Despoiler
Golden Member
- Nov 10, 2007
- 1,968
- 773
- 136
AnandThenMan
Diamond Member
- Nov 11, 2004
- 3,991
- 626
- 126
You could have a GPU that draws 100 milliamps and gets 0.4 fps. But it would still have the best perf/watt out there, of course you would not want to game on it.
Though perhaps lacking above that, or at high AA settings.
CF under DX12 will be interesting though, if the sharing of memory works well.
crashtech
Lifer
- Jan 4, 2013
- 10,692
- 2,289
- 146
This has been phrased and rephrased, perf/watt is only relevant when comparing similarly performing parts, this should be obvious to all, no?
exar333
Diamond Member
- Feb 7, 2004
- 8,518
- 8
- 91
You can see 4K is the limit for the card on the graph. 5K drops a good amount in comparison to TX/980Ti and 8K tanks completely and the 390X is way ahead due to the 8GB.
Add different games, textures and AA and the picture gets more and more complicated. I think this will be a focus in the reviews as a good deal of people will want to be confident the 4GB isn't a limiting factor (myself included).
​​​AMD Catalyst Display Driver version 15.15 for AMD Radeon 300 Series Graphics
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-300-Series.aspx
​Supported Products
AMD Radeon R7 300 Series
AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-300-Series.aspx
​Supported Products
AMD Radeon R7 300 Series
AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X
AnandThenMan
Diamond Member
- Nov 11, 2004
- 3,991
- 626
- 126
Of course, but for some reason the discussion about perf/watt is sometimes seen in a vacuum, it is one metric that has to be weighed against actual performance. I mean I can overclock my CPU to silly levels and I get the performance, but power usage goes up exponentially.
No duh. but the 980 is not twice as efficient as the 770 no matter how you cut it.
Need some magic sauce to get any large amount of data over the PCIe bus however. Its 16 GB/s for 3.0 x16.
Reviews will show that now 4GB isn't too bad. However, it looks like the release of shoddy console ports could easily push future games over 4 GB, especially at 4 K.
Gotta love AMD marketing. 4GB is plenty for Fiji, meanwhile look at our 4K ready 8 GB Hawaii chips (which add ~$30-40 to the BOM). That inconsistency. D:
Interestingly enough it looks like project quantum uses a custom ~ITX sized motherboard, take a look at the oddly placed power connector next to the network interface, and it also looks like an Intel CPU to me
At least they're honest and realize their CPUs have nothing to do in a scenario like that, driving such powerful GPUs. Nice way of thinking. Should change once Zen products replace the faildozer family. (Carrizo is something else, but not suited for high power scenarios)
happy medium
Lifer
- Jun 8, 2003
- 14,387
- 480
- 126
So I skimmed over the last few post, so basically we really know nothing more about actual performance of the Fury than we did yesterday? Just more guesses and speculation?
Despoiler
Golden Member
- Nov 10, 2007
- 1,968
- 773
- 136
What is inconsistent when they use two different types of memory? False equivalence is a logical fallacy.
LTC8K6
Lifer
- Mar 10, 2004
- 28,520
- 1,575
- 126
I would say that's a fair comment.
300 series seems to be largely an unexciting rebrand.
Fury is still mostly a mystery as far as performance. It's been described in terms that could be taken more than one way.
It's mostly described in terms of the 290X.
We have some synthetic benches, that probably don't reflect gaming.
So, I would say it was a very interesting reveal, but so far, not of Cat's Ass caliber.
Subject to change with more data, of course.
Last edited:
LTC8K6
Lifer
- Mar 10, 2004
- 28,520
- 1,575
- 126
Fury Pro will be an interesting card, hopefully that triple fan cooler is good. The Fury X costs $100, but that's really only 18% more. For your extra $100 you get the CLC and 14% more shaders if the 4096/3584 split holds up. Depending on how they test, this might be one of the few times where the top end card is actually the better value and not just the better performer.
ShintaiDK
Lifer
- Apr 22, 2012
- 20,378
- 145
- 106
And? FP, EDO, SDR, DDR1-4, GDDR1-5 had zero difference. But somehow HBM changes all that? 4GB is 4GB nomatter what type of memory. I can guarantee you it was the original plan to only ship it with 4GB. But thats because Hynix couldnt deliver.
Last edited:
It's my somewhat educated opinion that the 8GB VRAM on 390/390X is there to combat the 970/980. We all know people that buy 4GB GT 730 graphics cards because it has "m0ar vrams". It's a one-up against the 970's 4GB* and 980's 4GB... perhaps even the 980Ti's 6GB. These things are already on sale at Best Buy and people that know nothing about GPUs are buying them (as evidenced by the videos posted so far), so it's clearly working.
I can only wonder what the comments would be if nV was the first to HBM1, and AMD would've had decided to wait until HBM2 next year.
Ahh, reviews, where are you?
EDIT: That Fiji X2 board looks amazing. Hmm, the VRM area seems similar between it and the 295x2, I count a similar number of chokes on both:
This time at least the VRM should be watercooled too, considering how compact everything has become.
Ahh, reviews, where are you?
EDIT: That Fiji X2 board looks amazing. Hmm, the VRM area seems similar between it and the 295x2, I count a similar number of chokes on both:
This time at least the VRM should be watercooled too, considering how compact everything has become.
Last edited:
TRENDING THREADS
-
Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)- Started by DisEnchantment
- Replies: 25K
-
Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes Discussion Threads
- Started by Tigerick
- Replies: 21K
-
Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread- Started by TheF34RChannel
- Replies: 23K
-
-
Facebook
Twitter