Radeon HD 7790 review
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buddybd
Glad to see you guys started a section for frametimes but can't really agree that it's not noticeable.
Average users probably won't notice it unless they see the difference themselves, but here in G3D, how many are average users? 😀
Looking forward to your detailed review on the times.
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Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Funny result no ?
here an Hitman absolution run. the map used is Chinatown ( in game, not the benchmark ) and i follow the way used by HardOCP on his frametimes test ..
Driver was 13.2 beta at this time, and CFX is enabled ( AFR ).
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At first you can think, wow what a constant variation, but in reality the frametimes is so low, the variation look big ( because the graph is adjusted automatically ), but it is only a 3ms variation in reality.
If instead of been around 7ms average frametime, it was run at 30ms, the graph will just display a line.
Anyway, its not the thread for start a discussion about frametimes.. Im glad gpu brands start to watch it, but yes in many case the results are not so easy to analyze
There's a test who have been conducted between processors with and without HT . in 99% of the case, frametimes was good without HT, when problematic on some games with HT enabled. It look like there's a big link between HT and frametimes.
On the same way, Nvidia delay all frames by 1 frame, trying to smooth it, it work on some case, but problematic on other..
Core parking increase the problem too specially with CPU with hyperthreading
First it is linked to some games, then it is extremely more linked to the hardware we was think at first. you will strangely get less frametimes problem with a quadcore without HT, you will have with a I7 3960x on some title.
There's many factor to take in account and sadly the frametimes review actually dont push the test enough deep..
Ven0m
Thank you for this review and THANK YOU for including frame times. They tell so much more.
chaotic1
what the **** nearly as fast as my 6970 in some tests :3eyes:
Denial
BLEH!
Good review boss. Nice little card, too.
IPlayNaked
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nanohead
Still the best reviews out there.... thanks HH
Its true that almost no one would ever notice the subtle differences. What's becoming blatantly obvious to me now, is that all the video cards these guys are coming up with aren't really moving the ball forward. They all seem the same at this point, as they all have so much power, with rare exception, almost any midrange and up GPU will play nearly all games.
I still can't see a reason to upgrade from the OCd 6870s in Xfire. I can play every single AAA game in full 1080P, with nearly every graphics feature turned on.
For the money, I just can't get my head around another $500-$700 for new cards, that don't really change my user experience....
Elder III
^^^ I blame consoles for that. Hopefully that will start to change over the next 12+ months. 🙂