lemonadesodaSo, not all RX 7900 XTX being sold are the same!? And significantly! Let me get my popcorn, will watch this with interest.

lemonadesodaThe observation is drawn on the information given - however - if one goes "up the source path", it seems like there is a chinese whispers going on here. The 3% figure has been pulled from the 3DMark TimeSpy database but without proper context. Is this 3% relating to people with the same hardware setup ie 97% of similar systems are not affected whereas 3% are, suggesting there is something "wrong" with 3% of the identical systems, or is it that 100% of people with a certain setup are affected, but they represent 3% of the database.

KrazyTIf the perfs are goods when gaming ... don't care about 3D Mark ... no ?

lemonadesodaThe observation is drawn on the information given - however - if one goes "up the source path", it seems like there is a chinese whispers going on here. The 3% figure has been pulled from the 3DMark TimeSpy database but without proper context. Is this 3% relating to people with the same hardware setup ie 97% of similar systems are not affected whereas 3% are, suggesting there is something "wrong" with 3% of the identical systems, or is it that 100% of people with a certain setup are affected, but they represent 3% of the database.

lemonadesodaSo, not all RX 7900 XTX being sold are the same!? And significantly! Let me get my popcorn, will watch this with interest.

btarunrAbout 3% of AMD Radeon graphics card users may experience lower than usual 3DMark TimeSpy performance, says UL Benchmarks, developers of the 3DMark graphics benchmark suite. The issue came to light when a Google developer noticed that his RX 7900 XTX exhibited lower than expected performacne in TimeSpy, and took it up with UL. While the 3DMark developer hasn't been able to reproduce the issue on their end, it mentions that AMD is aware of it, has had more luck in reproducing it, and is working on a driver-level fix. For now, UL offers no solution other than to roll back to older driver versions and try testing again.

evernessinceFirst, not limited to the 7900 XTX.

Second, this is only in 3DMark

Third, it's fixable via a driver update.

Thus the trend of the first comments on an article being those that thought the least before posting continues.

Note that release preview channel Windows is not officially supported by us. We only test on it with a single system so any hardware-specific issues are not visible to us unless they occur with the "live" version of Windows.

In other news, AMD has apparently reproduced this internally and it is starting to look more and more like a driver issue, so at this time I can only offer "rollback to previous or ignore and wait for future driver fixes".

ZareekTell me I'm not the only person who's first thought was why the hell are they wasting time and money on this? Who gives a rat's ass if the performance is 3% lower in a synthetic benchmark? The driver developers could otherwise be putting that effort towards optimizing for something that actually matters.