Are these real AMD R9-290X Benchmarks ?
An interesting set of benchmarks has been posted by a user called Grant Kim, apparantly he has access to a AMD R9-290X and has posted a handful of benchmarks. Now before we begin I have no clue about the validity of the specs and benchmarks.
The post originates from TPU:
The GPU core is clocked at 800 MHz. There is no dynamic-overclocking feature, but the chip can lower its clocks, taking load and temperatures into account. The memory is clocked at 1125 MHz (4.50 GHz GDDR5-effective). At that speed, the chip churns out 288 GB/s of memory bandwidth, over its 512-bit wide memory interface. Those clock speeds were reported by the GPU-Z client to us, so we give it the benefit of our doubt, even if it goes against AMD's ">300 GB/s memory bandwidth" bullet-point in its presentation. Among the tests run on the card include frame-rates and frame-latency for Aliens vs. Predators, Battlefield 3, Crysis 3, GRID 2, Tomb Raider (2013), RAGE, and TESV: Skyrim, in no-antialiasing, FXAA, and MSAA modes; at 5760 x 1080 pixels resolution. An NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN was pitted against it, running the latest WHQL driver. We must remind you that at that resolution, AMD and NVIDIA GPUs tend to behave a little differently due to the way they handle multi-display, and so it may be an apples-to-coconuts comparison. In Tomb Raider (2013), the R9 290X romps ahead of the GTX TITAN, with higher average, maximum, and minimum frame rates in most tests.
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Dunno if they are fake or not, but thoses clock speed ( both core and memory ) look to dont even fit the presentation done by AMD..
- You need 885mhz at min for got 5Tflops ( 2816SP ). ( slide say > of 5Tflops )
- You dont match the triangle rate given by AMD at thoses clock
- You dont match the bandwith of >300GB/s given by AMD ( 288GB/s = 7970ghz )
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Didn't have the dynamic clock either, but aren't they supposed to have ?
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Wizzard have correct some information, now it starting to be interesting:
Corrected the GPU clock to 1050 MHz. The ES card the benches were run on has two BIOSes, one with 800/1125 and the other with 1050/1125. The benches were run at 1050/1125
Quite different indeed ..
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That explains it then, nice

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min framerates better on titan plus why the odd resolution? (well seems odd).