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JediFragger said:
I can't believe this, not with a game of this magnitude...
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This says it all......

You experience lower than expected performance with AMD CrossFire:

A driver issue causes dual graphics card setups with AMD Crossfire to suffer performance drops. AMD is working hard on a driver update for this issue. In the meantime, disable one graphics card to avoid performance problems.
​​AMD players can change their Crossfire settings through the Catalyst Control Center.


You experience lower than expected performance with NVIDIA SLI:


Make sure you’re running the very latest NVIDIA driver, version 359.00 as of November 19th 2015.


Not happy.........
 
JediFragger said:
Nigh-on unbelievable that a 7970 is still a strong performer after this long!!! What an investment that card was back then :D
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I think it depends on the Game, the 380/X is very different to the 7970, some games like Bioshock Infinite the 380 is faster than the 7970 GE.

Lets compare them.

7970 Ghz: 2048 SP's @ 1050Mhz | 384Bit.
380: 1792 SP's @ 970Mhz | 265Bit

edit: 380X review's are up, also proves my point, the 380X is as fast as a 290 in Bioshock Infinite http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-radeon-r9-380x-4gb-review,14.html

And TPU http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/R9_380X_Strix/1.html

 
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The 380x is very disappointing overall. According to Tech power ups review it sits below the 280x for overall performance and it would have done a lot worse if not for the Civilizations result where it got a big win.

It's like the Bio shock result above which is a tsunami among a sea of choppy waves.

Wow, unless you want a specific feature like Free-sync this offers bugger all over what it replaces. I would compare it too the 5770 to 6770 gen leap but that had an excuse being that they were basically two identical cards. I don't know why but I was expecting more from this. Now it's a case of hoping there's a big performance leap with the next Omega drivers but I won't be holding my breath for that as based on past actions if that was the case AMD would have wanted them out for the 380x release reviews.

humbug said:
Cheapest 4GB 380 is £169.99

all 380X's are 4GB, cheapest £188.99 So £19 Difference :)
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Thank god for that. At least that's now a no brainer and should help them strengthen there hold on that part of the market.
 
nashathedog said:
The 380x is very disappointing overall. According to Tech power ups review it sits below the 280x for overall performance and it would have done a lot worse if not for the Civilizations result where it got a big win.

It's like the Bio shock result above which is a tsunami among a sea of choppy waves.

Wow, unless you want a specific feature like Free-sync this offers bugger all over what it replaces. I would compare it too the 5770 to 6770 gen leap but that had an excuse being that they were basically two identical cards. I don't know why but I was expecting more from this. Now it's a case of hoping there's a big performance leap with the next Omega drivers but I won't be holding my breath for that as based on past actions if that was the case AMD would have wanted them out for the 380x release reviews.



Thank god for that. At least that's now a no brainer and should help them strengthen there hold on that part of the market.
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Like the difference between a 7950 and a 7970 we already knew it wasn't going to be a lot faster than its little brother.

The 280X being GCN 1.0 suffers from a lack of Tessellation throughput, the thorn in AMD's side that Nvidia seemingly like to exploit, the 380/X don't have that problem so Nvidia cannot exploit it, its actually 5% faster in Bioshock than the GTX 770.

Overall the performance for a 4GB £190 card is pretty good, its a full 30% faster than a GTX 960, a GTX 780 is only 10% faster.

Its a good and well placed card.
 
humbug said:
The 970 is very good at its price point, but its still £60 more and the 970 has the 390 to contend with, its worth it of course but for someone looking at sub £200 its good, the 960 is overpriced at £160.
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Actually, i'm just looking at the 270X and that is the same performance at the GTX 960.
At the moment they just have the 1024 SP 370 for £110, I bet their next GPU will be the 1280 SP 370X for £130, that will put pressure on the 960.
 
A major **** up that, if they are going to bundle Battlefront with the X2, but say one half of the card will be disabled in it as they've now broke xfire (as it apparently worked in the BETA), so your X2 will be running the game as a single Nano, and they are saying they are going to take market share back from Nvidia, when they do things like this.
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
A major **** up that, if they are going to bundle Battlefront with the X2, but say one half of the card will be disabled in it as they've now broke xfire (as it apparently worked in the BETA), so your X2 will be running the game as a single Nano, and they are saying they are going to take market share back from Nvidia, when they do things like this.
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But it ok its AMD, people will give'em a pass, in so many ways. Its like your 'special child' coming home with a D grade. oh well done son. Come AMD stop screwing around.
 
elmuzzy66. said:
But it ok its AMD, people will give'em a pass, in so many ways. Its like your 'special child' coming home with a D grade. oh well done son. Come AMD stop screwing around.
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Well what is there to say, it's a temporary issue more than likely but the real measure of the problem is just how temporary it is. I've never been impatient or childish when it comes to this sort of stuff but I can see why it's going to irk some. Still, if they fix it quickly then it's hardly an issue but if they drag there feet then that's when people can rightfully complain. No point in crying over every little thing when Nvidia isn't doing that great with drivers lately either.
 
Crap for those with crossfire but it's no different to nvidia not having any SLI support for batman AK + fallout 4 SLI being poor (both of which are nvidia sponsored games....) as well as even removing SLI support total war.... There are even reports of SLI not being great in other games so not sure why AMD gets so much slack for their crossfire support :/

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Even reading that SLI is crap for assassins creed syndicate lol....
 
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