AMD Radeon R9 285 Review: Tonga GPU makes its debut

[Steve]

What a strange review.I read another review and the R9 285 beat out the GTX760 easily in most tests at 2560X1440 which is the opposite to these findings. I wonder though what all the fuss is about at these resolutions as 95% of the computer population will not be operating at these resolutions.

So you read one other review that you say was different to ours and your conclusion is that ours is strange. Can you please link to this other non-strange review for us?

The R9 285 was on average 7% faster than the GTX 760 and that is fact.

It makes little difference if you compare these cards at 1920x1200 or 2560x1600, the margins are much the same.

According to Steam just 1% of all gamers run at 2560x1600/2560x1440 so 99% of the population doesn’t run at that resolution, 95% wasn’t a bad guess though That said 26% now run at 3840x1050 which is virtually the same amount of pixels as 2560x1600.

Oh frame rates where on Tomb Raider R9 285 were 55 GTX760 was 47 ?

I just know you have a point here, I just don't know what it is.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the feedback. Just letting you know we won’t be adding Star Trek Online, it’s an old game now and it’s not every GPU demanding or CPU demanding for that matter. The game doesn’t cause high-end graphics cards to consume more power or run hotter than games such as Crysis 3 for example. It also doesn’t cause modern high-end GPU’s to fail at a higher rate because they now throttle when put under the pump by applications such as FurMark.

The last part about onboard graphics I have to admit I didn’t understand sorry.

4K gaming is yet to arrive so 8K is far from around the corner. Right now to game at 4K you need at least three of the most powerful GPU’s available so 8K isn’t going to happen anytime soon.

Again sorry I am not sure what you want to know about the texture fill rate and why you were talking about memory buffers.



It would have certainly provided better performance.

Star Trek Online is constantly making updates to it's graphics, enough so that knowing how it performs on various cards is still very relavent to those of us that play. The latest 'release' of Delta Rising will no longer run on systems that the game would work just fine on when the game first launched. Since MMOs like Star Trek Online do receive these kinds of updates I find it disappointing that you would dismiss these types of games as too old of a game to make testing worthwhile.