AMD Catalyst 15.15 (Official Radeon 300 Launch Driver)

Perfect. So, what exactly are you saying on the subject?

 

You're ignorant for one and obstinate enough for two.

 

*popcorn*

let's bug review sites to use the modded driver, eventually there will be a test with the same hawaii clocks, same driver, same OS, 290x non reference vs 390x non reference

as a bonus, such a review site would already have numbers of the slower 14.x branch

or a regular user with money...

 

And same amount of VRAM...

There are at least two sets of candidates available for this versus:

- Sapphire: Tri-X R9 290X 8G vs Tri-X R9 390X 8G

- MSI: 290X Gaming 8 GB vs 390X Gaming 8 GB

 

You can say whatever you want for me personally, I don't really care. Seriously though, what exactly are you saying? Are you saying that the 390x has a different GPU? Are you saying that the driver performance is not enough? What is your angle on the thread?

That might be a good idea for Guru3D I believe. The thing is that apart from AMD's Twitter microcosm and some fanboys, all websites treat the "new" cards as rebrands, so nobody will waste the time to prove what everybody already knows. The real issue I believe was more on the intentional skewing of the differences between the old and the new, by artificially withholding the driver. And whoever makes that, should be prepared for a hardware embargo from AMD. Nobody will, unless a user does it.

These look reasonable. No review site will run it for the above reasons.

EDIT: No big review site will run it for at least two months after the rebrands are being sold.

 

that you are making cry his fanboy heart.

 

irrelevant
cards are refreshes
better ram better binned everyone knows they are pretty much the same thing.
the problem is the pricing....they need to drop the price by a fair chunk to make it value....do that and then they will be worth it
if I still had a 290x or 290 I really would not bother.
if you are coming up from a bubby card...still would not bother until they drop the costs, the 970 at that middle price point is still better value.

 

290x is cheaper. Get that.

 

Actually i would choose an r9 390 with 8 gb which is at the same price point and delivers an equal performance over a crippled card anytime of the day. You can see that some games are badly optimized and 3.5 gb vram might become an issue in less than a year even at 1080p. Not everyone can buy a card every 6 months or every year. Now if you have an r9 290, just oc it to the r9 390 level and there you have same exact fps numbers. Why is the 970 a better value? I think the 970 and 980 at their price point are overpriced and not really competitive specially for those that want to crossfire or sli at 4k.

 

Buy the 4GB 290x. Cheaper than the 390, more powerful too.

 

I have an r9 290 already, i ain't buying any gpu any time soon.

 

No I meant instead of the 970, here anyway, not you

 

I came to the point where I am going to order 80€ cooler that keeps my 290x at maximum 80 while overclocked to 1100/6000 (no point spending cash for marginal increase when in reality next year will bring bit better increases)... That would be more then 390x performance since that 2xx card is clocked only at 1050. Or maybe oc a bit more to 1150 why not. @1200 it would match 980 @ 1300. While leaving that 970 to dust even with 1500 overclock.

 

The GTX 970 has triumphed over the R9 290 and the R9 290X in so many titles, even at a resolution of 4K despite having 3.5 GB of video ram, it's not even funny. If you want to play games immediately after release instead of spending a whole week fiddling around with drivers and tweaks, and also want your hardware to be cost and power efficient, please get the GTX 970. A Gigabyte G1 GTX 970 or the Zotac GTX 970 AMP would be a good choice. And here's one simple logic to keep in mind: if AMD sponsors a title, no developer is going to purposefuly cripple nvidia's performance and shoot themselves on the foot, because nvidia is the majority. Whatever implementation of middleware a developer chooses to implement should be none of the concerns of the end user even if it is responsible for causing problems on a specific hardware vendor.

 

The 290x can be bought here for about £50/60 less which makes the 970 out of the scenario for me.

 

And you will be paying that £50/60 yearly as electricity bill that you are willing to save up right now. Here in Bangladesh, the R9 290 is priced at $375 USD (in my currency) and the GTX 970 is priced at ranging from $410 to $460. Despite the huge price difference, the GTX 970, being the hassle free solution is worth the price.

 

Stop it I don't want a new GPU

 

Did the prices scare you?

 

Could have bought a 290x for £200 the other day. I kept strong.

 

290x has been rather hassle free for me actually I don't see how it would be any different going for single 970. And electricity wise I would be saving around 20€ a year So that would off set the price difference in 3 years while 290x is clearly the stronger card easily.

Now still I would possibly take the 970 over this card. Because shiny.