Compute Benchmarks

I recently added some compute testing using Folding at Home to get a look at  what you can expect for OpenGL performance. At single precision our results fell half way between the GTX 980 and the GTX 780  /R9 380’s. The double precision performance was really what caught my eye though. I’ve talked about it in some of our Nvidia reviews, Nvidia has been gimping performance at double precision to make sure their consumer cards don’t undercut their much more expensive commercial cards. With that the R9 390 just completely blows everything we have tested to date out of the water. Obviously this is a new test, but it does include cards like the new Titan X. This is why people loved the AMD cards for coin mining in the past and the additional clock speed and memory isn’t hurting that at all.