Representative or not, it's another data point where we see GCN shoot up to Maxwell's DX11 performance levels at worst, beating it at best. Fiji as noted isn't benefiting as much, but else the gains are amazing. Hawaii steals the thunder, Tahiti puts an impressive showing for what is nearly a 4 year old chip. What a run. Fiji is, sadly, unbalanced, and too workload dependent to put out performance in accordance to its paper specs.
AMD's DX11 performance is still a sore spot in some games, but well, we're fortunately leaving that behind.
You know Hawaii cards in their 2xx/3xx flavors are the 8800GT of the 28nm generation when you see the performance they put out while costing so little (at least in the US, but many other countries would be around the same vs 970/980 prices). Just perfect for 1080p and maybe higher resolutions.
If this ends up being the DX12 landscape until next gen cards arrive, it's win win for everyone, AMD could start regaining market share back (to be frank, there isn't a single nV card that's attractive or priced adequately relative to its performance apart from the 980Ti if the trend continues for the upcoming DX12 games, and no, a 50w power difference isn't a matter of life or death) while nV gets stronger competition and could start to get its act together for Pascal (hoping for no bizarre vram setup like the 970, etc. usual nV shenaningans, you know what I mean).
I like it, this is a clean slate for both sides of the fence and much needed for the market as a whole. Still, I haven't heard anything about nV having an optimized driver for this benchmark/game, so that could change things. AMD's could bring more performance to the table.
AMD's DX11 performance is still a sore spot in some games, but well, we're fortunately leaving that behind.
You know Hawaii cards in their 2xx/3xx flavors are the 8800GT of the 28nm generation when you see the performance they put out while costing so little (at least in the US, but many other countries would be around the same vs 970/980 prices). Just perfect for 1080p and maybe higher resolutions.
If this ends up being the DX12 landscape until next gen cards arrive, it's win win for everyone, AMD could start regaining market share back (to be frank, there isn't a single nV card that's attractive or priced adequately relative to its performance apart from the 980Ti if the trend continues for the upcoming DX12 games, and no, a 50w power difference isn't a matter of life or death) while nV gets stronger competition and could start to get its act together for Pascal (hoping for no bizarre vram setup like the 970, etc. usual nV shenaningans, you know what I mean).
I like it, this is a clean slate for both sides of the fence and much needed for the market as a whole. Still, I haven't heard anything about nV having an optimized driver for this benchmark/game, so that could change things. AMD's could bring more performance to the table.