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Best Bench: 66% MSI(1462 3170)
Worst Bench: 53% MSI(1462 3170)

Poor: 53% Great: 66%

SPEED RANK: 112^th / 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		59.3 %	Faster effective speed. +19%		49.7 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	73.7 fps	Better lighting effects. +15%	64.1 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	86.4 fps	Better reflection handling. +19%	72.4 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	75.9 fps	Faster multi rendering. +19%	63.6 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	72.8 fps	Faster NBody calculation. +23%	59.2 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	83.9 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +22%	68.9 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	113 fps	Much better peak reflection handling. +47%	76.9 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	80.6 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +23%	65.7 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	80.9 fps	Much faster peak NBody calculation. +31%	61.9 fps


CSGO Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	183 Fps	Better CSGO Fps. +18%	156 Fps
Fortnite Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	105 Fps	Better Fortnite Fps. +13%	93 Fps
PUBG Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	70 Fps	Better PUBG Fps. +29%	55 Fps
GTAV Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	61 Fps	Much Better GTAV Fps. +34%	45 Fps
LoL Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	191 Fps	Better LoL Fps. +10%	173 Fps
Overwatch Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	104 Fps	+4%	100 Fps
BF1 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	74 Fps	Slightly Better BF1 Fps. +10%	67 Fps
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	60 Fps	Better The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Fps. +11%	55 Fps
Minecraft Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	207 Fps	Much Better Minecraft Fps. +56%	133 Fps
DOTA 2 Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	136 Fps	Much Better DOTA 2 Fps. +31%	104 Fps
WoW Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	75 Fps	Much Better WoW Fps. +51%	50 Fps
WoT Avg. Fps @ 1080p on Max	111 Fps	Slightly Better WoT Fps. +7%	104 Fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.19 %	Hugely higher market share. +850%	0.02 %
Value Value For Money	28.1 %		36.2 %	Better value. +29%
User Rating UBM User Rating	65 %	+5%	62 %
Price Price (score)	$500		$325	Much cheaper. +35%


Age Newest	122 Months		113 Months	Slightly more recent. +7%
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	83 fps		94.4 fps	Better peak texture detail. +14%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	72.3 fps	Much faster peak complex splatting. +55%	46.7 fps
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	74.8 fps		86.6 fps	Better texture detail. +16%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	65.3 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +45%	44.9 fps

The Nvidia GTX 980 is the new top end Maxwell based Nvidia GPU. The Maxwell architecture offers significantly higher clock for clock performance when compared to Kepler based cards from the previous generation. Comparing the GTX 980 and GTX 970 shows that the 970 only lags by around 17% in terms of performance but it's priced nearly 40% lower making the GTX 970 far better value for money card. Even though the GTX 970 beats the 980 in terms of value, the 980 still destroys previous generation cards. Comparing the GTX 980 and 780 Ti shows that the Newer 980 offers around 14% better performance at a 25% price discount. Nvidia have changed the price/performance landscape with their new Maxwell architecture and now pose a serious threat to AMDs high end GPU market share. The new GTX 980/970 cards replace the now discontinued GTX 780 Ti, 780 and 770. ^{[Sep '14 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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