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JRPGfan on 02 January 2020
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Pemalite said:
JRPGfan said:

His point was it was more than 20 % in this case.
However flop effeciency while Archetecture dependent, is also card dependent.
Which he completely ignored.

He probably found one of the most extreme cases, when he compaired the 960 to the 7970.

Anyways its not always this big a differnce.

Ultimately it comes down to core design, of the graphics unit.
AMD leans way to heavy on the non purely- gameing related stuff, like gpu-compute.
Which does little for them (imo), I wish they would make slimmer design, thats more gameing focused like nvidia uses.


And yes, the 7970 didnt use colour compression, ect.
AMD was late to the party with that stuff.
(again this is probably one of the more extreme cases, of flop to flop)

All of this is slightly off topic though guys......

It's comparing AMD's Graphics Core Next 1.0 to nVidia's Maxwell.
Aka. Xbox One vs Switch.

It's why the Switch does as well as it does with it's ports despite significantly inferior hardware specifications on paper.

Supposedly its GCN gen2 inside the PS4.... which is the amd 250-290 line.
So if your gonna go arch to arch, lets atleast do that.

But again my point was, its more than just core arch vs core arch, not all cards are equally balanced ect.
So some cards in the line might be more effecient than others. (you just totally ignore this part both times)


Anyways heres the arch to arch thing you want so much:

A "R9 270x" is 2,560,  while a" Geforce 960" is 2,308 in Single precision flops.

Performance wise, theres like a ~13% differnce in favor of the 960.

2,560 / 2308 =  1,10%

So the R9 270x uses 10% more flops, and the 960 gets about 13% more performance.


110 x 113 = 124%.

a 24% better flop to performance ratio.

refernce:  Techpowerup.com
Search for any 960 review, and look at performance summery.

*edit: Permalite if your gonna quote me (this post), please dont mass quote 20 other people at the same time, makeing it impossible to reply to you via a quote.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 02 January 2020