I believe it once hags lands into the next technical preview drivers and 23.12.1 or 24.1.1 whichever driver adds avatar frontiers of pandora optimizations first

likely following soon, like sam, hopefully a bit sooner rather then later.

So how did it perform before and after ? PTM7950 before being reused and after being reused ?

to sum it up AMD can totally add support for anti-lag+ if they do it properly for all gpu’s

It’s already useable in borderless windowed there aren’t many games that run fullscreen exclusive anymore anyway, if so the games that do often have driver timeouts like Elden Ring runs fullscreen exclusive in dx12 it has driver timeouts but not in Windowed, just annoying to have HDR enabled in game you need fullscreen instead of borderless

AMD and custom AIB should use PTM7950 or something better on current gen or nextgen, or least something that does not pumpout and AMD should adress the pumpout issue either by adressing the flatness of their dies if realistic or by better thermal interface material that no longer pumps out.

NVIDIA uses it on their 4090 FE as well so this might be new reality with more power going thru small chips and might be not be simple fix of making dies more flat as they aren’t always perfectly flat anyway, however AMD chips are usually a bulge, while i heard that NVIDIA are usually more a concave, the later is more vulnerable technically to to much mounting pressure on the edge, while AMD is more vulnerable to at center of the die.

Something i also do not understand is why they do not do a mounting presure test to use the perfect thickness thermal pads on vrm and memory chips etc, some custom AIB use way to thick pads i understood.

Pads are supose to compress as long they do thickness should be fine even if slightly less thick.

Having a watercooled 7900 XTX should not have 95+ hotspot ever no higher then 70c hotspot at 410w tbp at 22-23c watertemp which translates in 21-22c room temp if you have external watercooling like a mo-ra3 420

They should just do optional drivers again, but always release recommended driver monthly as usual or with new game release if adding optimizations that are stable.

Optional = beta features
Recommended = stable without beta features.

Honestly tho back in 2022 they only did optional drivers for months and released game optimizations only with less stable drivers, which changed now its only recommended and preview drivers, with AFMF driver still being updated but not thru radeon software.

9 november driver removed smart video support for ryzen 5000 series now requires ryzen 6000 series, i did not even know ryzen 6000 series existed.

My experience has been very stable so far but i can trigger some really odd behaviour, when i set FSR2 in diablo 4 i could make my system act very weird when moving mouse i would hear those beeps altho if had that even without and its super rare.

It’s as if all usb dropped out and all my devices act as if they are different devices, mouse sends morse code to sound, keyboard acts like mouse etc etc

Oh yeah its totally normal for video playback or browsing to use excessive power while browsing on rdna3, but clearly that is a idle issue even tho its doing nothing

Hardware acceleration is expensive on rdna3 which is why you see high idle because of multiple apps in foreground, its not efficient, you would expect if a old gpu can do stuff on desktop why can’t a faster gpu do it more efficiently using less power, this is what the real issue is.