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ASUS Radeon R9 390X DirectCU II OC details leak, has 8GB of GDDR5 RAM

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If this is Hawaii with clocks bumped up, then... mega fail Amd! My guess is it is something else with new gcn architecture and higher clocks. Hence a new card. Should easily beat 980 and with double the vram to top it and be priced same or cheaper.
People getting all disappointed and upset and judging amd when they do not have all the information, lol.
 
It's sad that I'm not even surprised. I have no faith in AMD anymore. Don't really want to be a fanboy, but I can't imagine I'll ever not buy intel and Nvidia unless someone buys and fixes AMD.

It's just simple maths really. They don't have the money or the man power to do a better job than intel or nvidia and it's probably going to get worse. At best they can tie with them and that's not a reason to switch, particularly when crossfire is a poor alternative to SLI due to driver issues.

I dunno, maybe these cards will blow us away some how. I do need a new card, but I'm not going to buy one if it isn't significantly cheaper than the nvidia equivalent or flat out better and I have my doubts on either of them.
 
MumboJumbo said:
It's sad that I'm not even surprised. I have no faith in AMD anymore. Don't really want to be a fanboy, but I can't imagine I'll ever not buy intel and Nvidia unless someone buys and fixes AMD.

It's just simple maths really. They don't have the money or the man power to do a better job than intel or nvidia and it's probably going to get worse. At best they can tie with them and that's not a reason to switch, particularly when crossfire is a poor alternative to SLI due to driver issues.

I dunno, maybe these cards will blow us away some how. I do need a new card, but I'm not going to buy one if it isn't significantly cheaper than the nvidia equivalent or flat out better and I have my doubts on either of them.
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Most reasonable analysis yet.
 
It's not reasoned at all, he's firstly saying he's not surprised... about a story that was withdrawn almost immediately and pretty much 99% untrue. THat is poor analysis, can't even get that the article isn't true.

Then the rest, complaining about AMD xfire because what, Witcher 3 doesn't have a great profile out of the box... while Nvidia provide driver after driver that crashes constantly for thousands of users in both single card and sli modes. While AMD's 'old' driver works absolutely flawlessly in Witcher 3.

AMD have bad drivers because single card works perfectly in the biggest/latest AAA game but isn't great in xfire. Nvidia are great because their drivers specifically for the game suck for single card, suck for sli and especially suck for an entire generation of Kepler users.....

AMD one small problem effecting sub 1% of all AMD users, Nvidia has a huge problem effecting all users..... AMD have worse drivers.
 
People do exaggerate AMD drivers issues DM but you've exaggerated nVidia driver issues just as badly with that post...
 
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It's not reasoned at all, he's firstly saying he's not surprised... about a story that was withdrawn almost immediately and pretty much 99% untrue. THat is poor analysis, can't even get that the article isn't true.

Then the rest, complaining about AMD xfire because what, Witcher 3 doesn't have a great profile out of the box... while Nvidia provide driver after driver that crashes constantly for thousands of users in both single card and sli modes. While AMD's 'old' driver works absolutely flawlessly in Witcher 3.

AMD have bad drivers because single card works perfectly in the biggest/latest AAA game but isn't great in xfire. Nvidia are great because their drivers specifically for the game suck for single card, suck for sli and especially suck for an entire generation of Kepler users.....

AMD one small problem effecting sub 1% of all AMD users, Nvidia has a huge problem effecting all users..... AMD have worse drivers.
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First off, you don't know what I'm not surprised about because I never stated. I haven't been following the new GPUs much recently, but last I heard, the 390x wasn't a rebrand and was meant to be awesome and all that. Everything I've seen everywhere seems to state otherwise, which is sad but I'm not surprised that AMD are bringing so little to the table these days.

Secondly, I'm sorry but crossfire is inferior to SLI. Drivers will ALWAYS be an issue with crossfire because of the way it's designed. I never stated that their single card drivers had problems did I. I never said anything about single cards at all.

If you have a choice of two cards, same performance and same price, the Nvidia card is the superior card purely because you have the option of SLI over crossfire in the future. That is my point. I will always pick Nvidia because of this unless AMD offer a superior card or a significantly cheaper price and I don't believe they are going to because I have lost faith in them.
 
r7slayer said:
So why so botherd about a AMD card if u only buy Nvidia?
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Ok this is my last reply because it appears you aren't capable of reading what I'm saying. Here it is again for you to try reading:

"I will always pick Nvidia because of this [SLI] unless AMD offer a superior card or a significantly cheaper price and I don't believe they are going to because I have lost faith in them."

You see that word "unless"? That means there are reasons I would buy AMD and I even stated them. I will buy the superior product, but I won't buy an AMD card if there is an Nvidia equivalent that isn't significantly more expensive. I would rather have the option of SLI in the future rather than Xfire. There is nothing wrong with that.
 
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It's not reasoned at all, he's firstly saying he's not surprised... about a story that was withdrawn almost immediately and pretty much 99% untrue. THat is poor analysis, can't even get that the article isn't true.

Then the rest, complaining about AMD xfire because what, Witcher 3 doesn't have a great profile out of the box... while Nvidia provide driver after driver that crashes constantly for thousands of users in both single card and sli modes. While AMD's 'old' driver works absolutely flawlessly in Witcher 3.

AMD have bad drivers because single card works perfectly in the biggest/latest AAA game but isn't great in xfire. Nvidia are great because their drivers specifically for the game suck for single card, suck for sli and especially suck for an entire generation of Kepler users.....

AMD one small problem effecting sub 1% of all AMD users, Nvidia has a huge problem effecting all users..... AMD have worse drivers.
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Yes, the world is out to get AMD. Get real.

AMD are becoming infamous for their support. Go to any tech story about any AMD GPU and its littered with people complaining about AMD drivers/support or at least comparing them unfavourably to Nvidia. Is the problem exaggerated? Absolutely. But there's always a level of truth to any mass perception. Just go read the last 20 pages of the AMD driver thread. Its full of AMD GPU owners fed up with AMD. Reputable tech sites such as PcPer have straight up said Nvidia is 'miles ahead of AMD in terms of driver development'. But of course they're just out to get AMD.

Personally I would be happy to own a single AMD card, but I wouldn't touch crossfire with a bargepole based on what I've heard and read.
 
Another thread from a website that's spun more fictional tales than you'd find in a book of fairy stories.
 
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