Crysis 3
Crysis 3 (DirectX 11)
Master the power of the Nanosuit. Armor, Speed, Strength and the ability to cloak are the ingredients of the most effective tactical combat armor ever created. Suit up! It's all yours in Crysis 3.
Crysis 3 continues to hurt our graphics cards; we really should put out an informercial about it… At 1080p and the Very High quality settings, the R9 280 is able to push just under 30 FPS on average, 6-7% slower than the R9 280X and 22% faster than the R9 270X. In this title though the GeForce GTX 760 is able to keep up with the R9 280 quite well, falling just a single frame per second behind.
Things look even more damning for these cards at 2560×1440 where the R9 280X can only muster 21 FPS or so!
No overvolting or memory
No overvolting or memory overclocking? The card looks promising with Hynix memory and a good cooler.
$230 is great compared to its current competition, but it isn’t too impressive considering that 7950s dropped to ~$200 quite a while ago, before the Bitcoin inflation.
In the video you say that the
In the video you say that the card has 2GB of VRAM when it actually has three.
Was a story AMD a new tonga
Was a story AMD a new tonga named gpu to replace the r9 280 later this year.
Wonderful goods from you,
Wonderful goods from you, man. I’ve understand your stuff previous to and you’re just extremely magnificent.
I really like what you have acquired here,
certainly like what you’re stating and the way in which you say it.
You make it entertaining and you still care for
to keep it wise. I can not wait to read far more from you.
This is really a terrific website.
Take a look at my weblog – hair wigs (Keri)
I’m kind of disappointed.
I
I’m kind of disappointed.
I looked at the past five graphics card reviews and none of them had the memory overclocked. As much as I like you Ryan, I think that’s pretty ignorant of you to not even consider overclocking the memory.
I understand it doesn’t improve the performance as much as overclocking the core does, but it’s still free performance. You never know if a game has some sort of weird bottleneck that is alleviated after increasing memory frequency.
You should consider that in future reviews.
Much love, a hard critic.
Pretty sure I overclocked the
Pretty sure I overclocked the memory on my last review. I know on NV cards often overclocking the memory causes the core to not overclock as well. Some interesting push/pull situations with that…
Ah, you did the review, Josh?
Ah, you did the review, Josh? Said the author was Ryan.
At any rate, Overclocking the memory to it’s limit typically does reduce maximum core overclocking, but not by a significant margin. There’s always a balance to be had between the two. I guess you just didn’t have the time to find that balance. Kudos anyway.
To the last post, I would
To the last post, I would think that you would want to test the card as it was sold. It would be like ordering a card from a retailer and then being upset because it did not overclock well. It is either good for your needs as is or it is not as the manufacture sold it.
As an enthusiast, I’d like to
As an enthusiast, I’d like to overclock things to their limit. It wouldn’t have mattered if the memory didn’t overclock at all. What bothered me was that there was no attempt to find that limit.
I had a pair of 7950s (XFX DDs) which is the same as R9 280 with similar clocks. Memory was set to 5 GHz out of the box. I managed to push them to 6.8 GHz, resulting in significant performance gains. Would have been nice to know what this card would have reached given that different manufacturers use different DRAM.
Another oddball was a reference GTX 760 from EVGA. Core overclocking was abysmal as I managed only 1150 MHz with 1.21V, but the memory went all the way to 7800 MHz from a stock 6000 Mhz simply because they used Samsung memory (Same as the stock memory on GTX 770) as oppose to Hynix which pretty much all other vendors used on their 760s.
when i’m building my new pc i
when i’m building my new pc i wonder how am i going to start installing the OS ,when the motherboard doesn’t have integrated graphics ……..how should the display be able to show images if drivers of the gpu arent installed and there is not integrated graphics on motherboard and how i am going to install the drivers……??
And i have the same question for the other parts like the cpu,cd-room,,,,,,,in a new build pc do this parts start working automatically or what??
It’s a bit late to answer,
It’s a bit late to answer, but I’ll go ahead anyway. First almost all motherboards have integrated graphics now. But even if it doesn’t you would just plug the graphics card into it and it will work. The display might be stuck at 1074×765 or something like that, and look funky and run sluggish till the proper drivers are installed, but it will work. And everything else like the cd-rom will just work too, assuming there’s nothing physically/mechanically wrong and it’s plugged into the motherboard correctly.
I remember before my first build everything seemed a bit intimidating, but it’s really a simple endeavor. Just plug everything in and install the drivers, easy peasy.