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Best Bench: 54% MSI(1462 3160)
Worst Bench: 43% MSI(1462 3160)

Poor: 43% Great: 54%

SPEED RANK: 132^nd / 713

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Best Bench: 52% Sapphire(174B E324)
Worst Bench: 45% PwrHis(1787 2358) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 45% Great: 52%

SPEED RANK: 131^st / 713


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		49.1 %			49.7 %	+1%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	60.4 fps		64.1 fps	Slightly better lighting effects. +6%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	70.3 fps		72.4 fps	+3%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	66.6 fps	+5%	63.6 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	61.2 fps	+3%	59.2 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	67.8 fps		68.9 fps	+2%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	94.9 fps	Better peak reflection handling. +23%	76.9 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	69.7 fps	Slightly faster peak multi rendering. +6%	65.7 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	66.5 fps	Slightly faster peak NBody calculation. +7%	61.9 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps		156 Fps	+0%
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	94 Fps	+1%	93 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	63 Fps	Better PUBG Fps. +15%	55 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	53 Fps	Better GTAV Fps. +17%	45 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	156 Fps		173 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +10%
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps		100 Fps	+3%
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	62 Fps		67 Fps	Slightly Better BF1 Fps. +8%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	48 Fps		55 Fps	Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +15%
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	189 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +42%	133 Fps
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	121 Fps	Better DOTA 2 Fps. +17%	104 Fps
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	63 Fps	Better WoW Fps. +27%	50 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	97 Fps		104 Fps	Slightly Better WoT Fps. +6%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.91 %	Insanely higher market share. +4,450%	0.02 %
Value Value For Money	58.2 %	Much better value. +61%	36.2 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	70 %	More popular. +13%	62 %
Price Price (score)	$200	Much cheaper. +38%	$325


Age Newest	122 Months		113 Months	Slightly more recent. +7%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	67.7 fps		94.4 fps	Much better peak texture detail. +39%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	58.3 fps	Faster peak complex splatting. +25%	46.7 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	61 fps		86.6 fps	Much better texture detail. +42%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	53.6 fps	Faster complex splatting. +19%	44.9 fps

The Nvidia GTX 970 is a game changer in terms of performance per watt and value for money. The GTX 970 is based on Nvidia's ground-breaking Maxwell architecture which delivers considerable clock for clock performance gains over Kepler, its predecessor. Comparing the GTX 970 and 780 Ti shows that the two cards offer comparable performance yet the new GTX 970 costs nearly half as much! Unsurprisingly Nvidia are discontinuing the 780 Ti as it's now largely redundant. These price to performance gains typically occur once or twice a decade and although the new Maxwell architecture will improve down the line with the release of the Ti/Titan versions, at the moment the 970 offers the best value for money on the market by miles. Since this summary was originally written AMD have slashed prices and older Nvidia models (780/780 Ti/770) have also been hugely discounted. See the latest value for money rankings here. ^{[Jul '15 GPUPro]}

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The new AMD R9 390 is the direct successor to the R9 290. Both cards share the same GPU but the R9 390 is factory overclocked. The R9 390 has a 5% higher stock GPU clock, and a substantial stock memory clock increase of 20%. Additionally the R9 390 sports a minimum of 8GB of VRAM versus 4GB on the R9 290. At the current price levels of $329, the R9 390 can't compete given that R9 290s can be had for around $260. The increased VRAM will rarely help even at ultra high resolutions and in any case, most 4K gamers are likely to seek more GPU power than the R9 390 has to offer. We have seen several samples of the R9 390 and they scored an effective speed of 88.5% which, as expected, matches the speeds seen on overclocked R9 290s. On the face of it purchasing an R9 290 at a discount and then manually overclocking will result in the same performance as an R9 390 but with a saving of around $70. ^{[Jun '15 GPUPro]}

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