The World's Most Powerful Computer Chip Award for 2013 Goes To...

[GPUXPert]

AMD's R9 290X ! congrats to the winner !
 

Welcome to fullhd1080P.com’s first ever annual World Most Powerful Computer Chip Award for 2013. This year's annual contenders are nVidia, intel and AMD.    

First up, weighing it at 1.86 Billion Transistors we have in one corner intel’s most powerful consumer chip the Ivy Bridge Core i7 4960X. This monster comes packed with 6 cores and 15MB L3 cache and cost’s an astounding and (some would say ridiculously high) price of  $1049.99.This CPU has punching capacity of nearly 100 Gigaflops.    

 

Next we have nVidias GTX 780 Ti. This $700 beast output’s around 5.04 Teraflops and it’s nVidia’s fastest chip.   

 

Lastly, we have the perennial underdog AMD. It’s fastest chip is the R9 290X which sales for a surprisingly low price of $549.99. Not only does it match or beat the nVidia’s GTX Titan but it cost’s almost half the price of the Titan which cost’s $1000.0 and it’s $150.0 less than the 780 Ti.    

So, who is the winner of the 2013 World’s Most Powerful Computer Chip? Well, the answer is obvious and that title goes to AMD with it’s 5.6 Teraflop R9 290X. AMD had a very strong 2nd half of 2013 and it got rave reviews for it’s R9 2XX series of GPU’s. The perennial underdog has beaten the mighty intel and nVidia and takes our First Ever World Most Powerful Computer Chip Award.    

 

Congratulations to AMD and we look forward to amazing product’s coming out of AMD in 2014.

http://1080ponly.wix.com/fullhd1080p#!world-most-powerful-chip-2013/c75

[MatheusSanzo]

Now that's interesting.

 

Maybe I’m wrong but that doesn't look like it have too much credibility.

[M-ursu]

Weird, because 780ti consumes less power and it is more powerfull.

[Denned]

That site doesn't look like something you'd take too serious..

[mvitkun]

Weird, because 780ti consumes less power and it is more powerfull.

It consumes marginally less power at any decent load (1-20 watts).

 

And as said above this source seems like a joke.

[carolkarine]

I've noticed on these forums that as soon as something is posted that people disagree with they start questioning the validity of the source.

 

after reading the article I agree. this one is horseshit. that doesn't change my previous statement about this forum.

[felixbearpig]

I guess gk110 dosent win Becuase it's been kicking ass since 2012 ?

[mvitkun]

I've noticed on these forums that as soon as something is posted that people disagree with they start questioning the validity of the source.

have you even looked at the source?

It's a free WIX blogging page,most likely managed by some 12 year old.

[Oshino Shinobu]

The amount of spelling and grammatical mistakes in the article is killing me. They could have at least read it over once or twice. 

[Andrew48]

I thought server chips where more powerfull?

[mvitkun]

I thought server chips where more powerfull?

intel’s most powerful consumer chip 

So I would presume the teenage author intended for this award to be more along the lines of fastest consumer chip.

[ForeseenVisionz]

i thought my graphics card was the most powerful? oh well looks like i just shit $900 down the drain...

[GPUXPert]

Weird, because 780ti consumes less power and it is more powerfull.

ahh, it isn't more powerful ?

The 290X is designed for 4K, you can't test it in 1080p which is 4 times lower pixel count then say it's slower.

AMD invested heavily into elements that would improve high resolution performance like the eight ACE Pipelines and the massive 512bit buss.

Buying a 290X for 1080p gaming is really up to to you but that's not what the 290X is meant for.

 

GTX 780 Ti  Compute Perf 5.04 TFLOPS

R9 290X  Compute Perf 5.6 TFLOPS

 

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti-3GB-Review-Full-GK110-Crashes-Hawaii

[Denned]

I've noticed on these forums that as soon as something is posted that people disagree with they start questioning the validity of the source.

In this instance you should be questioning the source..

[carolkarine]

In this instance you should be questioning the source..

 

after reading the article I agree. this one is horseshit. that doesn't change my previous statement about this forum.

[Immort]

Disregarding the source the 290X is a more powerful compute chip than the 780 Ti, that's a fact.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7492/the-geforce-gtx-780-ti-review/14

[wpirobotbuilder]

Disregarding the source the 290X is a more powerful compute chip than the 780 Ti, that's a fact.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7492/the-geforce-gtx-780-ti-review/14

And all of a sudden, the thread got very quiet.

 

In real-world gaming so far, the 780 Ti does seem to have an advantage in terms of FPS. We'll have to wait for the advent of 4K gaming to get a better picture.

 

Although if FreeSync ends up being very good and Mantle comes through for performance, I'm interested in what Nvidia will come up with to be more competitive.

[Bluejay0]

I don't see how this can be credible. Sure the price to preformance is great (before the mining rush) but I still don't see it.

[spandy34]

AMD's R9 290X ! congrats to the winner !

http://1080ponly.wix.com/fullhd1080p#!world-most-powerful-chip-2013/c75

ahh, it isn't more powerful ?

The 290X is designed for 4K, you can't test it in 1080p which is 4 times lower pixel count then say it's slower.

AMD invested heavily into elements that would improve high resolution performance like the eight ACE Pipelines and the massive 512bit buss.

Buying a 290X for 1080p gaming is really up to to you but that's not what the 290X is meant for.

GTX 780 Ti Compute Perf 5.04 TFLOPS

R9 290X Compute Perf 5.6 TFLOPS

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti-3GB-Review-Full-GK110-Crashes-Hawaii

Lol, so they designed the flagship card to be used with something hardly anyone has, but to just run 1080 ok, I really don't think they built the card around a resolution

[Fetzie]

In compute performance, the 290X IS the fastest consumer product on the market by a margin of nearly 600 GFLOPS (anandtech, pcper) IF all you need is pure FLOPS throughput. In gaming performance, it all depends on the game, the settings and the resolution you're using. But I think we all already know that.

 

Lol, so they designed the flagship card to be used with something hardly anyone has, but to just run 1080 ok, I really don't think they built the card around a resolution

 

spandy34

 

ACtually, they do. In the TH AMA, they said that they aimed the 7850 and 7870 at 1080p gamers, and 7950/7970 at 1440p/1600p gamers, as evidenced by the 256bit memory interface with 2GB GDDR5 in the former, and 384 bit memory interface with 3GB GDDR5 in the latter.

[Gunjob]

While the reviewer isn't exactly a industry respected source, the R9290x is the "fastest" card/chip out there, if measured by compute that's for sure. Although I don't feel this is even needed to be mentioned, simply a case of look at numbers which is bigger. 

[Osmium]

The 290X is designed for 4K, you can't test it in 1080p which is 4 times lower pixel count then say it's slower.

"Designed for 4K" is a load of crap. That is the marketing talking, if a component will crush another at 4k it will crush it also at 1080p. Funny thing is the 290x nor the 780ti can even game(at playable framerates)at 4k resolution so it means nothing anyway.

[Vitalius]

And all of a sudden, the thread got very quiet.

 

In real-world gaming so far, the 780 Ti does seem to have an advantage in terms of FPS. We'll have to wait for the advent of 4K gaming to get a better picture.

 

Although if FreeSync ends up being very good and Mantle comes through for performance, I'm interested in what Nvidia will come up with to be more competitive.

In terms of what FPS? 

Max? Average? Min? 

Question: Which of those matters most in the highest tier of Single chip GPU cards?

My Answer is Min. Because average and max are usually over your refresh rate and so don't matter. And the 290X (and AMD in general) tends to do better at minimums than Nvidia. Just saying.

[Vitalius]

"Designed for 4K" is a load of crap. That is the marketing talking, if a component will crush another at 4k it will crush it also at 1080p. Funny thing is the 290x nor the 780ti can even game(at playable framerates)at 4k resolution so it means nothing anyway.

WTH are you talking about? The following images were taken from here.

This is unplayable, I agree:

However, the settings for that are the following:

DX11 at 3,840x2,160 4xMSAA, High Preset

Why the hell are they using 4xMSAA for 4K? The PPI isn't enough? I very much disbelieve that. 2xMSAA would be as far as I would go there.

But that's Crysis. Crysis is Crysis. It's always been the exception in terms of graphics. Let's look at something a bit more "normal".

This is very playable:

 

And these are the settings (again, I see no point in MSAA, though I would use 2x out of habit):

DX11 at 3,840x2,160 2xMSAA, Ultra Preset

I agree that "we made it for 4K" is marketing speak, but they can hold their own at 4K.

[Fetzie]

"Designed for 4K" is a load of crap. That is the marketing talking, if a component will crush another at 4k it will crush it also at 1080p. Funny thing is the 290x nor the 780ti can even game(at playable framerates)at 4k resolution so it means nothing anyway.

Not if they can both crush 1080p to the same degree. Take a Ferrari Enzo and a Bugatti Veyron. Both will do 0-60 in under 3 seconds. Both will do 150 mph without breaking a sweat. If you want to do 200 mph then both will do that too. But the Veyron will continue up to 260 mph while the Enzo will stop accelerating at about 220.