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Possible Radeon 390X / 390 and 380X Spec / Benchmark (do not hotlink images!!!!!!)
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Remember when the 970/980 were released and how certain people were jumping with joy because the GPU's ran quietly and cool but with the 980ti and even the TX, apparently it is a non issue now?
Difference being the 980ti or TX don't throttle by hundreds of mhz or cause stutter like the reference 290's did. Also you've either got a very poor card or shoddy case cooling if your 980ti is hitting 90c at stock. Overclocked TX on the reference cooler is in the high 60's/low 70's for me.
Once again people just jumping to conclusions who've never even used the cards.
Caporegime
Well not to **** on your parade, that is called marketing and something NVidia do a lot of. I wouldn't get too excited personally. NVidia were at E3 in 2014, so this isn't something new.
Pretty much that, its amazing how blinkered some people are. Especially when it comes to drivers, all i've seen as of late are people complaining about nvidia drivers with desktop crashes etc, yet they would have you believe they're superior in every way which hasn't been the case for at the very least 5 years or more now. Yet some of those users are the same ones chastising amd for lack of drivers
, because apparently a driver that's prone to crashing a lot is better than waiting for one. Heat and fan noise are something that nvidia did address but seems they're too busy trying to push more performance out of their cards that the "acoustical experience" that Tom Petersen was waffling about seems to have gone out the window, along with temperatures which have risen with the last few cards. Thermal throttling is apparently evident on the 980 ti and the titan x, "but its ok" as you can mess with the fan settings to fix it, but with amd that's something for the trolls to sneer about.
Nothing but pathetic point scoring and people with very short memories it seems.
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"4GB means 12GB" that's the new AMD marketing campaign.
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Had 6850's in crossfire and now a 280X and not had any driver issues of note.
Drivers dont really worry me. All about the performance.
Drivers dont really worry me. All about the performance.
Haha !
Are you reading the same thread?
4GB isn't enough... But 3.5Gb + 0.5GB is fine..
AMD have crap drivers and crap crossfire drivers, but Nvidia's are excellent ! (http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28126851&postcount=3571)
The AMD card will run to hot ! (980 Ti touches 90c, that's fine)
AIO cards are to fiddly ! (Nvidia AIO's are just excellent)
Just wait now peeps, let's condemn and criticise after we see the reviews / benchmarks.
I for one salute AMD for bringing something actually new to the GPU space (HBM) along with organising with PC gamer the first ever PC 'E3' event.
Wow Boom, great post. And it's all entirely true, in fact it's probably the most accurate post in this thread
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Not at all we all have are own expectations..
Might not be first a pc graphics vendor been to E3..but what is a first, is pcgamer and Microsoft hosting with AMD.. This is more than just a GPU launch..
http://http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-300-series-pricing-leaked-expensive-200-series/
Rumoured price leak for 300 series cards. Take with pinch of salt!
Rumoured price leak for 300 series cards. Take with pinch of salt!
I guess most people would prefer a cool quiet card, but we also want the best performance. If AMD can match/beat a 980Ti but do it with better efficiency then I am very interested. However dual 8-pin power doesn't sound very efficient.
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I think OCUK alone have kept wccftech running for the next few years with all the clickbait.
But if its cool and quiet with an aio does the fact its dual 8 pins matter much? 980 ti with an aio is around 50 c with overclocking and very quiet according to the review on youtube, hopefully this is something similar
Except I am 99% sure that the majority of those people never mentioned anything about the throttling (which iirc was easily fixed with a custom fan profile), only about:
- noise - comments like oh but people don't want a jet taking of in their room when playing games, posting the AMD blower video etc.
- heat - comments along the lines of hotter than the sun, can't game because of the heat in summer time
- power consumption - need a nuclear power station to power the card and someone even saying about how it will add more to the electric bill, which someone then worked out that 4 hours of gaming EVERY day for 2 years results in a whopping £50 difference LOL.... wasn't there even a thread about how important power consumption and efficiency is/was at the time of the 970/980 release, in fact I might have to find that thread....
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Haha !
Are you reading the same thread?
4GB isn't enough... But 3.5Gb + 0.5GB is fine..
AMD have crap drivers and crap crossfire drivers, but Nvidia's are excellent ! (http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28126851&postcount=3571)
The AMD card will run to hot ! (980 Ti touches 90c, that's fine)
AIO cards are to fiddly ! (Nvidia AIO's are just excellent)
Just wait now peeps, let's condemn and criticise after we see the reviews / benchmarks.
I for one salute AMD for bringing something actually new to the GPU space (HBM) along with organising with PC gamer the first ever PC 'E3' event.
4GB (3.5GB/0.5GB was never acceptable) is fine on an upper mid-range card released 9 months or so ago but not really what you'd expect on a top tier card going forward. Anyone who thinks that is kidding themselves and/or doesn't really do any higher resolution gaming.
Drivers well thats a story all of its own... and diplomatically we are yet to see what the release drivers for the upcoming AMD series are like.
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The card has been in development for quite a while now, the only thing they are going to be able to do is rise GPU core speed which in turn rises temps. (see below mention)
The AIO watercooler is already at it's max I suppose, anything more would need LN2 and I doubt a lot of people would like a LN2 reference Fury X
Single GPU is fine from both camps. Crossfire is an issue mainly due to AMD being slow in providing drivers for games.
Jedifragger and I are both running 4K so a single GPU isn't going to cut it on this gen of GPUs.
Yeah the AIO cooler is at its max with a 300W card....the 500W 295X2 with its good temps disagrees.
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Caporegime
If you're comparing reference coolers then throttling will get mentioned.
Custom cards won't be as noisy or get as hot. The power consumption one I agree with it's a non issue for most.
People change their tune a lot, I remember AMDMatt posting how 8gb 290X's are required for 4k after his testing, will be interesting what he says about the new card for 4k if it is only 4gb.
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Unfortunately AIO isn't an option for me. So the highest performing air cooled is my interest.But if its cool and quiet with an aio does the fact its dual 8 pins matter much? 980 ti with an aio is around 50 c with overclocking and very quiet according to the review on youtube, hopefully this is something similar
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Have to say as time goes by I'm thinking like this as well.
I think they are pulling everyone together at AMD (hence lack of drivers) and they well be fooling everyone and bring out something a bit special.
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