The specs are 37.5% higher than Tahiti which is about 30% slower than titan. Its gonna be nip and tuck.
The clockspeed is 10% lower than Tahiti.
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AMD "Hawaii" R9 290X GPU Specifications Revealed
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The clockspeed is 10% lower than Tahiti.
Paypal always side with the buyer. It's a nightmare if you're selling.
I'd always rather sell on here. And buy too, for that matter
Surely now they stuck 2816 stream processors on there it's going to thrash the 780
Its like a HD7950 with another half a HD7950 welded on
should be epic and yes beat a GTX780 *fingers crossed*Sadly due to my WoW addiction AMD's cards aren't much use to me however I'm hoping the succeed big time with the new lineup so it kicks Nvidia into price drops lol.
can't wait to see some benches popping up.
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uber can you explain something to me...I know WOW favor Nvidia over ATI/AMD, and I use to recommend people the GTX260 over the 4870 or something like that...however with graphic cards at fast as 7970/GTX770, even if the GTX770 would be "faster" than the 7970, does it really matter since in actually gaming environment the performance would be the same, with the frame rate being CPU bounded?
Yes it matters, and WoW is not that CPU bound on most high end CPUs. When you slam the eye candy up GPU grunt matters also.
Even in a nothing happening original vanilla WoW start-up zone with the eye candy turned up on a 4.5GHz 2600k and an OCed GTX680 I will bounce between 80 and 120ish FPS. Go to one of the newest zones and you will net less. Not ideal when you play on a 120Hz monitor
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I see. But have you checked when you dipped down to 80fps, your GPU usage is actually at 99%?Yes it matters, and WoW is not that CPU bound on most high end CPUs. When you slam the eye candy up GPU grunt matters also.
Even in a nothing happening original vanilla WoW start-up zone with the eye candy turned up on a 4.5GHz 2600k and an OCed GTX680 I will bounce between 80 and 120ish FPS. Go to one of the newest zones and you will net less. Not ideal when you play on a 120Hz monitor
I mean I'm playing Ragnarok Online 2 (not the most interesting game I know), and the frame rate would drop down to 70fps at times (40fps even) with GPU usage far lower than 99% even on my 5850, because of the stupid single-threaded (in terms of CPU usage it is more like one and a half with CPU usage maxing at around 33%) game engine.
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Surely now they stuck 2816 stream processors on there it's going to thrash the 780
AMD's stream processors sadly don't work like that, all the numbers show it to be an equal to the 780, Maybe a 5% performance increase.
Hmm... At 900Mhz that would have about 24% more pixel pushing power than a 7970GE. It'll struggle to match the Titan unless there are some major efficiency improvements in the new architecture.
Let's see how they clock though. AMD have often gone for quite conservative base clocks.
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What i was thinking whilst reading the whole thread. I am really looking forward to see what people can do with some watercooling.
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Looking at all the stats both cards will be on par.
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Question is though, will the price be on par?
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^^ This, these will have awesome compute performance, GCN was already way ahead in compute, factor in that going forward games will be optimized for GCN, AMD have a real chance of a fairly big advantage over GK110 GPU's. Nvidia do have an answer coming though, Maxwell is set to have compute performance in spades along with being Nvidia's first GPU architecture that is able to access main memory. All these upcoming cards are going to be ridiculously powerful tbh..
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And the lack of progression on CPU side of things would still be right there standing in the way of gaming on 120Hz monitor, even when graphic card(s) is fast enough
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And the lack of progression on CPU side of things would still be right there standing in the way of gaming on 120Hz monitor, even when graphic card(s) is fast enough
Haha, that side of things has slowed down to a crawl. Maybe AMD can spark some competition with Steamroller?
Steamroller looks likely to keep Intel on their toes, AMD seem to have gone back to basics to look at how to really optimise the architecture so that it can adapt to different types of workload without sacrificing performance in other types of processing (i.e. it can real time prioritise 1-2 threads when thats a benefit without having to wait til other parts of the CPU are fully idle as the current ones do) but I think it will probably return them to being a credible alternative to intel for gaming rather than spark a major innovation race unfortunatly
