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

So in summary:

- No specs, pricing, benchmarks for the new R9 290/290x Hawaii cards, but AMD say they are the fastest cards they've ever made.

- full family of lower cards, (which are for the most part tweaked versions of current cards).

- Truesound DSP processor. Not a sound card replacement, but a full "soundscape" system that can take info directly from games, and do large numbers of sound layers with exact x-y-z positioning accurately downmixed even for stereo headphones or anything in between.

- improvements in power throttling, from "1 watt to 300 watts".

- Mantle, low level API, to give developers the close to the metal access they've been asking for. Free for anyone to use (even Nvidia), and offering up to 9 times the performance by circumventing DirectX's inefficiencies.
 
flopper said:
as long the game is fun ;)
and yea, I am hyped now for the sound and Mantle thing, huge gamechangers
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The game is going to be fun. No debate to be had there. What's interesting to me is the pre mantle and post mantle performance on 7950 crossfire. I expect 1440p Ultra x4AA to push my crossfire setup to the limits and i'd expect to see vram usage over 2gb as well, depending on the map. ;)

Sound less so. It does sound like a nice addition (terrible pun :p) but nothing to wet your pants about.
 
LtMatt said:
The game is going to be fun. No debate to be had there. What's interesting to me is the pre mantle and post mantle performance on 7950 crossfire. I expect 1440p Ultra x4AA to push my crossfire setup to the limits and i'd expect to see vram usage over 2gb as well, depending on the map. ;)

Sound less so. It does sound like a nice addition (terrible pun :p) but nothing to wet your pants about.
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Yea its exciting to say the least.
sound with positioning does a lot done right, the eax with win XP on Bf2 was amazing back then.
If the soundscape with BF4 is good now it will reach a whole new level with 290x then, which for me is well a really good reason to get the new card.

http://techreport.com/news/25428/dr...inity-4k-frame-pacing-issues-coming-this-fall
Although we can't yet divulge too many details, we expect Hawaii-based graphics cards to arrive with a very capable solution for CrossFire frame compositing and pacing already in place.
 
MjFrosty said:
I know, wondering if it will completely change the way we look at PC gaming. OPENGL always used to feel different compared with DX, could never put my finger on it though.
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It might, as anything new, if support happens then the avalanche can be in motion. it can also fade away but seems unlikely currently.
I as a gamer welcome the sound and more fps and less bottlenecks.
and if the amd 8core runs great with Mantle I can consider go amd with my computer fully.
 
JBod said:
Do we know if OCUK will be doing the pre-order with BF4? And if they do are we going to be hanging around waiting until after BF4 launch date to both get the game and the card?
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OcUK is AMD's no.1 UK partner on high-end graphics, so in short yes we shall be offering this special pre-order. :)
 
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