DimasRMDO

G'day mate

G'day mate

Awright mate! Fellow Scot here.

Hello and I am a new member,
I'm a bit of a nerd, and also a bit of a nerd with Technology, and also proud scot,
I hope to be part of this forum for years to come

Guilty? Why guilty? I feel no guilt over stuffing my face with foods that I enjoy. I eat for my own enjoyment, not for anyone else's.

Actually Ryzen processors run cooler and draw less power than Intel processors, they operate at slightly lower performance but with much better power consumption

Allowance, I'm just a few months away from being able to get a job.

Cables. 

#relatable

Warning points in the forum. 

celeron and sempron are for for people

No

You basically have to prove to people that you are capable.
 
For a non coder it is best to design a game using a code free platform like Fusion but it could be done with Unity.
 
 
Another route is to make an adventure mod for a game like Skyrim or fallout 4 using ingame assets.
 
You need to get the right people's attention. 
I did this years ago by creating mods for games. I was invited to join an indie group. I did a few projects with them and decided the video game industry was not for me. 
 
In the 16 bit era I also created a few games but with no internet all I could do was send them off to publishers. I may recreate at least one of them and since it was 2D I will probably us Fusion.  
 
Learn as you go. To create my games I learned coding, 2D art and 3D art. Even though I never got a games published I made a living as a 3D artist. My edge has always been my game development experience.
 
Ideas get stolen. One of the publishers a sent a game to, recreated the game with a better engine and graphics. Since they were in a different country and I had no money I could do nothing. Any time you put your stuff out there you take a risk.  Also keep in mind that if your ideas are worth stealing they have value.
 
The last game of my own that I worked on and abandoned was a side scrolling train simulator with a top map for switching. It was for the Amiga 500 computer and this is the only surviving asset.

 
Good Luck.
 

like i said, i'm not just gonna learn coding, this is much more involved than basic coding

2060?

For that i5, a GTX 1660Ti would be about the strongest card I'd pair. Get a stronger card only if you plan on upgrading your platform soon.

Because it Mega Hurts if we use gigahertz?

I'd strongly suggest looking into it. It's really not worth it for most people, especially with automation on the horizon.
Haha, you complain about that, but you don't even have it bad. Here, buses when they're running at their peak are every half an hour. On weekends a good chunk of routes don't even run at all. Yearly pass? Non existent. You can buy monthly passes, they're $97/month. For terrible service. Most of the time I just choose to walk.
That just sounds more annoying than anything else...I don't think computers are that sensitive to fluctuations like that.
You only applied to 5 places? Oh boy. Don't get down if you've only applied to that many. Do you know how many applications I filled out to get my current job? Probably well over 50. I have friends that will literally apply to over 200 positions before they get one that they land. You only get out of life what you put in, so if you're having a real shit time, maybe you need to re-evaluate what you're doing.
 
College in the US is a debt facilitator. I hope you really looked into the degree you're taking, and there's high demand for it when you exit. Seems like education in the US is a pretty brutal joke.
The rotatory engines are such a nightmare. I remember my dad swearing endlessly at them when he was trying to fix a buddies car.
There isn't even really a huge benefit to them.
A lot of teas don't necessarily have less caffeine...something to keep in mind.
Haha yeah I've been pretty spend happy on Skip as well. It's too cold to go grocery shopping or out at all really.
I imagine they do...they must, with as many people as California has ?
I should visit my parents more often too, I haven't seen them in almost three years.
Just go talk to her ? Worst case, she's not into you, and you can move on to someone else.
I don't know what most of the first things are, but why would you sell the motorcycle! They're such affordable transportation.
I'd buy one, but I'm pretty sure I'd end up dead within a few weeks of ownership.
Is it hard to get a job in law enforcement in the UK?
Curbing spending is a solid thing to strive for, I need to do that myself; I probably spend close to $300 on McDonald's alone ?
Sounds like you should buy the fellows motorcycle below Haha
Haha, as soon as I saw driver's license my mind changed R6S to RS6 and I got excited ?
Damn Europeans and their RS6 Avant.
Why's that?
Moving out is always exciting, I'm hoping to move into a bigger place soon myself.
It'll just look super bare for a good chunk of time ?
Your English doesn't seem too bad...though if you live in the UK I could see that being pretty important ?

I speak American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British. I am so multilingual. 

Introduction
From June 2014 to September 2017 the graphics card in my system was the GTX 770, which I've talked about a fair amount here and here.
 
In August 2017 I wanted to buy the new Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. It turned out that the GTX 770's measely 2GB of VRAM in a Vulkan title and the lack of optimizations due to being quite old at that point meant that performance was absolutely unplayable and within 30 minutes I applied to have the game refunded using Steam Refunds. Ultimately, this experience finally convinced me I needed to buy a new GPU as previously I had wanted to buy one but couldn't justify it.
Later on in September 2017 due to me leaving Hong Kong to go to Uni in the UK I ended up selling most of my PC parts and ultimately decided in January 2018 that I wanted to buy a new PC.
 
I was determined not to buy Nvidia because of my awful experiences with Nvidia drivers with my 770 in the last few months of using it. I wanted an AMD card. Unfortunately for me the mining craze was still very much alive in early 2018 and after careful consideration I decided to buy an RX 480 8GB at a ludicrous asking price of £320. It was actually a really nice card other than the excessive heat and noise due to being a blower reference card. I put up with the noise and heat for a while but in August 2018 I decided I wanted to sell my reference 480 and buy a much better 480. I ended up with a seller refurbished Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB and bought it for £199 on eBay. I was able to sell my reference RX 480 8GB but at substantial loss and I came to terms with the fact that I'd never get that money back.
 
I really liked my Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB. It was the perfect RX 480 8GB. But gaming had moved on and some video games were pushing the envelope of graphics too hard and also the increasing number of unoptimized PC titles meant that in some games my 480 delivered a mediocre experience. In December 2018 I decided I wanted to buy a new graphics card. Either the upcoming rumored at the time Navi based RX 3080 with the rumored performance of an RX Vega 56 or buying a Vega 56.
 
In January 2019 I made the decision to purchase an RX Vega 56 after realizing that any potential GPUs being shown off at CES would be many months away at best. By a stroke of luck I was unintentionally correct as AMD announced the Radeon VII, a $699 RTX 2080 competitor, instead of the Navi series.
 
Before I sold my Nitro+ 480 8GB I wanted to benchmark it to compare it to my current RX Vega 56 so I do have comparisons to it in most games and synthetic benchmarks I've chosen. In several synthetic tests I have results from my GTX 770 as well for a 3 way comparison.
 
 
Testing notes
 
The test system is my main PC with an R7 1700X Stock, MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon Motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3200 (2x 8GB), Corsair RM850i PSU, and Corsair H100i V2 CPU cooler.
 
The performance numbers for my RX 480 are from my Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8GB with AMD Radeon Software Adrenaline Edition 18.11.2 . My RX Vega 56 card is an Asus ROG Strix triple fan that I bought from @ChewToy! and is running AMD Radeon Software Adrenaline 2019 Edition 19.1.2 although at the time of posting the latest version is 19.2.1 . I didn't switch to the new version when it came out as I had already done a large amount of testing before and wanted to be consistent across all the games and tests.
 
Between changing GPUs the drivers were freshly removed using DDU, display driver uninstaller (a 3rd party program which is good for removing gpu drivers), with a new version downloaded from AMD's website and installed.
 
Both were on Windows 10 Version 1809 X64 with no real difference between them in the software side. During testing I closed all applications that weren't required for benchmarking.
 
Performance information in most games was recorded by FRAPS except in games using DX12 or Vulkan. In games using DX12 or Vulkan, the built in benchmarking tool was used which provided performance information.
 
Some games were tested using Virtual Super Resolution. It's basically AMD's version of allowing upscaling to higher than native resolutions. In those cases I have specified if it has been used and what resolution it was tested at. I did also decide to test some synthetics as well.
 
I may add more game benchmark results at a later date if I have time.
 
List of games tested (Year it was released) and notes:
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (2016) Battlefield 4 (2013) - Actual gameplay of first story checkpoint F1 2015 (2014) For Honor (2016) Grid Autosport (2014) GTA V PC (2015) - Actual gameplay of first story mission Metro 2033 Redux (2014) Metro: Last Light Redux (2014) Middle Earth: Shadow Of Mordor (2014) Tomb Raider (2013) Rise of The Tomb Raider (2015) Watch_Dogs 2 (2016) - Actual gameplay - I have found some issues with the benchmark results so I'll be re-doing the Vega 56 benchmarking for it.  
List of Synthetic Benchmarks tested
3DMark Firestrike 3DMark Firestrike Extreme 3DMark Timespy 3DMark Timespy Extreme Folding at Home Benchmark  
Benchmark charts
 
Gaming Benchmarks

 
Synthetic Benchmarks
 
I'll re-add Watch Dogs 2 results once I'm satisfied the re-tested benchmark results are indicative of actual gameplay performance.
 
Conclusion
Overall then is the Vega 56 a good upgrade from someone around an RX 480 level of performance? I would say hell yeah. It's a major improvement in performance and the only thing holding it back is prices although prices have gotten a lot better recently. If you can get one near MSRP or buy one used for cheaper then it's definitely worth it. I'll be doing more testing on my Vega 56 in the future. Sorry I rushed this a bit.
 
I'm going to update this with the synthetic performance and more benchmarks later so check back on this thread in the future for updates.
 
Definitely am thrilled with my purchase and I would buy a Vega 56 again if given the same situation.
 
Thanks for checking this out .

I like building things, riding motorcycles, working on cars, and I'm a B-Class USPSA competitor. 

SCCA SOLO II autocrossing.
Restoring Italian sports cars
Fetish photography (I make money this way, to fund my other hobbies)

I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.