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XFX DD 290X benched at 4K - Stomps on 780Ti's

Mal X said:
it wont.......you wont notice 4k on a 60'' screen, 4K is for 80'' and over.

you can only improve on the standard 1080p image and that is OLED, it is miles better than anything else, it's not the resolution that counts, it's the P.Q

Games will still look poor on an OLED tv, simply because Games look poor anyway, e.g Crysis is the best graphics we've got, but it still looks rubbish compared to watching the news on an HD TV.
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Of the Oled tvs shown at ces this year, the types of prices being thrown about were still £15k plus
OLED is a loooong way off being consumer friendly, where as 4k Tvs are from sub-£1k already...
 
Can someone explain something to me, how is it possible to run multiple air-cooled gfx cards all bunched up like that with no clearance?
 
MjFrosty said:
Honestly wouldn't even contemplate running that as a perm solution! Water is the way :)
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Yep, Hawaii loves water. My second ref 780 Ti coming soon. Interesting to see how loud a pair of Ti's can be, my single card honestly isn't audible over my other case fans. God knows what witchcraft they used to make such a quiet GPU :confused:

Really these 4K benchy's aren't really relevant to actual gamers. Only useful as an advertising campaign for the people who trying to convince us we need better GPU's for a format we're not even using yet..

1080P multiscreen or 1440P is where it's at atm. Both the 290X and 780 Ti do well at those res. Now I have seen how ridiculous the performance hit is.. It takes 4 x 290X's to get near 60fps. Who would want that type of performance overhead? I would take a 1440P IPS screen over 4K any day.. Maybe in 5 years when dual cards can handle 4K I would look at getting one :p
 
I can't comment on how loud two are (780ti), but three could get pretty loud. It's half the reason I decided to scrap the air coolers. If you cap the frame limit then it's not so bad, but letting them go wild in BF4 used to eventually throttle them to 550ish core which is very low, bouncing off the temperature target. An aggressive fan profile helped, but it was too much in the bedroom and the Mrs could hear it pretty loudly over the TV lol :D.

Two I'd imagine you can space so it's not so bad.
 
MjFrosty said:
I can't comment on how loud two are (780ti), but three could get pretty loud. It's half the reason I decided to scrap the air coolers. If you cap the frame limit then it's not so bad, but letting them go wild in BF4 used to eventually throttle them to 550ish core which is very low, bouncing off the temperature target. An aggressive fan profile helped, but it was too much in the bedroom and the Mrs could hear it pretty loudly over the TV lol :D.

Two I'd imagine you can space so it's not so bad.
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I remember trying 3 x 7950 in trifire, god damn that got loud. The power draw as well lol.

Just read the Guru3D SLI review, two cards seems fine, will have a large gap inbetween my cards as well, so decent airflow. Hoping the other card arrives soon, itching to test them out lol.

Single and 2-way SLI offer quite silent to normal noise levels wise, (in-game) we measure 41 dBA, that is just fine. You can hear some airflow but that's pretty much it.
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http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gtx_780_ti_sli_geforce_review,7.html

Back on topic:

These XFX card look really nice, would still go for the ASUS DCUII out of all the 290X's though. That card is a monster.
 
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Boomstick777 said:
Yep, Hawaii loves water. My second ref 780 Ti coming soon. Interesting to see how loud a pair of Ti's can be, my single card honestly isn't audible over my other case fans. God knows what witchcraft they used to make such a quiet GPU :confused:

Really these 4K benchy's aren't really relevant to actual gamers. Only useful as an advertising campaign for the people who trying to convince us we need better GPU's for a format we're not even using yet..

1080P multiscreen or 1440P is where it's at atm. Both the 290X and 780 Ti do well at those res. Now I have seen how ridiculous the performance hit is.. It takes 4 x 290X's to get near 60fps. Who would want that type of performance overhead? I would take a 1440P IPS screen over 4K any day.. Maybe in 5 years when dual cards can handle 4K I would look at getting one :p
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I had my three titans on air for a bit and they were only marginally noisier unless really pushing the overclocks
 
MjFrosty said:
Niiiiice. If Mantle proves it's worth three of these on water sounds appealing :D. As you say though, I've been burnt by XFX in the past as have a few others on here. It's all good as long as nothing goes wrong lol.
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Honest question, they say in the article the main reason why these cards are faster than the reference ones is they don't throttle. If you're going to watercool them, why not just get reference 290x's? You're paying for the custom cooler which you're just going to remove...
 
So at 4K does 4GB VRAM cover it?
I'm just wondering if around BF5 time we're gonna get a thread saying that 4GB is not enough for BF5 or something?
Although I guess it depends what VRAM the AMD cards have and what VRAM the Nvidia cards have at that time. I'm sure the thread will be "<Nvida amount of VRAM> is not enough for BF5!!!" :)
 
Calneon said:
Honest question, they say in the article the main reason why these cards are faster than the reference ones is they don't throttle. If you're going to watercool them, why not just get reference 290x's? You're paying for the custom cooler which you're just going to remove...
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Some of the custom cards have other advantages. Take the ASUS DCUII for example. The entire PCB is custom, better quality components, has much better build quality. Worth the extra imho..
 
Boomstick777 said:
Some of the custom cards have other advantages. Take the ASUS DCUII for example. The entire PCB is custom, better quality components, has much better build quality. Worth the extra imho..
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The Asus card is crap. Give me the AMD reference PCB anyway which is quality and overclocks well.
 
LtMatt said:
The Asus card is crap. Give me the AMD reference PCB anyway which is quality and overclocks well.
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I noticed some interesting things about the 290 pcb last night, may go some way to explaining the lack of creativity towards the ref cooler too...;)
 
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