AMD Cuts Prices of Radeon R9 285

[dj-electric]

Today i learned that this product never existed, and that 3Dmark tests reflect performance of systems in the real world. What a wonderful day to learn stuff.

This type of miracle never existed in the hardware world son, i'm sorry.

 

[arbiter]

Don't need to put spaces between every damn line. Last i checked AMD did boast about 500% increase in performance with dx12 on their APU but a test was done using i7 5960x core cpu, they tested with disable cores and HT. that Intel cpu was pushing more draw calls with 1 core then AMD apu was with 4. After they got to around 6-7 threads it leveled out in. It will help them but i wouldn't over estimate it.

AMD apu: http://community.amd.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-2810-3112/dx12_APU.PNG.pnghttp://www.pcper.com/files/review/2015-03-25/dx12-980.png

Intel: http://www.pcper.com/files/review/2015-03-25/dx12-980.png

 

[Folterknecht]

The performance of this Radeon card when using DX12 is staggering. About 18million draw calls. The best that Intel and nVidia GTX 980 can do is 2 million draws calls with DX11.


You can no longer consider DX11 benchmarks when making an intelligent decision regarding dGPU purchase.

In fact in DX12 the 3dMark API Overhead test produces 4million draw calls on an AMD A6-7400 APU ALL BY ITSELF!!!!!

In other words a sheap little $100 AMD APU in DX12 can absolutely CRUSH an Intel i7-4960 + nVidia GTX 980 when the Intel system is running DX11.

With DX12 the gloves come off.!!!!

Come back when the first DX12 games are out. Since when do 1-2 techdemos give a good picture about gaming performance in ~1 year.

Stupid fanboy

 

[mastrdrver]

How long must one play a game (or what ever program that uses the GPU enough to cause it to get off idle clocks) to actually influence the cost in your power bill?

There's probably other things that could be done around one's place to save the cost of the increase in power used from even the most hungry GPU that power consumption is a non factor when trying to decide which GPU to get.

 

[Frick]

Aye that has to come down. Here it's only about €20 less than the 290.