Recent content by SSBrain

I think you're right. I remember reading somewhere that the RX480 was supposed to have the VR performance of a 500$ card however.... (before clicking submit) Found it here: http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/radeon-rx-480-2016may31.aspx I don't believe it currently has...

I haven't experienced such a large variability myself. Since the benchmark aggressively changes rendering quality depending on system load, it could be that CPU spikes caused by something else (e.g. the operating system's power management setting and background programs) affect the score more...

Nevertheless, I found it relatively consistent in roughly gauging the videocard's suitability for VR. An increase of ~0.8 in score through overclocking with the R9 390 I used for a brief period would indeed result in an overall better VR experience. I find a bit concerning that while the RX480...

The SteamVR Performance Test score is based primarily on the videocard's capability of keeping the framerate above 90 fps. The 3D engine used by the benchmark will also try changing the rendering quality (including the internal rendering target resolution) adaptively to reach the 90 fps target...

It looks like gasolina is using the ones that were bundled with the GPU. A different user tried them out and couldn't make them work with his AMD Fury X: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rumor-rx480-aib-card-leaked-and-tested.223351/page-22#post-3479028 It's true that the driver...

I've used a non-X R9 390 for a short period on a weaker CPU than user gasolina, and I had better scores on the same benchmark with stock clocks. Overclocking would bring the card to R9 390X level. There are suggestions that the RX480 might indeed only have 32 ROPs, I wonder if this is having an...

A guy on TPU Forums received an RX480 in advance and while it does seem to perform well in Batman Arkham Knight (390X level, at least at 1080p), it doesn't seem to exactly have thrilling VR performance. Check out the posts on the last few pages by user gasolina...

~110W might be hitting the default (0%) power limit. I remember others reporting about a similar power consumption.

According to the previous screenshot voltage is 1150mV @ 1266 MHz, isn't this a bit high compared to the GTX 1070/1080?

(the message was edited, but I'm keeping the reply here as it could be useful as a general information) On Samsung SSDs the normalized value ("Current" from CrystalDiskInfo as in the previously posted screenshot) shows wear as a percentage, while the raw value as the number of P/E cycles...

3-bit MLC means "TLC". 2-bit MLC is what is popularly defined as "MLC". I wonder why they just aren't called 2LC, 3LC, 4LC and so on, that would be clearer in my opinion :hmm:

This means that your SSD performed on average 1 program erase cycle out of 2000 on its NAND memory blocks. I would start worrying in 500 years.

You're getting them because you disabled or severely limited your pagefile.

I relatively often used hibernation in Windows 7 and 8 and measured the impact on host writes from SMART data every time I did it and I've never observed such a high amount of writes from it. The feature doesn't write the entire RAM content to the drive, and the compression it uses (which is...

I would say yes. Have you realized that 2% in 6 months means 100% in 25 years? Hibernation only writes, after compressing it, the ram that is actively in use, excluding caches. So, if at any time your system is using 3 GB of ram, chances are that it will write 1 GB or so, perhaps even less, if...