Nice find Matt. Shame it is from September the 22nd
Fair point. That means it was likely before the 13.11 290X drivers then. 13.11 definitely offers more performance than any previous driver ive tried.
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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory
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Fair point. That means it was likely before the 13.11 290X drivers then. 13.11 definitely offers more performance than any previous driver ive tried.
I don't think they will be too far off, especially when you consider these results which show something similar.
The elephant in the room would be the Chinese benches which have it as a draw, maybe the smallest advantage to the 290X. The problem with those is the 40% fan profile and 95c temps. Throttling could well be occurring on those which is going to affect benchmark scores. A look at a stock 7950 boosts benchmark scores will tell you that.
Gpu boost working its magic no doubt.
Also possible the 290X was benched on 13.10. 13.11 (290X driver) offers gains on synthetic scores.
3dmark 2011 still favours Nvidia cards. Firestrike more to AMD. Heaven and Valley maybe a slight favour to the AMD cards mentioned because they're simply faster than their Nvidia counter parts.
Lol titan beating performance at £350? What planet are you living on. If it beats titan performance all AMD need to do is price it slightly higher than a 780 and that's fair enough. If the 290X beats the titan i bet the 290 will beat the 780 and then they can price that slightly cheaper than the 780.
If you want titan beating performance at £300-£350 you need two AMD 7950's. Otherwise you can buy a 770 for the same price.
Computer says no i think. The core is slightly differently shaped (512bit bus i guess?) and i think its at a different angle from the 7970 core.
Good man!
Most likely.
This is a sign folks to give me all your gpus...
Lol. It sure does. Sit back and watch from the sidelines.
Tommy did make me laugh though with this.
That smiley face gets my everytime.
That hitler video was great btw. Props to whoever did it. The part about Broomstick and 60fps at all times raised a smile.
I might have to do one of those.
I might have to do one of those.
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Oops this might be on a video thats not on the forums. I should have picked up on that as it contains swear words. Now if you'll excuse me ill just go and take my foot out of my mouth.
i wonder if roy is driving the truck
The phrase keep on truckin and AMD Roy go well together i think.
Ah ok, well I'll take it as a compliment if I'm mentioned
Its all good.
Regarding your video though. Pretty sure the 7970 was a reference blower when it was first launched so its standard for AMD to do this. It would also reach 90c+ if you ran it at stock clocks with only 40% fan speed. 4-6 weeks till non reference 290X cards come out according to Gibbo.
Makes sense to me.
It's all in jest, 90c+ isn't exactly new territory for modern GPUs
They'll be loud as they're identical to 7970 reference of which i owned one but at such low fan speed cooling performance will be poor. I could tolerate mine up to 60% or so. I'd imagine that would be good for 80c or lower on the 290x at stock.
Montreal showdown - 290X vs. 780 at 4K, open event.
Not that i know of.
Interesting that AMD had the balls to challenge a 780 on Bioshock Infinte with DDOF enabled. This is a setting (DDOF) that notoriously favours Nvidia cards. It offers zero image quality benefit but does hurt both sides fps considerably. Sadly most review sites bench it. Let me tell you, default Ultra preset is better and this setting favours AMD cards strongly.
Typo i think Tommy. Otherwise the two graphs he just posted contradict everything he says.
Typo i think Tommy. Otherwise the two graphs he just posted contradict everything he says.
Why would they disable TressFX and enable DDOF? Me thinks AMD are going easy on the 780 here.