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

humbug said:
modding the BIOS removes Nvidia's voltage locking, its not that they can't do it, its that they are locked, AMD don't tend to lock, if they do, mod the BIOS.
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You can unlock GTX 680s as well and get to silly clockspeeds

The point is in an apples to apples comparison the smaller GTX 680s reach higher clocks than the Titan. This will also be the case when comparing the R9 290X to the HD 7970.

Even doing an apples to apples comparison between the Titan and GTX 780 you get an extra 70 or 80mhz out of the GTX 780, the difference between the two cards is only 2 active SMX modules.
 
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Seem the R9 290x may have raised its firestrike head.

If this si anything to go by im assuming this is stock clocks:
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HybridX said:
Seem the R9 290x may have raised its firestrike head.

If this si anything to go by im assuming this is stock clocks:
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Well, (depending on how you want to look at it) thats 1200 or ~3000 more than the AMD slides, according to that its running at 1000Mhz.
 
The AMD slide never really gave a solid number though did it? just kind of looked like it went up lol.
So its 512bit then i see. No way i would pay £700 though lol not a chance. Hopefully british prices are around £450-£550

$599-$649 (Plus for Battlefield 4 Bundle) according to that last source...I guess £500 might be a good bet then?
 
Matson said:
The AMD slide never really gave a solid number though did it? just kind of looked like it went up lol.
So its 512bit then i see. No way i would pay £700 though lol not a chance. Hopefully british prices are around £450-£550

$599-$649 (Plus for Battlefield 4 Bundle) according to that last source...I guess £500 might be a good bet then?
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True, and ~11K GPU score @ 1Ghz is good, but its still not worth £700, neither is the Titan.

If it launches for that, it will be down to £500 in weeks.
 
Seems there details all over the net about all of these cards now. That soon spread lol
I can't wait personally, Been using 2 5870 cards in crossfire for 4 years now so this should be a huge leap over that. Even more so if i lose my mind and crossfire them lol. Need details though if it would be a good idea to crossfire these on my board. I only have one 3.0 x16 slot. My second slow is 2.0 x16 ( x4bandwith )which i would think will be a huge waste with this card?
 
humbug said:
True, and ~11K GPU score @ 1Ghz is good, but its still not worth £700, neither is the Titan.

If it launches for that, it will be down to £500 in weeks.
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Don't forget the the Norwegian kronor prices will always be high they pay ridiculous tax on things like this. 40% I think a guy on our Teamspeak said
 
Matson said:
Seems there details all over the net about all of these cards now. That soon spread lol
I can't wait personally, Been using 2 5870 cards in crossfire for 4 years now so this should be a huge leap over that. Even more so if i lose my mind and crossfire them lol. Need details though if it would be a good idea to crossfire these on my board. I only have one 3.0 x16 slot. My second slow is 2.0 x16 ( x4bandwith )which i would think will be a huge waste with this card?
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x4 you might get a bottleneck in xFire, dunno...
 
How much though would it be...If its only a small % i would still probably go for 2 and just upgrade my board later on..if its a much bigger % though then id just get the 1.
 
Matson said:
Thanks for that...10% performance loss or so it seems with 1080p
Will there be a bigger drop with these cards though considering how much more powerfull they are or would it be about 10% again?
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No idea, if you can afford two of these then surely you can afford a Motherboard with two 16x PCIe lanes, upgrade.
 
Its says in the specs that this card is 4gb with a 512bit bus but in the 3d mark spec info it says 3gb. Could this be just 3d mark needs updating or is this another pinch of salt benchmark?
I'm either going to get this card (if its around the 500-550 mark) or I may just go for a gigabyte 780 at £479.99. Been waiting for the new AMD cards though so it'd be a shame not to get one.

I wonder what the price of the GTX 770Ti (GK110) might be? I bet 2 of those would be decent.
 
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