Balla Purrs - You have Teeth and Claws. You share interest in what every AnandTech Forum Member wants and that is a fair share of Milk. Most of all, I know everyone wants to hear what you say.I know nothing.
Now that's Good Stats for SCALING. Is it a Stock Reference Card? What's the Hash Rate? What vRam MFGr?290 (65C) is ~190W under mining load @ 1000/1370.
Hate to say this; but, from what I see with AMD's position other then their OEM Air Thermal Metering Technology, it appears to indicate your statement is irrelevant (LOL): such that, if one intends to effectively OC Hawaii, you need to Water Cool and AIB Partners have no position but to design cooling systems based on water cooling. I've answered rhetorically.What this solution can help in 290 Non-X power consumption?
Now that mine is ordered, here's the Asus R9 290 DirectCU2 link at Amazon. $439.99 but there's a 2-4 week lead time.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HWQUI02/..._26725410_item
Sapphire Tri-X 290 listed at Amazon for $499.00 shipped, it is out of stock but can be ordered.
http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Versi...=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Ever wonder if the whole reason the market is up is because you need to buy something? /murphy's law
TPU's power consumption metric is not very useful because they only measure power consumption in Crysis 2 (which happens to be a game that they do not even benchmark for performance!). The only proper way to gauge power efficiency would be to measure actual power consumed with each respective game, and then compare that to actual performance measured with each respective game using the same game sequence.
Without doing it as you say and then comparing it to TPU's, we have no way of knowing if Crysis 2 power usage isn't useful. Crysis 2 is a game that both companies should have well optimized drivers for though. I can't think of any objective reason to believe it's not representative of typical gaming power usage.
Power efficiency = perf. per watt. One cannot determine that without measuring both perf. AND power consumed on the same task, period.
When Anandtech measured both perf. and power consumed in Crysis 3, GTX 780 had ~ 15% better perf. per watt in comparison to R9 290X. Like it or not, GK110 is more power-efficient on average compared to Hawaii.
Just looking at TPU's 290X DCII review, between the 780ti and the DCII they are equal in 4 games (<1fps difference), The 780ti is faster in 7 games and the DCII is faster in 5 games.
Power usage the 290X uses 7w more on avg. and 2w more peak running Crysis 2.
If you set the bios to quiet the 290X is 32dba vs. 39dba for the 780 ti (7dba quieter). Absolutely no loss in performance for the 290X, but it does run @ 94°C, the same as the reference card. Set it on the performance bios and it's 42dba (3bda louder) and it runs @ 78°C (780 ti 83°C).
That's about as close as it can get. Too bad you can't get the DCII for MSRP. That skews everything and takes away the value advantage of the DCII.
Nobody can tell what the future will hold for sure. Can't make definitive statements like that. But Tri-X is a good gaming card in any case.
Power efficiency = perf. per watt. One cannot determine that without measuring both perf. AND power consumed on the same task, period.
When Anandtech measured both perf. and power consumed in Crysis 3, GTX 780 had ~ 15% better perf. per watt in comparison to R9 290X. Like it or not, GK110 is more power-efficient on average compared to Hawaii.
Could ASUS fixed vrm cooling of the card before send a sample to TPU?
If going by history, you could simply buy coins directly. If you page average USA electric prices then buying coins has historically been 10-20 times more profitable than mining--and that's been true every single year. So you can spend 10-20 times less money on video cards and get the same return. Some people split the difference and mine some and buy some as well, especially if you want the cards for gaming anyway. Good luck.
I have 3dvagabond on ignore but that guy needs to consolidate his posts instead of tripleposting, wtf. He probably replied to me with something off-topic that I already addressed in my post, like playing games on cards. Lol.
I have 3dvagabond on ignore but that guy needs to consolidate his posts instead of tripleposting, wtf. He probably replied to me with something off-topic that I already addressed in my post, like playing games on cards. Lol.
Performance of 780Ti is better in TPU test, maybe because of Blizzard games(Games where 780Ti is having a 20-40% lead over 290x, and anyone who play this games will use a 290x/780Ti). And there 780Ti its not even close to the "miles away better efficiency".
And DCU is not the better or even less the definitive cooling solution for 290 cards.
TPU's power consumption metric is not very useful because they only measure power consumption in Crysis 2 (which happens to be a game that they do not even benchmark for performance!). The only proper way to gauge power efficiency would be to measure actual power consumed with each respective game, and then compare that to actual performance measured with each respective game using the same game sequence.
The bar was raised?