New AMD 300 series chiphell benchies

Kaapstad · 3 Feb 2015 at 01:49

Not a chance

Next rumour please.

The real card will be about 30% faster than a 290X.

Wizzfizz · 3 Feb 2015 at 01:51

Up to 30%

savagesam117 · 3 Feb 2015 at 01:54

Why am I so impatient? I should have waited

but hopefully means the 290x price will drop meaning I can get another and go crossfire

Lightnix · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:04

Confused Stu said:
Sounds about right. Sadly the days of double performance for each new GPU generation are behind us (4870 to 5870 was epic!), so the new AMD card will be slower than the 295X2, but hopefully noticeably faster than a single 290X.

As others have said, looks promising but I'm still taking a large amount of salt with this one.

Never mind that, 3870 to 4870 was absurd. 320 to 800 shaders and the introduction of GDDR5. Thems were the days.

triss · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:09

Nice jump in performance if it turns out to be true

I will be trying to avoidbuying anycards with 4gb or less vram though as i hope to buy and then sit out for a year or two this time

troops · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:22

Very nice if its true.

chaparral · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:24

Am more interested in how they got this new 300series card that draws 7 watts more then there 290x to run over 20c cooler.... :confused:

These charts are saying
290x draws 288watts and runs at 94c
300series draws 295watts and runs at 73c

VincentHanna · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:25

Didn't use a **** reference design for once?

chaparral · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:31

VincentHanna said:
Didn't use a **** reference design for once?

Reference design blowers are normally always the best for if your going for a crossfire or SLI setup...

Boomstick777 · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:50

chaparral said:
Am more interested in how they got this new 300series card that draws 7 watts more then there 290x to run over 20c cooler....

These charts are saying
290x draws 288watts and runs at 94c
300series draws 295watts and runs at 73c

Mayh3M · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:59

I thought these cards were months away. Q2

Perfect_Chaos · 3 Feb 2015 at 02:59

triss said:
Nice jump in performance if it turns out to be true
I will be trying to avoidbuying anycards with 4gb or less vram though as i hope to buy and then sit out for a year or two this time

But the 8gb cards probably won't come till a few months later, which sucks.

Tute · 3 Feb 2015 at 03:21

Any idea if these are still going to be 28nm? I would assume so if it's going to draw 295W?

humbug · 3 Feb 2015 at 03:40

So it's 35% to 40% faster than the GTX 980

Boomstick777 said:

Better Cooler

Relentless81 · 3 Feb 2015 at 06:53

Water cooled reference cooler, has this happened before?

I've got my first ever card with a reference cooler on its way, its a 290X and I'm really interested to see how it affects case and CPU temps as my CPU is an 8350 which intakes from above the GPU and out the top, if the GPU exhausts out the back I'm hoping that even though the card runs hotter than my current 970 that the heat generated within the case itself will be much less and give me more CPU overclocking head room?

If so then reference more efficient reference coolers are interesting, or am I talking absolute rubbish? I've tested this with CPU stress tests, much lower CPU temp than when gaming

~Mike~ · 3 Feb 2015 at 06:57

Wizzfizz said:
You don't half bait people with 'you AMD guys' and that, in a AMD thread. You have a very underlaying tone, no attack on yourself, but yeah you are easily read, just saying

Classic Greg for you, he's quick to jump on that high horse of his when others do it, but nothing will be done about it.

Andygully · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:15

IF this is true then wow, power efficiency is all good and well but don't we all just want a big jump in performance? be it Nvidia or AMD

arcon33 · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:26

chaparral said:
Am more interested in how they got this new 300series card that draws 7 watts more then there 290x to run over 20c cooler....

These charts are saying
290x draws 288watts and runs at 94c
300series draws 295watts and runs at 73c

The rumours about it having a water cooled reference model as standard could be true looking at these temps, if it is could you imagine temps with a standard reference blower! It wouldn't be possible

Bonjour · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:33

I very excite.

Panos · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:37

chaparral said:
Am more interested in how they got this new 300series card that draws 7 watts more then there 290x to run over 20c cooler....

These charts are saying
290x draws 288watts and runs at 94c
300series draws 295watts and runs at 73c

And my overclocked 295X2 draws what ever it needs, but is cool and quiet at 62C tops

with the stock cooler.... :rolleyes: