Apple A9X: The Mobile Processor That Outperforms a Wii U?

[Pemalite]

Eddie_Raja said:

Pemalite said:

I already game at resolutions higher than 4k. (7680x1440 eyefinity to be exact.)

And I have four Radeon R9 290's in crossfire. Before that, Triple Radeon 7970's. Before that... Radeon 6950's unlocked into 6970's.
And I will likely buy into AMD's Fury successor on the 1x node.
Guess where I see the largest performance increase? It's not overclocking my GPU Ram. 

And this is where we will have real beef. I owned a launch 7970, and taking the VRAM from 1250-1800 saw a massive 15% boost from that alone.  In fact the VRAM (% wise) made just as big a difference as the core in 1080p.

With my old 765m overclocking the VRAM made a BIGGER difference than the core.

 

I won't doubt that the Fury X is an unbalanced card, because it clearly is.  But the PS4 is equal to about an R9 370, and that card has VRAM that is about aws fast as the PS4 - and it needs it buddy.  The X1 is massively bandwidth starved compared to its closest desktop counterpart (Performance wise) - the 7770.

That's your problem.
You are only comparing it to a vanilla 7770 and you are only gaming at 1080P. ;)

And this says otherwise:









Sorry to say. But proof says otherwise.

I also did a few benchmarks on the 6900 series for fatslob a long time ago on this forum, where I unlocked the shaders and overclocked and did memory overclocks and such. But that was a more balanced chip.
Here is a copy-paste of that:

Well. Some benchmarks, not exactly what you asked for, constrained for time and it took 2 hours to do just Crysis. :P
Anyway, Shaders locked and unlocked:
http://i.imgur.com/HWFB5ZR.gif
http://i.imgur.com/AL2nX6V.gif

ONTO THE NUMBERS!
Locked Shaders:
Core: 800mhz | Memory: 1250mhz (Stock)
Average FPS: 33.74
Minimum FPS: 27.56
Max FPS: 40.32


Core: 840mhz | Memory: 1250mhz
Average FPS: 34.63
Minimum FPS: 27.62
Max FPS: 40.43


Core: 800mhz | Memory: 1300mhz
Average FPS: 34.07
Minimum FPS: 27.89
Max FPS: 40.43


Unlocked Shaders:
Core: 800mhz | Memory: 1250mhz (Stock)
Average FPS: 34.86
Minimum FPS: 27.63
Max FPS: 41.87


Core: 800mhz | Memory: 1300mhz
Average FPS: 34.93
Minimum FPS: 28.17
Max FPS: 41.41


Core: 840mhz | Memory: 1250mhz
Average FPS: 35.91
Minimum FPS: 29.69
Max FPS: 42.42


Core: 840mhz | Memory: 1300mhz
Average FPS: 36.32
Minimum FPS: 29.57
Max FPS: 43.47

Interesting thing, with unlocked pixel shaders, 5% core clock, 4% memory clock, you can achieve almost a 10% improvement.