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

MOOGLEYS said:
8 cores I tell you its the way forward. :)

I'm just curious to see how an AMD system performs.
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I'm thinking the same way,it's time for a rebuild, seriously been considering a AMD cpu, it's been 10 years since I bought & used AMD cpu's.

But, I suddenly want a 8 core + 290x, got a strange feeling there going to be a few surprises with regards to the overall performance.
 
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Wouldn't really be calling that an upgrade moogleys.

If I was wanting to shift to AMD, I'd at least wait until whatever successor of Piledriver becomes a known quantity.

As there's a decent chance it's not coming to AM3+.

If it ends up half decent, I'm wanting to jump to it.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
8 cores I tell you its the way forward. :)

I'm just curious to see how an AMD system performs.
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I have the best of both worlds, after upgrading my main PC to Haswell, I had the urge to upgrade my second PC to the AMD FX-8320. This was three months ago and still haven't had the time to benchmark it against my i5 4670:(

So if I get the R9 290 (as the 290x may be too expensive) I might run it along side the 8320 instead of the 4670.
 
The upgrade bit was a joke I know it won't be as quick in synthetic benchmarks but I'm not too woried. I have not used an AMD cpu in years so just wanted to build a system using one to have a play about. I have no need for a 4770k or even a 4670k really. I play a bit of Battlefield and the X games which I'm sure the 8350 will be fine with. I only run 60hz 1080p now so it should be plenty.

I will now be ordering a pair of 290 cards for a build so I can try them on the AMD setup and see how they perform.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
The upgrade bit was a joke I know it won't be as quick in synthetic benchmarks but I'm not too woried. I have not used an AMD cpu in years so just wanted to build a system using one to have a play about. I have no need for a 4770k or even a 4670k really. I play a bit of Battlefield and the X games which I'm sure the 8350 will be fine with. I only run 60hz 1080p now so it should be plenty.

I will now be ordering a pair of 290 cards for a build so I can try them on the AMD setup and see how they perform.
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if you did a double blind study most wouldnt even be able to tell the systems apart.
I find that amd is doing things right here, gaming is a huge pool of people and having software that runs great with their cpu/gpu combo is a good way to do it.
since I play BF series mainly and BF4 seems to hold me up for 2+ years and besides, you can have a gaming system for good use of your money vs Intel.

I consider an amd system since I am a junkie for hardware that offers superb price/performance ratio. Mantle will be the deciding factor
 
What is the difference between the cards that will show up on launch and those that Gibbo says will appear around 6 weeks later? I assume we'll be able to get non reference coolers from the launch day, so what else will they change in 6 weeks?
 
benjii said:
What is the difference between the cards that will show up on launch and those that Gibbo says will appear around 6 weeks later? I assume we'll be able to get non reference coolers from the launch day, so what else will they change in 6 weeks?
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I believe its reference coolers only at launch and 4-6 weeks for non reference to show up.
 
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