I’ve bought an used RX 5600 XT that is arriving this week, this is my first AMD GPU so I’m wondering if there is any setting or app that every AMD user should use. I’ve heard of “resizeable bar” before but I have no ideia what it is and if I should even mess with it. Are there any AMD users out there that can provide me a “Welcome Tour” to AMD? Thanks in advance.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    Resizable Bar (aka Smart Access Memory for AMD) is a good thing for any gpu really, I haven’t heard of it having any downsides. You should also use Freesync if you have it, and if not maybe Enhanced Sync idk. I also like turning on Anti-Lag and Contrast Adaptive Sharpening in the driver settings.

    • 💩💩💩
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      31 year ago

      Very niche use case, but resizable bar isn’t supported with pci passthrough virtualization so needs to be disabled (at least currently).

    • @[email protected]OP
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      21 year ago

      I totally forgot my monitor has free sync. But about Anti lag, how does it compare with NVIDIA Reflex?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        According to this article, anti-lag can give a decent reduction to input lag while using freesync, but on some games it can reduce frame rates by a little.

  • BigFigM
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    111 year ago

    Run a full uninstall of your video drivers! THEN install AMD’s software and drivers just to avoid any issues there.

    • @chronicledmonocle
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      31 year ago

      DDU is a great utility for this if you’re on Windows

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    Doing some quick searching, I don’t think SAM (AMD’s name for resizeable BAR) is available on the 5000 series, just 6000 and up. You’d need an AMD CPU as well.

    I’ve been running a 6700XT with an Intel CPU and it hasn’t been bad, but not great either. I’ve had trouble with the most recent graphics drivers; I tried to update in May and had to deal with a bunch of blackscreens before finally reverting to November’s drivers. Luckily AMD has old drivers available directly on their website.

    Messing with the GPU’s performance settings within Adrenaline (AMD’s version of geforce experience) is also super buggy, only working for a few hours at best before crashing and reverting. I’m talking anything physical, from overclocking to just increasing ambient fan speeds. Their bug reporter is also terrible! Changing render settings for specific games has worked fine, as well as deactivating the ingame overlay, but while I think you should play with it just to see how it works for you, I can only recommend using Adrenaline as a temperature monitor.

    At the end of the day though it’s not much buggier than my ancient dual 680 setup was lol, and it’s like half the price of Nvidia stuff so I’d say you probably won’t regret the purchase

    • @Robin
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      31 year ago

      Huh, maybe it’s because I have an AMD CPU as well but I’ve had no issues with the Adrenaline software at all on a 5600xt and 6700xt. Including some mild overclocking and undervolting. Back when I had an RX480 the drivers were indeed buggy but it has gotten a lot better. The AMD overlay is great as well.

    • @aDuckk
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      11 year ago

      SAM worked on my 5700xt

      • @Jivebunny
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        1 year ago

        That and it also works on Intel CPUs, the resizable bar thing. Not the AMD™ SAM™, as far a I know

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      Thanks for the thorough comment and honest experience. Looking forward to receiving the card. I’m jumping from a GTX 980 to a RX 5600 XT and it was pretty cheap indeed.

  • @Jaegar
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    71 year ago
    1. DDU to remove all your old drivers
    2. Download latest drivers from AMD.com
    3. Familiarize yourself with the driver software and features (and the few that are missing).

    Did you consider a new card (even an Arc card)? Or was the used 5600 a really good deal?

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I have the 5600xt as well, the big issue I encounter is that when I open any VR game the gpu is limited to only 30%, the workaround is to overlook it through the and app. But I wish I didn’t have to do that though x.x

    • @Gearheart
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      21 year ago

      I want to get back to vr gaming on my amd GPU. Can you give me instructions on what you mean by “overlooking it?”. Thanks!!

      • @kali
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        11 year ago

        I think they mean ‘overclocking it through the amd app’, with the app in question being Ryzen Master

    • @dingus182
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      21 year ago

      agreed. Came to mention VR. I got an ol’ Rift OG and ran into some issues. Not mission critical, as the Rift’s resolution is horrible.

  • @_MoveSwiftlyM
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    11 year ago

    VR has a lot of issues, and power draw is high with two monitors that have high refresh rates.

    Good luck.