Latest drivers?

It seems that a lot of GPU problems revolve around specific versions of drivers. Though AMD has their own support structure, you can often learn from information reported by others who fold.

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NeoCzar
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Latest drivers?

Post by NeoCzar »

With the last WHQL AMD drivers (13.12):

Implicit single precision: 74.8 ns/day.
Explicit single precision: 21.3 ns/day.

With the last Beta drivers (14.2 Beta 1.3):

Implicit single precision: 86.2 ns/day.
Explicit single precision: 25.1 ns/day.

The newest Betas are causing minor issues when Alt-Tabbing sometimes while HDMIed to the HDTV. Nothing serious though, the folding boost is more than worth it.

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ArVee
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Re: Latest drivers?

Post by ArVee »

Anyone know how 14.2 Beta is vs. 14.1 Beta though?
foldy
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Re: Latest drivers?

Post by foldy »

Hi NeoCzar,
thanks for your benchmark. :D
What graphics card did you test?

There is also a new driver version 14.3 Beta V1.0
Maybe someone can test these? :?:
Ripshod
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Re: Latest drivers?

Post by Ripshod »

We've had this performance boost since the 14.1 betas. I'm a little OCD about things lke that.
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JimF
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Re: Latest drivers?

Post by JimF »

foldy wrote:There is also a new driver version 14.3 Beta V1.0
Maybe someone can test these? :?:
It seems to be about the same, or slightly better than the last beta on my HD 7790s (45 K PPD on P 13000/13001) and on my HD 7870s (69.3 K PPD on P 13001 and P 9401), all on Win7 64-bit.
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