3DMark and Unigine Heaven
That we have taken a look at our gaming tests using our Frame Rating metrics and testing methods, we are including a set of tests from more standard benchmarks like Unigine Heaven and the newer 3DMark benchmark.
I consider these tests to be somewhat of a "best case" for all the cards in our comparison. We aren't using our frame capture system, we aren't measuring frame latency, nothing like that; I think this should give you an idea of graphics performance if each vendor had the best result for each game.
The edge for the NVIDIA cards is only sitting around 1-2% in our 3DMark results.
Heaven paints a different story thanks to this heavy use of tessellation – the GTX 780 Ti is faster than the R9 290X at the pace of 25% or so.
According to 3DMark, NVIDIA's SLI scales at about 91% with the GTX 780 Ti while the R9 290X cards only scael by 74% or so.
Both SLI and CrossFire in Heaven scale at 66%.
I still rather but the Titan.
I still rather but the Titan. I use 3 monitors and with the Titan you only need 1 card. It seems that the 780 ti you would need 2 cards. So the titan is cheaper. Am I wrong?
Why do you guys insist on
Why do you guys insist on using that Skyrim sequence to benchmark GPUs. You could have barely chosen a more ill suited location. All that effort wasted because you run a GPU benchmark in a thoroughly CPU limited area, when there are actually plenty of GPU limited areas to choose from in the game.
What game/test is used to
What game/test is used to determine total power usage of the entire system? How is this number identified?
780ti is capable of way more
780ti is capable of way more , cooler don’t like it tho .so now all those engineering need to be sent to cooling a computer 101 if they hope to gain more performance in the future .cause clearly .both nvidia and AMD have reached or are very close to have reached a plateau .
ryan
why are the exact
ryan
why are the exact settings for crysis 3 not shown as they are for BF3 or Metro LL. this is an inconsistency you should eliminate.
also did you run R9 290X with uber fan speed. because otherwise the throttling is quite severe for R9 290X CF. there is 10 – 20% perf loss at the lower fan speed.
http://anandtech.com/show/7492/the-geforce-gtx-780-ti-review/7
people who spend USD 550 are definitely going to try and get the best performance possible. since AMD supports uber mode with a BIOS switch there is every reason to test it since its guaranteed by AMD to work and they back it with their warranty.
I am getting pretty tired of
I am getting pretty tired of benchmarks like these, not comparing a new flagship card with the previous title holder on resolutions where they matter. Sure, You give me the most common, such as 1920*1080 and 2560*1440, but nothing for multi-monitor support, and even your 4K resolution review excludes the previous title holder, the GTX Titan.