SetsulYou made my day.
I should probably circle "Shadow of Mordor" in MSPaint but this'll have to do for now: http://i.imgur.com/DWJVGsV.png
Crysis 3 is known to have ungodly amounts of pointless tessilation (Nvidia the way its ment to be shilled)
Second link is 10/10, neither teh 780 Ti nor the 290X appear in those benchmarks. That means the 290X is faster, right?
390 and 390x are just OCed 290 and 290x with extra vram that doesn't matter in most games.
Anticompetitives practices? nVidia crippling its own cards to make AMD look worse? See Hairworks. If you can turn it off, turn it off, if it's something you can't turn off let the lawsuits commence.
http://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/news/2011-08-17/debris-water-mesh-620.jpg
THE WAY IT'S MEANT TO BE SHILLED
It still doesn't make the 290X any faster, so while we're discussing performance it's not helping your case. I'd use Intel as an example why anticompetitive practices don't mean your product is worse, but you'd start defending your FX-8350 and the FX vs i7 debate has been dead for years, just like the FX series.
I haven't had a FX-8320 in a LONG time thanks to Valve being total piss at optimization and the FX's lack of single core perf. TF2 DID run fine on my old FX untill Valve ruined TF2's performance even further. I stand by the fact that in most games you will be GPU limited far before you notice the difference between a far more expensive i7 and a FX 8320.
Next link I'm counting 2 wins for the 780 Ti, 1 for the 970, the 290X always being slower than either.
Project Cars pre-release 970 wins, 290X still slowest.
1.0.11 780 Ti is now close to 970, 290X barely beats normal 780.
1.0.13 and new drivers 2 for 780 Ti, 1 for 970, 290X still barely above 780, actually loses to 960 and 770 on 1080p.
Project cars is known to have issues with AMD cards.
Same GTA V benchmark as before.
[/quote]Last GTA V benchmark: With the old drivers the 290X beats a reference 780 Ti on stock clocks. Now you've just got to find an aftermarket 780 Ti with less than a 7% overclock. Because once the boost clock touches 1000MHz that 3fps advantage is gone.[/quote] The 290x will OC decent on a non reference card. Honestly if you buy reference AMD cards our even bother to bench them you are retarded.
You don't even know which card I'm using. What if I told you I'm using a 7970?
Good card. Turn tessellation down in CCC and watch your FPS go up by 40% in some titles.
But what is this smell? Could it be ...
http://www.teamfortress.tv/post/127945/how-well-do-amd-cpus-do-in-tf2ScrewballFermi architecture hates tf2 for some reason.
BUYER'S REMORSE?!
NOBODY SAW THAT ONE COMING!
680 is Kepler though, I blame the 8350, but I can smell your salt from here.
Worked fine on my 4890 and shat the bed on my 480 on the same CPU in the same system. Clearly something wasn't right with the 480.