**AMD Fiji Thread**

[Hilly]

and back on topic please guys...

 

[Stanners]

Can someone explain to me the significance of power draw please? How does it impact on people?

To the uneducated like me, its kinda like the current trend in cars where young people care more about MPG than BHP, it seems almost depressing.

Is it down to temperatures and ability to overclock?

I have a 750w PSU and as long as it can power my card then I dont really care what the card draws.

What is making it such an important characteristic these days?

Power equals heat which then needs cooling as we all know energy is a constant. Some are bothered, others are not!

 

[Silent_Scone]

Can someone explain to me the significance of power draw please? How does it impact on people?

To the uneducated like me, its kinda like the current trend in cars where young people care more about MPG than BHP, it seems almost depressing.

Is it down to temperatures and ability to overclock?

I have a 750w PSU and as long as it can power my card then I dont really care what the card draws.

What is making it such an important characteristic these days?

That's a question for another thread, power draw is more of a concern with thermals than the power consumed, energy efficiency on high end parts isn't as much of a concern, but the transfer of that thermal energy is - crudely put!

 

[Harlequin]

http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-fury-x-playing-sniper-elite-iii-at-12k-resolution-and-60-fps/


AMD have a point , why are textures resident in the card memory , when not being used? so scrub them until then are procedurally needed thus reducing memory overheads

 

[Mynight]

I don't know how big textures tend to be but wouldn't the SATA be the bottleneck at that point if you're constantly dropping and pulling textures?

 

[africanos23]

http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-fury-x-playing-sniper-elite-iii-at-12k-resolution-and-60-fps/


AMD have a point , why are textures resident in the card memory , when not being used? so scrub them until then are procedurally needed thus reducing memory overheads

More work for the console port devs.... who, could care less.

This would needed to be managed through the game engine most likely.

 

[andybird123]

http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-fury-x-playing-sniper-elite-iii-at-12k-resolution-and-60-fps/


AMD have a point , why are textures resident in the card memory , when not being used? so scrub them until then are procedurally needed thus reducing memory overheads

Because calling textures from vram is much quicker than loading them from system ram every time you need them

All gpus have memory management that ditches unused textures when others are needed, but doing it to aggresively leads to texture pop in

 

[LtMatt]

There bench here states 40FPS



Here are the settings aswell :

I'll be testing myself soon.

FYI My 290X scores 22.3 on quick run just now at the same settings.

 

[Besty]

Sniper elite 3 is expected to blow away the 54% average performance bump of the Fury X over the 290X because it scales with memory bandwidth.

Looking at those two results above its more a like 70%+ performance bump.

Valley will be the other big one which will scale like crazy with HBM.

 

[Harlequin]

calling textures might be quicker , but if those textures are called for 50>100 cycles or more , then its wasted space.

 

[theor14]

Full circulation
Left space to fit the fury X rad at the back, seeing as I won't put it in my loop I had to swap a 360 in the top for a 240 to leave space but I now have 5x120 just for CPU XD

Spoiler

 

[africanos23]

I'll be testing myself soon.

FYI My 290X scores 22.3 on quick run just now at the same settings.

Don't have the game but would be interested in the results. Any chance you are getting 2,3 or 4 ? (99.9% chance I guess but asked anyway )

Would consider swapping if HBM = Witchcraft

 

[LtMatt]

Don't have the game but would be interested in the results. Any chance you are getting 2,3 or 4 ? (99.9% chance I guess but asked anyway )

The money is set aside for four.

I'll be posting plenty of benchmarks, don't worry.

 

[Captain]

You got to wait until release day like us Matt?

 

[africanos23]

The money is set aside for four.

I'll be posting plenty of benchmarks, don't worry.

Brute force

Me likes!

 

[LtMatt]

You got to wait until release day like us Matt?

Afraid so, but with a bit of luck I'll have a few by Thursday.

 

[Squink]

The money is set aside for four.

I hope you get a 20pc staff discount!

 

[LtMatt]

I hope you get a 20pc staff discount!

I'll be buying them from OcuK, so no discount. I'll be paying over the odds too, but demand will exceed supply for a while so it's to be expected. I've had plenty of time to prepare a 'hobby fund' though, as you can imagine.

 

[africanos23]

I'll be buying them from OcuK, so no discount. I'll be paying over the odds too, but demand will exceed supply for a while so it's to be expected. I've had plenty of time to prepare a 'hobby fund' though, as you can imagine.

Who pays £649 for a GPU ? Madness

 

[LtMatt]

Who pays £649 for a GPU ? Madness

Heh, could wait a couple of weeks and pay £549 but i don't think i can do it.