780 vs 780 GHZ

[murphy7801]

This is an overclocking thread and people are dismissing the 290x because of a little heat? Really, is that a joke? I guess we should also dismiss the 4770k.

290x maybe good when see one made with different caps to what AMD choose. I dont ref amd builds because normally cheap and nasty parts on the PCB. I feel that it is fair to say that the added heat is concern because the other parts of the card aside from the GPU may not work so well with the heat till venders properly get there teeth into it. Ultimately what saying ref 290x is not worth it wait till we get some good vender solutions to pass judgement since 780 has some good solutions.

 

[ahimoth]

If that's what you got from what I said, I am sorry to tell you my comment went miles over your head.

This: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sarcasm

But before we get too far off topic. For the OP, have you a better idea of what you want to get?

 

[NeverBackDown]

This: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sarcasm

But before we get too far off topic. For the OP, have you a better idea of what you want to get?

The new 290 IMO has changed the GPU market. From what i have gathered so far in a brief search the 290 is faster or as fast as a 290x(look it up for yourself there is a reason) and thus being the cheapest highest performer(beating 780 and titan on many tests) IMO it is the sweet spot in price to performance.

 

[Kaapstad]

The new 290 IMO has changed the GPU market. From what i have gathered so far in a brief search the 290 is faster or as fast as a 290x(look it up for yourself there is a reason) and thus being the cheapest highest performer(beating 780 and titan on many tests) IMO it is the sweet spot in price to performance.

Using the latest drivers the 290X is still faster than the 290 at stock and overclocked.

Here is a fun score of mine using 3 290Xs on air

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1093552

The graphics score on this was a lot higher than a guy running 3 GTX 780s cooled by liquid nitrogen. The best part was my 290Xs were not even flat out as my 1200watt PSU could not cope.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Using the latest drivers the 290X is still faster than the 290 at stock and overclocked.

Here is a fun score of mine using 3 290Xs on air

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1093552

The graphics score on this was a lot higher than a guy running 3 GTX 780s cooled by liquid nitrogen. The best part was my 290Xs were not even flat out as my 1200watt PSU could not cope.

Not overclocked... From what i have seen the 290 OC'ed vs a Stock 290x is faster in most situations. 290 can stay cooler that little bit more to maintain it's clockspeed and not throttle like the 290x.

 

[Kaapstad]

Not overclocked... From what i have seen the 290 OC'ed vs a Stock 290x is faster in most situations. 290 can stay cooler that little bit more to maintain it's clockspeed and not throttle like the 290x.

Mine don't throttle @1200/1625.

An overclocked 290 should beat a stock 290X quite easily. With the Asus bios it is not hard to get a 290 Pro to 1200mhz or more on the core.

 

[ahimoth]

Mine don't throttle @1200/1625.

An overclocked 290 should beat a stock 290X quite easily. With the Asus bios it is not hard to get a 290 Pro to 1200mhz or more on the core.

Can we all just agree that this guy is a freak? Because like the fuck. You defy the trend! Lol... It's pretty awesome. I really had high hopes for the 290x and as we can all guess if you're water cooling the 290x there's no reason why you couldn't spend the extra bit of cash and just get the maximum performance out of the card. Like it's only what 200 more stream processors? What does that equate to in terms of performance at same clockspeeds and temp?

 

[NeverBackDown]

Can we all just agree that this guy is a freak? Because like the fuck. You defy the trend! Lol... It's pretty awesome. I really had high hopes for the 290x and as we can all guess if you're water cooling the 290x there's no reason why you couldn't spend the extra bit of cash and just get the maximum performance out of the card. Like it's only what 200 more stream processors? What does that equate to in terms of performance at same clockspeeds and temp?

290x has just 256 more cores i think. Makes a difference when overclocking.