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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory
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Roughly June 2012 to June 2013. She lived fast and died young and spanked many a 680 into oblivion.
Man of Honour
The 7970 is the king.
New king coming.
(Lion king reference)
Yea, I never been thinking like, darn that Titan score is good when it cost an arm and a leg and an eye, does that make me a Pirate btw?
The 290x seems to be tweaked and refined from the previous design and adding a 512bit mem controller might make it a really superb deal OC at suggested pricepoint below or same as the 780.
Its as far been creating a buzz unheard off with amd.
Beating a Titan has never been wrong in the greece history.
gpu score I never checked, overall score wins as the system pulls the fps.
In any way, if the indication is true, it seems to be a win for amd and the 290 pro version might be the optimal BF4 card.
Before the Titan was launched some of the figures and supposed benches for it were way over the top, like being able to match the GTX 690 - it does not even get close lol.
I was one of the few people who said the Titan would not perform anything like some of the silly claims made about it.
Until we see how the R9 290X runs and overclocks to get the full picture we have to keep an open mind.
Associate
Not sure if anyone posted the link yet, but AMD will be live-streaming their event from Hawaii.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfmM6QYWNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfmM6QYWNM
No way...
Never did run a card default settings in 10 years.
I dont look at the benchmarks as I check what can it do with OC...as if I go 290 then it be watercooled unless I wait for 20nm next year but that is likely a year away.
Associate
AMD should have called it the Olympian (the guys who defeated the Titans)
Ha, that would have been ace.
Although would leave them flat on their face, if it actually didn't
Soldato
All rumours thus far seem to be pointing towards a new single GPU performance crown.
Not sure why people keep asking why it's clocked so low...call yourselves overclockers? Seems to be a lot of speculation regarding price even though we've been given an indication...albeit I find it hard to believe given the firms history.
Not sure why people keep asking why it's clocked so low...call yourselves overclockers?
Seems to be a lot of speculation regarding price even though we've been given an indication...albeit I find it hard to believe given the firms history.
Caporegime
All rumours thus far seem to be pointing towards a new single GPU performance crown.
Not sure why people keep asking why it's clocked so low...call yourselves overclockers?
I guess you don't remember January 2012?
It wasn't until Nvidia came out with the 6XX that AMD's cards started to drop, the 7950 for example, as many forget were almost the same price as launch day 680's were.
Whereas now? AMD's 7XXX are stellar GPUs for the price and their total performance is still pretty great in comparison to their competition (If you can call stagnation and overpriced cards competition)
I want a new GPU from my current 7970, but I fear I'll be waiting a while.
I don't really want to pay more than 300 for a GPU, I've paid more a few times and haven't exactly felt all that great afterwards
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All rumours thus far seem to be pointing towards a new single GPU performance crown.
Not sure why people keep asking why it's clocked so low...call yourselves overclockers?
Clocked low to stay within TDP i reckon. I bet there is a second bios which unlocks the true power, higher voltage, bigger TDP etc. I also bet they use GDDR5 Hynix memory underclocked at 1125-1250. So i would expect a massive overclock potential on the memory.
Bad clockers 1600mhz
Average 1700mhz
Good 1800mhz
Golden 1900mhz+
My two cents.
Caporegime
I wouldn't be surprised if it had lower OC'ing potential on the core, not that it's a bad thing.
But the 69XX certainly overclocked worse than the 58XX, bigger cores etc.
But the 69XX certainly overclocked worse than the 58XX, bigger cores etc.
I guess you don't remember January 2012?
It wasn't until Nvidia came out with the 6XX that AMD's cards started to drop, the 7950 for example, as many forget were almost the same price as launch day 680's were.
Whereas now? AMD's 7XXX are stellar GPUs for the price and their total performance is still pretty great in comparison to their competition (If you can call stagnation and overpriced cards competition)
I want a new GPU from my current 7970, but I fear I'll be waiting a while.
I don't really want to pay more than 300 for a GPU, I've paid more a few times and haven't exactly felt all that great afterwards
Same. I have always set myself an upper budget of £300 for a gpu. It just so happens last month 2x new 670's fitted into that budget!
If this comes in at under £400 then I would be tempted. Unfortunately I think it will be a lot more expensive.
Soldato
Caporegime
That gif is just wrong.
I would expect similar core overclocks, give or take, to what the 7790 achieved. That as well as Hawaii was GCN1.1 or 2.0 if you prefer. Faster performance than the 7770 it replaced but at the same TDP.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/03/22/sapphire-radeon-hd-7790-1gb-review/9
Bit tech got 20% more from the 7790.
Vortex got the similar. (http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/his_hd_7790_turbo_review,22.html) So did eteknix, twice on two different 7790's. (http://www.eteknix.com/gigabyte-hd-7790-windforce-oc-2gb-graphics-card-review/17/) & (http://www.eteknix.com/club3d-hd-7790-royalking-poker-series-1gb-graphics-card-review/17/) both maxing out CCC clocks of 1200mhz.
I'd expect you'd get anywhere from 15-30% more with Hawaii.
Speculation from me obviously, but thats what my money is on.
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Caporegime
The 7790 replaced the 1GB 7850, not the 7770.
If the 7970 replacement can averagely clock to 1,200MHZ I'll be impressed, but very surprised.
The 7790 ultimately doesn't have a massive bearing, 6870's clocked better than 6970's did etc.
If the 7970 replacement can averagely clock to 1,200MHZ I'll be impressed, but very surprised.
The 7790 ultimately doesn't have a massive bearing, 6870's clocked better than 6970's did etc.
The 7790 was introduced to tackle the gap between the 7770 and the 7850. It was also a good chance for AMD to test GCN1.1-2.0.
Source
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6837/...w-feat-sapphire-the-first-desktop-sea-islands
Caporegime
Pretty sure Gibbo (Or maybe Rawz) said it was replacing the 7850 1GB.
And the 7850 1GB has all but disappeared.
There's a few reviews that mention it ;
http://www.pcgamer.com/review/sapphire-hd-7790-review/
For one.
EDIT : Some reviews have it pinned as replacement, other ones have it pinned as expanding the range.
Either way, the 7850 1GB has pretty much disappeared.
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Anand have pretty good ties with AMD so ill take their word that it was primarily designed to fill the gap in performance between the two cards i mentioned earlier, rather than replace a 1gb 7850 which it is slower than. It was also supposed to be compete with the 650TI but it ended up being a little bit slower.
Taken from your link. That's why its not supposed to replace the 7850 Martini.
