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

Thought it was quite telling that they said "OUR fastest GPU" when referring to the 290x.

Doesnt sound like they are confident it is a Titan beater. It will, i have no doubt, offer much better price/performance over Titan though unless Nvidia reduce prices a lot.

Shame no more info was, given than what we pretty much knew previously.

When do the pre-orders go live? Surely that will be soon and then we will know the price.
 
Jono8 said:
Thought it was quite telling that they said "OUR fastest GPU" when referring to the 290x.

Doesnt sound like they are confident it is a Titan beater. It will, i have no doubt, offer much better price/performance over Titan though unless Nvidia reduce prices a lot.
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well with Mantle and Bf4 they state it will run circles around Titan.
I expect a 40% or such performance gap there.
 
flopper said:
well with Mantle and Bf4 they state it will run circles around Titan.
I expect a 40% or such performance gap there.
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I'm all for mantle but that quote sounds almost like its been made up. I think we need a grain of salt with that tbh until we see performance. However its obviously going to give some advantage.
 
With support for multi-display options on Ultra HD displays with support for resolutions up to 3840x2160 including support for non-tiled 2160p60 displays, will see more 4k monitors appearing sooner than expected, the only glitch will be the cost of them.
 
LtMatt said:
I'm all for mantle but that quote sounds almost like its been made up. I think we need a grain of salt with that tbh until we see performance. However its obviously going to give some advantage.
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AMD Product Manager Devon Nekechuck
he stated, “with Battlefield 4 running with Mantel (AMD’s new graphics API), the card will be able to ‘ridicule’ the Titan in terms of performance.”
http://www.maximumpc.com/amd_r9_290x_will_be_much_faster_titan_battlefield_4

Now if that means, 10%, 10fps or 20, I dont know, I view this from the 2018 statement and 3 generations of hardware progress with 9x drawcalls better I expect 40% would be in the ballpark with the 290.
 
flopper said:
AMD Product Manager Devon Nekechuck
he stated, “with Battlefield 4 running with Mantel (AMD’s new graphics API), the card will be able to ‘ridicule’ the Titan in terms of performance.”
http://www.maximumpc.com/amd_r9_290x_will_be_much_faster_titan_battlefield_4

Now if that means, 10%, 10fps or 20, I dont know, I view this from the 2018 statement and 3 generations of hardware progress with 9x drawcalls better I expect 40% would be in the ballpark with the 290.
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Sounds too good to be true. Also wouldn't surprise me if he had been misquoted. Nonetheless, interesting times ahead.
 
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