re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

Just finished Jedi: Survivor, and I’ve gotta say, I now really understand the HWU comparison of native/DLSS/FSR. Prior to this, I had never used FSR because there was no reason to use it over DLSS, which I had access to. With J:S being an AMD sponsored game, I was limited to FSR, and honestly, I just wasn’t particularly impressed. It’s fine. The performance gain is worth using over native. But it was noticeably worse than any recent implementation of DLSS 2.x. Some areas looked really great, but sizzling and ghosting were downright immersion breaking at certain points, and I say that as someone who always uses DLSS Quality over native. I’m pulling for AMD to continue closing the gap, but FSR still has a ways to go before it’s a true challenge to DLSS.

I was playing at 1440x3440, and yeah, kinda meh. Again, probably worth the degradation on average for the performance boost, but definitely more of a compromise than DLSS. Sizzling is really hard to catch in a screenshot, but ghosting was so bad on one elevator that I felt compelled to take one:



ETA: The fact that you can tell at a glance whether I'm going up or down is a fricking problem

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I'm assuming it's going down.

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Ja

I swear, it's like counting tree rings. I think I can see about 15 on the wall towards the right before they finally fade out.

It is complete. It’s such a massive step up from my i7 9700k and Vega 64 card it’s hard to describe.

Damn, that looks good.

Meanwhile my computer is shoved under my desk never to be seen

Your PC had better not be on the fricking floor, you damned heathen

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Heat rises… lower to ground means better thermals… it’s the 500iq play.

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So... much... dust...

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It's mounted to my desk

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Ah, ok. Well then objection withdrawn

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Dayum. Had a -30 curve on my cpu with optimized pbo that put me at 5650 mhz. It went well until today.

ff7 remake hates that shite. Had to turn off the optimizer and go back to -25. I hope it sticks now.

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If I were to venture a guess, FF7 is using cores that your normal games don't heavily use. A -30 all core is a very, very aggressive curve. You're almost always going to have at least a couple of cores that can't reach that. But you'll never have issues if those cores don't get hit hard. As soon as they are, you'll crash like crazy.

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Lighter workloads seem to screw with more aggressive curves for some reason.

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Lower temps. The frequency curve is based on temperature. That’s why offsets to lower voltage result in higher clock speeds. But, higher clock with lower voltage tends to be less stable. So during gaming when the load is high, even with the offset, temps rise enough to keep clock down enough to be stable. But if a program asks for full clock state but the load is actually low, temps stay down, clock shoots up, and you get a crash.