@TToby
Don't come back until you got nearly the same results ? Freeze it!
Sorry for coming back without having nailed it down.
With 4 days of testing, I found some results for myself:
- AMD BIOS settings are much more difficult than Intel. No "click and ready". Saying this, my last CPU was a 4790k, things might have evolved since that days.
- As we all had mentioned long before, for VaM the single core speed is really important, not the multicore speed.
- So for overclocking AMD CPUs, you want to use Precision Boost Overdrive instead of setting a common muliplier like many OC tools do.
- Quality setting in the GPU driver tool will have an big impact. Use them wisely.
- For VaM it is not only pure speed, there is something else I still doesn't have found...
EDIT: it was only an automatically lowered custom tesselation GPU driver setting!
In the meantime, I have slightly OCed my PC to some very good values:
I have a 19000 score in Timespy and 650/6500 in CPU-z.
My 5800x is clocking up to > 4700MHz, my 6900xt is on 2500 MHz, VRAM on +140 MHz...
My custom loop watercooling is running well and keeps everything well below 70 C.
But I still got roughly the same values like in my last picture.
The strange thing is, 24h ago, I had found some settings giving me roughly the same results like Endolu had!!!!
But then I idiotically changed some BIOS settings I can't remember and it was again back to "normal".
In the meantime I have watched several youtube videos of how to set up an AMD cpu and I know more about OC than I would ever have like to... but still, there is some mysterious setting that is obviously important for VaM, but I simply can't find it.
EDIT: It was only a wrongly set custom tesselation setting in the GPU driver tool that was giving me those extra fps! I unknowingly switched it back to the correct "use application settings", and it was giving me the shock of aprox a minus of 30 fps in VaM on the next try.
P.S.: This is NO "my cock is bigger than yours" posting. Till some months ago, I have played VaM on a very old PC, too. It was OK for me. Then I had invested much more money for an all-new rig than I had originally planned.
Now I have realized that something stupid is pulling the brake for more than 30 fps, and it is driving me insane. ?
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