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Has Anyone Actually Noticed A Difference Between Driver Branches For Machine Learning Experiments?

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  1. Cleo Jansen
    @cjansen

    mixed-use PC here: half and half... can someone who has tried both branches share their experience? id love to hear whether it made a real difference for machine learning experiemnts or whether its mostly marketing... i am not chasing benchmark numbers. i mostly want fewer surprises and a dirver that does not change every two weeks, if you switched branches, did you notice anything at all, positive or negative? and would u switch back? seriously need help here 馃槶

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  2. Amara Pereira
    @apereira-1ip

    broadly: gaming branches ship faster with optimizations for new releases... studio/stable branches ship less often and focus on validation with creative apps. both run games and apps fine. the difference is cadence and test focus, not capability.

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  3. Tariq Yilmaz
    @night_hound

    ps i come back to this thread every week just for teh drama. +1 same here :)

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  4. Tariq Yilmaz
    @night_hound

    hmmm if programming pays your bills, teh stable/studio branch is a sensible default... games still run well on it; u just get new game optimizations a bit later.

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  5. Amara Pereira
    @apereira-1ip

    wowww ok ok update: did what @pixel_fox-3ta said and its fine now

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  7. Eamon Jansen
    @routergarage

    ok so dont hop branches every week. pick one, note the version, and only change when smth you need is fixed or added, freqeunt switching makes troubleshooting harder. fingers crossed 馃

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  8. Nell D.
    @ndemir

    i swear 18.q4 is cursed

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  9. Nell D.
    @ndemir

    oh ive been there lol make a backup before u touch the BIOS, learned that the hard way

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  11. Ibrahim
    @pixel_fox-3ta

    ok so check ur creative app's system requirements page, some list a minimum driver version for GPU acceleration features, make sure whichever branch u pick meets that.

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  14. Nell D.
    @ndemir

    ugh. ok this thread just saved my weekend... same issue here on my office machine... glad im not teh only one pls help 馃檹

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  15. Viktor
    @viktor.reyes

    ahh classic try turning off teh power plan first, fixed it for me

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  16. Tariq Yilmaz
    @night_hound

    ok so switching branches is easy: download the other package from the AMD support page and install it with the clean install option (or DDU if you want to be thorough). your apps dont need reinstalling. hope that helps :)

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  17. Tariq Yilmaz
    @night_hound

    ok this thread just saved my weekend. which version are you on??

    cry

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  18. Viktor
    @viktor.reyes

    ok weird one spent 20 minutes on game-ready and im still not done

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  19. Nell D.
    @ndemir

    reading this at 2am instead of slepeing, no regrets

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