ABT review (100% fan speed) OC.
I am sorry but those benchmarks are highly, highly suspect.
Look at them:
Serious Sam 3 1080p - R9 Uber Max OC is slower than at stock. :sneaky:
Alan Wake - R9 290X can run this game at 8xMSAA and hit near 50 fps.
In this case, R9 290 Uber is 29% faster than Titan and still 17% faster than Titan at a 1Ghz!! Instead the OP chooses to use FXAA which skews results in favour of the GTX780Ti but this isn't the highest playable settings that can be achieved.
Borderlands 2 - GTX780 Ti OC is 2.6x faster than max overclocked R9 and it's running PhysX too? Now how is R9 max oc only has a 6.6% performance hit going from 1080p to 1600p but the 780Ti oc has a whopping 31% performance hit? What?!! Also, R9 max OC only gains 0.1 fps at 1600p? How is that even possible.
Aliens: CM - again, the tester is using FXAA but the performance is so high, MSAA should have been used. FXAA in this game on such powerful GPUs? Should be using 8xMSAA or SSAA with so much performance left. Again, this calls into question why the author left the setting in FXAA mode.
Crysis 1 - is this the only review on the web where NV is running C1 much faster than AMD? This is a major red flag as Crysis 1 and Crysis Warhead has for half a decade ran faster on AMD hardware and yet here 780Ti is easly pulling away.
Not at AT,
not at TPU. This is an very suspect result.
Call of Pripyat - 2xAA only on such powerful GPUs? Should be using 8xMSAA or SSAA with so much performance left. Again, this calls into question why the author left the AA only at 2x.
Shogun 2 - The OP is using an older game that has seen been replaced by Total War Rome 2. Why? It's highly suspect that there is a 20 fps difference in this title but in
TWR2 R9 290X and 780Ti are very close per AT.
Batman AC - Holly cow made up test numbers.....
HD7970Ghz gets 66 fps MAXED OUT at 1600P with 4xMSAA and it's faster than GTX680 too. This guy manages to get 57 fps on an overclocked R9 290X at 1080P with 8xMSAA. If you don't see anything wrong with this picture, I don't know what to say.
Max Payne 3 -
Does not seem believable. This game has ran faster on AMD cards for a long time now. In his testing the 780Ti oc is outperforming R9 290 oc by nearly 30%.
Dirt Showdown - He isn't running this game maxed out and hasn't enabled all the features such as global illumination. Useless numbers. Why did he disable this DirectCompute features in the benchmark? The answer is obvious.
Sniper Elite V2 -
7970GE easily competes with GTX680 in this benchmark. In his results the 780 is beating R9 by more than 30%. Say what? This benchmark has not favored NV hardware. If anything, for a long time it ran faster on AMD hardware and it took NV several driver updates and game patches to catch up.
Sleeping Dogs - Another major red flag. This is not even remotely believable. First of all how can R9 290X gain just 0.8 fps from overclocking? Secondly, the SSAA uses Compute Shaders which favours GCN architecture.
780Ti and R9 290 should be trading blows here.
.... I am just going to skip to two tests that jump out as well.
In TR and Metro LL, R9 290X and 780Ti are very close, and yet in his results, they are miles apart in favour of the NV GPU. Now one might say, well these results are not comparable since different settings are used. Guess what, [H] OCP used the highest playable settings and R9 290X and 780Ti achieved near parity, only 780Ti having an advantage in MLL due to PhysX. However,
Guru3D has ran Metro LL without it and R9 290X is just 2 fps behind 780Ti at 1440p.
So many games and the results are so far apart from so many other sites. Also, knowing the extreme NV biased of ABT in the last 3 years, it's hard to take any of their results seriously.
I am not going to bother doing more due diligence but it's fairly easy to see that those ABT results are just off the rails.
Bit harsh chief.the more data the more fun for me*shrugs*
True if the data presented can be trusted and is from a non-biased source. ABT fails on both accounts based on cross-reference to top 5 reputable GPU review sites. In the past, their results were alright but after apoppin went on a rampage post HD7970 launch and labelled our forum as infested with AMD viral marketers, that site lost all objectivity and credibility. It's basically NV's version of AMD Zone. The best thing that ever happened to ABT was BFG writing reviews for them. Now why would someone so knowledgeable and so thorough with GPU reviews leave?