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

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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:

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
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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