My R9 390 vs. GTX 970: Surprising Results?

[rentaspoon]

Pics! I want pictures! In the puter

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

too bad you dont have a 290x ocd to prove your point .

 

Well too bad I don't have one. But I'll link LTT's 3d mark spread sheet here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10juOWiZuyX6VAv8hQDWsAM2d6f9dRFSEVf70-RJubK8/edit#gid=0

 

Its 10 time more credible than your "discussion" with "someone else".

[dougdangger]

No real mention, the only talk of power requirements is that it needs a 750W PSU, but that sounds unrealistic.

Looks like AMD still hasn't figured out how to fix the ridiculous tdp problems of their products.

[maizenblue]

Looks like AMD still hasn't figured out how to fix the ridiculous tdp problems of their products.

Are you a professional Nvidia troll? I have literally never seen you post anything besides bashing AMD and telling someone to go with Nvidia instead, and a lot of your posts are just factually wrong.

 

You are like the GPUBOSS of this forum(trust me that's not a compliment).

[dougdangger]

Are you a professional Nvidia troll? I have literally never seen you post anything besides bashing AMD and telling someone to go with Nvidia instead, and a lot of your posts are just factually wrong.

 

You are like the GPUBOSS of this forum(trust me that's not a compliment).

How is what I said "wrong" or being a "fanboi"?

 

We're talking about the 390 here right?

The OP said that a "new" card still ran hot as fuck right?

How is pointing out facts make someone a "fanboi"?

 

If you also read my other post, I urinated all over Nvidia with their 3.5GB vram bullshit.  I also said they should compensate people who bought them.  I bet all that flew over your head.

[dougdangger]

I really hope AMD gets their act together.  The last thing PC gamers want is a monopoly.

[Nena Trinity]

I really hope AMD gets their act together.  The last thing PC gamers want is a monopoly.

I could not agree more! The damn green cards are pricy as *bleep* same with blue CPUs!

[SteveGrabowski0]

I could not agree more! The damn green cards are pricy as *bleep* same with blue CPUs!

 

An i5-4430 is $15 more than an FX-8350 at newegg

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116895

[Nena Trinity]

An i5-4430 is $15 more than an FX-8350 at newegg

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116895

Hmm cool!

Sadly the importing would cost more than the CPU itself probably!

[GrimNeo]

What's your angle going to be when you return it? Ummm, this thing sucks? It makes me bedroom 105 degrees Fahrenheit when I turn my computer on? I didn't know it was just an R9 290? Doesn't work with my GSync monitor? How do I plug this into my PS4?

Best line ever.

[Notional]

That is a really nice back plate. Could you post some pictures, with the protective plastic removed? And a pic of you removing it? (we know that is tech pr0n after all).

 

Also we know NVidia generally has the most optimized drivers on synthetic benchmarks. How is it in actual games?

[jjrdz20]

https://youtu.be/b3QuwujjIp8

[Columbo]

Within hours the first reviews of the 390x will appear online. That is if the release date of 6/15/2015 is accurate for the new AMD cards. I checked the AMD website and no new drivers are listed for the new cards.

[cesrai]

@Suika

Tip in future don't use Furmark or kompuster use heaven or something else.

[xAcid9]

@Suika

 

Do you still have the card? Can you run Asus Memoryinfo and post the result here?

[Suika]

@Suika

 

Do you still have the card? Can you run Asus Memoryinfo and post the result here?

I do not, I've already returned it.

[xAcid9]

I do not, I've already returned it.

Can't fit into your PS4?  

[dougdangger]

Within hours the first reviews of the 390x will appear online. That is if the release date of 6/15/2015 is accurate for the new AMD cards. I checked the AMD website and no new drivers are listed for the new cards.

The "AMD sucks at updating drivers" you hear from critics is not a myth.

[MetaknightXYZ]

Say word. I wanna see some good amd cpu's and a nrw architecture for oth cpu and gpu from amd tho

[MetaknightXYZ]

But either way this card will handle anything 1080p. Quite frankly for 1080p the 280x outperforms it hugely from price/$ perspective lmao

[TheKDub]

Haha go nvidia! I'd imagine the 390x would just be a little higher than the 970 in performance based on this

[maizenblue]

Haha go nvidia! I'd imagine the 390x would just be a little higher than the 970 in performance based on this

Some real benchmarks are out on the 390x, showing it nearly equaling the 980 in firestrike. So it turns out these results weren't "surprising".....they were bullshit.

 

Not sure if the OP was an Nvidia troll or simply didn't have updated drivers, but either way this result was BS, and all the Nvidia fans lapped it up.

 

I hope the OP will now admit he screwed up, as others stated.

[TheKDub]

Some real benchmarks are out on the 390x, showing it nearly equaling the 980 in firestrike. So it turns out these results weren't "surprising".....they were bullshit.

 

Not sure if the OP was an Nvidia troll or simply didn't have updated drivers, but either way this result was BS, and all the Nvidia fans lapped it up.

 

I hope the OP will now admit he screwed up, as others stated.

 

The OP was using the 390, not 390x.

[Suika]

Some real benchmarks are out on the 390x, showing it nearly equaling the 980 in firestrike. So it turns out these results weren't "surprising".....they were bullshit.

Err... You're joking, right? The R9 390X is the 290X with a new name, if the 290X traded blows with a 970, the 390X isn't going to suddenly gain 20% performance and match a 980. It sounds absolutely ridiculous, especially considering the existing benchmarks that I'm aware of only slightly surpass my own. By slightly, I really do mean it.

 

 

 

Not sure if the OP was an Nvidia troll or simply didn't have updated drivers, but either way this result was BS, and all the Nvidia fans lapped it up.

The R9 390 is a 290 through and through, and the GTX 970 always beat the 290. The fact that performance differences were that marginal is surprising, the fact that the 290 still loses to the GTX 970, even with more VRAM, isn't.

 

This is a 290 we're talking about. If AMD still doesn't have optimized drivers for it, I don't think they ever will.

 

I hope the OP will now admit he screwed up, as others stated.

The only thing I can admit to is what's obvious: I'm not a professional, I'm just a guy who picked up the R9 390 for shits and giggles. Unless you can specifically point out what I've done wrong and not AMD, you've no standing here.

[maizenblue]

Err... You're joking, right? The R9 390X is the 290X with a new name, if the 290X traded blows with a 970, the 390X isn't going to suddenly gain 20% performance and match a 980. It sounds absolutely ridiculous, especially considering the existing benchmarks that I'm aware of only slightly surpass my own. By slightly, I really do mean it.

 

 

 

The R9 390 is a 290 through and through, and the GTX 970 always beat the 290. The fact that performance differences were that marginal is surprising, the fact that the 290 still loses to the GTX 970, even with more VRAM, isn't.

 

This is a 290 we're talking about. If AMD still doesn't have optimized drivers for it, I don't think they ever will.

 

The only thing I can admit to is what's obvious: I'm not a professional, I'm just a guy who picked up the R9 390 for shits and giggles. Unless you can specifically point out what I've done wrong and not AMD, you've no standing here.

Theres another thread with firestrike benchmarks from the Fury X and 390x. The 390x scored 12855 at what is probably stock speeds, that's a tad more than "slightly surpassing" your own. At higher resolutions it does even better. It doesn't match a 980, but it comes relatively close and surpasses it at 5k(probably due to the increased VRAM).

 

Most likely when 390 benchmarks are out with updated drivers it will also surpass the score you got because the difference between a 290 and 290x isn't that great.

 

Mind you this is a stock 390x as well. Your 970 benchmarks are from an overclocked 970.

 

I don't think you were trolling, but the guy in the 390x unboxing video widely circulated online may have been, as his results don't even remotely match the new benchmarks out, and he stated the card ran really hot, yet your sample ran cooler than your 970. He also trashed the 390x because of the price he paid at BestBuy, which everyone knows is going to be more than everyone else charges. No one who knows anything about PC gaming buys GPUs from BestBuy.