AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory

panyan · 27 Sep 2013 at 10:58

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
270x - 7950 refresh with 1GB of vram less
EDIT: Looking at other responses this may just be a 7870!

280x - 7970 Ghz edition refresh

290x - the only genuine 'new' Hawcard

There seems to be some confusion about what the 270x will be:

Gibbo said:
R270 is HD 7950 re-boxed and these shall be reference design in beginning and prices from £170 region, so same as our lowest price 7950's. So OcUK is already at the new price, the newly boxed R270's will arrive middle-end October.

R280X is the HD 7970 GHz re-boxed and these shall be reference design in beginning and prices shall be around £230 region, so same again as our lowest priced 7970's. This makes our current Asus 7970's a bargain as they are TOP and Platinum cards, the equivalent of these in R280 X shall be in the £250-£300 region and available in their R280 X packaging around end of October.

R290 X unfortunately I cannot release pricing or specification info yet, but price wise its similar to GTX 780 but slightly faster, right now, of course AMD could change the launch price at any time.

So is this the conversion?:

9970 -> R290X
7970 -> R280X
7950 -> R270X

humbug · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:00

You see what happens AMD? no data = lots of people making fools of themselves speculating.

So give us some real info.

N19h7m4r3 · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:02

Since the 290X uses 8pin and 6 pin power connectors, I really hope the 290 is 2 6 pins.

Just need some OS X drivers support, either from AMD or Apple and I'm in business.

If not, there's always a 7950 to buy.

LtMatt · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:03

So the Techpowerup article is guff? Jesus H Christ!!

Boomstick777 · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:04

FoxEye said:
The 270X is a 7870 re-badge tho, not a 7950. From what people have been saying/ reporting.

Originally Posted by Gibbo
R270 is HD 7950 re-boxed and these shall be reference design in beginning and prices from £170 region, so same as our lowest price 7950's. So OcUK is already at the new price, the newly boxed R270's will arrive middle-end October.

humbug · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:07

How does Gibbo know what no one else seems to?

whose pie are his fingers stuck in?

StonedPenguin · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:12

Cant find it on the video, I coulda swore I heard him say that, Oh well maybe not lol.

Fulax · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:15

Doesn't mention it on the presentation slides.

humbug · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:17

Fulax said:
Doesn't mention it on the presentation slides.

or anything...

Gibbo · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:18

panyan said:
There seems to be some confusion about what the 270x will be:

So is this the conversion?:

9970 -> R290X
7970 -> R280X
7950 -> R270X

Wait and see.

humbug · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:21

Gibbo said:
Wait and see

you know to much

so, when is NDA up?

Gregster · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:21

In reality, you would have thought that the presentation could have at least said "4GB of 512 bit ram", I am surprised they didn't, maybe something else?.......

LtMatt · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:21

Interesting so the R290 X is going to be at least £500 then. Damn ill be sorry to see the 7xxx cards go.

humbug · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:26

LtMatt said:
Interesting so the R290 X is going to be at least £500 then. Damn ill be sorry to see the 7xxx cards go.

If it is that wont last long, unless its faster than a 780, significantly. IE at least as fast as a Titan. i doubt that.

Launch price and price gauging...

JediFragger · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:26

2x7950s people, get em while they're HOT!!!!!

Gibbo · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:28

humbug said:
If it is that wont last long, unless its faster than a 780, significantly. IE at least as fast as a Titan. i doubt that.

Launch price and price gauging...

Wait and see

Marine-RX179 · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:28

Wait and see

555BUK · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:30

humbug said:
Mixed density, think GTX 660 TI with 2GB vRam @ 192Bit.

Some @ 32Bit some @ 16bit

I doubt that. If the board was only designed for a 384bit bus they would surely have made space for just 12 GDDR5 modules, which would have been good enough for 3GB, 6GB or even 4GB of mixed density. Why waste space on a PCB?

Doesn't the 660 TI PCB actually have a 256bit bus which is actually nobbled down to 192bit to meet a lower price point? This is different than actually designing a PCB from scratch to run inefficient mixed density VRAM. I guess that the 290 could be a nobbled 384bit version of the 512bit 290X?? We shall see.

FoxEye · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:30

JediFragger said:
2x7950s people, get em while they're HOT!!!!!

If money was no object

Unless you're going to buy them for me?

VincentHanna · 27 Sep 2013 at 11:30

Thanks for the info re the R9 290, I can definitely live with a slightly slower card than a 780 if it's cheaper.

Plus Mantle may eventually give it the boost over the Nvidia cards anyway.