Has Nvidia Forgotten Kepler? The GTX 780 Ti vs. the 290X Revisited

[lightningterror]

On 4/4/2016 at 5:19 PM, Prysin said:

all you gonna get is a half-arsed test anyway.

LMG is no longer producing factually relevant content. They are "click-whoring". They'd make a video just to get likes and subscribes. The content of the video would be whatever.

I hope Digital Foundry does these benchmarks.

[TheRandomness]

On 31/03/2016 at 5:04 PM, MEC-777 said:

Good ol' Hawaii. Still king of performance per dollar.

My 290 agrees c:

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

6 minutes ago, lightningterror said:

I hope Digital Foundry does these benchmarks.

 

Nehhhh, they'll be like: 

 

*Nvidia in a 3 fps lead* 

DF: We can see a big lead for Nvidia!

 

*AMD in a 5fps lead*

DF: AMD is certainly leading, but not by much.   

 

Love their benchmarks, but I can't stand their bias remarks.

[Notional]

On ‎04‎-‎04‎-‎2016 at 5:19 PM, Prysin said:

all you gonna get is a half-arsed test anyway.

LMG is no longer producing factually relevant content. They are "click-whoring". They'd make a video just to get likes and subscribes. The content of the video would be whatever.

This is sadly correct. They forget to be professional and competent in their reviews. Or maybe they just don't care anymore.

 

Their april fools joke about being NVidia owned is pretty much Poe's law at this point. Their horrible frankenserver test concluding that AMD and NVidia were equal, even though AMD beat the crap out of NVidia in every test, except the last one (which Linus apparently found to be the most relevant, imagine that), where the results were all over the place, where Fiji didn't work and a Hawaii beat a Hawaii pro (derp). It just seems like all objectivity is completely out the window.

 

I get that LMG wants to make entertainment like Scrapyard wars and their fun stuff channel; but then stop making reviews or get someone to do it, who actually wants to be objective and competent about it.

 

Whether they intend to or not, they come of very biased, simply because they don't treat each company equally.

[Shahnewaz]

36 minutes ago, lightningterror said:

I hope Digital Foundry does these benchmarks.

I hope not.

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Here's how GTX 970 vs R9 390 shape up on The Division. Stock clocks on both here - though you'd be mad not to use 970's overclocking headroom, not really an option on the 390. And as a bonus, we take the 980 Ti for a spin at 1440p and 4K.

Why they can't just test Nvidia and AMD cards at stock speeds and call it a day is beyond me. Yeah, we get it, Maxwell cards have plenty OC headroom, but could you leave it alone for once? I'm looking for a fair comparison here.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

14 minutes ago, Shahnewaz said:

I hope not.

Why they can't just test Nvidia and AMD cards at stock speeds and call it a day is beyond me. Yeah, we get it, Maxwell cards have plenty OC headroom, but could you leave it alone for once? I'm looking for a fair comparison here.

 

Apparently cause its "already too hot"  

[RagnarokDel]

35 minutes ago, Shahnewaz said:

I hope not.

Why they can't just test Nvidia and AMD cards at stock speeds and call it a day is beyond me. Yeah, we get it, Maxwell cards have plenty OC headroom, but could you leave it alone for once? I'm looking for a fair comparison here.

Gotta love how they compare overclocked to stock... It's not like you cant overclock a amd GPU lol. I get 100 mhz clock and 150 mhz on memory, sure it's not as much as Nvidia but it makes a vast difference.

22 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

 

Apparently cause its "already too hot"  

such a retarded point considering 99% of people who overclock their GPUs use afterburner or equivalent which includes fan control lol...

[lightningterror]

4 hours ago, Shahnewaz said:

I hope not.

Why they can't just test Nvidia and AMD cards at stock speeds and call it a day is beyond me. Yeah, we get it, Maxwell cards have plenty OC headroom, but could you leave it alone for once? I'm looking for a fair comparison here.

Ok then someone that can do proper benchmarks.

[Guest]

On 04/04/2016 at 4:44 PM, kurahk7 said:

7950>7950boost is a rebrand

7950boost>280 is a rebrand

8800gt>9800gt is a rebrand

9800gtx+>gts250 is a rebrand

 

290>390 is a rebrand

290x>390x is a rebrand

There are a ton more but those are what I can list off the top of my head. 

I don't think so. If there is a performance increase, then it's not a rebrand. From the 290 to the 390, we have a 290 that didn't compete with a similar nvidia gpu, whereas we have the 390 that pretty much beats the 970

[Guest]

On 04/04/2016 at 4:44 PM, kurahk7 said:

7950>7950boost is a rebrand

7950boost>280 is a rebrand

8800gt>9800gt is a rebrand

9800gtx+>gts250 is a rebrand

 

290>390 is a rebrand

290x>390x is a rebrand

There are a ton more but those are what I can list off the top of my head. 

“AMD is pleased to bring you the new R9 390 series which has been in development for a little over a year now. To clarify, the new R9 390 comes standard with 8GB of GDDR5 memory and outpaces the 290X.

Some of the areas AMD focused on are as follows:

1) Manufacturing process optimizations allowing AMD to increase the engine clock by 50MHz on both 390 and 390X while maintaining the same power envelope

2) New high density memory devices allow the memory interface to be re-tuned for faster performance and more bandwidth

· Memory clock increased from 1250MHz to 1500MHz on both 390 and 390X

· Memory bandwidth increased from 320GB/s to 384GB/s

· 8GB frame buffer is standard on ALL cards, not just the OC versions

3) Complete re-write of the GPUs power management micro-architecture

· Under “worse case” power virus applications, the 390 and 390X have a similar power envelope to 290X

· Under “typical” gaming loads, power is expected to be lower than 290X while performance is increased”