The battle of the year. Radeon R9 290X against GeForce GTX 780

Today AMD finally officially introduced her flagship- Radeon R9 290x , The most powerful new generation of video cards. Now we will figure out what is interesting in it and how faster the leader of the GeForce 700 series.

Introduction

If you missed our detailed [review] (http: // www.Igromania.ru/articles/217506/novoe_pokolenie_ testirovanie_treh_videokart_amd_radeon.htm#bcomm) the new Radeon R line, recall that at the beginning of the month, AMD announced the launch of the next generation of video cards – Radeon R7 And R9. Technologically, the series almost completely repeats Radeon HD 7000 released back in 2011. Moreover, most of the cards in fact turned out to be an exact copy of the predecessors – new chips appeared only in the older boards Radeon R9 290 and 290x. The first is still a ban on disclosing details, but about the second AMD allowed us to tell everything that I want to share.

Innovations

Like the entire series Radeon R, R9 290X based on the architecture of the Graphics Core Next. There are not so many differences from last year's flagship in the person of Radeon HD 7970. Firstly, GCN blocks are now not thirty-two, but forty-four, which in conjunction gives 2816 instead of 2048 Compute Units. Secondly, in the crystal, they doubled the number of geometric blocks responsible for the tesselia. Thirdly, the ROP set has become twice as much as it was giving up to 64 processors on one video card. And fourthly, the memory bus expanded from 384 to 512 bits and received 4 GB GDDR5.

Naturally, it was not without new technologies declared yet on the launch of the ruler. Radeon R9 290X supports the AMD Trueaudio, DirectX 11 audio engine.2 and soon will learn to work with his own API called Mantle, which developers want to replace DirectX. Another interestingness associated with the Radeon R9 290x is that the CROSSFirex regime will no longer need connecting bridges.

Testing

The fee came to us in a reference version from the AMD office. Apart from the changing casing with twisting red lines, the cooling system migrated here directly with Radeon HD 7970. The crystal is covered with a large radiator with a base in the form of a evaporative chamber and blown by a cylindrical turntable. The AMD ports did not surprise – the modern standard from the DVI, HDMI 1 pair.4A and DisplayPort 1.2. But what was struck, it requires not two, but only one 8-pin-rosette from the PSU, the second-6-pin, as on the cards of the class lower. Unfortunately, how much the novelty consumes – it is not known that AMD did not provide official data on this item.

For testing, we collected a test stand based on maternity MSI Eclipse Sli , Equip it with a processor Intel Core i7-920 and three RAM strips Kingston Hyperx DDR3-2000 MHz. Operating room Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit And the driver Catalyst 13.11 Betav5 put on a solid -state drive Kingston SSDNOW with a volume of 64 GB, and the entire software package was rolled on a classic hard drive Seagate 7200.10.

They hit him 3dmark 11 , Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 , Unitine Valley 1.0 , Aliens vs. Predator , Tomb Raider , Batman: Arkham City , Bioshock Infinite , Metro: Last Light And Crysis 3. As for competitors, in their number we recorded only one video card – Nvidia GeForce GTX 780, which is aimed at R9 290X. The result was interesting.

Apart from synthetics, R9 290X managed to win only in aliens vs. Predator. In all other games, she has parity with GTX 780. Of course, not 100%, in some modes of NVIDIA, then AMD showed a break in a couple of frames per second, but in the overall standings, the performance of both boards is very close.

In the course of tests, no questions to the work of the R9 290X did not have. And although we spent only a day with a board – not a single failure or a glitch of drivers. Perhaps the only thing you can complain about is the floating frequency of the chip, which at times rose to 1000 MHz, then fell to 920 MHz. Here we say about high temperature. While GTX 780 was held around 70 ° C, the AMD flagship reached 90 ° C. However, it is quite possible to cope with the last brottle. In R9 290X, as in HD 7970, two versions of BIOS – Uber and Quiet are sewn up. Our tests took place in the first, but if you switch to the second, the card will have a little ardor, however, it will lose 2-3 FPS.

In the end

Does it mean parity with NVIDIA that AMD has lost the task? There Giant Wins sister sites is no answer to this question, since the “red” prices are still silent about the prices. If the video card is equal to the cost with the GTX 780 (22,000 rubles), then, of course, AMD will not be in a very favorable position. But if 15-16 thousand rubles are asked for R9 290X, the flagship will be more than a reasonable choice.

An interesting offer of R9 290X should become for those who are going to buy Ultra HD monitor; The double block ROP, in theory, will show a noticeable advantage over the GTX 780. However, we could not check this, there were no such matrices in the editorial office at the time of the tests.

P.S. Due to the fact that the “iron workshop” is transferred to a new test stand, the second stage of testing of these video cards on another gland has been launched in “Gamery” at the moment.

We will definitely add the results to this article and expand the general conclusion a little.

Technical characteristics
Characterization AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA Gefroce GTX 780
The core is GK110
The number of transistors is 6.2 billion 7.1 billion
Technician process 28 nm 28 nm
The number of stream processors 2816 pcs. 2304 pcs.
The frequency of the graphic nucleus is up to 1000 MHz (in fact – 920-1000 MHz) 863-900 MHz
Type, memory volume GDDR5, 4 GB GDDR5, 3 GB
Memory frequency – 6008 MHz
Data tire 512 bits 384 bits
The number of texture blocks 176 pcs. 192 pcs.
The number of rasterization blocks 64 pcs. 48 pcs.
Energy consumption – 250 watts
The price of October 2013 is 22,000 rubles
Synthetic tests (Radeon R9)
3dmark 11 (Performance)
Graphics Physics Score % video card model
AMD Radeon R9 290X 15 144 6110 10 904 100%
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 12 767 6014 9873 91%
Unigine Heaven Benchmark 3.0
FPS Scores % video card model
AMD Radeon R9 290x 50.2 1263 100%
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 49.3 1241 98%
Unitine Valley 1.0
FPS Scores % video card model
AMD Radeon R9 290X 52.7 2204 100%
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 54.9 2298 104%
Game tests (personnel per second)
Aliens vs. Predator (DX11)
Settings AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 2X 127.2 108.8
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 4X 107.8 92.6
Veryhigh, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 2X 106.5 95.9
Veryhigh, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 4X 94 83.7
% 100% 87%
Tomb Raider
Settings AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
High, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 4x 43.4 43.7
High, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 8x 43.2 43.8
High, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 4X 37.7 38.4
High, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 8x 37.1 38.3
% 100% 102%
Batman: Arkham City
Settings AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
Ultra, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 4x 67 101
Ultra, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 8x 44 100
ULTRA, 1680X1050, AF 16X, PHYSX 29 52
Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 4X 60 99
Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 8x 39 93
Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X, PHYSX 28 52
% 3% 186%
Bioshock Infinite
Settings AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
Ultra, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 4x 91.9 93.3
Ultra, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 8x 91.8 92.9
Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 4X 81.6 85.5
Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 8x 81.5 84.4
% 100% 103%
Metro: Last Light
Settings AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X 48 43
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X, ADV. Physx 29 37
Veryhight, 1920×1080, AF 16X 42 39
Veryhigh, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AdV. Physx 27 33
% 100% 104%
Crysis 3
Settings AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
Max, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 4x 41.6 41.6
Max, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 8x 36 38.4
Max, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 4X 39.1 39.8
Max, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 8x 32.9 34.1
% 100% 103%

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