Radeon

Ryzen up to the challenge

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I’m happy to say my new build has passed with flying colors, literally:

I’ve been quite happy with the setup so far. I’m still running at stock at the moment, everything has been running stable with only a couple Windows 10 quirks that doing a couple regedits can easily fix. I’ve already done some benchmarking in 3DMark and a couple Tomb Raider games. Here are my results with both running on the highest settings with Tessellation disabled:

I’ve run 3DMark, but for whatever reason it doesn’t recognize my graphics driver (currently 18.4.1 non beta), will try to run more tests at a later date. I tested Wolfenstein II since it was designed with Ryzen and Radeon in mind, and I can say it runs on Uber settings above 100FPS! :meeseeks: Whereas before it stayed in the 60 FPS range on high, definitely happy with the results. I can’t wait to see how this thing handles large video rendering projects! :happy:

My next goal is to purchase an external Blu-Ray burner, for backing up data (and experimenting with PS3 emulation) but that isn’t a requirement at this time. I’m going to try and take a break from spending lots of money and only save it for the small stuff. As it is I’m coming back up on renewing my webdomain. :rick:

Catalyst Control Center gets a well deserved overhaul

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AMD

If you use AMD GPU’s it’s time to say goodbye to the CCC we’ve been using since the ATi days. They’re renaming their software to “Radeon Software” and each year it will be codenamed with a particular shade of red.

They mention some interesting features, like overclocking the GPU on a per game basis as well as better control over eyefinity display for those who use a multi-monitor display (which naturally caught my attention). Also this software is written on Qt rather than .NET, anther interesting thing to note. I’ll be checking it out in a few weeks when it makes an arrival.