DraginDime
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I recently slapped together 2 rigs for my kids. Since I hadn't purchased any AMD hardware in a while, I figured I would build both these rigs with AMD parts. So I grabbed up a couple new APUs A6-6400K, dropped them in Gigabyte F2A78M-D3H boards, threw in 4GB of Crucial Ballistix ram, and I was off to the races.
I wasn't at all impressed with the APU's graphical power. I think I had my hopes a little too high there. For web surfing and basic use, it's probably more than fine. Oh well, no biggie, so to alleviate that problem I grabbed up 2x MSI R9-270 gpus. And they did a pretty decent job.
So today, work has been slow, and I thought I would play around and run some 3dMark to see what kind of numbers I can get out of those R9-270s. This is where my questions start. I'm getting much lower scores than I expected. I've been comparing scores between my HTPC (intel i3-4130, GTX 750Ti, 4GB @1866mhz) and the AMD rigs I built. I expected the 270s to score a bit higher than the 750Ti.
The main differences in systems are HTPC has Win 8.1(x64) on SSD, AMD rigs have Win 7(x64) on HDD. My HTPC has all kinds of crap installed on it, vs the AMD rigs which are pretty fresh.
Here's some of the scores I've gotten so far. AMD 14.9 drivers, Nvidia was 344.60
Firestrike
R9-270 - 2936 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3272701
750Ti - 4047 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3272687
Ice Storm Unlimted
R9-270 - 46712 http://www.3dmark.com/is/2468031
750Ti - 95967 http://www.3dmark.com/is/2468028
Cloud Gate
R9-270 - 4966 http://www.3dmark.com/cg/2266438
750Ti - 10547 http://www.3dmark.com/cg/2266477
TL;DR
R9-270 scores lower than GTX 750Ti in similar specced systems.
What's holding the R9-270s back?
Or is 3Dmark just shitty on AMD?
I recently slapped together 2 rigs for my kids. Since I hadn't purchased any AMD hardware in a while, I figured I would build both these rigs with AMD parts. So I grabbed up a couple new APUs A6-6400K, dropped them in Gigabyte F2A78M-D3H boards, threw in 4GB of Crucial Ballistix ram, and I was off to the races.
I wasn't at all impressed with the APU's graphical power. I think I had my hopes a little too high there. For web surfing and basic use, it's probably more than fine. Oh well, no biggie, so to alleviate that problem I grabbed up 2x MSI R9-270 gpus. And they did a pretty decent job.
So today, work has been slow, and I thought I would play around and run some 3dMark to see what kind of numbers I can get out of those R9-270s. This is where my questions start. I'm getting much lower scores than I expected. I've been comparing scores between my HTPC (intel i3-4130, GTX 750Ti, 4GB @1866mhz) and the AMD rigs I built. I expected the 270s to score a bit higher than the 750Ti.
The main differences in systems are HTPC has Win 8.1(x64) on SSD, AMD rigs have Win 7(x64) on HDD. My HTPC has all kinds of crap installed on it, vs the AMD rigs which are pretty fresh.
Here's some of the scores I've gotten so far. AMD 14.9 drivers, Nvidia was 344.60
Firestrike
R9-270 - 2936 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3272701
750Ti - 4047 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3272687
Ice Storm Unlimted
R9-270 - 46712 http://www.3dmark.com/is/2468031
750Ti - 95967 http://www.3dmark.com/is/2468028
Cloud Gate
R9-270 - 4966 http://www.3dmark.com/cg/2266438
750Ti - 10547 http://www.3dmark.com/cg/2266477
TL;DR
R9-270 scores lower than GTX 750Ti in similar specced systems.
What's holding the R9-270s back?
Or is 3Dmark just shitty on AMD?