**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[humbug]

PCPer clearly shows the opposite situation. Just providing some balance.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-R9-295X2-8GB-Graphics-Card-Review



EDIT: I would never consider the 295x2, but to say Ti's dominate, and just show one of many reviews that happens to give that result, isn't the truth.

Thanks, 295 X2 are smoother and faster, nothing to add really

 

[whyscotty]

Thanks, 295 X2 are smoother and faster, nothing to add really

Nothing to offer is more like - and they aren't faster

 

[Things change I've changed]

Does the 600 series get a look in on these performance improvements?

 

[Rroff]

Earlier, I installed the latest Beta drivers, and lost Nvidia control panel - I've rolled back, done an complete uninstall, and reinstall of the old release driver, and its all ok.

Is it 100% there in the beta drivers?

There are new additions in the control panel for compiled shader optimisations and a change to the way it carries over old settings from your previous drivers (I think) so certain configs might require you to install 335.xx then 337.xx over the top if your having issues. Later versions shouldn't require it but I think they might have pushed these to get them out a bit.

 

[RetrogamerX]

Thanks, 295 X2 are smoother and faster, nothing to add really

Can't believe how much faster the 780ti's in SLI are to 295x2. I thought AMD would try harder. Nvidia top dog again

 

[oweneades]

Does the the 600 series get a look in on these performance improvements?

My 780M (a fully fledged Kepler GK104) is showing improvements so a 6xx series card should as well.

 

[jh30uk]

Seems to be all 700 series is "read me", not sure what the full .pdf says.


GeForce GTX 700 Series (Single GPU):
Up to 64% in Total War: Rome II
Up to 25% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 23% in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 21% in Star Swarm
Up to 15% in Batman: Arkham Origins
Up to 10% in Metro: Last Light
Up to 8% in Hitman Absolution
Up to 7% in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 6% in Tomb Raider
Up to 6% in F1 2013


GeForce GTX 700 Series (SLI):
Up to 71% in Total War: Rome II
Up to 53% in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 45% in Aliens vs. Predator
Up to 31% in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 20% in CoD: Black Ops 2
Up to 10% in Hitman Absolution
Up to 9% in F1 2013
Up to 7% in Far Cry 3
Up to 6% in Metro: Last Light
Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham Origins

 

[Kaapstad]

Thanks, 295 X2 are smoother and faster, nothing to add really

My AMD setup will smack a couple of 295s in quadfire out the park but it can not beat the 780ti's

Fortunately there are not many quad sli 780ti's setups and that 3gb VRAM is an even bigger handicap than the 4gb on the 290Xs for 4K.

 

[jktmstokes23]

My AMD setup will smack a couple of 295s in quadfire out the park but it can not beat the 780ti's

Fortunately there are not many quad sli 780ti's setups and that 3gb VRAM is an even bigger handicap than the 4gb on the 290Xs for 4K.

6 gb 780tis?

 

[Kaapstad]

Can't believe how much faster the 780ti's in SLI are to 295x2. I thought AMD would try harder. Nvidia top dog again

That's not strictly correct

@4K 2 780ti's are better than 2 290Xs

@4K 4 290Xs are better than 4 780ti's as the latter runout of VRAM when maxing games.

 

[jh30uk]

Be nice to see a 512bit 4-6GB Nvidia, does 6 go into 512 VRam Module wise?

 

[Kaapstad]

6 gb 780tis?

Or Titan Blacks swing the argument back in NVidia's favour but that is not what people have been comparing in the posts above.

They have been comparing 3gb 780ti's to 4gb 290Xs

I don't know what the price of a 6gb 780ti will be but if I had to guess I would say £650 which also needs to be taken into consideration.

 

[jh30uk]

USA normally have a small premium over the lesser VRam models ($30-50)

I think we will get pumped here though.

 

[Sacrifice]

Can't believe how much faster the 780ti's in SLI are to 295x2. I thought AMD would try harder. Nvidia top dog again

Look at this review, and then tell me you can't believe how much faster they are than the 295x2. http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-R9-295X2-8GB-Graphics-Card-Review

 

[Kaapstad]

Be nice to see a 512bit 4-6GB Nvidia, does 6 go into 512 VRam Module wise?

Given the choice I think I would rather go the NVidia route with the setup found on the 780ti's and Titan Blacks - 384bit bus plus very good memory chips that can pull some really big overclocks. A 512bit bus is good but when it is saddled with memory that runs @1250mhz at default that is not good.

 

[jktmstokes23]

Will the 384 bit bus be able to take advantage of 6GB in 2 card set ups?

 

[jh30uk]

I was hoping to see 512+2000mhz modules so 8GHZ, were using 1500mhz a while till recent jump to 1750mhz.

 

[jh30uk]

Will the 384 bit bus be able to take advantage of 6GB in 2 card set ups?

Many slate Nvidia for weaker Bus esp when they dropped to 256bit, the 280 and 285 had 512bit but it was DDR3 so dual not quad pumped like GDDR5 so matters more to GDDR3.

I think the 512bit bus was shown in a review sites prediction to add a good chunk of bandwidth to current Nvidia cards by just changing the bus width.

 

[Gripen90]

Can't believe how much faster the 780ti's in SLI are to 295x2. I thought AMD would try harder. Nvidia top dog again

The R9-295x2 is faster than gtx 780ti sli in almost everything in this review
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...-295X2-8GB-Graphics-Card-Review/Battlefield-4

 

[Kaapstad]

The R9-295x2 is faster than gtx 780ti sli in almost everything in this review
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...-295X2-8GB-Graphics-Card-Review/Battlefield-4

Unfortunately in real life the 780ti's are faster, I should know.