Revdarian said: Wow, what a mixed bag... i am seriously wondering what determines numbers like for example the Fallout 4 ones, i mean, it usually is slightly behind or on par with the 390, but on FO4 it goes way past it by a great deal. The performance is perfectly nice for 200$ tbh, of course that if you already had a 390-970+ this is a sidegrade at best, but it was widely known since a bit ago. Click to expand...

There isn't such thing as "generic" performance given the complex systems involved.For Fallout 4 I'd assume it is because of Polaris 10's "enhanced geometry engine" lends itself very well to the Fallout 4 given the work load resulting in much more effective geometry throughput (eg. through better culling). This is also why Nvidia, who has been stronger in this area, also leads. It is also likely that color compression is comparatively rather effective with Fallout 4 meaning that the raw memory bandwidth advantage of Hawaii is less at play. You can contrast this with say AoTS which from what I've heard favors raw bandwidth over color compression.This is really just rather fuzzy guess work though. In order to actually explore this would be much more complex.