AMD 390x Improvement over 290X is because of driver

[Hitman928]

I saw this test where they clocked the 290X and 390X the same and if u look from the benchmark it's the same card.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/06/18/msi_r9_390x_gaming_8g_video_card_review/9

Their clock for clock comparison is very flawed. You can see this by simply looking at the 2 games they didn't test clock for clock but were in the review.

That's an increase of 40.6% and 27.5% from a 5% clock bump and higher memory bandwidth? Doubtful. Perhaps something to do with the drivers but pcper doesn't show that much improvement though they didn't test Witcher 3 or Project Cars which hardware.info showed a 30+% improvement as well. There's some good evidence that there's some tweaks there that show up big in some games and small or none at all in others. Hopefully it gets some more testing but from what HardOCP and Ryan were told, they're not just rebrands.

 

[Innokentij]

The Witcher 3 was in the clock for clock from what i can see? The clock for clock was done using high not ultra and no hairworks, maybe 390X better at hairworks? duno hard opc will have to englighten me on that.

Edit: Or maybe tesstaletion since 290X is sub par on that part.

 

[amenx]

Their clock for clock comparison is very flawed. You can see this by simply looking at the 2 games they didn't test clock for clock but were in the review.

He linked to the wrong chart. Proper one here:

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/06/18/msi_r9_390x_gaming_8g_video_card_review/9

 

[Hitman928]

He linked to the wrong chart. Proper one here:

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/06/18/msi_r9_390x_gaming_8g_video_card_review/9

Fair enough, it is weird that they use high with no hairworks for the c2c but it is ultra with hairworks where they saw the big gain. It'd be nice to see c2c with the same settings because we don't know yet what improvements were made that would lead to such a big increase.

 

[gamervivek]

I didn't realize that GTA V also showed such a bump, then it's strange that they don't see such big improvement in Far Cry 4 with godrays turned to maximum.