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

if they aren't I'm confused

as why delay the performance reviews - I mean if the 770Ti is really coming out - I'm guessing reviewers won't already have them ?

so what benefit would there be to hold back the reviews of the AMD card ?
 
Uncle Petey said:
Nvidia telling porkies? Take it back! :mad:
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Donkey!!!

Buckster said:
I'd be amazed now if the reviews are really out tomorrow
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Fulax said:
Positive thinking, man. Positive thinking.
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Uncle Petey said:
Nvidia telling porkies? Take it back! :mad:
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Well, remember the Fermi launch? "It's here! It's here!" Cards came 6 months later after that...

To be fair though, AMD done something similar with the launch of Bulldozer as well.

Sony did the same with PS2 launch (or should I say "no launch" untils months and months later and keep banging "it's coming!"? :rolleyes:) when PS1 was outclassed as DreamCast was launched.

It's just common business practise to spread rumours to try to cripple competition's sale when companies got nothing to bring to the shelf.
 
UPDATE

Fresh news have just arrived. The launch is probably set for October 18th. We couldn’t confirm the launch date since distributors, manufacturers and reviewers have all slightly different information. So it’s either this date or a date closer to BF4 launch. Take it as you will.

Tweets from AMD Radeon and Roy Taylor accounts seem to confirm it:
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http://videocardz.com/46741/radeon-r9-290x-pictured-close

Maybe?
 
So everyone gets in a tiz because videocardz says they have concrete info that its launching end of the month and literally the next day they say October 18th, a mere 3 days after everyone (wrongly) assumed the NDA lifted thanks to an AMD slide that wasn't ever confirmed as being legit.

Great journalism
 
Cant wait to see these cards in action but I cringe everytime I see or hear big Roy. Hes like an embarrassing uncle trying to be cool by talking about "how fast those graphics are" :p
 
There is no reason for AMD to hold the launch back to see what Nvidia does, pricing can be changed in a few hours if needed and would just be seen as a price war. If you have that volume of inventory you don't park it in a warehouse paying interest on what you've invested and losing days of sales to your competitors next launch.

BF4 timings is easy too. Sell the card today with a BF4 code that gives access to the BETA and day 1 activation. Happy customer, no reason to delay the card.

The Titan launched with a Vapor cooler .....AMD seem to have Vaporware

There are a small number of reasons the card isn't out

1) Performance not that great, launch after fire sale of HD79xx has cleared stocks of old designation cards
2) Driver optimization for launch not where it needs to be. (still working on which mandatory benchmarks of favourable games at extreme res with lots of AA make it look best)
3) Inadequate inventory through poor yields (though that doesn't usually prevent a launch... Apple I'm looking at you)
4) Rework - better cooler needed as throttling to base clock doesn't provide the performance promised unless the PC is outdoors in the arctic.
5) Need to work out how much to voltage cripple the 290Pro to stop it outclocking and out performing the 290x at peak TDP

Still say these cards will need custom cooling solutions to perform. Stock blower is going to be a serious throttle handicap

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decto said:
There are a small number of reasons the card isn't out

1) Performance not that great, launch after fire sale of HD79xx has cleared stocks of old designation cards
2) Driver optimization for launch not where it needs to be. (still working on which mandatory benchmarks of favourable games at extreme res with lots of AA make it look best)
3) Inadequate inventory through poor yields (though that doesn't usually prevent a launch... Apple I'm looking at you)
4) Rework - better cooler needed as throttling to base clock doesn't provide the performance promised unless the PC is outdoors in the arctic.
5) Need to work out how much to voltage cripple the 290Pro to stop it outclocking and out performing the 290x at peak TDP

Still say these cards will need custom cooling solutions to perform. Stock blower is going to be a serious throttle handicap

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You state those reasons as if they are fact...
 
Buckster said:
why only debunk it the day or two before though ? the 15th has been touted for a long time ?
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You don't debunk everything that is made up, however fanboy hysteria has been raising exponentially coming up to a completely made up release date, hence there is more reason to comment on it now.

Lets say two weeks ago, 15th Oct was one of about 15k different guesses on various forums. The 15th is the random internet rumour made up by 52 separate people that gained traction, so now they are commenting on it.

This happens, errr, with every single release, though much more with AMD. Largely because they keep secrets a hell of a lot better than Nvidia, and well, some you get the general feeling is mud being thrown around by certain people to try and make AMD look bad.

For MOST releases of MOST hardware there are multiple NDA dates where various different bits of info get given up, because there are dates that some people have to know final clocks, there are dates the hardware needs to be sent out, there are dates reviewers need the cards by, dates for media press days with limited info that have to usually be done relatively far in advance on a suitable day. IE if you have a release in say November, mid September might be the best travel/non holiday conditions when you factor in world press attending an event.

The 15th might well be AN NDA lift, it doesn't make it THE nda that we should care about just like AMD put on a media press day, that didn't mean it was the media press day most end users actually wanted to hear.
 
So just to summarise..

1) AMD rumored for 15th NDA end / paper launch or card release.
2) Nvidia rumoured to unveil something amazing for gamers on the 16th.
3) AMD's rumored NDA end / paper launch or card release now changed to the 18th.

Is that the latest? More interested in whatever Nvidia has to show now tbh lol. Lot of fud being put out, maybe Nvidia have something decent in the pipeline..
 
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