Thief Video Card Buyer's Guide

[LinusTech]

NCIX: http://bit.ly/1oiSCZY

Amazon: http://georiot.co/1FOW

 

Thief 2014 video card benchmarks are here! We test all the latest gaming graphics cards to see whether AMD or NVIDIA delivers the ultimate Thief gaming experience!

 

 

[Dmon]

I saw that title correction.

[joelthezombie15]

Yes my 770 will run it so good on 1080p

[DIV1D3]

Yeh here in Aus the AMD cards aren't highly priced, well as highly priced in the US. Btw they're about $520-$570 so they still are quite expensive . 

[LinusTech]

I saw that title correction.

 

I knew someone would... bah.

[mikeangeles 75]

I guess sleep has to be delayed for another 6 minutes...

[Constantine]

Yeh here in Aus the AMD cards aren't highly priced, well as highly priced in the US. Btw they're about $520-$570 so they still are quite expensive . 

 

Yeah, but that kind of mark-up is normal for us so the original AMD vs Nvidia price comparisons still work

[DIV1D3]

Yeah, but that kind of mark-up is normal for us so the original AMD vs Nvidia price comparisons still work

Yeh, just wish the 290s were $450 do . 

[Rashy]

VGHS JACKET!

plus @Linus NCIX.ca does not ship internationally. It doesnt ship to indonesia for sure,I checked.

[GriggsCK]

I wonder what will my GT555M will perform at 768p in this game, :tfw no strong gpu: 

[ofr057]

sorta surprised that there is that much of a jump between the 780 and the 780TI, I think i am going to give theif ago when it comes down in price abit.

[Nineshadow]

My 560 runs it at 1680x1050 at high settings with ~50 fps.

[estebes]

i wish you would use the same settings for the gtx770 and the r9 280x. Apart from us and canada i dont see the 280x being a 500+ dolar card...

[Rashy]

Has anyone checked the price of AMD cards on NCIX recently? They are just as bad as on Newegg.

But in indonesia its good. its like for the MSI R9 290X 4GB DDR5 for like 650 USD! brobrorborbrobrobrbrorbrobro Miners are rare in indonesia so cards are not that bad here

[Altecice]

It would be nice if you did all the cards with an Intel + AMD CPU.

 

Seems very strange to me that an AMD optimized game wont out preform Nvidia cards =/

 

Also would be nice to know the Driver versions you tested with 

[Joshyy]

Your results (Even compared to other OCd) are wildly different from everyone else's on the benchmarking side, your results show Nvidia destroying on an AMD optimised game, while other benchmarks show 780ti on top, then 290x, then titan, then 290 then 780, and overclock's do not vary the frame rate by that much so that doesn't work as an excuse. 

 

Also, I noted in your google doc you OC the R9-290x by a measly 50mhz, compared to the 125 on the 780, any reason behind this? the 290x easily overclocks by 100+? 

 

Also, as Altecice has said, your using the latest Beta drivers from AMD? The latest released 25th are the first ones to support Thief and give it a high framerate.

[Musikman]

I find it interesting how the 770 is spot on for the best performance. 60 FPS at top detail.......

[sidas]

A 2nd video in a row when Slick's part looks grey-ish. Is it filmed with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera?

[gevo12321]

Question to Luke: Do you record your keystrokes so that u can exactly reproduce the run for each test?

[MasterJV]

Your results (Even compared to other OCd) are wildly different from everyone else's on the benchmarking side, your results show Nvidia destroying on an AMD optimised game, while other benchmarks show 780ti on top, then 290x, then titan, then 290 then 780, and overclock's do not vary the frame rate by that much so that doesn't work as an excuse.

Also, I noted in your google doc you OC the R9-290x by a measly 50mhz, compared to the 125 on the 780, any reason behind this? the 290x easily overclocks by 100+?

Also, as Altecice has said, your using the latest Beta drivers from AMD? The latest released 25th are the first ones to support Thief and give it a high framerate.

The 290X they received from AMD wasn't a good overclocked, unlike the 780 they received from Nvidia.

[Altecice]

The 290X they received from AMD wasn't a good overclocked, unlike the 780 they received from Nvidia.

 

Well then wouldn't you say the Benchmarking method is flawed?.

 

Run it stock values only as 90% of people probibily do.

[Materi]

Well then wouldn't you say the Benchmarking method is flawed?.

 

Run it stock values only as 90% of people probibily do.

 

well sort off, and sort off not. as AMD have higher clocks to begin with (atleast if you count out gpu boost and powertune) they will crush nvidia, so that is also a flawd method. as Linus has pointed out a few times in these sort of videos is that they do these benchmarks diffrent just soo that you don't read the exactly same review over and over again as this differs. and while i can agree that most user won't overclock to much, i would say that those that own a 290 or above at both green and red team are more frequent to overclock as they most likely know a bit more when they are willing to use that much on a GPU. but then again not all of those, or most likely the majority of the oweners of top tier cards won't overclock either soo who knows =D

 

personally i would love to see benchmarks that go at a fixed clock. for example 1000mhz for both cards soo that you see the diffrance in arkitechture and such. and by know that you can get try to see whats regular to get out of overclocking the cards and combining these when buying a cards sort off =D but by all means this is just as much, if not more, flawed as the methoeds above. especily when GPU boost and such came into the picture. 

 

Edit: well just read through that again, it's painfully many mistakes, but iu will stick to the classic english is not my native language and i sould have gone to bed before trying to write anything =D

[Scionyde]

Well then wouldn't you say the Benchmarking method is flawed?.

 

Run it stock values only as 90% of people probibily do.

 

Probably not going to happen. Linus and Slick have said before that they do overclocked benchmarks because the vast majority of reviewers already do their benchmarks at stock and they didn't see the point in producing content identical to everybody else. Just have to keep the silicon lottery effect in mind, I suppose. *shrug*

[Sky Daddy]

Waiting to play thief after the true audio update comes out.

[Admire]

Is it very selfish to hope that coin mining and miners die a slow and terrible death for giving us more expensive GPUs?