It's bad when a company uses shady advertising to get sales or ahead of the market, but what about reviewers? Can they be guilty of misrepresenting in their reviews?
AdoreTV points out the inconsistencies is recent reviews for the GTX1080, and reading between the lines can be arduous but he does bring a serious point about integrity here. Essentially, he's reviewing the reviewers.
i feel like they should where all the games have the same settings and (where possible) gameworks turned off/lowest level since ive seen alot of reviews saying its the best gpu and they should say if its in a test best case and they should give a link to a sound file of what the cards sound like when they are stressing the cards to the max
(Finally made it here! Yay! My internet is currently carried out by microSDs taped to carrier pigeons, so do not expect any answers in the next 5 minutes).
I find it really funny how every reviewer got different results AND had Rise of the BrokenDX12 in their benchmarks.
AdoreTV should get an award from us as the community of the brain users.
I expect there to be some angry fanboys.
the basic breakdown is that while inside a case the 1080 starts to
throttle at stock. and against an OC'd 980ti/TitanX it really isn't much
faster.
It's also still not quite a 4k max settings card, though at medium-high it's fairly capable.
At the end he says the founders edition doesn't really make sense to buy with those issues.
And I would add, especially if someone already has one of the above
mentioned GPUs, though I guess those people may just want what is the
fastest, not exactly the best to buy. Though the pro duo is still going
to be the fastest dual slot card for a while.
Short of it is, wait for the non FE cards
One could get an Arctic Accelero Xtreme 4. Still the single 8-pin is a real big limitation in performance.
Yes, Gamesworks, and TressFX 3.0 (Hair, Fur, Collision, and Character Rigging Enhancements) should be turned off. Since both properties can make both sides look good in benchmarks. What I want is, temperatures (ambient, stock temps, and OC temps) under real-world scenario (inside a in-closed PC chassis), or at the very least state if it's open bench.
I also want drivers, and patch version of games used to bench stated in the graph as a standard across all reviews.