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7950 underperforming

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Suitecake

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PC specs are in the signature.

Crysis at max (1920 x 1080) is pretty choppy and pretty much unplayable.

Skyrim at max (1920 x 1080) is even choppier, and definitely unplayable.

All of the benchmark reviews I've read about the 7950 indicates that my card is very much underperforming.

Windows Experience Index rates Graphics and Gaming Graphics at 6.6 (down from 7.9, from last month).

What's happening here? The only thing I've changed in the last month is updating to the new AMD driver, which shouldn't be bringing a decrease?

EDIT: Signature didn't retroactively update. Specs are below:

i7 2700K (3.5 GHz)
Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
OCZ Agility 3 240GB SSD
CORSAIR Professional Series HX850 (CMPSU-850HX) 850W
 
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Yes you got a massive underperforming issue here, that view is validated 100%. However, cant currently say where the problem is located but i will think about. ;)

Few stuff i would like to see from you:
-A screenshot from CPU-Z
-A screenshot from GPU-Z (including load values while gaming with)
-A screenshot from Catalyst Manager at software information and performance tab

Most likely a driver issue. I would check out if the old driver still working proper. If so... keep at it and try to update some other time. Not worth it to bulge with, stuff like that happens from time to time. And make sure that you did completly uninstall the old drivers and always restart the PC after.
 
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Most likely a driver issue. I would check out if the old driver still working proper. If so... keep at it and try to update some other time. Not worth it to bulge with, stuff like that happens from time to time. And make sure that you did completly uninstall the old drivers and always restart the PC after.

+1

AMD's drivers do sometimes mess up.
 
WEI is fun, its usualy totaly overestimating my GPU performance, but it does slightly underestimate CPU performance. Surely, its totaly junk in order to judge GPU performance.
 
Thanks a ton for the feedback guys.

I'm rather confused about this whole AMD driver business. There's the Catalyst software (which has some scattered 3D settings), but then there's the driver itself? Does uninstalling Catalyst automatically uninstall the corresponding driver?

What, exactly, do I need to do to revert to these previous drivers?
 
WEI is fun, its usualy totaly overestimating my GPU performance, but it does slightly underestimate CPU performance. Surely, its totaly junk in order to judge GPU performance.
its junk for damn near everything.
 
WAY LATE but here it is. The problem has not been solved by the driver update. Yesterday I wiped my drivers clean, reinstalled Catalyst and all that. Portal 2 at full 1920 x 1080 lags (turning down Anisotropic from x16 to x4 helps immensely, but still. It shouldn't be lagging at all).

Here are the belated screens from CPU-Z and GPU-Z

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Weirdly, turning on VSync Triple Buffering solved my problems for Portal 2. Still weird that having it on Double Buffering would significantly lag out my game.

Skyrim is still unplayable at full.
 
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