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[Kaapstad]

That's too much smutty dirty sexy talk for 1 thread !!!

 

[MrMD]

The problem with most ports on PC isnt really even GPU related.Its terribly optimized/written code that primarily just hammers 1 or 2 threads/cores regardless of how many are available.

FC4 for instance, always 1 core at 100% pretty much no matter what.Other cores varying load depending whats goin on and if you were vsync'ed

 

[Dicehunter]

The problem with most ports on PC isnt really even GPU related.Its terribly optimized/written code that primarily just hammers 1 or 2 threads/cores regardless of how many are available.

FC4 for instance, always 1 core at 100% pretty much no matter what.Other cores varying load depending whats goin on and if you were vsync'ed

I've tried FC4 on both a 295X2 and 980, The stuttering/hitching really annoys me.

 

[MrMD]

I've tried FC4 on both a 295X2 and 980, The stuttering/hitching really annoys me.

Its the same with every bad/dodgy port.

Fc4/Ac4/AC:U/Dead rising 3(although this ran pretty well for me)/Dying light ect ect

rarely are gpus the problem when game performance is bad.Unless your pushing unrealistic settings for your HW

 

[shankly1985]

Dying Light runs perfect .............dont you mean Evil Within, because yes that really is a rubbish game, that's the worst console port ever.......30 fps..........black bars all around it.....menu totally off the screen.... dreadful crashes......miles worst than Far Cry 4

Not sure when last time you played it. But am at this moment playing it single 290x i7 2600k unlocked frame rate and I mostly hang around 90s on max settings at 1080p.

Game us very good looking, and my gpu usage stays solid 99% so I know it's pushing my GPU.

Edit
Evil within btw

 

[Goose]

Hopefully this is a simple enough question; If these new cards are just rebadges would it make sense for me to buy a 290 now whilst they're cheap rather than pay more for a 380?

 

[SiDeards73]

While its technically a rebadge, its also been improved over the current version, so its essentially a better version of the 290. Still i wont be buying it, i want the 390X or 395X2

 

[Mtom]

Hopefully this is a simple enough question; If these new cards are just rebadges would it make sense for me to buy a 290 now whilst they're cheap rather than pay more for a 380?

If the rumors are true, they are not rebadges. Few 290/X can do the clocks needed to match a 980, and if its true, those clocks will be the base for the 380/X cards.

 

[Legend]

If someone has just bought 290X in Crossfire (which seems a great deal btw), moving to the FIRST 3xx series cards would appear to be somewhat of a side-grade, from what I'm seeing, especially as these first new cards won't be cheap I imagine. Definitely better waiting until later this year for the more powerful cards, 390 etc. Maybe we'll be surprised by what the first new cards will bring, but if it's essentially based on the 290 then there could be widespread disappointment.

 

[Armageus]

If the rumors are true, they are not rebadges. Few 290/X can do the clocks needed to match a 980, and if its true, those clocks will be the base for the 380/X cards.

It's sounds more like a respin e.g. the same as the 4870->4890 was

Featuring an improved design with decoupling capacitors to reduce signal noise,[5] altered ASIC power distribution and re-timed the whole GPU chip, which resulted in a slight increase in die size but overall much better stability at high clock rates and a higher default clock

 

[FoxEye]

The problem with most ports on PC isnt really even GPU related.Its terribly optimized/written code that primarily just hammers 1 or 2 threads/cores regardless of how many are available.

FC4 for instance, always 1 core at 100% pretty much no matter what.Other cores varying load depending whats goin on and if you were vsync'ed

A lot of people don't realise how difficult it is to make a game engine efficiently use multiple cores.

Calling it "terribly written" is incredibly harsh. Single core performance is still very important for games, and will continue to be so in future.

Most games don't scale well with more cores, because games don't lend themselves to parallel programming.

 

[Mal X]

I've tried FC4 on both a 295X2 and 980, The stuttering/hitching really annoys me.

it's Lucky for us that FC4 is a rubbish game anyway......... because FC3, (which is a far superior stealth game) runs perfectly ok......phew

it's more disturbing to me that so many recent games have poor combat and stupid controls............RATHER THAN bad console ports.

 

[arcon33]

As interesting as all these rumours are, the sub £200 290 looks a steal, I'm thinking would the 3xx stand up against 2 or 3 of them?

 

[Legend]

As interesting as all these rumours are, the sub £200 290 looks a steal, I'm thinking would the 3xx stand up against 2 or 3 of them?

Well we don't know yet... rumours would suggest a single 380 won't (and I can't see how it would tbh), but everything is rumour and conjecture so far. We shall see once AMD make an official announcement. The deals on the 290's at the moment are indeed excellent, can't really go wrong there I'd say.

 

[xLegendary]

I don't think AMD have the resources to do a head to toe refresh.

Thats what I think as well. I think they will do that on 14 / 16nm. They couldn't do many new designs for just 1 year product cycle. No money no fun

 

[SiDeards73]

to be fair, once Dx12 arrives, even the 290 will be in a good position for a good while yet, i mean its great currently but with dx12 it will only get better for a longer period of time.

Im not buying anything until ive seen the 390X / 395X2 and the new offerings from Nvidia

 

[Dark Light]

Could, hope, should, might, will probably.

 

[Combat Fighter]

390X or 980ti is where my money is going.

 

[Gregster]

 

[Geeman1979]

Rebrands R us!