The Rise and Rise of Radeon

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Rusty and i don't often see eye to eye, but i will give him this, the 290 does kick out a bit more heat than the 780, it pulls more power, especially when overclocked, but its not that different, and you have to look at the specification differences.

64 ROP's vs 48, 512Bit Bus vs 384. its more GPU, that's not saying its faster all the time, though it is a little bit over all, its a different setup with a different idea, the 290 is setup for very high resolution, while thats useless at normal res its part of the reason it sucks up more power.

This is controversial, i may even get beasted for saying this, IMO Nvidia just do enough to give you the competing performance in 90% of situations, AMD tend to go that 10% more. the cost is more power draw, its a price i'm willing to pay for them going that extra mile.

 

[Rusty0611]

I like to have a laugh and a joke about it but it is definitely noticeably hotter in the room. As I say the top of my PC is warm to the touch. This is with a HAF-X too.

I dunno... I think my tolerance to heat is high but maybe it isn't. I've been to Seville in July last year and it was 40-45 each day and that was fine and have been to all kinds of hot places but this does get me lol. Perhaps I just need to get used to it.

 

[Tonester0011]

Also, another thing to take note of.
My 780 was running overclocked, the 290 was running stock. The power usages would have been near identical. Heat output would have been near identical.

Combine that with both being cooled by water, case being a good way from where i sit and a fairly large room. Probably why i've never noticed

 

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I like to have a laugh and a joke about it but it is definitely noticeably hotter in the room. As I say the top of my PC is warm to the touch. This is with a HAF-X too.

I dunno... I think my tolerance to heat is high but maybe it isn't. I've been to Seville in July last year and it was 40-45 each day and that was fine and have been to all kinds of hot places but this does get me lol. Perhaps I just need to get used to it.

I have a HAF 912+, as i said i agree its warmer than the 780, but it shouldn't be that bad, i mean... the side of my case where the GPU is gets warm, and it warms up the room (a bit) but the top on the case is not warm, the room temp might go up a couple of degrees after a couple of hours in this warm weather.

It sounds like your running a portable oven in the case.

Anyway... i'm off to play BF4

 

[mmj_uk]

Hasn't AMD's market share been going down? they need to start focussing on more than just benchmarks.

 

[mmj_uk]

This is controversial, i may even get beasted for saying this, IMO Nvidia just do enough to give you the competing performance in 90% of situations, AMD tend to go that 10% more. the cost is more power draw, its a price i'm willing to pay for them going that extra mile.

It's just a shame that AMD cannot get out of bed when it comes to developer relations and the software side of things in general. I have always said ATI/AMD make well specced hardware, it's everywhere else that they let themselves down.

If I was choosing a GPU on paper I would buy AMD every time, as a gamer with plenty of experience using them I stay clear.

 

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Hasn't AMD's market share been going down? they need to start focussing on more than just benchmarks.

Workstation GPU share has been going up, seems they are concentrating on that.

It's just a shame that AMD cannot get out of bed when it comes to developer relations and the software side of things in general. I have always said ATI/AMD make well specced hardware, it's everywhere else that they let themselves down.

If I was choosing a GPU on paper I would buy AMD every time, as a gamer with plenty of experience using them I stay clear.

They have better Developer relations than Nvidia.