Over the last year, I upgraded a GTX 1070 to an RX 6600, for a short time.
More recently I upgraded by RTX 3060 TI to an RX 6950 XT.
Big performance gains on both, but the performance in Valorant puzzles me for both machines.
Increases frame-rate in all games, but I get stuttering in Valorant. Given the fast TTK in a game like Valorant, a stutter, can quickly mean death.
I believe it's related the shader cache building, because its really bad, unplayable for the first night after a driver update. Greatly alleviated if I go to the shooting range for 15 minutes and run through all agent abilities. But the stuttering never goes away completely. Which is probably due to the large catalogue of guns people own, and their unique animations that occur.
(No stuttering at all with Nvidia. Even on an older card like the GTX 1070.)
But I notice every night when I go to play, abilities still set off stutters for a few rounds. Then it smooths out with hiccups here and there.
If I were to just keep the framerate graph up, somebody might say I'm just being dramatic. "You dropped from 250 fps (limit set), to 230 fps. Big deal. You don't actually notice that."
But that's not the case. It's not really a lower steady framerate, its a skip in 10-15 consecutive frames. It becomes very clear to spot these stutters by keeping the graph "CPU Wait GPU Time" graph up.
This was from the first 12 matches of Swiftplay after a driver update.
These are 6 days later of playing. These are from the opening rounds. Abilities causing stutters. It does smooth out soon after (unlike fresh driver install).
Specs
(The RX6600 machine was Windows 10, no TPM, because I know that gets blamed sometimes)
I'm curious if everybody with AMD video cards has this issue? If not, maybe give that "CPU Wait GPU Time" graph a check, and see if you then notice something you missed.
If not... what I am doing wrong? Any settings that help resolve this? I feel like I've tried everything in AMD Adrenaline and Valorant settings.
I remember messing around with settings on the Nvidia machine, and I recalled seeing a "CPU Wait GPU Time"... but it was like a 3ms steady delay. Not spikes. That was when Reflex + Boost was off. AMD doesn't have that, so maybe this game is just heavily optimized for Nvidia.
Additional Note: I noticed this issue with the RX 6600 early this year, so its not a recent driver or game update issue. It's been ongoing for AMD cards. I also tried disabling "DXNavi" for DX11 which reverts back to how AMD card functioned back in early 2022. I don't want to revert drivers to before 22.5 since I play new games also. Also disabled MPO. Resizable BAR is enabled.
