I am too lazy to find Ryan's post at B3D forums, but NGG is not, at all, intended to be touched by the devs.
Not even a complier flag.
I am too lazy to find Ryan's post at B3D forums, but NGG is not, at all, intended to be touched by the devs.A flag devs can use to turn off AMD's profile when the game/engine will handle the implementation.
I am too lazy to find Ryan's post at B3D forums, but NGG is not, at all, intended to be touched by the devs.
Not even a complier flag.
Eh, no.It initially was though(Raja). AMD changed their stance 3 months later or so(Raja).
Eh, no.
The very concept implies devs will never touch the merged shader stages.
This new shader combines the functions of vertex and geometry shader and, as AMD told it to me, “with the right knowledge” you can discard game based primitives at an incredible rate. This right knowledge though is the crucial component – it is something that has to be coded for directly and isn’t something that AMD or Vega will be able to do behind the scenes. This primitive shader type could be implemented by developers by simply wrapping current vertex shader code that would speed up throughput (to that 2x rate) through recognition of the Vega 10 driver packages. Another way this could be utilized is with extensions to current APIs (Vulkan seems like an obvious choice) and the hope is that this kind of shader will be adopted and implemented officially by upcoming API revisions including the next DirectX. AMD views the primitive shader as the natural progression of the geometry engine and the end of standard vertex and geometry shaders. In the end, that will be the complication with this new feature (as well as others) – its benefit to consumers and game developers will be dependent on the integration and adoption rates from developers themselves.
The driver takes care of it for you. Just render as normal.
They don't know what will happen, they did not design this strictly IHV-specific feature.Literally the best people to to use the tools are the devs because they know exactly that is going to happen.
So we must be getting Adrenalin this week or next. Probably next given AMD likes early week releases.
Does it live up to your anticipations?You are a professional observer.
Cheeky question.Does it live up to your anticipations?
Yeaa i knowCheeky question.
You'll see it soon anyway.
You gotta be patient.Yeaa i know
Couldnt resist
Then I better hurry up and purchase my RX Vega Frontier Edition this week. If performance is going to jump up like this, that $699 price will be gone forever!!I can't say the exact number, or they will kick my ass.
Sooner than you think.
It will be gone forever due to xmr miners anyway.Then I better hurry up and purchase my RX Vega Frontier Edition this week. If performance is going to jump up like this, that $699 price will be gone forever!!
This will be a very feature centric release. So don't expect too much performance improvements.Then I better hurry up and purchase my RX Vega Frontier Edition this week. If performance is going to jump up like this, that $699 price will be gone forever!!
Not even for Vega?This will be a very feature centric release. So don't expect too much performance improvements.
Damn. Team Green is vying for a spot in my life for the first time ever. It's like I'm contemplating an affair .This will be a very feature centric release. So don't expect too much performance improvements.
Ok. What i am looking forward to is this ngg path enabling on vega and i dont care much for features. That said i must admit proper inbuild and easy performance monitoring and logging is something i could have used for 25 years. Its one of these features like synch and optimus that you wonder why it wasnt there for a start. Usually its nvidia doing the innovation on that kind of stuff. So hey it seems more customer focus is comming to amd.We're nearing release schedule.
From Videocardz.com:
AMD Link (mobile APP)
Performance Monitoring
Notifications
- Monitor and track your PC gaming performance.
- Bar graphs to monitor FPS and system info.
Introducing Radeon Overlay
- Stay informed about Radeon Software
- Receive real-time notifications when Radeon Software updates are released
- Keep AMD Link up-to-date with the newest features and stability updates
Radeon ReLive
- In-game control of Radeon Settings and PC performance monitoring (Press ALT+R to enable)
- Greater insight for better gaming
- FPS performance monitoring
- Convenient built-in performance logging
- Supported on DirectX 9, 11, 12 and Vulkan
Enhanced Sync — What’s new:
- Manage, organize and upload your gaming memories
- Share your moments on social media
- Queue uploads to multiple social platforms
- View and trim your video captures
Radeon Wattman
- All Radeon GCN-based products
- Vulkan
- Notebook products
- Multi-GPU
- AMD Eyefinity Technology
Frame Rate Target Control Now Supporting Vulkan
- Easily save and load your own profiles
- Share your custom profiles
- Load community-driver profiles
Well, I guess I'm not getting any work done today, going to be surfing the net looking for benchmarks!
So they are wrong by showing how much they improved over one year since the last major(feature update) release?As previously stated there are no fps gains in this driver, though AMD took the liberty of comparing this driver to last year's Relive edition.
Here is the first: ComputerBase tested the driver across 20 games on Vega 64 and RX 580. No change compared to last AMD driver.going to be surfing the net looking for benchmarks!
Nod for that. Today's Radeon driver UI is very similar to Ryzen Master. Looks modern and a lot of adjustable things.The ui on the amd drivers is already 10 years in front of nv imo. Running a desktop 1050 now and while i often like old ui its like returning to the 6 series days. But hey performance is superior vs watt its just like navigating windows xp and office 2003. Lol.