

andreif7: quantified this properly in their display review as to how bad it is.andreif7: Big sadge 😢 Was looking forward to it.andreif7: Tenstorrent's custom RISC-V core actually seems huge as a first design, quite impressive specifications.


Even the 7950B gets left behind to a significant extent, with the 290 beating it by 58%. Elsewhere the 290 beats the 280X by 27% and the GTX 770 by 30%. At 2560 the two cards are essentially tied, each enjoying a 5% lead over the GTX 780. Rome is another game that sees the 290X significantly throttle, and as such it’s another game the 290 has little trouble catching up in. Rome’s shadows are extremely CPU intensive (as opposed to GPU intensive), so this keeps us from CPU bottlenecking nearly as easily. In this case the game comes with a built-in benchmark that plays out over a forested area with a large number of units, definitely stressing the GPU in particular.įor this game in particular we’ve also gone and turned down the shadows to medium. Total War games have traditionally been a mix of CPU and GPU bottlenecks, so it takes a good system on both ends of the equation to do well here. The second strategy game in our benchmark suite, Total War: Rome 2 is the latest game in the Total War franchise.
