Benchmarks of an alleged Radeon R9 300 series graphics card have appeared online, showing that it is capable of beating Nvidia's Geforce GTX 980 by nearly 20 percent.


While benchmarks spotted at Chiphell.com are still unofficial and alleged benchmarks of yet to be announced graphics card these are usually a good reference on what to expect from upcoming graphics card, at least if these are legit. The Captain Jack GPU belongs to AMD's upcoming Pirate Islands lineup and has been tested against a wide selection of currently available AMD and Nvidia graphics cards.

In an average score from a rather extensive list of games where the Captain Jack GPU based sample graphics card managed to score a rather impressive score of 65.5FPS, which is significantly higher than GTX 980, which scored an average of 56.6FPS and Radeon R9 290X, which scored 50.1FPS average.




More importantly, the tested R9 300 sample graphics card based on the Captain Jack GPU managed to give out all that performance at rather low power consumption. While R9 290X was drawing an average of 279W, according to published table at Chiphell.com, the tested Captain Jack GPU based graphics card sample drew 197W, which is a bit higher than GTX 980's 185W.




If these first benchmarks are legit, then AMD has a rather serious graphics cards and should put a lot of pressure on Nvidia once it hits the market.



Source: KitGuru.net.