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Can someone explain why tomshardware has benches for the 390/390X so high?

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Sometimes they beat the Fury... that doesn't make sense.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/powercolor-devil-r9-390x,4344.html

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As that's what they observed?

Well, yes. But it doesn't match other sites.

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It's in there

 

Our tests on the PowerColor Devil R9 390X took advantage of AMD's 15.7.1 Catalyst drivers. The comparison charts also include Sapphire's Nitro R9 390, which utilized Catalyst 15.7.

Results from the Sapphire R9 Fury Tri-X were pulled from our review earlier this summer. That card was only sent to us temporarily, prior to the publication of 15.7. So, those numbers were generated using the 15.15 driver package that was available back then.

Our GeForce GTX 970 results were taken from the Nitro R9 390 review, and generated using version 353.30 of the company's software. The GTX 980 and 780 Ti results were pulled from our GeForce GTX 980 Ti review from May. We used version 347.25 in that piece.

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Well, yes. But it doesn't match other sites.

well, great. They observed those FPSes and put it on a graph. There's no more to it. There were factors involved, like the ones 2 posts above this one, but at the end of the day, they observed what they observed.

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It's a water cooled binned 390x overclocked to the max vs an air cooled non-binned stock fury, I'm not sure what you're surprise by this as I said they are comparing a stock fury with old drivers to it.

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/631048-psu-tier-list-updated/ Tier Breakdown (My understanding)--1 Godly, 2 Great, 3 Good, 4 Average, 5 Meh, 6 Bad, 7 Awful

 

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It's in there

 

Our tests on the PowerColor Devil R9 390X took advantage of AMD's 15.7.1 Catalyst drivers. The comparison charts also include Sapphire's Nitro R9 390, which utilized Catalyst 15.7.

Results from the Sapphire R9 Fury Tri-X were pulled from our review earlier this summer. That card was only sent to us temporarily, prior to the publication of 15.7. So, those numbers were generated using the 15.15 driver package that was available back then.

Our GeForce GTX 970 results were taken from the Nitro R9 390 review, and generated using version 353.30 of the company's software. The GTX 980 and 780 Ti results were pulled from our GeForce GTX 980 Ti review from May. We used version 347.25 in that piece.

Alright, thanks for the clarification.

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Alright, thanks for the clarification.

Also, keep in mind, they don't go for agrresive overclocks very often, this powercolor R9 390X is binned and water cooled with an AiO unit right out of the box, so they did pushed the clockspeed and memory speed more than they usually do (which is fair, considering it has a $100+ price premium).

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Also, keep in mind, they don't go for agrresive overclocks very often, this powercolor R9 390X is binned and water cooled with an AiO unit right out of the box, so they did pushed the clockspeed and memory speed more than they usually do (which is fair, considering it has a $100+ price premium).

You know I would get it if it was in stock at Newegg.ca

Shame it isn't.

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