[TT]AMD continues to cut spending on R&D, down 40% in the last five years

[railven]

Use GPUz to look at your ASIC quality. It's a general guide to how much voltage is needed to OC. Not all samples are the same, and it of course depends on how high you're going. My MSI 980 is at 1503MHz core and 3800MHz memory (which is a pretty good OC) and I'm running with a MAX voltage of 1.281V, but in reality I don't see it go that high - no need to even cross past 1.3V. (I did up the min-voltage at some clock steps since I was seeing some instability when closing steam, for some reason.)

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Out of the box just put power slider to Max and set it to "heat" priority. Then cranked the fan to 100% core/mem @ 300 both and ran Firestrike. Highest I saw the volts hit was 1.21. Temps stayed in the 60c range. Clocks hit 1503 at peak but averaged i'd say 1483 (ballpark).

I can't get over +300 on the core stable and I've yet to try more than +20mv to see where I could. So I just left it at that. I've yet to try higher on the mom. I don't even know my ASIC score. Might as well check it now...

67.1%

 

[badb0y]

This was the last chance to for AMD to court high end PC gamers, from here on out people are going to end up buying G-Sync/Freesync monitors and be locked up for a few years. I was considering a Fury X but at the same price, especially under custom water-loop, there's zero advantages for the Fury X besides having a smaller PCB. Next month I am going to end up buying the Acer Predator X34 (GSync, 100 hz, 34 inch ultrawide monitor) and be locked to nVidia for the next 3-4 years.

 

[MongGrel]

All things being equal, I would choose an AMD product simply because their drivers have been rock solid for me since the HD6000 series and even before that. NVidia's drivers were always more prone to crash during gaming. I haven't had a crash related to GPU drivers in so many years I've forgotten how nice it is to not have that happen. I am very close to going with a 980 Ti this time around but may opt for a 390X, enjoy what I expect to be continued rock-solid stability, and just wait out a couple more years of tech before migrating to something entirely new in whatever the playing field looks like by then.




Agreed, and they could have fixed that by debuting the Fury and Fury X at $50 lower MSRP than they did. That would have made a big wave of price/performance buzz. But since they are so desperate for revenue they couldn't do the one thing that would have made up for Fury and Fury X being pretty much "just okay", which would be an aggressive price.

I've used both of the past few decades myself.

I use AMD on the main atm, but to be honest I've always found NVidia drivers to be more solid myself.

Just my two cents.

But I haven't had many problems with the current card, so not sure that is a large issue these days.