980 & 780 + AMD performance...

[Giganizer300PRO]

So today I just wanna put out some things that I noticed...

 

First...

Why is a 980 or a 780 so much better than like... 970 or a 770 (and others like 760, 960...blah blah...)? It doesn't have more GRAM for sure and I think clock speeds aren't that higher (or are they...)?

 

Second...

In the past few months I have kinda involved myself in to this PC thing and all that (since I am getting a build, better know all about it ) and I seem to have noticed, that AMD (I have nothing against AMD, all tho I am kinda an Intel/Nvidia fan, but nvm that) is cheaper and performs a slightly worse than its competitors. I am talking about CPUs and GPUs too, but I noticed that the difference is bigger in CPUs.

How do you think?

 

Just wanna share my thoughts... 

[SkilledRebuilds]

Shader counts, ROP's, All different functional units of available grunt that you don't hear about....

 

Most people only know of Clockspeed, VRAM & Branding...

There are many defining factors at play.

Read up on both Nvidia/AMD architecture via reviews and you'll see different specs across a range of cards.

Wiki/Google each thing...to find out more.. eg: "What are GPU ROPS?"

 

Most of the time its Shader core count, and Memory Bus Width & VRAM that are quite the defining factors...

IMO Clockspeeds matter the least in the bigger picture, because we know the top tier cards we plan on buying & the lowend cards we don't buy, all carry the relatively same 900-1200Mhz core clock, it's the other internals that make or break the decision.

[Giganizer300PRO]

Shader counts, ROP's, All different units of available power that you don't hear about....

 

Most people only know of Clockspeed, VRAM & Branding...

There are many defining factors at play.

Read up on both Nvidia/AMD architecture via reviews and you'll see different specs.

 

Most of the time its Shader core count, and Memory Bus Width & VRAM that are quite the defining factors...

 

VRAM...  Say whaaaaaaaat?  :huh:

[maazster]

With the 780 vs 770 and 980 vs 970, with the higher end cards they end to have more functional units, this being CUDA cores, ROPs and TMUs and out of the box tend to have a slightly higher clock speed to the second tier cards. This is where the performance gains are made.

[othertomperson]

Before the 780 Ti was released AMD had a faster GPU than Nvidia offered. AMD laid off a lot of their R&D to save coppers and pretty much screwed over their ability to produce a line of products to compete with either Intel or Nvidia (or even produce a line, most of the 200 series is just rebadged things from two and a half years ago) but they still release the odd thing that's decent.

[HippY]

So today I just wanna put out some things that I noticed...

 

First...

Why is a 980 or a 780 so much better than like... 970 or a 770 (and others like 760, 960...blah blah...)? It doesn't have more GRAM for sure and I think clock speeds aren't that higher (or are they...)?

 

Second...

In the past few months I have kinda involved myself in to this PC thing and all that (since I am getting a build, better know all about it ) and I seem to have noticed, that AMD (I have nothing against AMD, all tho I am kinda an Intel/Nvidia fan, but nvm that) is cheaper and performs a slightly worse than its competitors. I am talking about CPUs and GPUs too, but I noticed that the difference is bigger in CPUs.

How do you think?

 

Just wanna share my thoughts... 

AMD CPUs are lagging behind that is correct but GPUs are entirely different league 

 

The GPUs are around up par with Nvidias ( or not notacable behind/forward) but with price they are cheaper and they allways have good game bundles

for example R9 290 was at the 780 price point, but as the resolution went higher the bigger gain it had. same with 290X

So they were targeted a specific audience

At the moment Nvidia has their new line (9X0) and we are waiting for AMD response