Indeed. It is clear that even AMD don't have a final confirmed price they are happy with yet.
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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory
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Indeed. It is clear that even AMD don't have a final confirmed price they are happy with yet.
Clock for clock, the 290X scored about 1000 points more than my Titan. When I put the memory at -500 and left the Core at 1000Mhz, the 290X scored 400 points more than me (this was fire strike). So a good possibility at stock, it has the edge on a Titan.
I am very curious to know how much headroom they have for overclocking. They have 780's that I can't catch in the ocn.net valley thread and I will be watching very closely at how well the 290X operforms and might have to break out some volts again if need be
That makes it 8% faster than the Titan clock for clock, it wouldn't need to clock as high, its quite a margin and don't forget: overclocking it not linear, you need to add 10% to the clocks to gain 5% performance.
Hawaii XT is a much smaller DIE than GK110, how the hell AMD manadged that must rank as the nineth wonder of the world.... it could be a good thing in terms of power consumption, giving it plenty of room, or (like with Haswell and Ivy Bridge CPU's) if the transistors are to closley packed together it might run a little warmer than Tahiti per watt, tho that can be overcome with good cooling.
Personally, i think it will trade blows with the mighty Titan once its in the users rig.
WhyCry is saying he has "2 sources" claiming it's 64 ROPs now.
http://videocardz.com/46303/amd-radeon-r9-290x-final-specifications-bf4-bundle-available-preorder
http://videocardz.com/46303/amd-radeon-r9-290x-final-specifications-bf4-bundle-available-preorder
That was an early report and could be fake, so as always....Pinch of salt.
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When are we expecting reviews on these new GPU's?
people do often see nvidia as the safer option.
regardless of if true ! there years of strong marketing have put them in this position. so yes many people are blinded by marketing and thats the whole point of marketing !
people i know now will still use nvidia first without even considering ati cards from drivers issues from ten years agojust how people are.
so yes the amd card needs to be cheaper than a 780 gtx or it will probably struggle unless a lot faster.
The gaming world is changing currently, wont be long until someone buying another brand than AMD will be rediculed for such buy.
a PC is good to use for any task today, but when we want brute force for work like videoencoding or gaming we justify a purchase due to our enjoyment of it.
if Mantle becomes the hit, well we are at least I think so with gaming since BF4 is my main game then what we percived to be wont be anymore much like VCR, floppydiscs, CD players....
AMD is about to transforming its brand image big time.
its happening right now.
Very true, agreed, but, there have been so many independent reports all saying the same thing, including retailers putting those specifications up.
It is possible to shrink a DIE without shrinking the node, it requires a complete redesign, from the drawring board and all that.
Having said that, growing the GPU by 40% while only using 15% more space would be quite an achievement.
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64 rops?
That's some increase from 44.
Yep, that is 20
Maybe they added 20 more to try and catch the dropped frames?
Runs and hides and I am only joking.
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Yep, that is 20
Remember the specs leaked yonks ago? That had 64rops and a 512bit bus. That will certainly throw a spanner in the works, if true.
Remember the specs leaked yonks ago? That had 64rops and a 512bit bus. That will certainly throw a spanner in the works, if true.
yeah...
ROP's seems to be the one thing that no one it sure of, one report had it at 40, what?
Any one that has the specs right now is probably under NDA. I guess companies who want to take pre-orders are putting something, anything on their websites to get the money in.
Anyone who knows isn't talking, and those that are talking don't know.
It would not be pointless at all, it would still be a lot faster than anything else AMD have to offer.
The 290x is going to be price at 699$ LoL
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/radeon-r9-290x-price,24529.html#xtor=RSS-998
So after etailer gouging I predict it's going to be £579 inc
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/radeon-r9-290x-price,24529.html#xtor=RSS-998
So after etailer gouging I predict it's going to be £579 inc