have you seen the sheer amount of graphics cards and benchmarks that were ran? Did you also notice that the 290x beats titan (or as just as fast) in ubber mode? What more would you expect?
There may be many of you that take up personal issues with apoppin but there are very very few people in this world that have put out such a massive undertaking. I mean, who are you to criticize so fast and disregard with what? Your opinion? I mean, where is your 30+ benchmark/game (multiple configurations) review with 15 unique GPUs and settings?
Surely we should just take opinion as fact here huh. You may not like apoppin but dont let your emotions blind you. This is one large data set and just like linus says, there are 100 different other review sites if you prefer looking at the graphs where only AMD wins in. I mean go to H and see a whopping 3 games if thats what your into. A very detailed conclusion drawn from just about thin air, i really dont care. But dont be so disrespectful to someone's massive review just because you dont like him?
And for what is this reason you dont like him? He talked about AMD? What exactly was his issue with AMD? Is that something you condone? Marketeering/advocating for AMD without disclosure? Surely you guys arent cool with that, are you? I mean, have you not yourself seen advocates in action? Is there really something wrong with not wanting stealth marketing? Well that was were it all started. Then the big uproar and back in forth came. People calling names because they just couldnt accept that AMD would have such a program. Ironically there have been several people caught in the act now, and apoppin wasnt as wrong inhis original claims as you guys might have wanted him to be. Granted, that doesnt make up for his bickering and name calling. But he went into defense mode as there were many many many people attacking him, he was attacking back. It got out of hand.
I am not saying anyone should forgive apoppin and i am not asking that. Surely the guy didnt go out to buy a 290x and make up a fake review. The guy has spent the last week, day and night running benchmark after benchmark-setting after setting, GPU after GPU. You may not like the games he picked or the settings he used. You may not like them but they are clearly labeled. It is raw data, and it is real data. Say what you will about the settings but apoppin did not make up a fake review. He went out and bought a 290x and done a huge review (more than most of you will ever do). This is the results he got. There a a hundred other reviews with a million different settings if you do not like the ones he used.
The abt doesnt make up numbers, i am sorry if you do not like the results, This is real data. Why dont you go back and read all of the 290x articles. While Toms was claiming 290x retails throttle, apoppin said his card almost never throttles in ubber. While anandtech reviews in quite, apoppin defaults ubber. Then all of sudden, apoppin is making up (overclocked) numbers to make nvidia look better? rubbish. those are emotionally driven and uncalled for claims. There are many many other ways he could have went if he was making stuff up and out to sabotage the 290x. Much more devastating and easy targets ripe for the taking.
You may not like apoppin but his numbers are real
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