Where were you when AMD got Nvidia beating drivers, when AMD won?
http://videocardz.com/57776/amd-launches-radeon-software-crimson-driver
This is negligible. We need to wait for it to actually release before jumping to any conclusions.
Manufacturers love to produce bias or exaggerated charts.
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-337-88-whql-watch-dog-drivers
>In today's 337.88 WHQL drivers we've introduced a new NVIDIA Control Panel feature called "Shader Cache", which saves compiled shaders to a cache on your hard drive.
>Nvidia had Shader Cache back in 2014
WHAT NVIDIA INNOVATES, AMD COPIES & STEALS
>>51493697
Nvidia stole tessellation from AMD.
>>51493723
AMD can't even into tessellation
https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/catalyst-hotfix-11-1a-amd-admits-defeat-in-tessellation/
>>51493697
Shader cache has been in Mesa for years, and guess who's the major contributor to Mesa.
Hint: Not nvidia
if AMD is the inventor of all the modern great GPU shit how do AMD suck so much especially on high medium and high ranges
>>51495274
They're trying to compete in engineering instead of marketing in capitalism.
>>51495098
3dfx interactive?
>>51495098
And that somehow makes AMD better?
>>51493737
They can.
Just not as well as nVidia.
AMD haven't exactly gone all out like nVidia and put in dedicated tesselation units.
>>51495274
AMD doesn't pay vidya devs to sabotage other companies.
>>51493643
Please take English classes. Your multiple sentence fragments strung together gave me a headache.
>>51495472
that's because they cant afford it but they have proven themselves to be sly enough to fuck the costumers just as bad as nvidia if they get the chance.
>>51495568
>proven themselves to be sly enough to fuck the costumers just as bad as nvidia if they get the chance.
When?
[citation needed]
>>51495652
Are you new?
lowering texture quality to get higher fps in benchmarks
higher prices and then dropping it the next day when nvidia released cards
amd PARTNERS selling cards over $200 the amd price even though there was no shortage
fake benchmarks
shady benchmarks with features disabled to make amd cards look better and i'm not talking about gameworks features
I'm not defending Nvidia but it is dumb as fuck to try to make companies into personas like most amd fans do.
both are terrible companies that shouldn't be trusted
>>51495725
>lowering texture quality to get higher fps in benchmarks
When? This one would count.
>higher prices and then dropping it the next day when nvidia released cards
It's called capitalism dipshit.
>amd PARTNERS selling cards over $200 the amd price even though there was no shortage
Apparently people were buying.
>fake benchmarks
didn't happen.
>shady benchmarks with features disabled to make amd cards look better and i'm not talking about gameworks features
Everything they released had their settings shown and confirmed by reviewers.
It's cheating the competition that's a problem. And Nvidia did plenty of that.
>>51495786
>>higher prices and then dropping it the next day when nvidia released cards
>It's called capitalism dipshit.
>>amd PARTNERS selling cards over $200 the amd price even though there was no shortage
>Apparently people were buying.
people will defend amd for this but call nvidia on their 780ti for this
sasuga amd lunatics.
you people are blind and crazy, you are not even neutral you are virtually willingly sucking amd dick at this point.
>>51495811
>but call nvidia on their 780ti for this
Never heard of that happening.
Hopefully the drivers release before black friday as the changes on the 390 will determine whether I'll be buying one or a 970.
>>51495926
Yeaa! you show him!
>>51495948
embarrassing yourself.
>game loads bit faster somehow amd won
kek
>>51496123
Well that's how that shit works for every pro-nviida fps benchmark..
>Drivers have been downloaded over 60 million times!!11!!omg!!
I really hate these presentations
>>51495725
>higher prices and then dropping it the next day when nvidia released cards
What's wrong with this? it's literally capitalism
>>51495725
>shady benchmarks with features disabled to make amd cards look better and i'm not talking about gameworks features
Are we talking about 4k gameplay benchmarks with AA disabled?
You literally do not need AA at those resolutions. It makes no difference, and only serves to cripple fps.
Does nvidia have g-sync for dx9?
I hope this is true desu
>>51495725
Nvidia went full retard with tessalation in benchmarks.
You dont need Anti-Aliasing above 1440p.
>>51496294
Only for fable kek
>>51496306
>You dont need Anti-Aliasing
>Fucking FABLE
AMDfags everyone.
>>51495786
For starters, the ArmA 3 benchmarks.
Then there's TW3 where they promised and released "real" benchmarks showing 60+fps with a 270 non-X, yet IRL a 270 can't get 60fps in the game even on low.
And let's not forget their DX12 benchmark from Ashes of the Singularity that no third party was capable of even getting close to (hurr 290x beats 980Ti guise (only at 4k and only with "some" settings turned off that weren't for the 980Ti and only when running this beta version of DX12 we compiled specifically for this card that isn't available to the public) srsly! Orly? Why's it 8fps behind a 970 when we do it?).
Then there's Batman: Arkham Knight (hurr hairwerks, gotta turn that off to give a "fair" comparison even though we left it on for the Nvidia card! Hurr, it's too tessellated, better force lower tesselation only for the AMD card using this proprietary software we won't release so the consumer can do the same thing! See? It still almost sorta...nope Fury is still 10fps behind a 970)
>>51496208
It's shady because they try to use a comparison to an Nvidia card in the same price bracket, but leave AA on only for the Nvidia card.
>>51496356
[citation needed]
>>51496317
:^^^)
>>51496409
>hey look at these performance increases in 4k!
>At best it's 14%! But look how we build our chart so it looks fucking humongous! Look how BIG that top bar is even though it only represents 14% increase!
>Nevermind our BEST card can't do a solid 60fps in any 2014-2015 game at 4k!
>14% of 60 is only 7fps!
>wew lad!
>>51496463
14% performance increase in 4k resolution is pretty good even if it is 'only 7fps'
>>51496463
desu no games are made for 4k at 60fps
and a 7fps increase will always help
>>51496522
Meanwhile the 970 superclocked, 980, and 980Ti can do much better without any "improvements"
Doesn't matter how much you improve shit, it's still shit.
How to download?
Do Radeon drivers improve all cards generally or do they favor new cards only like Nvidia?
>>51496526
So why is 4k the only thing that AMD seems to give a shit about?
Their cards lose, hard, at lower resolutions. While using more power and running hotter.
Never mind that less than 1% of PC gamers even have a 4k screen, less than 20% of that 1% actually try to play games at 4k, and less than 20% of GPU sales are even to PC gamers.
>>51496341
>better force lower tesselation only for the AMD card using this proprietary software we won't release so the consumer can do the same thing
It's literally in the driver's control panel and can be controlled on a per-profile basis.
>>51493643
Nvidya already lost after releasing GPU breaking drivers.
performance breaking drivers
and le 3.5gb vram plus 512mb slowerthanDDR3ram
disgusting company with absolute shit marketing tactics.
>buying out physx just to make open software closed source and proprietary
>meanwhile AMD is STILL releasing open software which makes the market better for everyone.
>nvidya even after using AMD made devices and software still resort to asshole tactics that make the market worse for everyone.
grreedy sacks of shit.
>>51496545
Well other than the most recent beta, it's been my experience they trade a 1fps increase for every-few-minutes driver crashes and CTD's, even in 2d programs. The latest beta has been the first driver I've not had 3+ driver crashes per hour since I bought my 270x.
>>51496566
>lose hard
Sorry Huang, no dice.
>>51496566
ask consumers
4k is just seen as the next big thing, everyone is pushing it hard
>>51496591
So you're in favor of the new drivers, right?
>>51496590
still best high end.
sucks.
>>51496582
Wasn't when that benchmark was published. That feature was added in the 13.8 beta which only supported 4 cards and didn't make it into the WHQL driver til June 2015.
>>51496610
Oh FUCK yes.
>>51493737
>sic: some dude's wordpress.
okay guy.
>>51496598
>Fury X 11% behind 980Ti
>390x 2% behind 980
>280x beating 380x
>290x only 1% better than 780Ti
Yep. Sure.
>>51496657
I'll be honest and say I don't remember that far back, but the option has been in drivers for a long time now, definitely not since this summer. The tessellation control has been there for ages.
>>51496754
Only in beta drivers, because they couldn't figure out how to keep it from crashing programs on a small handful of older cards that really should have a separate driver suite.
Also was never in the Omega drivers at all, though those were optional.
>>51495725
>lowering texture quality to get higher fps in benchmarks
SIC?
>higher prices and then dropping it the next day when nvidia released cards
That's just business come on now.
>amd PARTNERS selling cards over $200 the amd price even though there was no shortage
wahhhh I don't want businesses to make money.
>fake benchmarks
SIC?
>shady benchmarks with features disabled to make amd cards look better and i'm not talking about gameworks features
SIC?
>both are terrible companies that shouldn't be trusted
I don't know man you sound like an entitled shit to me, while I agree that we shouldn't personify companies like we do, calling them both terrible is pretty excessive. they both have their faults and gaffs but both also have their merits and that's what we should argue about.
>>51496166
>not being proud of your goals
But will it be ported to loonix...
>>51496749
I'll give you the fury x but the 98o is priced against the fury, not 290x. The 290x was losing across the board to a 780ti when the 780ti launched. A 390 (which sadly isn't on the chart) performs roughly on par with a 290x which puts it above a 970 - which it is priced againsts.
The 280x, 380x and below AMD cards are way, way above the Nvidia ones they are priced against. Remember when the 770 was faster than the 7970ghz? Lel says I.
>>51496941
I never disputed that they were better price:performance.
I was commenting on how AMD cannot put out a competitive high-end card to save their lives.
Remember when the Fury and Fury X launched? The Fury was $50 more than the 980 and the Fury X was $1100.
Let's also not mention the fact that neither the Fury nor the Fury X have shit in the way of overclocking headroom and launched with a plethora of issues that were never satisfactorily resolved (coil whine on both, pump whine on Fury X, reservoir leaking on Fury X, drawing 300% more electricity at peak than advertized)
>>51496941
>The 290x was losing across the board to a 780ti when the 780ti launched
The REFERENCE 290X was losing across the board, largely because the cooler was shit causing it to throttle and run way below the sort of clocks an aftermarket 290X maintains.
Do they specify if the card they're testing is a reference model or one with much better cooling?
>>51497092
Out of curiosity, can you even buy a reference Nvidia card?
I don't think I've EVER seen one. Are they just super rare or is AMD just that fucking retarded?
>>51497161
Titan X are reference cards. [spoiler]I got 2[/spoiler]
>>51497161
You can buy reference cards from both companies early on, they tend to be phased out once AIB's get their shit together.
Except for the previously mentioned titan x, along with fury x and nano which are reference only, so saythed AMD and Nvidia.
![980Ti_Car_678x452[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jWh9lP1.jpg "980Ti_Car_678x452[1].jpg")
>>51497161
wat
reference nvidia cards are literally everywhere. you can't buy a non-reference titan.
every nvidia card that looks like pic related is reference
hell, are there even any non-reference cards out there with blower fans
>>51497161
Do quadro count?
>>51497161
Yes, of course you can. Reference cards from both vendors tend to get replaced by custom models after a while, so they're more common early on after a new release. There are also some cards that are only sold in reference versions, such as NVIDIA's Titan series and AMD's 295X2 and Fury X.
>>51497213
I guess, but then again I've never had a reason to look at either 5-year-old or $2000 professional cards.
>>51497178
>>51497208
titans are reference only
What, all 8000ish that have been sold total? Wew lad, you're almost touching 0.01% of Nvidia's GPU sales with that one!
Also I have NEVER seen an Nvidia card that looked like that other than a Titan.
>>51497207
So why are there still reference 290's on the market?
>>51497355
technically the 295x2 wasn't reference only as the Powercolor devil 13 exists. It is retarded but it exists. The asus ares III also exists which is a single block 295x2.
>>51497383
>So why are there still reference 290's on the market?
There pretty much isn't minus a few old stock.
>>51497383
>>51497383
>Also I have NEVER seen an Nvidia card that looked like that other than a Titan.
is this your first day looking into computer hardware? like 80% of nvidia gpu build photos have the reference card in use with the big green "GEFORCE GTX" glowing on the side
also you sound upset for some reason
>>51497401
I see them all fucking over.
Best Buy. Fry's. Microcenter. Newegg sells them. They're all fucking over Amazon. There seem to be more reference 270's and 290's than there are branded-cooler 270's and 290's.
>>51497429
I honestly find that unlikely given reference hawaii cards basically stopped existing mid-late 2014. There was a brief resurgence when AMD allowed people other than sapphire to slap on 8gb ram for lols, but those were rare.
>>51497429
>newegg
>2 reference 290s among a bunch of non-reference cards
>ALL OVER
>>51497485
>newegg sells them
>2 of them
>all fucking over Amazon
>Amazon is not newegg
>what is reading comprehension
>>51497420
Not upset, just wondering. I legitimately have never seen a grey Nvidia card, but can find reference AMD cards all over the place.
With what ya'll are saying about the companies phasing them out, I'm wondering if the recent tank in AMD sales means they made so many there's just a ton of first-gen AMD reference cards still floating around, or if they're all b-stock or something. I dunno.
>>51497510
why don't you just stop shitposting about a trivial matter only you have a problem with, retard
>>51497549
>hurr I got called out on not reading something right
>better call him a retard!
>>51497596
15 year olds, everybody.
Will GCN 1.0 cards like the 7730m benefit?
I am already stunned by how well it handlex DX12 demos
It should be illegal for GPU vendors to bloat their drivers with fixes for broken video games.
The defective games themselves should be fixed instead.
>>51497824
thanks doc
>>51497824
Its a circular problem. Games are broken because the api is broken so drivers are hacked to work with broken games and broken apis.
>>51497824
Why?
No need to be upset that nVidia is simply the best GPU for gaming.
>ITT: Nvidia shills in full damage control mode
meanwhile, check this out.
>>51497946
Well shit. Guess I didn't pay the dubs devs enough
DELETE THIS THREAD
Nvidia > amd on the sole fact that once amd is defunct, you wont he getting driver updates ever again and your brute force performance card will fall behind in all future titles.
>>51497994
nice 3.5 :^)
nice shitwerks :^)
If you don't like AMD, why did you post here?
>>51497208
>hell, are there even any non-reference cards out there with blower fans
What a weird thing to say
>>51495274
AMD cards beat out nvidia cards by a decent margin at all price points except the Fury X vs 980ti
>>51495946
release date february 2016 for the closed beta
>>51498114
>This is what 'tards believe.
Techpowerup is AMD biased and even they aren't that biased.
>>51497059
>I was commenting on how AMD cannot put out a competitive high-end card to save their lives.
295x2 put the Titan Z to shame
>inb4 dual gpus don't cound
It's a single fucking card stop moving goalposts fgt
>>51498114
>AMD cards beat out nvidia cards by a decent margin
Nope, a GTX 970 will outclass a 390 and even a 390X at 1080p. It trades blows with the 390 at 1440p and only gets beaten at 4K.
A GTX 980 will beat a 390X and even a Fury at 1080p and the 390X at 1440p and 4K.
A GTX 960 on an AMD CPU/APU will do better than an R9 280/380. Same with any AMD paired with an AMD CPU/APU.
A GTX 950 will beat the R7 370 because the 370 is a cu ck card - a three year old GPU with no new design changes.
or you could stop playing video games
>>51493643
I'm waiting for 380s to go on sale. Fucking rebates, why do they exist.
>>51498183
>Stop playing video games.
>Ask for review comparing AMD and Nvidia in bluray use
.>Supposedly nobody ever done it, get called retard, and shit flinging about monitors and their colors ensue.
I tried anon
>>51498171
>Nope, a GTX 970 will outclass a 390 and even a 390X at 1080p.
See >>51496598
At 1440p a 390x beats a 980.
My only complaint with freesync has been fixed.
>>51498171
>>51498145
360 vs 750ti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDwjkozclQQ
380 vs 960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTpNZEW31G0
390 vs 970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cKZiJw6Pk
Fury vs 980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTpXQkFJMY
the 390 is especially a good deal above the 970 given it has 125% more VRAM
and Overall AMD cards look to have much better DX12 support than maxwell cards
and in addition to that Nvidia hates your freedom, and requires your personal information just to download up to date drivers
>>51498171
Also no one should buy a 390x, it has no place, the 390 is a way better choice for 100 bucks less
>>51498171
Jesus christ you have no idea what you're talking about.
>>51498252
It also means nobody should buy the 980 as the fury is similar money and curbstomps it or for only (relatively) a little more you get a 980ti which is the world champion right now.
>replies with blatant AMD shilling
>>51498240
>requires your personal information just to download up to date drivers
And why would you have a problem with that? You've already registered the card with the manufacturer anyway. What's so bad about registering for driver updates and better software.
>>51498171
>three year old GPU with no new design changes
>still beats brand new Nvidia cards
IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR
>>51498274
>And why would you have a problem with that?
Why would I register my card with the manufacturer?
Otherwise it's because there's no reason for them to require my info to get drivers for their cards.
Do you also enjoy the NSA spying on everything you do?
>>51498291
Show me where a 370 consistently beats a 950 while still delivering lower frame times than a 950 and I'll show you a sexy Hillary Clinton.
>>51498291
>mfw friend bought Titan X sli to play at 4k.
>mfw I rustled his jimmies by showing Fury X performs NEARLY the same at 4k in crossfire
>>51498240
390 is the only choice at the $300-330 range. Yes it does have way more ram than the 970, but lets face it, the 390 will never use the full 8gb it has, for "future titles" it'll be to slow either way.
Ram isn't the reason why its better than the 970, it just performs better, and very often is priced 30-40$ cheaper than the 970.
Look at hardcore nvidia "shills" like Jay2cents, as much as a nvidia shill he is, he literally has a video saying he'll never recommend a 970 when the r9 390 exists.
And i still think the 750 ti outclasses the r7 360, simply because the majority of 750 ti's don't require a 6pin connection, making it easier to work with and as a better choice for people with shitty pre-builts from walmart
>>51498268
ya but the jump from the 980/Fury to the 980ti is a fair amount for relatively little performance gain especially at 4k
at 1080p/1440p neither a Fury nor 980 are going to hold you back
the only reason to get a 980ti is to SLI them and run games well at 4k
>first 970
>then shitty drivers
Novidya is dying
>>51498235
>1440p 144Hz 1ms
>On sale for $300
Really good deal for anybody in the market for a new monitor. Even if you have an Nvidia GPU, it's by far the cheapest 1440p 144Hz monitor. (Next cheapest is $500).
>>51498329
>Why would I register my card with the manufacturer?
Why would you not? When your card breaks and you need to RMA within its warranty period, it's better to have your card registered so you don't have to call out its serial number every other call.
>require my info to get drivers for their cards
Again, why is this so much of a problem? The NSA have better things to do with their limited time and manpower than keep track of all the loser NEET AMD owners in the world.
>>51498338
Crossfire Fury X is going to rape a single titanX
>>51498371
Did you miss the part he said Titan X sli?
>>51498337
There's no reason to buy a 950 when a 960/380 costs like 20 dollars more for a 2GB version
>>51498363
>Why would you not?
Because the companies don't need my information to sell off at a later date
The NSA literally tracks everyone and everything they can get their hands on
>>51498360
Could pair it with a $235 390 too
http://slickdeals.net/f/8293019-xfx-radeon-r9-390-8gb-video-card-235-ar-30-maybe-even-210-w-amex
>>51498379
dyslexia nigga
>>51493643
Where were you when AMD got stock reducing nothingness, what money was low?
>>51498395
>The NSA literally tracks everyone and everything they can get their hands on
But they literally do not care about your degenerate porn and pirated games, unless you're using it to fund ISIL or North Korea or something.
They probably filtered every instance of "Allahu Akbar" typed in game chats because every 12 year old and his friends are doing it at CS:GO.
>>51498360
This is more up my alley. I don't mind waiting till January for a monitor that curbstomps everything else quality and performance wise.
>http://www.eizoglobal.com/products/foris/fs2735/index.html
>https://www.eizo.de/foris/fs2735/
>>51498503
What makes it so superior then?
>>51498360
Had the monitor for some time. It's pretty decent but the lack of pivot killed it for me.
Still, it's a fucking steal for 300 bucks.
>>51498503
Eizo makes monitors with good specifications but perform like absolute trash and charge a premium for them because they attract the gaymer crowd that doesn't know better.
I'd avoid this monitor at all costs if I were you.
>>51498518
Yeah I have it right now, the stand is by far the shittiest thing about it. It tilts up, but not down which could be an issue if you have a high desk.
Also not VESA compatible so you can't even switch the stand out with another one; not sure what ACER was thinking with that, but I'd rather they cut costs with the stand than the panel itself which performs well.
>>51498515
>IPS with response times of a TN
>Freesync range of 35-144Hz (35-90 and 56-144Hz modes)
>Very low display lag
>Excellent warranty
WOW GUYS NEW UI
WOW GUYS FASTER START UP
WOW GUYS 0,5% PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
WOW GUYS 1 SECOND FASTER LOAD TIMES FOR PEOPLE THAT ALREADY HAVE A BEAST PC
G--GUYS???
>>51498602
They released the Battlefront and FO4 drivers last week
>>51496409
>comparison with 15.10
>not comparing to 15.11.1 because the performance is just the same shit
lmao amd
>>51496294
more like pic related
>>51498602
>tfw freesync monitor gets updates for free
>>51493697
hardly true. when innovation happens in the industry one will follow the other. if amd made the innovation nvidia will follow and vice versa.
>>51495274
very few pc gamers are willing to pay out $1000 for a titan. yeah nvidia has the best of the best. but nobody uses it but autists with too much money. at lower price points amd puts up a fight.
>>51493643
Is this a good budget graphics card? I just want to play current games at a stable 60fps and my current graphics card can barely manage to keep 60fps on the lowest graphic settings in fallout 4.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGF0VGC/ref=asc_df_B00ZGF0VGC4006588/?tag=hawk-future-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B00ZGF0VGC&linkCode=df0&ascsubtag=hawk-150802038-20
>>51498602
You do realize this isn't even the Omega Drivers that they've been releasing at the end of the year lately, right?
>>51497865
Hopefully this new batch of APIs will break the cycle.
>>51499017
Get a 380x instead
>>51496533
You sure?
>>51496541
available tomorrow, according to OP article
>>51499310
Anon you can't use facts against Nvidiots
>>51499152
Why would you ever get a 380x. 1% fps increase over 280x(rebrand of a 7970 lol), which costs like $100 less. $100 for 1gb of vram?
380/380x worst cards on the market.
>>51499407
960 so much better, amirite?
>>51499310
DELETE THIS POST
NOW
>>51499407
Except due to newer manufacturing processes the 380/380x(few more cores than 380) can run at higher stock speeds and are therefore faster, in addition to the additional VRAM
Also any 7970 at this point has been beat to hell and that's even if you can get a used card that wasn't used for bit coin mining, of course a new card is going to cost more than a used one
>>51499490
Mostly look at the transistor count, same Process 4.31B on the 7970 vs 5.0B on the 380X
AMD BTFO
>>51499407
>1% fps increase over 280x(rebrand of a 7970 lol),
at reference clocks,
>m-m-muh reference clocks!
>>51499616
Im sure you will be able to OC your 380x to 1300(like most of hd7970 were able to do), whatever.
280 without x is hd7950, kek.
>>51499490
>regret not selling 7970 during buttcoin
fuckme
>>51499490
Yes, new card is better than old, that point stands.
But what the fuck. 2 years passed and we get this. Almost the same, for almost the same price. Where is my technological progress, AMD? Im majorly dissapointed and can't shill you no more desu
>>51499795
AMD doesn't have the money for mass innovation, besides that they came to market with the first HBM GPUs, there's your innovation, look at the Fury Nano and how high it's performance per watt is
At least they've refined their old chips rather than directly rebranding them
>>51493723
>>51493737
>>51495392
AMD had hardware tessellation first. They just removed it after the HD2000 series.
It had odd side effects sometimes though.
>>51499795
Blame TSMC fucking up 20nm
>>51497161
https://pcpartpicker.com/parts/video-card/#m=252
>>51499870
It looks like they have 14nm working so AMD is probably going to use that for a number of years until they're die off if zen flops
14nm Zen APUs with HBM on die can potentially save AMD if their price is reasonable enough
>>51499953
AMD still hasn't announced if their GPU's use TSMC 16 or Samsung 14
>>51499953
>implying anybody will move past 14nm
It's going to be like 28nm but twice as long and even intel will fuck it up :^)
>>51499972
fug
>>51495274
>how do AMD suck so much especially on high medium and high ranges
they don't, youre just a retarded meming sheep
the 290x is the best card available and has been for 3 years and will be for the next 3
>>51499972
Intel is moving to 10nm at some point
>>51499407
>(rebrand of a 7970 lol
stop pretending that developing a next generation hardware for GPUs and then improving upon it in development to the point where 4 years later it still beats out its competition at all price points is a bad thing
>>51500117
That's what they have planed :^)
but it's not until cannonlake in the second half of 2017, two years from now, and I have doubts they'll reach that deadline
>>51496533
Ugh, citation, as usual
>>51500137
It's like G80 all over again
>>51496463
>the same thing Nvidia and Apple and every other successfully selling company do
>WAHH WAHHHH MUH GRAFFS MUH GRAFFS
>>51496657
I've had an AMD card since February '13 and the tessellation selector has always been present, to the best of my knowledge
I have never and probably will never use beta drivers.
>>51496166
Drivers have been downloaded over 60 million times
and neither one worked!
>>51500137
This.
The fact that the 7970 is capable is getting close to a gtx 970 in some rare occasions just shows how much potential it had
>>51500510
Shit remember when it was only 25% better than the GTX 580 at launch?
fucking driver improvements mang
I hate fanboism, I had HD4890(exeptional gen), then nVidia was full of shit with 2x0, then ati released 5870 and it was an OK card, but after that they released rebrand but so 5770 was 6870,so fucking sly, on the other hand nVidia fucked everyone with GTX465 but somewhat redem themselves with gtx460 1gb and 560ti, ati was pure shit until 7970 3 gb(basically they are still there, whoever says its a different GPU is a retard), nVidia turned OK with gtx6x0 serie, rebranded it literally 670=770, after that, their best and most mainstream/competitive GPU has half a gig of crappy ram.
I follow releases but sometimes get confused in all that pile of steaming shit, imagine a poor guy who makes his first gaming PC build(lets say he dont have any mustard for friend), those builds always look like this
=
I7 5830k@stock( H100i AIO push-pull but screwed somewhere whre it makes more heat)
32 gb ddr4 Vengeance Dominator Vindixator 2666 =4x8 every module different, no dual channel
64 gb ssd Mushkin
ASUS XONAR sound card
bud headphones from smartphone
1 Tb Caviar Green
some really,really huge tower ATX case
PSU either came with the case(420w=real ~290w) or 1200W +80 Platinum
some overpriced Razor shit
and sugar at the end
ASUS GTX740 OC Edition DirectCUck 4 GB DDR3 VRAM
+
Win 10 x86- ultra business corporate professional 32 bit edition
>>51495352
No it makes the argument invalid
>>51498437
time to invest
>>51500714
Citation needed on a lot more that.
>out on the 24th
It is the 24th here, how many hours?
>>51496873
>using an AMD card on Linux
should have sticked with the way it's meant to be played
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steamos-22-gpus&num=1
>>51500714
The 4890 was a 4870 that hit higher clocks
the 5770 was rebranded as the 6770, the 6870 was a new card that was equiv to a 5850; the 6970 was the new high end sku.
The 680 was rebranded to the 770, though with higher frequency, especially on memory. The 760 was a cut down of the 680 core to below a 670, while no 670 equiv was released in the 7 series.
>>51500787
Do you really think it's a good investment? I've thought about dropping a couple hundred on them, they might be too big to fail. I'd imagine someone will buy them out first.
Will this shit do anything for my aging 4770 I keep in my HTPC? I'm overdue to upgrade it to my old 6870 but don't want to mod the case lid for the 6pin power.
>>51493643
Why do people still believe magical driver updates will give a GPU significantly better performance?
>>51500863
>>51500903
The 4890 was a 4870 that hit higher clocks
>4850<4870<4890-nice, consumer friendly.you know what you buy, increments by 20 are small enough to know you get a little better GPU
6850<5770<5850~=<6870(if you say so, it had slight boost with drivers)<5870=6950"#$"? wtf
>>51501067
And the 5770 getting rebadged as a 6870?
And the 770 being a rebadged 670?
>>51496341
Mine Asus r9 270 non x had stable 30fps @ 1080p on ultra with shitworks® off and that was before all that performance patches.
I used to be an Nvidia fan. To be honest I do not upgrade that often. I had 2 GTX 260 Core 216s in SLI before I bought my current card, so that should give you an idea about how often I upgrade. When I was building a new system the r9 295x2 was on sale so I bought one for about $600 on Amazon. I could not be happier with this card. I have not had any issues playing any game, I no longer have to disable SLI for certain games. I just set everything to Ultra and go from there. It plays everything extremely well. Of course going from a 6420 to a 4770k probably helps, but that 295x2 is the shit. It consumes some serious power and I upgraded my psu from a thermaltake 750 to a corsair ax 1500 while I was at it but still no complaints. I initially bought a no name 1200w psu and when i hooked it up it fried 4 of my hard drives, so I'm running on scrounged drives from other places right now. Do not cheap out on the psu. No noticeable difference in power bill. My case is much quieter without the twin 260s blasting at 100% during gaming. The 295x2 seems to barely break a sweat playing crysis 3 and witcher 3. Love it to death.
gib new drivers. gib nao
>>51501507
the drivers on the 295x2 are going to be pretty mature at this point man
>>51493643
When does the new ccc come out?
>>51501523
still can't complain. of course going from the 2 260s to this...
>>51498171
>No sources
>>51501593
I hope you have a 4k display
>>51501644
not yet, I usually make lots of cash during tax season so I plan on upgrading then
>>51498227
why are you comparing the reference 970 to a the factory OCed 390?
if you're going to compare reference you should compare it to the competitors reference card - in this case a 970 would be aptly compared to the 290
once OCed, the 970 demolishes the 390 and competes with the 390x
Stop reacting to whoever copies who. Because of this, tech advances faster and compatibility exists. So calm down and just choose the better brand
for a true performance benchmark every game should use low settings only with high textures, shadows and AF.
all the "special effects" are hokus pocus that's robbing performance.
>>51502658
Then only pixel and vertex throughput would really be tested.
Compute performance, tesselation, etc wouldnt be tested.
>>51497824
>>51499095
Won't DX12 mitigate this at least a bit?
I thought that since the API is more open to direct interaction, the optimisation will rest mostly with game devs again and not so much with driver providers.
I mean look at Mantle, I haven't seen a BF4 specific driver coming out of AMD for a while, but on my 390 it runs on Ultra (1-2 settings on High) at 144fps @1080p almost consistently! On DX11 I need to tune some settings down for that.
So when does this actually become available for download?
Get in here niggers
http://file2.mydrivers.com/2015/display/amd_radeon_crimson_15_30.zip
>>51493643
OP you faggit, i thought it got released.
ffs at least wait until we actually have it
>>51500510
my 7970 or 280x as its called, can still play Battlefront on ultra with a 1920x1200 monitor an have constant 60fps.
note that this is an old fucking card now.
>UI rebrand
>still uses CCC UI
welp that was cool
not
At least they make it obvious that you can select a game and make a profile for it and even have a custom frame rate target profile they still bundle the stupid raptr shit though
>>51496463
AMDs best card is the R9 295X2, capable of doing 4K in any game from 2014-2015 at 60fps with high or better settings.
You know, the single most powerful graphics card ever made?
The one you can currently buy for $700 or less?
>>51498360
>Check price in Euroland
>Almost 500€
>That's twice as much expensive than in 'Murica
Why live brehs
>>51503521
Not *any* game.
There a few nVidia heavy titles that have poor Crossfire support
There are also a few games like Wolfenstein that don't do SLI or Crossfire.
>>51501064
Because it's already been happening for the last couple of years on the AMD side? Meanwhile Nvidia fries and nerfs your old one so you're forced to go for a new card like a good goy.
WHERE
DO
I
GET
IT
>>51499407
It also uses fucking half the power and is capable of better overclocking, dickhead.
And yes, i do mean half the power. You don't even want to know how much my vapor-x 280x uses when clocked high.
>>51501064
Because the 290X gained well over 30% performance just from drivers, faggot.
>>51503460
>>51503511
Also I just tested Fallout 4 seems I'm getting a 10 fps increase in areas where I had to put shadow distance to medium to get a constant 60fps on my 290x
>believing in AMD that they could deliver
How does it feel to have your hopes smashed into dust each time the facts are on the table?
>>51496590
You forgot g-sync. It was hilarious how they tried to downplay freesync when amd first introduced it on laptops "ehm, they can do that because you see laptops are communicating much closer on hardware level with a screen BUT OUR $200 chip that makes all monitors with it $220 more expensive will be the way for desktops"
>>51503628
It feels like my 4 year old card is still gaining performance with every driver update.
Meanwhile, at nvidia, how are those 2 year old cards doing?
>>51498274
>You've already registered the card with the manufacturer anyway.
Who does this? Did you do this? What a kek lmao
>>51499969
Globalfoundries.
>>51503353
Is this 633MB of dolphin porn?
>>51503781
probably a zip bomb
>>51503787
I'm gonna risk it
...in a virtual machine
>>51503793
Come back with results. Looks like people are also wary of that file in other forums and nobody's gonna take one for the team.
>>51503781
>>51503787
>>51503793
I've already installed it they package CCC with it too. Theres not many changes though so you can wait like a day for them to officially release it. It's just the press drivers that were released earlier than the official ones
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=404096
>>51503808
Also CCC is optional they tick it off by default(but not the raptr garbage kek)
http://videocardz.com/57866/amd-radeon-software-crimson-15-30-is-out-for-grabs
Rebbit says it's still glitchy
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/3u27xw/radeon_software_crimson_beta_driver_leaked/
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5194853&postcount=15
amd is finished
>>51503898
I don't see how they could scale back performance that much like that something seems off about it. I skimmed through the thread and seen small gains if anything
My utter shit gtx650ti still beats amd with hair
>>51503936
Your 650 ti beats a fury x?
Can I get some proof of that?
>>51503949
Your whore mongoring mother on a palm tree asshat
>>51503956
Back to >>>/school/ you little shit.
You need to be over 18 to post here.
>>51503992
>>51503936
>>51503949
>>51503956
Same fagging this hard
>>51503992
Stop pretending so you may oversome that memory when an old jewish museum ordered ur mutalitaonohononoo
dear anon, buy AMD card, cast your vote with your money, because:
- woodscrews
- 3.5/4
- housefires
- gaymworks
- tesselation fiasco
- early on gimping with drivers
THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE
>AMD
>not finished
Choose 1 and only 1
Both Intel and Nvidia could kill AMD at any time now, but they choose to let AMD stay alive to keep the pseudo competition alive.
>>51504024
is this being posted by a script
>>51504056
it's goyworks
>>51504093
>not gimpworks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUO3LEjWsw0
>>51493697
Nvidia stole HBM.
>>51504275
Not yet, wait for TSMC to fuck it up for them with less than 20% yields.
>>51499777
You should regret not mining dogecoins like the clever fa/g/s (me included hmmh) did.
>>51503870
>leaked beta driver
wow I would have never guessed.
>>51503870
it's not whql though, so i don't expect magic but people say it fixed frametime drops for one thing
>>51504289
I have about 1 million doge, cost me about this much in power, I'm still counting the days till it goes down enough to sell.
BUT I THOUGHT NVIDIA WAS THE LEADING TECHNOLOGY IN WOODSCREWS AND PORK SHOULDER
BUMP LIMIT APROACHETH
>>>/g/gcg/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overview/5
>Overall the average performance gain at 2560x1440 is just 1%.
AMD IS FINISHED & BANKRUPT.
>>51504289
You should regret not mining monero now
>>51504573
Well I wish anandtech listed their fucking test build. The 20% figure probably comes from configs with AMD CPUs. AMD drivers have more overhead and a more powerful Intel which is what they're probably using would have less benefit by fixing that.
>>51504573
WCCF tests say otherwise
When is this Crimson AMD driver coming out?
Can any single AMD card compete with 980Ti?
>>51504684
Are you blind or retarded?
>>51504679
>Believing Currytech lies
>>51504717
>Believing anandshill's Nvida PR lies
>>51504713
I'm posting from my iShit and I can't check AMDs website because of how garbage it is for mobile devices
>>51504709
>>51504734
>Being an AMDPOORFAG shill defending your bankrupt company
TOP KEK
>>51504709
>>51504741
Striuctly speaking a 295x2 competes against the higher clocked 980ti models.
It beats a titan x.
