Posted by Nathan Kirsch | Wed, Dec 17, 2014 - 11:26 AM

Chiphell might not be the most reliable Chinese web-site when it comes to leaking details about unannounced hardware, but they are back in the news today with purported benchmarks from next-generation graphics cards with cards from both AMD and NVIDIA! A leak like this so far in advance is pretty much unheard of, so read on with plenty of skepticism and keep in mind that even if these numbers are real there are plenty of driver enhancements that still need to be made.

The first chart shows performance of AMD’s Fiji XT and NVIDIA’s GM200 (Cut-Down to 2688 Stream Processors) at 2560×1440 with performance across a claimed 20 game titles. The same chart also shows what appears to be isolated GPU power consumption when running Battlefield 4 multiplayer.

The next chart that was shown was run at 3840×2160 on five game titles; Battlefield 4 MP, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Ryse: Son of Rome and Watch Dogs: Bad Blood. This chart includes results from next-generation video cards like the Bermuda XT, Fiji XT, GM200 and cut-down version of the GM200. The exact benchmark settings were not revealed, but are claimed to be at high or maximum image quality settings. This chart shows the AMD Bermuda XT being 65% faster than the AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB video card. Chiphell claimes that the AMD Bermuda XT reference design uses a hydro + air cooling GPU cooling solution and that heat and power consumption remains reasonable. This might confirm the rumors from months ago where the AMD Radeon R9 390X (Bermuda XT) was said to be hybrid cooled. If these results are to be believed it might mean that the AMD Radeon R9 390X will be the card to beat as the next flagship GeForce GTX series card with the full GM200 core could fall short. Although some enthusiasts might see some numbers that look a bit off. For example the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti performed better than the AMD Radeon R9 290X in Battlefield 4 at 3840×2160 with max settings. We went back and looked at our 4K performance numbers and the GeForce GTX 780 Ti did indeed perform better than the Radeon R9 290X with both running the DirectX 11 API.

Keep in mind that we are still months away from any of these GPUs being launched and we can not confirm that these numbers are authentic. Both AMD and NVIDIA do not comment on unreleased products and we unable to comment on this information. It looks like the GPU battle between AMD and NVIDIA on the next-generation GPUs has begun and AMD is said to be in the lead with their Caribbean Island series of GPUs. Then again there is nothing to say that someone faked all these numbers just to get 15 minutes of fame.