Depending upon resolution, if 1080p then single 980 would be more than enough. With titan x vs r9 290x, the performance are very very close. Well crap, over here a 290x starts at 360 euros is about 10 euros more than a 970 starts at 347. Our test bed is a core i74790k with 16gb of ddr323, windows 8. As you can see above just switching to dx12 increased my average frames per. Not everywhere is america and in my country, a 970 is a better deal. We put the 1 ghz r9 290x to the test against the 1. Directx 11 and mantle using 3dmarks latest benchmark, using a g3258, i74790k, titan x, and 290x. Gtx 980, gtx 970 and gtx 980 ti may not be fully dx12. As many will know, a problem with the original reference design of the r9 290x was the noise and heat of the card.
Wasnt sure if you guys read this, but looks like the dx12 put the amd 290x ahead of the titan x and 33% more gains then the 980gtx, i love my lightning 290x. As soon as dx12 games start getting released the 390 is gonna smoke the 970 like nobodies business. Dx12 support has just been added to 3dmark showing unbelievable results with dx12 delivering up to 20 times faster performance than dx11. Amd r9 290x as fast as titan x in dx12 enabled 3dmark 33%. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the radeon r9 390x. Dec 26, 2015 but at the end of the day, nvidia lied about the 970 having 4gbs of gddr5 vram, and they lied about dx12 support. A properly written dx12 game would know what asset would have to go where before hand so it would just split everything up appropriately between 2 or more gpus while the game was loading. A 290x on the other hand isnt going to be able to catch up with or surpass a fury unless its water cooled. Overall buying another 290x is cheaper than getting a 980ti so if price is a concern then go with the 290x otherwise get a 980ti. Mantle shows how weak is amd without that, even with mantle, amd gpus just cant stand against gtx 970 that is better than gtx 780 ti, and lets not forget that gtx 780 ti was the king of gpus in 20.
The first thing people are going to notice is that the gtx 980 is far faster than the r9 290x in a benchmark that. We probably wont see a lot of new games make use of those features for a few years. The last time i checked dx12 just messed everything up, lets see if anything has changed since then. Directx 12 confirmed as windows 10 exclusive, amd and nvidia. Well, here we are again but now we have two nvidia geforce gtx 980 cards against two of sapphires radeon r9 290x vaporx 8gb cards, yeah those 8gb cards that we all know and love. The folks over at pc perspective have conducted ashes of the singularity benchmark testing, showing what a real implementation of dx12 looks like the testers decided to compare the latest amd radeon r9 390x graphics card against the nvidia geforce gtx 980 with the benchmark, and from the. Gtx 980 vs r9 290x these flagship monsters will go head to head to see if the gtx 980 can overpower the hawaii gpu that has. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the amd r9 290x performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions. Directx 12 confirmed as windows 10 exclusive, amd and. The range of scores 95th 5th percentile for the amd r9 290x is just 6. Os windows 10 64bit, coolermaster haf 932, asus p8z77v mobo, intel i7 3770k 4.
Nov, 2014 our test bed is a core i74790k with 16gb of ddr323, windows 8. Geforce gtx 980 vs radeon r9 290x hardware compare. The amd radeon r9 290x is a highend singlegpu graphics card for desktop pcs, that has been presented in october 20. The 580 is a refresh of the rx 480 which was released just 10 months ago. Modifications to the architecture have resulted in improved thermals. Aug 20, 2015 first dx12 gaming benchmark shows r9 290x going toetotoe with a gtx 980 ti.
Gtx 980 will run things on ultra very high for next 2 years easily 1080p, especially when dx12 hits. Any plans to redo these tests in dx12 when windows 10 launches, im curious to see if the cpu overhead improvements also apply to games that. Amd radeon r9 290x 8gb cf vs titan x sli vs gtx 980 sli at. Well, this may also be the case for the gtx 970 and gtx 980, they may. Eyeson with nvidia gtx 980 ti and dx12 by avram piltch 03 june 2015 nvidias new flagship graphics card, the gtx 980 ti, has a number of special visual effects it can perform when.
Mantle vs directx r9 290x vs gtx 980 vs gtx 970 theif. Tek syndicate gtx 980 oc vs fury oc and he didnt even overclock the memory, which would have gained an additional 56%. Windows 10, an r9 290x will dog a 980 and almost match a. R9 390 owners dont have to worry about vram or dx12 support. First dx12 gaming benchmark shows r9 290x going toetotoe with a gtx. If you love bf4, i would go with mantle, it feels indeed smoother compared with directx and it has other advantages in its sleeves, as it seems.
Check out some direct x 11 versus direct x 12 performance on an amd r9 290. First dx12 gaming benchmark shows r9 290x going toetotoe with a gtx 980 ti. Still, the 980 is around 55% faster than the 290x when 4 cpu cores are in use under dx12 222% faster under dx11, while using a. It also makes use of a 256bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. Nov 02, 2015 decided to run the ashes of singularity benchmark on my system and compare the dx11 vs dx12 results. Discussion in gaming software and graphics cards started by apollo, aug 20. Gtx 900 directx12 feature level nvidia geforce forums. As for amds mantle, well get back to that in a bit. Testing at 1080p using the highest quality ingame settings along with 4xmsaa, the gtx 980 ti is still able to just edge out the fury x. Dx12 support has just been added to 3dmark showing unbelievable results with dx12 delivering up to 20 times faster performance than dx1.
Yes, its the same chip but the 390x was nearly 10% faster than the 290x because of the significantly faster vram and core clock bump. It features 2816 spus, 176 texture address units, and 96 raster operation units. We compare the radeon rx 480 against the geforce gtx 980 across a wide set of games and benchmarks to help you choose which you should get. The apis, drivers and in the case of windows 10, the operating system that theyre. Decided to run the ashes of singularity benchmark on my system and compare the dx11 vs dx12 results. The benchmark is only in the 3dmark, cant really tell how much is going to be the improvement in games when going from dx11 to dx12 but the result shouldnt be to far from what was obtained in 3dmark. So i tried win10 and installed the latest win10 beta drivers and it told me direct3d feature level. Looking further back, the 290x pulls a 33% lead on the gtx 980, making directx 12 a fantastic upgrade for any gamer with a highend amd or nvidia card. May 31, 2015 the geforce gtx 980 ti averaged 50fps at 1600p making it 40% faster than the radeon r9 290x and 27% faster than the gtx 980. Directx11 vs directx12 ashes of singularity benchmark r9. Also, remember the 33% is faster than the 980 not titan x.
Directx 12 confirmed as windows 10 exclusive, amd and nvidia go headtohead. Effective speed is adjusted by current prices to yield value for money. Yeah those that bought into 7970 or 290x should be very happy about. Gtx 980 ti 1080p benchmarks vs titan x gtx 980 r9 290x.
Graphics card rankings price vs performance may 2020 gpu rankings we calculate effective 3d speed which estimates gaming performance for the top 12 games. It also managed to trail the titan x by just 23 fps. The rx 580 launched this week and is amds latest flagship gpu which is based on a second generation polaris architecture. This is with my dual x5690s and a msi r9 280x on high settings. You know how the gtx 600 and gtx 700 series will support dx12, but they will not fully support all of dx12s features. Ah damn, the r9 290x setup i was gonna buy got sold a couple of days ago, the cheapest r9 290xsetup would. Feels good being proven right after recommending 787079507970280x over the inferior 660ti670680770.
So i dont need a shiny new gtx 970980 or whatever pumping out 100 fps. An early win for amd and disappointment for nvidia first dx12 gaming benchmark shows r9 290x going toetotoe with a gtx 980 ti. Geforce gtx 980 ti vs radeon r9 290x hardware compare. This 1 single example with a very betastage demo using a very betastage dx12 build and very betastage drivers, the 290x gets a much larger performance boost with dx12 than the 980 does 417% vs 150%, respectively. Intro the geforce gtx 980 ti features a core clock frequency of mhz and a gddr5 memory speed of 1750 mhz. Also, the 390x was released after the 980 came out, after the 780 ti had been discontinued, and its performance was about equal to the 980 in stock vs. Geforce gtx 980 and gtx 980m vs gtx 880 vs r9 290x. Skyrim also favors nvidia pretty heavily, gtx 780290x and 980 will be way faster than a fury. And a 290x with a good cooler counting out vtx3d and asus dcuii, windforce 290x starts at 394 while the msi 970 twin frozer is 358 euros. Now for the specifications of the gtx 980, the new beast will pack a gm104 maxwell gpu 28nm and 4gb of gddr5 video memory clocked at 7ghz and a lower bus width only 256bit, thanks for the high memory rate to save the bandwidth speed, the gpu will pack 2560 units and 16064 for the tmurop, the core clock is rated at 1. Our figures are checked against thousands of individual user ratings. The geforce gtx 980 ti averaged 50fps at 1600p making it 40% faster than the radeon r9 290x and 27% faster than the gtx 980.
It also uses a 384bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. Intro the geforce gtx 980 features a clock frequency of 1126 mhz and a gddr5 memory frequency of 1750 mhz. Amd r9 390x, nvidia gtx 980 ti and titan x benchmarks leaked. We benchmark 26 games at 3 resolutions to 4k on win 10. Amd r9 290x as fast as titan x in dx12 enabled 3dmark 33. Well, i own an amd asus 290x and i73770 stock and its ultra smooth with everything maxed out 1080p144 hz. Amd radeon graphics cards are showing the most significant gains compared to their nvidia geforce. Amd radeon r9 290x 8gb cf vs titan x sli vs gtx 980 sli at 4k.
Also, a max gtx 980 is either slightly slower, equal or faster than the fury depending on the game and the resolution. Nvidia geforce gtx 980 sli vs radeon r9 290x 8gb at 4k on. Amd radeon graphics cards are showing the most significant gains compared to their. Titan x vs gtx 980 r9 290x gtx 970 1080p benchmarks duration. Dx12 makes memory and buffer management explicit vs dx11 which was a black box designed to hide all that in order to make programming for the gpu easier. Directx is a microsoft api that has been a dominant programming interface for. Now let the amd fanboy hatters come problem at nvidia its the price, a bit more expensive, but its worth. We take on our maxwellpowered geforce gtx titan x and gtx 980s in sli, versus our sapphire radeon r9 290x 8gb trix. Today, we finally get a look at the first real world gaming benchmark that utilized directx 12. Its also probably too early to base gpu choices on dx12 yet, but if the next couple benchmarks give similar differences. Oh, and amd favours crysis 3, till then, it was nvidia, just for the. Due to better hardware compatibility, the rx 480 is able to match the 1060 in dx12 games but this will remain a corner case until most games are optimized for dx12 likely to take several years.