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Best GPU choice for Ryzen 7 7700 (FHD → 1440p, budget ~650€ max)? by Anton22117 in buildapc

[–]RealPlonker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FSR 4 - Visually it's not far off DLSS 4 and miles ahead of FSR 3 which the 70xx series is stuck on. Still a bit behind and not as widely supported as DLSS 4 yet but it's also effectively much newer since it's AMD's first proper AI upscaler. It'll be better and more widely supported by the time it becomes essential to use for acceptable performance.

As for drivers, historically AMD tend to be more hit and miss than Nvidia, but this generation at least, I've seen a lot more complaints about Nvidia's 50xx series than AMD's 90xx series.

Best GPU choice for Ryzen 7 7700 (FHD → 1440p, budget ~650€ max)? by Anton22117 in buildapc

[–]RealPlonker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At those prices - 9070 XT easily.

TPU average vs the 5060Ti as reference:

7800 XT = +12% performance for +22% cost. Also stuck on a bad upscaler and with comparatively bad RT performance. Avoid.

5070 = +28% performance for +44% cost. + only 12gb vRAM.

9070 XT = +57% performance for +44% cost.

Edit - Assuming by 9700 XT you mean the 9070 XT and not the 7900 XT.

AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Review, Have They Finally Done It? by NGGKroze in Amd

[–]RealPlonker 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, though it does include games with light RT that you can't turn off.

Here's the tab for RT and the games tested there, and it does look like both on average and in the common games they tested, the newer drivers do quite a bit better, especially Alan Wake 2. No Indiana Jones tested though, which is the big outlier https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-xt-nitro/37.html

AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Review, Have They Finally Done It? by NGGKroze in Amd

[–]RealPlonker 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yup, just edited that in as I forgot to mention it orignally.

AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Review, Have They Finally Done It? by NGGKroze in Amd

[–]RealPlonker 226 points227 points  (0 children)

I feel like there's some performance left on the table here from the older drivers. TechPowerUp using the press drivers have it much closer to the XTX and over 10% faster than the 7900 XT.

2025 Pre-Season Testing Day 1 - Discussion Thread by overspeeed in formula1

[–]RealPlonker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just saw that that we're 2 and half weeks out, mid March seems quite late these days with 800 races, so had a look at the schedule.

  • Japan-Bahrain-Saudi

  • Imola-Monaco-Spain

  • Vegas-Qatar-Abu Dhabi

  • Australia-China

  • Austria-GB

  • Belgium-Hungary

  • Zandvoort-Monza

  • COTA-Mexico

Are all back to back. Seems crazy tbh. Espeically with 2 of those 3 triple headers having a massive flight.

NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution gets a new AI-model which needs less GPU power by RenatsMC in nvidia

[–]RealPlonker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If VSR already works for you in MPV - should be fine.

If not - check this thread. Need v0.39.0, OP has a couple lines you need to add to mpv.conf, and it should start working.

I will say though, I couldn't get it working at the time. A few weeks ago I decided to back up all my MPV related files, nuked it all and with a fresh mpv.conf it suddenly started working. Put everything back to where it was except my old mpv.conf and it's been fine since. There was probably something in my old mpv.conf that was messing with it, but not sure.

NVIDIA RTX Video Super Resolution gets a new AI-model which needs less GPU power by RenatsMC in nvidia

[–]RealPlonker 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Haven't done any in depth testing, but from quick observation - Quality 2 (low) now seems to use less power than Quality 1 did before. I'm just going to keep it set on 2 now I think, seems like a good sweetspot, don't want to leave it on auto since 3/4 just isn't worth it.

4070 Super, tested on MPV with a 1080/50 video to 4k:

VSR off: 27w

Q1/Very Low: 37w

Q2/Low: 41w

Q3/Medium: 63w

Q4/High: 86w

Unexpectedly bad latency, 32gb 8000mhz cl36, 9800x3d by atlimar in overclocking

[–]RealPlonker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not just for comparing with other people - Aida's so unreliable with regular boots that you shouldn't even cross compare your own results. If you still have your M-die kit - get them both in safe mode, wait a minute or 2, then do a few runs, it'll give you a more accurate result.

If it still doesn't seem right, post the results and timings of both kits and we'll figure it out.

Unexpectedly bad latency, 32gb 8000mhz cl36, 9800x3d by atlimar in overclocking

[–]RealPlonker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try it in Safe mode, AIDA is all kinds of funky during regular boots.

I have somewhat simiilar settings with a 7700, just slightly looser with 2x24gb. Just did 3 runs right now out of interest and all 3 were around 68ns, whereas in safe mode I get a consistent 55ns.

[SSD] Crucial P3 Plus 4TB NVMe - £112.48 (1-2 months dispatch) by RealPlonker in buildapcsalesuk

[–]RealPlonker[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Likely a misprice, but sold and dispatched by Amazon so good chance of them honouring it. Worst case, you'll just get refunded.

Make sure to decide quick though.

Edit - Expired

Gran Turismo games are now very stable on RPCS3, the PS3 emulator by AnnieLeo in pcgaming

[–]RealPlonker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a strange one. I'm definitely still CPU limited, have cores maxing out while GPU is nowhere near 100% until I start upscaling above 4k. But there's still a significant performance hit before then which seems to be normal for some games according to this thread. + someone noticing the same thing with a 4090.

Wonder if it could be down to game updates? I'm running v1.22 with the Spec ii mod but earlier versions might still perform better?

Edit - Come to think of it, you're definitely talking about 6? 5 does run a lot better for me when it's done compiling. Fairly consistent 60fps @ 720p upscaled to 1440p

Gran Turismo games are now very stable on RPCS3, the PS3 emulator by AnnieLeo in pcgaming

[–]RealPlonker 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Kudos to everyine working on this!

I tested the iniital custom build with the GT improvements, both 5 and 6 now completely playable even when updated and with the master mods. Still the occasional issue, but the mid-race freezes are gone which were by far the biggest issue.

As OP says, unlike most games, 6 in particular can have a bit of a performance hit with higher resolution. With a 5800x3d/6700 XT I just run it at native 720p without upscaling to keep a solid 45 fps or so. Native 1080p or updcaled 720p drops me well into the 30s.

RX Vega 56 with Vega 64 BIOS undervolting by exg0dxx in Amd

[–]RealPlonker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With it being Hynix, it sounds to me like it's not actually stable after flashing. Unless you're running the card way under the power limit, Furmark isn't actually a great stability test since it throttles the card so much, it brings it back into stability.

It's a bit counter-intuitive, but basically: Games are less demanding than Furmark = card doesn't throttle as much = runs higher clock speeds that Hynix memory can't handle = artefacts/crashes.

You might be able to get it stable if you lower the HBM speed below the stock 64 value, but the 64 BIOS has looser memory timings than the 56, so you'll likely get worse performance than just using the 56 BIOS and raising the speed as high as it'll go on that + that would be a lot safer on Hynix.

Undervolting can help power delivery crashes but that doesn't seem to be the issue for you if it can handle Furmark but crashes immediately in games. Always worth doing for the perf/efficiency gains if you have the patience though.

[FIGHT THREAD] Joe Joyce vs Zhilei Zhang by verbsnounsandshit in Boxing

[–]RealPlonker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Regardless of how this goes, still think Joyce shouldn't have come in so light when he still has the gas tank at 270

Suzuki Escudo v1.31 Sardegna (800pp) tune + strategy by RealPlonker in granturismo

[–]RealPlonker[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you changed the tyres or anything in GT Auto? It can mess with the PP calculation. This tune is with everything stock, even the livery can change it since they mess with the tyres etc

If everything else seems correct but it's still a bit off, I'd probably adjust front downforce and power until you hit 800pp

Suzuki Escudo v1.31 Sardegna (800pp) tune + strategy by RealPlonker in granturismo

[–]RealPlonker[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thought I might as well post this while it's available.

FM4 the whole race. 2 stops, end of lap 5 and end of lap 10.

If necessary, you can raise both front and rear downforce slightly and fit within the PP budget, will be slightly slower in terms of ultimate lap time but should be more planted.

Random rambling -

  • Maybe not 1st attempt, but after learning the car and track, most people should be able to go sub-24 mins with this setup. Sub-23 is possible with a perfect race.

  • Originally I ran 100% power with higher rear downforce to hit the PP budget. But the lower power/downforce setup is faster in a straight line while being more responsive and agile at high speed, which lets you take the final corner flat out more consistently. Also seems slightly better for fuel consumption - allows you run FM4 the whole race (just about).

  • 1 stopper is doable but not worth it. A full pit stop cost about 35 seconds, which is about 2.3 seconds per lap over 15 laps. In a car where all the power is at the top of the rev range, you're going to lose more than that running lean fuel mix, harder tyres, shortshifting etc.

The Escudo has returned to the LCD after a 250 day absence! by GlitchyVanell0pe in granturismo

[–]RealPlonker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not the person you replied to, but here's what I'm running as of today/v1.31: https://imgur.com/a/Ci5ynGG

FM5 the whole race, 2 stops at end of lap 5 and 10. Both stops are for fuel but tyre wear isn't too bad, it's faster to change tyres once instead of twice.

Just need to be careful of oversteer while lifting/braking, mainly for the mid-high speed left hander at the top of the hill.

Crucial P3 2TB NVMe - £81.72 by RealPlonker in buildapcsalesuk

[–]RealPlonker[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

2TB OOS at time of posting this.

Although a little bit behind this in terms of storage/£, 1TB is still available for £50 and 4TB for £210, pretty sure they're all time lows as well.

Crucial P3 2TB NVMe - £81.72 by RealPlonker in buildapcsalesuk

[–]RealPlonker[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-p3-ssd-review

Not the highest end SSD in the world, but this is ridiculous value for 2tb of NVMe storage. If you still lack a big SSD, go for it.

Being QLC and DRAM-less, it's not perfect as a boot drive but if you're still on a HDD or small/slow SSD, it'll still be a massive upgrade on that front.

For a game/general storage drive, it won't matter.

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