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Any benchmarks for R9 390 X2?

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I remember reading that review when it came out, It paints a pretty dire picture for the AMD card. I'm tired of it always being 4k results lately too.
 
I was hoping for better performance than a xfire setup given it is a single pcb with a shared 16gb memory. benchmarks on this site are not very convincing. but still better performance than any single card solution (most of the times; provided there is a decent xfire profile available for that title). 295x2 was similar but it had liquid cooling. not sure how well the air cooler will handle all that heat.
 
The memory isn't shared, the card only has 8GB of VRAM available to it.

Results for a 295X2 are going to give the closest ball park performance wise.
 
I believe DX12 might be able to utilise the full 16gb in some fashion but in relality its always been 8gb per GPU.. if you run them in SLI/Crossfire you only get 1 lot of vram
 
nashathedog said:
I remember reading that review when it came out, It paints a pretty dire picture for the AMD card. I'm tired of it always being 4k results lately too.
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Are we looking at the same review? All I see is the 390x2 beating the 970SLI handily is most of the games and matching it in Project CARS (known to perform badly on AMD).
The way HardOCP tests makes the 970 card look a bit faster if you look at the numbers but look at the settings used and you'll find the 390X2 is using higher settings in most of the games. So generally they show what the MAX playable settings/fps are for each card.

As an example look at the following:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/10/19/powercolor_devil_13_dual_core_r9_390_video_card_review/6#.VkTOw-KsmMo

In the GTAV test you can see the 390X2 gets 52.1 fps and the 970SLI gets 71.8. The 390 looks much slower but in reality the settings on the 390X2 are all maxed out but on the 970 they are quite a bit lower.

Overall the 390X2 is a great 4K card but I think a bit overpriced. Should really be similar to 2 x 390's.
 
fs123 said:
Are we looking at the same review? All I see is the 390x2 beating the 970SLI handily is most of the games and matching it in Project CARS (known to perform badly on AMD).
The way HardOCP tests makes the 970 card look a bit faster if you look at the numbers but look at the settings used and you'll find the 390X2 is using higher settings in most of the games. So generally they show what the MAX playable settings/fps are for each card.

As an example look at the following:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/10/19/powercolor_devil_13_dual_core_r9_390_video_card_review/6#.VkTOw-KsmMo

In the GTAV test you can see the 390X2 gets 52.1 fps and the 970SLI gets 71.8. The 390 looks much slower but in reality the settings on the 390X2 are all maxed out but on the 970 they are quite a bit lower.

Overall the 390X2 is a great 4K card but I think a bit overpriced. Should really be similar to 2 x 390's.
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They really could have done with comparing like for like settings, doesn't really work comparing apples to oranges as we can't see how it falls or flies in comparison to the competition that way. Probably going to be a good card overall but that review changing the settings doesn't really help gather a full picture.
 
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