If the Fiji scores are legit daaam I have to get pair of them. Hopefully they dont **** up the price. Also 4Gigs are bit on the low side and DX12 ability to use both cards vram is yet to be seen in real life.
in what universe can 290x score 100fps average in 19 games on max details in 4K resolution? of course it % based, 290x is taken for reference for this imaginary benchmark. Real reviewers and huge portals don't test 19 games let alone some leaker in his 2x2 room.
its rarely used but when it is physx adds really nice touches that you never knew you wanted. like batman and borderlands are much more graphically satisfying with it on. i have a 570 hanging around just for physx. e/i should probably up this to a small form 960.
part of the reason Batman looked so much better with PhysX enabled is because the Devs simply left huge swathes of effects out completely rather than bother recreating them in a form not using PhysX for those without NVidia cards. Really some of the Laziest coding I've seen in a game. They just did not Bother.
"Please note that the benchmarks below reflect performance in relation to the R9 290X in %, rather than FPS." i don't know if it's mentioned anywhere on the chiphell site, but the wccftech site points it out. -andy-
And deal with quad-crossfire? I nearly p!ssed my pants Performance is nice when it works, if it doesn't work well (read new games, the reason why you bought the cards) it's hell, I've been there
not only quad-crossfire, but you will pay 200$ more on PSU that can handle 2x295x2 and additional cooling and proper case and...when you add it all together 1300$ will look like a bargain really.
Don't forget overclocking potential, two chips on one card yields lower overclocks compared to 2x single.
nah I don't care about that, I just care to point out the things that people forget when blindly just looking at the performance numbers. It's similar to amd vs intel and howfx8xxx is cheaper than an i5, but then you actually spend more money in total because you need better PSU, better cooler, motherboard etc. and you still end up with slower rig than intel stock i5
Well it maybe barley faster than a 280X but it is a alot better than that failure of a card 960. As far as price goes the r9 280X maybe priced better than the 960 ti considering nvidia's pricing.
Depends really. Your card still needs to be able to do the workload that comes with that bandwidth properly. Though if NVIDIA keeps this TITAN bollox going any longer I might just start going AMD as well... due to pricing as you mentioned.
Depending on the price, the 'cut down GM200' would be the first card to look interesting after the 980SLI. Might get some remorse maybe, but looking back where I come from, and at my budget for the rig, I'm still fairly confident in my choices