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The Retro Series – The R9 290X vs. the GTX 780 Ti

The Retro Series – the R9 290X 4GB vs. the GTX 780 Ti 3GB – 38 Games Benchmarked

It’s been two years since BTR comparedthe R9 290X versus the GTX 780 Ti, and over 5 years since these former flagship cards were launched in 2013.  The GTX 780 Ti was released at $699 in November of 2013, not long after AMD’s launch of the R9 290X at $550 which beat the original $1,000 Titan.  At its launch, the 780…

The RX 480 8GB Review – Polaris Arrives with Potential – 26 Games Benchmarked

The RX 480 has arrived for evaluation as an 8GB card.  This is not the reference 4GB RX 480 with slightly slower vRAM that will sell for $199, but a more expensive $239 reference 8GB version.  AMD has released its new Polaris architecture today and we are going to compare it to the GTX 980, to a mildly overclocked 970, and to the reference 290X and to the XFX 390 OC to see how this new card…

Crimson SW 16.6.1 brings performance increases for Fury X

Today’s Crimson Software 16.6.1 beta hotfix driver performance analysis charts the performance of 26 games focusing on the Fury X and the 290X compared with Crimson 16.5.3 hotfix drivers which we last tested for our recent SLI vs. CrossFire comparison.  You can also compare today’s performance with last month’s Crimson 16.5.2.1 hotfix drivers here.  AMD has released their latest June Crimson…

GeForce 368.22 Driver Performance Analysis – GTX 980 Ti vs. Fury X

Today’s driver performance analysis charts the performance of 25 games using the GTX 980 Ti, the GTX 980, and the GTX 970 with the very latest GeForce WHQL driver 368.22, and we are also focusing on the competing Fury X, 290X, and 280X with AMD’s Crimson Software version 16.5.x.

We are also benching with these new drivers from both AMD and Nvidia featuring our newest 2016 games including Far Cry…

Crimson 16.5.2.1 Driver Performance Analysis featuring Fury X

As regularly featured on BabelTechReviews, this driver analysis will examine the performance of 26 PC games using the latest Crimson Software Catalyst 16.5.2 hotfix  drivers which were released last week. We will compare these drivers versus Catalyst 16.4.2 drivers using our reference PowerColor Fury X and VisionTek 290X, and we are also comparing the reference 280X on the last 16.1 Crimson…

GeForce 365.10 Performance Analysis featuring GTX 980 Ti vs. Fury X

Today’s driver performance analysis charts the performance of 25 games using the GTX 980 Ti with the very latest GeForce WHQL driver 365.10, and we are also focusing on the competing Fury X and AMD’s Crimson Software version 16.4.2.

We are also testing the GTX 980 versus the R9 290X with these new drivers from both AMD and Nvidia featuring our newest 2016 games including Far Cry Primal, Tom’s…