This is why the 290X is disappointing to me. It quickly became apparent that the throttling issues were true and severe for quiet operation, and this has never been the case for any prior AMD GPU. I wanted to like the card. I was excited for it. The reference 290X just doesn't deliver IMO unless you can live with those trade-offs - while the 780ti has no such trade-offs. When you buy a 290X you always have to second guess yourself and ask "can I live with the noise"..."can I live with the worse software".. "can I put up with throttling for quiet fan speeds".. It's all about trade-offs. I find that highly disappointing despite the lower price. Sure, aftermarket designs may fix this but they're not here yet.
More 40% fan performance of the 290:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7481/the-amd-radeon-r9-290-review/15
Apparently it still does with DX9 and eyefinity on 7xxx, however as no one uses 4K, NV were caught out napping i guess.
That's the results. When did we give AMD breaks because their drivers weren't as good as nVidia's?
FWIW: Hardware.fr
Here is Hardware.fr's summary @ 1080. The 780ti (non uber) is with stock fan speeds. Notice that the 290X Uber matches the 780ti even at that resolution. It also shows that this talk of the reference Titan cooler doing a better job, isn't all that accurate. Overall it throttles as much as the 290X cooler and needs to be turned up, or have additional fans directed on it, to stop this. Aftermarket coolers, (ACX, Toxic, DCII, etc...) are what's needed for either of these chips.
Better 1080-1600, realistic, marketable resolutions instead of $500 graphics cards failing utterly to push $3500+ monitors with last gen engines on the cusp of next gen consoles.
Can I ask when a 290 has fan speed settings of 40% and 34%. The only thing your post shows is your lack of comprehension of what is being shown.
Since Hawaii and Tahiti use the same drivers I think it's a hardware issue. Likely the bandwidth limitation of the crossfire bridge, since that's what's changed between the way the 2 chips implement crossfire. I'm only guessing, of course.
Didnt know you spoke French 3D...its 1 site 3D......one that I cant read to interpret how the test were performed....
I like how somebody can disregard 4K resolution due to it being 1% of the real world yet have the need to talk so much about >$600 cards.
Anybody that can brag about being a part of the 1% GPU but can't be a part of the 1% monitor is [being deceitful] and only does it for bragging rights.
That's an interesting point.
I guess 4K resolution will assume more importance around the time Maxwell arrives.
Plenty of people can afford SLI Titans or even more.. surely they can folk out $2 to $3K for a nice monitor to go with it.. so much firepower is wasted on lesser screens. Not to mention, a year from now, who knows how cheap 4K monitors are.
Plenty eh? Does that include all of us? Only person I know in here that would "maybe" buy Tri Titans and a 4K screen is AdamK47. Why don't you ask him if he'll drop an additional 3 and a half grand on top of the 3k he spent on his titans for ONE 4K monitor.
He's got green, but I'd be surprised if he did for no substantial gain in image quality. If he has one already, I'd be surprised but I'd also know he would be one of the extreme few who would do this.
I think I would do that before I bought 3x1600p 30" monitors. The IQ would be marvelous!
I don't think a whole lot of people would be willing to drop a high amount of cash on early 4K monitors. Meaning I don't necessarily think it's the price that would stop certain people from buying them so much as the product isn't mature. If you showed a 30" 4K display that could pull 120Hz you may get more takers, but it's hard to convince someone to drop that kind of money when they just know better products will be along shortly for a fraction of the cost.
Exactly my point, single stream is stuck in 30Hz land....no one who actually has the HP to game at 4K is going to do it at 30Hz. If I'm dropping that much cash for a monitor I don't think I'd want to game at 60Hz either.Not going to happen until the industry standard display connection standards are upped. You can't even do single stream 4k @ 60 hz yet.
So 4k is has actually blown by Hype and is closer to a scam then. I agree that the next gen will be vastly superior and cheaper. Be crazy to buy 4k right now even if you had the money to burn.
Battlefield 4 has an option in the video menu to cram 4k into a 1080P screen.