AMD real talk

[don_svetlio]

29 minutes ago, s3ns3 said:

wrong. r9 380 is a rebranded r9 285. its a 200W card

 

 

 

Wrong. It's 140W

TinyTomLogan is more trusted than Toms

[Prysin]

57 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

From what I've been seeing, APU have come a long way since the POS based on Trinnity (single channel IMC, DDR3 1600 ran slower than DDR3 1066 on an older Phenom II P920 with a dual channel controller), and they are still being improved on (though TBH, still not seriously considering any pre Excavator APU, because they need to exceed my PhII N970+MRHD5650/5770 in all areas while using less power and putting out a lot less heat).

Well, you shouldnt need to wait long then. Bristol Ridge APUs will prolly fix that issue for you.

Especially if the laptop HP is planning to make is decent (APU + Freesync display in a laptop)

[Dabombinable]

25 minutes ago, Prysin said:

Well, you shouldnt need to wait long then. Bristol Ridge APUs will prolly fix that issue for you.

Especially if the laptop HP is planning to make is decent (APU + Freesync display in a laptop)

Freesync while good really doesn't concern me as I'm still ge-I'd be more worried about the build quality+the APU at least matching expectations. So far only this laptop and my old Presario R3000 have been sold, durable and had no hardware issues at all and no problems with their respective OS in regards to software problems-Microsoft or otherwise (excluding Windows 10 because apparently "screw those who have 2 different generations of Ati GPU in their laptop").

[Prysin]

42 minutes ago, s3ns3 said:

wrong. r9 380 is a rebranded r9 285. its a 200W card

nah mate... When AMD "rebranded" the 300 series. They DID do some update to their architecture. Dunno specifically what they did, but TDPs were reduced slightly. But around 20-30w atleast. I know they managed to get the 390 to use less power then a 290. But not by a whole lot.

 

Whilst most of us think "Grenada is the same as Hawaii", it is obvious that AMD did something. God knows what, to improve efficiency even if only by 10%

[Dabombinable]

4 minutes ago, Prysin said:

nah mate... When AMD "rebranded" the 300 series. They DID do some update to their architecture. Dunno specifically what they did, but TDPs were reduced slightly. But around 20-30w atleast. I know they managed to get the 390 to use less power then a 290. But not by a whole lot.

 

Whilst most of us think "Grenada is the same as Hawaii", it is obvious that AMD did something. God knows what, to improve efficiency even if only by 10%

The GPU stayed the same, the graphics card vendors tweaked the power delivery and used better components overall, still doesn't stop people being dissatisfied with the 300 series though and preferring the 200 series versions due to not having as many issues with it. And BTW, look at the GTX 950 reference, then look at the version from Asus without the PCIe power connector, then look at its base+boost clock. 2MHz higher clock speed, low enough power consumption to not need the PCIe power connector.

[s3ns3]

3 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

Wrong. It's 140W

TinyTomLogan is more trusted than Toms

first of all thats not a review. second he doesnt have a review for it but he said the system pulled from the wall 339.7W.

ok job done here couse in his other reviews such as this one we can see that the system with a gtx 960 pulled ~250W(lets call it 250W because there are 960s in that review that pulled less and more) 

339.7-250=89.7W more power consumption than a gtx 960. nowere near your 20W difference and thats according to your trusted tomlogan.

and more heat in the case

 

also check this .or any other real review for that matter. but the r9 285 techpowerup picture i posted is enough because the r9 390 is a rebrand of that. give or take ~10W depending on the vendor and their implementation.and binning

 

Edited March 5, 2016 by s3ns3