not worried about, got searched that they are designed to run at 95 degress apparently, so 70-75 is brilliant.

Titles: The Division 2, Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Hunt Showdown and some more less demanding games like Elder Scrolls Online (this one has flawless optimization, 144fps+ no matter what)

So....

witcher 3, 3840x2160 locked at 144fps. All Uber, antialiasing FSR as well as amd super resolution toggled on. Got stable 70-80 fps with temps 66 cpu and 60 gpu. Huge improvmenet after DDU. Power consumption 205w, gpu usage 98%, memory usage around 7500 out of 16000

the division 2: More demanding obviously. 3840x2160, medium with shadows off/low, stable 60fps but because screen tearing, no fps lock. Stable 90fps here.

Problem seems solved. And do you have any advices on screen tearing? This happen at 60fps lock usually.

Monitor: Dell 42.5". Not a gaming monitor, running on 7ms. Maybe this is a problem and its size?

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Might consider a 144hz or higher monitor with amd freesync. That should help with some of the tearing. For a gaming monitor you want 5ms or under I think.

To use your current setup I think amd developed tech a few years back called fast sync that may help a little.

 

[Colif]

To use your current setup I think amd developed tech a few years back called fast sync that may help a little.

Do you mean FreeSync?

just passing by

 

[ohio_buckeye]

No. I was actually incorrect though. Nvidia developed fast sync. AMD has a technology called enhanced sync. I think it can also work with free sync. I think some of this tech was getting developed in the time before freesync and gsync were more common place and a lot of folks still had older displays 7-8 years ago.

If I recall around that time nvidia was developing gsync that had a chip in the display to help all the frames sync up. AMD if I remember came out with freesync as a response that was open source and didn’t need the chips like nvidia was using for gsync, so the monitors were cheaper. Hence why today a lot more displays have free sync tech built into them and why nvidia started allowing their cards to work with free sync.

 

[Avro Arrow]

The RX 6800 is a low to mid-range 1440p / very high-refresh 1080p card that is somewhat capable of 4K but not very. We're talking about a card that's comparable in performance to the RTX 3070 Ti with double the VRAM. Even the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT were considered to be primarily 1440p cards and they're both quite a bit faster than an RX 6800.

I think that your expectations might be a bit higher than what the card is capable of.

You made that up! 😉

 

[Sym166]

I realize that, in this price range I cant expect all ultra on 4k 😀 but all these games above, I managed to set for 2k/4k gaming on stable 100fps without issues and with good temps actually. So problem seems to be solved. DDU works well when changing GPU's. Now I have to worry about monitor, thanks guys!

 

[ohio_buckeye]

To do 4k on a 6800 or 6800xt class card, you really are probably going to be using a lot of FSR and upscaling. Unfortunately gaming at 4k, at least natively is expensive just due to the gpu needed to run it.

 

[Sym166]

To do 4k on a 6800 or 6800xt class card, you really are probably going to be using a lot of FSR and upscaling. Unfortunately gaming at 4k, at least natively is expensive just due to the gpu needed to run it.

Exactly this. This is why I use FSR if a game has it or if it doesnt, radeon super resolution with sharpening 65% works well. However, even on 2k resolution, I never experienced such a beautifull graphics in games like Hell let loose, playing on ultra during night time on the map. Fog and other stuff gives you so much realism. The difference in 2k and 4k is minimal, at least for my eyes. And I ve seen people running gta V on ultra with 8k. This is different universe haha

Can a moderator mark this thread as solved please? Maybe someone will find this helpful in future.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

The other thing you may find too is if you play strategy games you might find yourself turning those back to 1080p in order to read the text lol.