Tuesday, April 26th 2016
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Performance Numbers Leaked
Ahead of its launch, performance numbers of AMD Radeon Pro Duo were leaked to the web by Expreview. Pitted against the $620 GeForce GTX 980 Ti, the $1,499 dual-GPU monstrosity is about 32 percent faster at 1080p (which sees CPU saturation), and on average 59.4 percent faster at 4K Ultra HD. The card is noted to conjure up more than playable frame-rates for all the games Expreview tested at 4K. Frame-rates were as low as 46 fps, and as high as 61 fps, indicating that the Pro Duo is the go-to single-card solution for Ultra HD. Find the review in the link below.
Sources:
Expreview, KitGuru
69 Comments on AMD Radeon Pro Duo Performance Numbers Leaked
www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-Pro-Duo-Review
This is the impressive part of all that. I imagine if you got the temps down the fury would lower power consumption, just like the fermi cards (I halfed my power consumption overclocked vs stock coolers).
but on the note of the benchmarks the duo won 3 of the 4 games run for average FPS. Lost 3dmark (go figure) and TW3 (go figure) to me this shows that the pro duo is more powerful at least stock vs stock. Unluckily for AMD we all know how the 980Ti clocks and how the fury does not. Even with the TDP unlocked I don't expect that to change.
This will, hopefully, be fixed in a driver. But for now even AMD is not recommending the RPD for gamers.
techreport.com/news/30066/pc-perspective-pokes-and-prods-the-radeon-pro-duo
I think that I'll just sit back and wait for a few months (maybe longer) because I'm not in dire need of an upgrade. All three gaming PCs are ready.
A fool and his money as they say...
Pro Duo is overpriced, but not aimed as a gaming card regardless of how illogical that is. Move along, buy two Nanos if you want similar performance and grad a couple of water blocks to gain similar performance all around and pocket the rest of the cash.
We're going to see a lot of change in the GPU market now. It will be good for consumers too.
Nvidia's prices for these are pretty reasonable.
Also you can't possibly compare a premium watercooled card, 2 slots, to a normal solution with 2 air cooled graphics cards, 4 slots, without keeping the distinct advantages in mind - that would be highly unwise. ;)