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AMD Radeon R9 290X Flagship Volcanic Islands GPU Official – Reclaims The.......

The Only Beardy said:
I understand that the Titan is the single GPU card to beat... but how does it compare to the 780? as it will be a similarly priced card...?

also... i know the R9 290x is the upgrade to the 7970, but what is the step down? which card is the upgrade to the 7950?
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Its probably not going to beat the GTX Titan, but get fairly close, it should be around or just past the GTX 780 and be ~£50 cheaper.

The 7970 is the next one up from the 7950, but there isn't much in it, if you already have a 7950 i wouldn't bother, wait for the new GPU's, there might be an Hawaii GPU in-between the 7970 and R9 290X (R9 290?)
 
On the turbo clocks of 1000+ this card has to be somewhere in the region of 30% faster than a 7970. In all the important area's the card is getting a 40% upgrade which won't relate to 40% increases but i would say 30% in performance ain't gonna be far off. That's right in titan territory.

We don't know if amd has added any efficiency changes into the core so the specs are a little meaningless when comparing to the 7970. The 7790 card would suggest amd have added changes which add performance to there designs.
 
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If it only slightly beats a 780 or matches a Titan then that can be considered quite a fail given its been almost 2 years since 7xxx. That is unless its price sub £400 :D
 
se_vietboi said:
If it only slightly beats a 780 or matches a Titan then that can be considered quite a fail given its been almost 2 years since 7xxx. That is unless its price sub £400 :D
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Gibbo said it only beats a 780 in some games and will be priced similarly so you're looking at £500 I'd say, maybe £550 for the good custom models.
 
Very nice, cool stuff from amd, although i think it's the drivers that are more important, i mean, you can stick a solid gold shrouder on a GPU but what use is that unless the driver sets are up to speed and performing at optimum effeciency, can't wait to see users take the new gpu for a spin and report back their findings.
 
I think this will end up another situation of semi like titan, low stock clocks, great overclocks because they are trying to keep "stock" TDP in check because people will randomly complain about something that doesn't matter.

Take a 800-900Mhz stock clock with minor turbo boost say average 250W TDP card, put it at 1200mhz and drool. Still wouldn't buy one at a silly price, probably won't buy one at all. I'd like a boost but meh, I'm looking more for generational boost not refresh boost. Mantle might make for a nice boost come december and ever improving drivers and console tie in/gaming evolved program improving over the next year due to consoles coming out. Or more to the point, £500 now or £300-350 in a few months I'm quite happy to wait and see how the cards go. Absolutely no desperation to spend a load of money on a relatively small bump in performance. I think it's going to be better than people are now thinking, and launch pricing always sucks thanks to retailers and all the people who don't know what the word patience or common sense means. While there are people that will pay any price asked, retailers will continue to ask for higher prices.... not rocket science. When the idiots run out, sales slow and prices drop, that's when to buy.
 
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Its all going to be down to price with this, if it comes in significantly cheaper and matches or beats the 780 then it'll be a good purchase.
 
So the Radeon R9 290X is the entry level volcanic islands GPU? Do we know when the higher end cards are coming out?

edit: wait I miss read the quote, so are new cards coming out next year or is this it?
 
Sorry, I'm pretty tired so I'm not making myself clear :P

Let me rephrase, are better cards than the Radeon R9 290X coming out next year? As in Q1 etc or should I just go and sell my 7970 for an Radeon R9 290X :)
 
Frenzy said:
Sorry, I'm pretty tired so I'm not making myself clear :P

Let me rephrase, are better cards than the Radeon R9 290X coming out next year? As in Q1 etc or should I just go and sell my 7970 for an Radeon R9 290X :)
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There's always something better on the Horizon. If you always waited for it you would never buy anything.

But nothing has officially been announced other than Nvidia roadmap stuff about Maxwell.

Is your 7970 performing particularly poorly then? Do you need to upgrade?
 
Frenzy said:
Sorry, I'm pretty tired so I'm not making myself clear :P

Let me rephrase, are better cards than the Radeon R9 290X coming out next year? As in Q1 etc or should I just go and sell my 7970 for an Radeon R9 290X :)
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20nm from Nvidia has been touted for Q1 of next year (maxwell) but I think with 20nm in short supply, the earliest we will see is Q2 or even Q3 of next year for both Nvidia and AMD.

I am possibly wrong and Nvidia are on track for Q1 but that's a gamble of buying and waiting.
 
Gregster said:
20nm from Nvidia has been touted for Q1 of next year (maxwell) but I think with 20nm in short supply, the earliest we will see is Q2 or even Q3 of next year for both Nvidia and AMD.

I am possibly wrong and Nvidia are on track for Q1 but that's a gamble of buying and waiting.
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Even if everything goes swimmingly, March is the best you could hope for really. What complicates things is TSMC only has 1 process for all of 20nm, so GPUs are having to compete with other chips for fab time.
 
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