Report: Predicted Synthetic Benchmark Scores For GTX 980

[Mainbear]

Videocardz's numbers are not synthetic predictions. The source article makes clear the numbers are drawn directly from 3dmark's website. E.g., http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2719375

 

[anthony8989]

Lol honestly spentshells you don't know wth you're talking about. ;D

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

graphics cards are too much money I mean if that is true about sli 760 is true than 980 = fail

 

[Mac266]

The REAL question here is What will Nvidia call their next generation?

 

[DarkSable]

graphics cards are too much money I mean if that is true about sli 760 is true than 980 = fail

That shouldn't really be surprising... High end computer parts, most especially graphics cards, have always been absolutely hideous value. It has nearly always been a far better option cost-performance wise to grab two middle-low cards and use them together... but then you have to deal with driver support, game support, double the space and heat and noise...

 

[spentshells]

Lol honestly spentshells you don't know wth you're talking about. ;D

I do, which is why there was only one nob saying otherwise.

What is being suggested by the squirle is silly. tonga is based on hawaii tech how rediculous.

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-Radeon-R9-285-GPU-Review-Tonga-Arrives/

I've linked 3 sites now stating its not hawaii. In turn I see here that the gpu is actually just tonga not a revision of tahiti....... it just has all the exact same specs but a lower memory bus. Its not a coincidence that tahiti and tonga share the same specs in almost every way. Clearly they have worked over the tahiti with whatever advancements they have made beyond hawaii.

It won't be a coincidence when the 285 x comes out with the same spec as the 280x sans the larger memory bus. its clearly an update to the gpu.

"But Tonga is not simply a pared down version of Hawaii. AMD has actually updated and improved a couple of functional blocks in the GPU to boost performance and / or power efficiency."


toms is pretty sweet! but they just like most sites don't know it all.

 

[spentshells]

The Radeon R9 285 specifications might be similar to Tahiti but the thing that makes it so diverse is actually the core itself which has been optimized and re-engineered

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-unveils-power-efficient-radeon-r9-285-tonga-pro-graphics-card-costs-299-performance-onpar-tahiti-xt/#ixzz3DMInXAMU

Here is a 4th link showing the same thing.....

 

[spentshells]

Here is what was actually done to the core.

AMD Tonga GPU Architecture and Block Diagram:

From the block diagram previously posted, we got to know that the Tonga GPU houses eight ACE (Asynchronous Compute Units) compared to just two on Tahiti and each shader engine has its own geometry processor and a rasterizer unit which houses 8 Compute Units per block. The Tonga Pro variant has two of these CUs disabled resulting in 1792 stream processors. The Multimedia accelerators block has been updated with the XDMA CrossFire engine and addition of TrueAudio DSPs which deliver the TrueAudio tech. Last we can see a large L2 cache, part of which is blacked out which points that this model doesn’t feature the full core but it does have a larger cache compared to Tahiti which may tell why the card is less resilient to bandwidth.

The Radeon R9 285X which is the Tonga XT variant features the full 32 CU die which includes 2048 stream processors, 32 ROPs and 128 TMUs. We don’t have any specifics regarding the clock speeds, even the ones reported for the Radeon R9 285 are based off factory overclocked variants so we can’t be so sure but 918 MHz is what’s being said the reference clock for Radeon R9 285 so we can expect something around 933 MHz+ for the Tonga XT variant. What’s weird is that the Radeon R9 285X is allegedly featuring a 384-bit memory bus compared to 256-bit bus on its Pro variant and also includes a higher VRAM updated from 2 GB to 3 GB.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-unveils-power-efficient-radeon-r9-285-tonga-pro-graphics-card-costs-299-performance-onpar-tahiti-xt/#ixzz3DMJfn6dt

 

[jdcranke07]

Until EVGA comes out with a 980ti Classified version, I'm completely content with my two 780ti Classifieds in SLI. If power consumption is the only difference then I'm completely fine with waiting. I have to be honest, I was expecting more than just energy saving technology.

 

[kylerjobe]

When it says 770 SLI, is it benchmarking cards with 2 or 4gb of VRAM?

 

[sanzhbz]

So if I'm reading that chart right - GTX 760 SLI comes close to matching a single GTX 980 in terms of performance? If you already have one GTX 760 it would make no sense to get a 980 would it?

i guess it would be cheaper to get another gtx 760 to do SLI.

 

[Roger Rogers-1382392]

I dont get why a GTX 780 SLi was missed off the list.

Price/performance~wise, it makes sense.

...the 770 SLi is in there.