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Everything about the 82:18% market share is blown out of proportion - I believe there was a legit source that proved that the market at the moment is 76% for Nvidia and 24% for AMD - not the eerie figures that the fancy shiny chart had. Not sure who had the anaylisis tho.

 

 

Do we know exactly what was meant by those figures?  Is that 76% of gpus currently in use?  Or 76% of current gpu sales/shipments?  Because if it's merely the latter, that does not translate into a direct marketshare cut of what people are actually using, because people have cards from years before.  I'd imagine a large number of people are still using 7970 cards.

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Do we know exactly what was meant by those figures?  Is that 76% of gpus currently in use?  Or 76% of current gpu sales/shipments?  Because if it's merely the latter, that does not translate into a direct marketshare cut of what people are actually using, because people have cards from years before.  I'd imagine a large number of people are still using 7970 cards.

It's units sold I believe - units in use is the steam survey.

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R9 290 Vapor X

 

I have a 290 but the worst kind.  Stock, and purchased in the middle of the mining boom, so I both paid more for mine and got a weaker version.  Looking forward to arctic islands next year.  Still serves well enough though.

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I have a 290 but the worst kind.  Stock, and purchased in the middle of the mining boom, so I both paid more for mine and got a weaker version.  Looking forward to arctic islands next year.  Still serves well enough though.

 

I'm also looking forward to artic Island. I'm going to buy 2 of that line-up top cards what ever they're named then buy 2 Ek waterblocks and backplates and liquid cool then because i'll go with my Artic Fox Rig That's Based of a White and black Theme. So I will have White liquid, and it'll be in the Nzxt Noctis so it'll look so great.

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I have a 290 but the worst kind.  Stock, and purchased in the middle of the mining boom, so I both paid more for mine and got a weaker version.  Looking forward to arctic islands next year.  Still serves well enough though.

 

My Card is a great overclocker too btw

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My Card is a great overclocker too btw

 

Oh? How far can it go?

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Oh? How far can it go?

 

I can get it to 1160 Core and 1550 Mem. Sure it's not an Nvidia overclock up it's something. Plus it's on air.

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I can get it to 1160 Core and 1550 Mem. Sure it's not an Nvidia overclock up it's something. Plus it's on air.

 

That's alright I guess? For a 290.

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I've ran a bunch of gpu since the inception of my gaming rig this January.

EVGA GTX 970 FTW 2-way SLI

MSI R9 290X lightning

XFX R2 295x2 Hydra Edition

And now Galax GTX 980ti 8pack edition

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That's alright I guess? For a 290.

 

Yeah like you have to think about the Vapor-x model was shipped already at an 1030 core and 1400 Mem so I got an Extra 130 on the Core and 150 on the Mem and compare it to the reference R9290 that Ran up to 947Mhz I believe it was.

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Yeah like you have to think about the Vapor-x model was shipped already at an 1030 core and 1400 Mem so I got an Extra 130 on the Core and 150 on the Mem and compare it to the reference R9290 that Ran up to 947Mhz I believe it was.

 

Neh reference models thermal throttles so bad that no one uses it for comparison  :lol:

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Neh reference models thermal throttles so bad that no one uses it for comparison  :lol:

 

I wasn't using it for that type of comparison lol I was just showing the differences in clock speeds. Trust and believe me I know that the reference R290 series was hitting 95 faithfully. :lol:

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Neh reference models thermal throttles so bad that no one uses it for comparison  :lol:

 

well.... unless you mess with the fan profile.... I'm the crazy person who OCd my reference 290 to 1180Mhz (fan speed was set to 80% to keep it around 70C, so jet engine level but it worked) 60% fan speed keeps it around 85 and is much kinder to the ears

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well.... unless you mess with the fan profile.... I'm the crazy person who OCd my reference 290 to 1180Mhz (fan speed was set to 80%, so jet engine level but it worked)

 

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well.... unless you mess with the fan profile.... I'm the crazy person who OCd my reference 290 to 1180Mhz (fan speed was set to 80% to keep it around 70C, so jet engine level but it worked)

 

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but 1180 on a ref is impressive ;)

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Eh...I have stuck with Sapphire for AMD GPU's for too long; too late to change now.

 

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Two MSI 970's

Higher frame rate over higher resolution.

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Can I vote twice on AMD?

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Asus Radeon R9 280X DirectCU II 3GB

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