AMD 14.7 RC3 Driver Performance Loss vs 14.4
16 Aug 2014 8:03:12 UTC
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Has anyone experience performance losses running the latest 14.7 RC3 AMD drivers vs the 14.4 drivers? I have seen an increase in task completion time while running the Perseus Arm Survey of about 300 seconds (5700 vs 6000) also an approximate doubling of reported CPU time per task and a drop of reported GPU utilization (5%) while running 2 task concurrently on two R9 280Xs. This is in a Windows 8.1 OS. If anyone has any suggestion for the best drivers for this particular work unit and OS I would appreciate any input, thanks.
AMD 14.7 RC3 Driver Performance Loss vs 14.4
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Also CPU usage has jumped up to from approximately 30% to 80% with just running 2 tasks per GPU with the change of driver from 14.4 to 14.7 RC3.
RE: Also CPU usage has
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If you don't game it looks it's time to revert back to the older ones.
Yes I rolled the driver back
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Yes I rolled the driver back to 14.4, I didn't test 14.7rc3 with other GPU tasks but for the Pereus search it isn't ideal. Disappointing as there were improvements to some game performance, mantle seemed smoother in bf4. Maybe the next driver will be better for both functions.
RE: Yes I rolled the driver
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I am still running 14.1 on my AMD cards, I don't game at all so crunching support is all I care about.
Mikey have you found the 14.1
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Mikey have you found the 14.1 drivers(http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/amd-catalyst-14-1-beta-1-6-(13-350-1005-january-31).html) to offer better performance/shorter task completion times over the 14.4?
I just realized your citing
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I just realized your citing the driver not the catalyst version disregard my last post, we are using the same driver.
RE: I just realized your
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Howdy,
The catalyst version is the driver version. They are equivalent.
I am still playing BF-2 so, I don't need too new of a driver for that )))
Bill
RE: Mikey have you found
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I have never tried the 14.4 drivers so can't say, I can just say that I am happy with the 14.1 drivers, they work just fine.
Hey Bill592!, in my previous
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Hey Bill592!, in my previous post I was referring the packaged video driver inside of the catalyst bundle for example 14.7 RC3 contains several products, if you will, for example the video driver is labeled as 14.200.1004.0000 vs the 14.4 WHQL catalyst package which has the 14.100.0.0000 video driver. Why they used a different naming convention? I have no idea, however my original post was commenting on the poor performance of the 14.7 RC3 catalyst bundle as the open cl version build seems to have changed vs the 14.4 catalyst bundle, as the performance I have observed was worse while performing the Perseus Arm Survey Tasks.
I am by no means an expert on which driver Mikey is using in his ATI/AMD hosts, as I just looked up his hosts and they display the same driver version that displays with my host, so I assumed we were both using the same driver version that is bundled with 14.4. It is possible that E@H reports invalid information concerning driver version in which case my assumptions concerning driver versions would be false.
Catalyst: 14.7 RC3
DriverVer=08/11/2014, 14.200.1004.0000
CCC: 2014.0811.2303.39561
D3D: 9.14.10.01044
OGL: 6.14.10.12967
OCL: 10.0.1526.3
Mantle: 9.1.10.0020
Catalyst: 14.4 WHQL
DriverVer=04/17/2014, 14.100.0.0000
CCC: 2014.0417.2226.38446
D3D: 9.14.10.01029
OGL: 6.14.10.12847
OCL: 10.0.1445.5
Mantle: 9.1.10.0013
RE: Hey Bill592!, It is
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Good Mornin Titan
The 'computer' info on Einstein doesn't seem to know Shiʿite about what driver we are using (at least for AMD)
It reads out the same thing 1.4.1848 for all AMD Gpu's (
Take Care,
Bill