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AMD "Hawaii" R9 290X GPU Specifications Revealed

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Here are the first set of specifications for AMD's next high-end GPU silicon, on which the company will no doubt carve out several SKUs from. Codenamed "Hawaii," and slated for unveiling on the 26th in, well, Hawaii, the 28 nm chip is what AMD will take NVIDIA's GK110 silicon head-on with. It is based on AMD's second-generation Graphics CoreNext micro-architecture.

With an estimated die-area of 430 mm² (18% bigger than "Tahiti,") the chip physically features 2,816 stream processors (SPs) spread across 44 clusters with 64 SPs each (a 37.5% increase over "Tahiti"). The chip features four independent raster engines, compared to two independent ones on "Tahiti." This could translate into double the geometry processing muscle as "Tahiti," with four independent tessellation units. The memory interface of the chip is expected to be 384-bit wide, based on the GDDR5 specification. Given the way TMUs are arranged on chips based on this architecture, one can deduce 176 TMUs on the chip. The ROP count could be 32 or 48. The chip will feature hardware support for DirectX 11.2, including the much hyped shared resources (mega-texture) feature.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/191074/amd-hawaii-r9-290x-gpu-specifications-revealed.html

Let battle commence
 
I hope this isn't a repeat of the x2900xt days - that was an epic fail for its time and the only AMD card I regret buying :(
 
Didn't he say £6-700? The high end of that still leaves out of reach pricing on the new cards.

I think too many are putting too much focus on their top end, the mid range 7800 replacements could be the real winners, traditionally the previous gens top tier perf filters down to the next gens midrange with lower power/better clocking, coukd be interesting for some sub £200 7970 beating cards.
 
pgi947 said:
Didn't he say £6-700? The high end of that still leaves out of reach pricing on the new cards.
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Negatory. He said after the pre-orders come in the 7990 goes back to £600 as per amd's pricing. He also said Hawaii will be priced lower and perform slower than the 7990. Cue Hawaii coming in at £450-£500 or so.
 
With 2816 shaders, this could well beat a Titan, especially in AMD flavored titles. Nvidia will finally have to adjust their pricing, unless AMD match the extreme pricing as well as perfomance..

Still lbh, anything over £450 is still a lot for a single GPU. This time next year these will be going for £250 :p
 
My prediction is the Eyefinity/dx9 games frame pacing will get fixed at the same time the new card launches. You heard it here first folks. ;)

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...nd-Single-and-Multi-GPU-Configurations/Video-

UPDATE: We got an official statement from AMD on the subject of this article. It states:

As AMD has already publicly stated when the frame pacing feature was first introduced with Catalyst 13.8 beta, it does not address resolutions above 2560x1600. At the same time, AMD has also committed to addressing these cases in a future update. Details of the rollout for this solution will become very evident, and made public in the very near future.
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Gotta love pcper and their mud slinging. :D
 
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Boomstick777 said:
With 2816 shaders, this could well beat a Titan, especially in AMD flavored titles. Nvidia will finally have to adjust their pricing, unless AMD match the extreme pricing as well as perfomance..

Still lbh, anything over £450 is still a lot for a single GPU. This time next year these will be going for £250 :p
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With 2816 shaders I think it will be just short of GTX 780 performance.

Remember the shader count with the GTX 770 v HD 7970.
 
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