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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory

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humbug said:
there will be a few exceptions with all GPU's and a few willing to run them to the point where they artefact like mad just to post a very high score.
There is nothing normal every day use about that.
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Well you could say exactly the same about the stupidly high 7970 clocks people have benched at but we all know fine well they will crash in certain games or after a certain amount of time at those clocks.

I've seen enough 1300mhz 780's to believe it's more than just a one off, maybe not the norm but certainly possible.
 
Gregster said:
After playing Crysis 3 at 5760x1080 and seeing over 4.6GB of VRAM used, this doesn't strike me as the card to get for 4K. It is fairly mute though because 4K isn't a viable option for the 99% of gamers but when the prices come down to an acceptable level, then we will be seeing GPU's that not only require 3 times as much grunt as the current cards but 3 times the VRAM.
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+1

AMD have made a big thing out of how the R9 290X is good for 4K, this is totally irresponsible as it does not have the vram to run 3 or 4 cards in xfire with max settings.
 
In a nutshell.

Classifieds and Lightnings for those who love benchmarking and being at the dizzy heights

Other 780's are for those who want a fast card to play games.
 
humbug said:
On this forum and others few of them are running higher than 1200Mhz, 4 out of 18 in the Valley thread, most of them are at 1Ghz to 1150. those are the normal clocks for them.

There will be a few exceptions with all GPU's and a few willing to run them to the point where they artefact like mad just to post a very high score.
There is nothing normal every day use about that.
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There are plenty of nice overclocks on the Heaven 4 bench

1. Score 1872, GPU 780 @1443/1972, CPU 3960X @5.2, newhit
2. Score 1870, GPU nvTitan @1346/1876, CPU 3930k @5.0, Gregster
3. Score 1858, GPU nvTitan @1293/1906, CPU 2500k @5.0, khemist
4. Score 1825, GPU nvTitan @1280/1852, CPU 3930k @4.8, whyscotty
5. Score 1746, GPU nvTitan @1189/1801, CPU 3770k @4.5, csaris
6. Score 1696, GPU 780 @1357/1728, CPU 2500k @4.5, SS-89
7. Score 1695, GPU nvTitan @1202/1652, CPU 3770k @4.5, Dirkscooby
8. Score 1675, GPU nvTitan @1011/1671, CPU 3930k @5.0, Kaapstad
9=. Score 1672, GPU nvTitan @1189/1638, CPU 3930k @4.9, Nuwidol
9=. Score 1672, GPU 780 @1280/1800, CPU 3770k @4.5, zpaf
11. Score 1649, GPU nvTitan @985/1752, CPU 3770k @6.35, 8 Pack
12. Score 1644, GPU 780 @1250/1645, CPU 3770k @4.5, darket
13. Score 1638, GPU 780 @1254/1801, CPU 3770k @4.7, Rusty0611
14. Score 1635, GPU 780 @1337/1667, CPU 4930k @4.8, SimonMaltby
15. Score 1633, GPU 780 @1332/1630, CPU 2500k @4.5, Andy321
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That chap, 8 Pack at No.11 is letting the side down though lol.
 
Suarez7 said:
Well you could say exactly the same about the stupidly high 7970 clocks people have benched at but we all know fine well they will crash in certain games or after a certain amount of time at those clocks.

I've seen enough 1300mhz 780's to believe it's more than just a one off, maybe not the norm but certainly possible.
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Yes, same goes for the 7970, and some will do the same on the R9 290X.

These are not clocks that you can use, not the 7970, not the 780, not the Titan and the same will go for the R9 290X.

On this forum and others few of them are running higher than 1200Mhz, 4 out of 18 in the Valley thread, most of them are at 1Ghz to 1150. those are the normal clocks for them.
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4 out of 18 is pretty much (a few off) and i bet all of them will have been displaying a 1970's disco on the screen.
 
humbug said:
4 out of 18 is pretty much (a few off) and i bet all of them will have been displaying a 1970's disco on the screen.
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No artefacting here, what I will say though is AMD cards tend to start artefacting quicker when you start clocking them. They seem to be able to withstand it for longer though, just an observation I've made having mixed and matched between the two over the years.
 
Suarez7 said:
No artefacting here, what I will say though is AMD cards tend to start artefacting quicker when you start clocking them. They seem to be able to withstand it for longer though, just an observation I've made having mixed and matched between the two over the years.
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You gonna switch from your 780 Suarez?
 
Suarez7 said:
No artefacting here, what I will say though is AMD cards tend to start artefacting quicker when you start clocking them. They seem to be able to withstand it for longer though, just an observation I've made having mixed and matched between the two over the years.
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+1

It is very rare to see an artefact on any of my NVidia cards when overclocking.
 
Oh we have very similar specks Boomstick as well as 3DS and Wii U love, next you'll be telling me you're not going to bother with the 'next gen' consoles.
I'm going to wait until the end of the month to see what's going on, if the game remains the same I'm getting 2x 780 Classifieds and I'll be done with it.
 
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