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Lokken86 said:
Funny I would never have guessed the difference grows when you use the extreme gaming oc version.

Normal 980ti is <20% there.
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And his original point used a benchmark for a 1080 with maths to gives us his point of view even though he was comparing the 390x to the 980ti.

As I said before.

bru said:
It just goes to show that you can find benchmarks to support just about any position. ;)
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bru said:
Drivers, ok Ill agree that things will have changed since last year.

I was going to use this review.

July 3rd 2015
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_980_Ti_Gaming/30.html

1440p 980ti 100% 390X 68% somebody else can do the maths but it is definitely a good bit more than 20% faster. but as you say drivers and that review is also quite old.

So here is a more modern one.


Mar 31st 2016
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_980_Ti_XtremeGaming/23.html

1440p 980ti 100% 390X 66% again not doing the maths but definitely way more than 20%.


It just goes to show that you can find benchmarks to support just about any position. ;)
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100/66 =52% faster
 
D.P. said:
100/66 =52% faster
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But, but, but, that's the xtreme hyper super dooper version so we had best remove 32% so it falls into the only 20% faster as was originally suggested. :p



What is really sad is that all these benches are actually from the same site, god knows how much disparity we would have if we used different sites as well. ;)
 
The graphics card section is really just the cancer of the forum...
Bickering, bickering and more bickering.
Heaven forbid, anyone is hoping for any interesting info, without some handbags being thrown in, for good measure.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
The graphics card section is really just the cancer of the forum...
Bickering, bickering and more bickering.
Heaven forbid, anyone is hoping for any interesting info, without some handbags being thrown in, for good measure.
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Unfortunately half the time we just cannot help ourselves, cue others coming in saying that they can help it and just want to correct errors that other post. ;)
 
Armageus said:
Potentially silly question, but anyone know the reasoning behind it being RX 480 rather than say R9 480 ?

Is the RX actually the final designation or is it a placeholder e.g. the same as Rx 200 series and Rx 300 series?

Or alternative theory X = 10, so clearly an R10 better than an R9?


ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_Rx_200_series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Radeon_Rx_300_series
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I don't think any one here knows for sure, or if they do they wouldn't be able to say anyway.

I reckon AMD have just moved the x from the end of the name to after the R.
what I mean is, I expect to see a RX 480 with lesser card being the R 480, then a RX470 and an R 470, so on and so forth.
 
Imagine telling a girl in a pub that you argue about graphics cards and support a GPU manufacturer defending it and promoting it at every opportunity and it might just dawn on you just how very sad and embarrassing it actually is
 
Relentless81 said:
Imagine telling a girl in a pub that you argue about graphics cards and support a GPU manufacturer defending it and promoting it at every opportunity and it might just dawn on you just how very sad and embarrassing it actually is
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It's irritating knowing we only got a limited amount of time on this planet after which we will not see any more GPU's. Might as well speak about them while we have the chance.
 
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bru said:
I don't think any one here knows for sure, or if they do they wouldn't be able to say anyway.

I reckon AMD have just moved the x from the end of the name to after the R.
what I mean is, I expect to see a RX 480 with lesser card being the R 480, then a RX470 and an R 470, so on and so forth.
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Yes it would be an odd naming convention if they released an rx 480x i think.
 
Lokken86 said:
Latest drivers. Stock vs stock. <20%. Is it so difficult?
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Techpowerup haven't reviewed the reference AMD390X and there stock 980ti results are from May 31st 2015

They don't even list half the cards for a lot of the games, which leads me to conclude that they use their previous results rather than run all the cards through every game for each review.

but as I have said several times, it is fairly easy to find charts that will show the results you want.
 
bru said:
Techpowerup haven't reviewed the reference AMD390X and there stock 980ti results are from May 31st 2015

They don't even list half the cards for a lot of the games, which leads me to conclude that they use their previous results rather than run all the cards through every game for each review.

but as I have said several times, it is fairly easy to find charts that will show the results you want.
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Come off it now Bru this is getting ridiculous, they list the same few cards in each individual benchmark.

The overall score they list all the cards tested.

You keep on about finding charts that list whatever you want and then using benchmarks upto a year old to prove your point.

Mine are the most up to date there are, they are not just cherry picking, they are what the situation is right now, some people may not like it but it is what it is. All your proving with your old benchmarks is that with later drivers performance can improve, thats all.
 
bru said:
Techpowerup haven't reviewed the reference AMD390X and there stock 980ti results are from May 31st 2015

They don't even list half the cards for a lot of the games, which leads me to conclude that they use their previous results rather than run all the cards through every game for each review.

but as I have said several times, it is fairly easy to find charts that will show the results you want.
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Indeed. The 390x isn't even featured in that techpowerup 1080 review. If you look at all the framerate graphs, it isn't there but then suddenly appears in the relative performance graph.

Anyway I did crunch of the numbers earlier in the thread from the guru 3d 1080 review which actually did have 390x numbers, showing it was 32% faster in 1440p. Although that wasn't good enough because of gameworks features apparently, even though it included Ashes and Hitman which are hugely AMD affiliated/engineered...seemed a pretty fair comparison to me.
 
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humbug said:
Straw clutching, both of you, i expected better from you Bru.
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How is mine straw clutching? You have posted a graph with numbers from nowhere, just one graph where the 390x suddenly appears yet doesn't feature in the same review.

I have provided you with an average over 16 games/benchmarks from the guru 3d review which has some AMD DX12 affiliated games and NVidia game works affiliated games. It is 32% faster at 1440p on average.

Why is yours more valid than mine? If anything it is the other way around.
 
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