Yeah wccftech is the best source for graphics technology DirectX 12 won't change a thing regarding this, one good example; nvidia is actively disabling PhysX when it detect AMD GPU and/or it's not the main active cards when it actually work at one time before nvidia finds it out and kills it. That is only the PhysX portion, and to be able to use cross brand multi GPU solution? Not in a billion years.

Why post three times? Got problem?

Most probably just waiting for new AMD card to arrive before the value of their card crash even more.

The R9 290X Gaming is fitted with old Twin Frozr IV HSF, it wasn't really meant to handle the heat produced by R9 290X but at least it's quiet.

From what I know screen tearing can't be captured through screenshot. And it doesn't look like that either

If any of you feeling brave you can overclock your refresh rate, by using software like cru (custom resolution utility). I got mine to 75Hz, that eliminate screen tearing for me and also improve fast paced gaming

That is only applicable to R9 290X and NOT R9 290. You can read the review here. Like terradrive said the switch merely for either legacy BIOS or UEFI BIOS.

Yup 100% agree. I hate those synthetic load especially furmark. It gives strain to the graphics card, crazy amount of strain that no other games put that much load on it. I can't even run furmark more than a few second it's bizarre that people put an hour load on their card. What are people try to achieve?? Just play some games and it'll be sufficient. If there is any issue it should pop up in game.

TDP stands for Thermal Design Power, it's the amount of heat generated by the components NOT it's power consumption.

Your equation is wrong. Power consumption depends on load. P=IV, the higher the load the more current the component needs hence higher power usage, even if the voltage stays the same but if the load is low it consume less current hence less voltage. Different games puts different load on GPU. The Maximum graph you put is using synthetic power virus Furmark program which is irrelevant.

AC Unity menu is bad example as it's just that game have that problem.

His most likely problem is vBIOS because he already fixed it after people recommending him to update it. The flickering issue on 280 cards are well known all over the internet.

It's not an entirely different matter, it's basic electronics. Electrical stills play with current and voltages. The main question is TDP which is still means Thermal Design Power is is NOT equals to power consumed. Also TDP varies from one company to another, AMD rated it's CPU TDP differently from Intel, so does nvidia and AMD GPU.

Nobody 'plays' Furmark', as I said it's irrelevant because some GPU automatically detect this porgram and put a limiter to prevent the card from overheating or using too much power. The peak power is from Crysis 2 which clearly shows on top of the page.

You are delusional. Show me where does AMD stated that R9 280X requires 750W on SINGLE CARD. Read the review on Guru3D on R9 280X TwinFrozr power consumption. They stated what are the recommended PSU down there.

How long do you stay on menu? Can you see why I say you delusional over one measly game with it's menu bug?

I agree but did he mentions any problem from that list? He even say there is problem with Chrome, whic is not game related.

Wha? How it comes to this? It's OpenCL on OpenGL. We are discussing games not GPGPU performance or it's power consumption.

And you right now starts to pick every single 280X cards for no obvious reason. The guy with the problem himself saying his card is fine now. I'm still waiting for official AMD saying single R9 280X cards requires 750W PSU like you stated before.

I don't want to go to specifics on equation. I just put the most basic formula.

Agreed that his PSU is crappy but if he say is all good. Why don’t you tell him?

You are right, FX-7500 is an APU with integrated graphics, and the R7 260MDX have it's own 2GB dedicated memory. You can double confirm with GPU-Z.

AMD bring FX naming to mobile but they just renaming their Kaveri platform and people confused by it. IMO they shouldnt do it, FX brings bad omen to AMD ever since they use it.

Nah it wont be that much price difference. New cards plus new memory wont be cheap, plus GST.

Freesync is still at its infant state. Wait a few months for it to be more mature. I agree that higher refresh rate isnt that important because one of the reason of it is to achieve fluidity at lower framerate at high resolution such as 4k and above, other than to eliminate screen tearing of course.

I pretty much going to stick with 1080 for a long time. I didnt find the extra pixel appealing. Good news is because high end card now focused on 4K we on fullHD resolution can opt for mid range cards that are now cater for that resolution, as an added bonus buying high end cards for that resolution means we could crank up all the eye candy ingame, plus the VSR or DSR if needed

That is the reason I refuse to buy anything brand new after GST. I noticed this stupid trend where even before GST they jack up the price like you mentioned. Not all the shop do this but its annoying when my favorite shop did it.

The reason why AMD R2 290 series is cheap is because it's old. If you open up GPU-Z you can see the announced date. The card is approaching 2 years old (290X released on Oct 2013!!)! AMD cuts their price after GTX 900 series comes out around Sept 2014.

Good for you, brand new or used? At least during that time where the mining craze is on the rise, AMD cards price isnt affected over here.

Yup because AMD builds the card with enormous 512-bit memory and 64 ROP the performance is awesome. When you read the review 290 cards handle high resolution with AA better than nvidia cards. Shroud noise? Whats the problem with your card?

Vulkan is not Mantle, it is the next generation OpenGL with similar goals like Mantle and DirectX 12.

Mantle was used to accelerate the developement of Vulkan, but it isnt Mantle per se.

Have you disable ULPS?