By now you should have memorized Ryan's review of Fable's DirectX 12 performance on a variety of cards and hopefully tried out our new interactive IFU charts. You can't always cover every card, as those who were brave enough to look at the CSV file Ryan provided might have come to realize. That's why it is worth peeking at The Tech Report's review after reading through ours. They have included an MSI R9 285 and XFX R9 390 as well as an MSI GTX 970, which may be cards you are interested in seeing. They also spend some time looking at CPU scaling and the effect that has on AMD and NVIDIA's performance. Check it out here.
"Fable Legends is one of the first games to make use of DirectX 12, and it produces some truly sumptuous visuals. Here's a look at how Legends performs on the latest graphics cards."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- The Graphics Cards For Linux Gaming With The Best Value & Efficiency At Higher Resolutions @ Phoronix
- AMD Has A Vulkan Linux Driver, But Will Be Closed-Source At First @ Phoronix
- ASUS R9 Fury STRIX Review @ Hardware Canucks
- XFX Radeon R9 390X Double Dissipation Core Edition Review @HiTech Legion
- AMD Radeon R9 Nano CrossFire @ techPowerUp
- Sapphire R9 380 Nitro 4GB @ Kitguru
- AMD Radeon R9 Nano 4 GB @ techPowerUp
Its amazing, the old 290x
Its amazing, the old 290x spanks the GTX 970, even at 1080p.
This proves 100% that the 290x HW is vastly superior and the GTX 970 advantage we have seen so far is AMD abysmal Dx11 driver optimizations.
And the 290x was like ~$200 over a year ago on ebay…
What in the world is AMD doing? with good Dx11 drivers the 290x would have been a cash cow for AMD. Didn’t nvidia say they sold over a million 970 ?
Who is running this company?! probably 100 million lost in profit for not investing in the driver team…
Heyyo, too true. AMD have
Heyyo, too true. AMD have always had driver updates lag behind NVIDIA just as ATi did beforehand too. They have been slowly improving their drivers as we saw with the last Omega driver bringing a badly needed frame pacing system to Crossfire Multi-GPU configurations.
Oh well, Dx12 is looking like it’ll be a very popular choice for 2016 and I’m sure by 2017 all newer games will support AMD’s future is a brighter one.
Vulkan and Steam OS will be
Vulkan and Steam OS will be the choice for those that want gaming without all the Bloatware, Key-loggers, and unnecessary for gaming CPU cycles stealing OS services found in Redmond’s new OS that is the ultimate spyware as an OS. AMD’s bright future is that Vulkan is mostly Mantle and Khronos will have even more support for its open standards graphics APIs from now on. Vulkan is the future of gaming without the OS vendor lock-in and with total user control over their OS and hardware.
AMD has taken Mantle internal, and the future Mantle improvements will be immediately carried over to Vulkan, as Vulkan is the public face of Mantle and a lot of other graphics/HSA improvements.
Yeah I have the Vapor X 290
Yeah I have the Vapor X 290 and I am super pumped. I keep telling people that AMD cards last a really long time, but I get called a fanboy or some other teeny slur…AMD needs to get their shit together with drivers. I’d also appreciate some overclocking room but honestly you can tell AMD frequencies are already pushed to the limit with Hawaii based GPU’s. I am definitely going to skip the Fury and FuryX and although they perform well they are way to expensive to justify the difference in performance. I bought the MG279Q freesync monitor which helps extend my R9 290 even more..Good times!
I agree, and I see the same
I agree, and I see the same thing. Nvidia seem to get blind love and AMD is overly criticized or when they have a good thing those points are ignored.
example : That TR benchmark totally glanced over the fact that the old Hawaii is even faster then the GTX 980 in both 1080p and 4K.
No mention in their conclusion that nvidia latest GPU architecture get creamed by the old GCN in hawaii in ther price/performance chart (a chart they love to use in their reviews, and usually using cheap overclocked nvidia card VS close to MSRP stock AMD cards)
Instead they decide to focus on how the Fury is not much faster then Hawaii… But then dont mention that the nano match the 390x performance (that beat the GTX 980), but uses HALF the power to do so.
The Big Green Goblin Gimper
The Big Green Goblin Gimper has more money to hire the astroturfers, and the entire online technology CPU/GPU/PC/laptop/mobile devices relationship between the online review sites and the manufacturers is not fairly balanced! Ad revenues dependencies/others, as well as review samples that are not distributed randomly can be used to influence and hinder fair and unbiased reporting. Maybe the manufacturers should be forced to place their review samples into a review sample lottery with the internet review sites chosen randomly and the review samples distributed by an impartial third party entity that is charged with administering the randomly chosen review samples. The review sites will also have to have full disclosure as to any ad/other relationships that they have with the manufacturers of the reviewed product and list this relationship at the bottom of the review.
Well, this is very
Well, this is very interesting. I’m guessing they won’t have trouble clearing out their old supplies of 290’s and 290x’s then.
Maybe I’ll grab one while they’re still cheap.
If you do. One ‘trick’ is to
If you do. One ‘trick’ is to use the driver built in powertune to target ~.9ghz
Some people sacrifice 10% performance for a 30% lower power usage.
Not many review, if any, explored this aspect in depth.
But you should be able to get a 290x for so cheap on ebay, run it 10% lower (still faster then a 290) and cut over 100w of power.
Making even the reference card a good option as the thermal drop big time.
“Uncontroversial” because it
“Uncontroversial” because it shows less of an advantage for AMD than Ashes?
LOL, I hope you meant that
LOL, I hope you meant that comment to be as ironic as it is.