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

November 2013...:D

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At this rate the 290x is going to have a very short shelf life if Nvidia release Maxwell/20nm by the middle of 2014 as rumoured....

£500-£600 is a lot of money for something that will almost definitely be obsolete from anywhere between 6 to 12 months time.
 
Or shorter if Nvidia are really planning on releasing fully unlocked card based on an already ageing architecture :D...(although frankly I don't think it will see the light of day)

Just putting it into perspective lol. I really hope the 290X has a clear edge over the Titan, but they're really not helping themselves by trying so hard to keep Nvidia in the smoke.
 
Jono8 said:
At this rate the 290x is going to have a very short shelf life if Nvidia release Maxwell/20nm by the middle of 2014 as rumoured....

£500-£600 is a lot of money for something that will almost definitely be obsolete from anywhere between 6 to 12 months time.
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Something newer coming out doesn't suddenly make things obsolete!

My AMD 6870 is still going strong 3 years on. Plays BF4 at 1080p on high settings at nice framerates.
 
Jono8 said:
£500-£600 is a lot of money for something that will almost definitely be obsolete from anywhere between 6 to 12 months time.
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Obsolete ? i highly doubt it , thats a ridiculous statement to make , thats a bit like saying that sandy was made obsolete by ivy and ivy obsolete by haswel.
 
Jono8 said:
At this rate the 290x is going to have a very short shelf life if Nvidia release Maxwell/20nm by the middle of 2014 as rumoured....

£500-£600 is a lot of money for something that will almost definitely be obsolete from anywhere between 6 to 12 months time.
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Maxwell may well come out mid 2014... but it won't be a 550mm2 part, it will be a 300-350mm2 part at most I would think much like this gen. Nvidia has made a 500mm2+ part every gen for quite a while now, each and every time they've had yield problems, worse each generation on each new process. With the 280 they just had an expensive part with lower yields and a smallish delay, with the 480gtx they were 6-8 months late, hot and awful yields, with Titan... they bumped the midrange up to top end and delivered their high end part stupidly late due to massive yield problems.

There isn't a chance of a "Titan" style part for Maxwell till most likely well into 2015.. in fact we might not see one at all because 16nm is coming so soon after 20nm(because it's mostly the same equipment which isn't the case for most "shrinks" and because a lot of it is still 20nm). In other words if you go from one process to the next with the same die size you might get a 70-80% performance bump. So we might see 70-80% up from the 680gtx on 20nm, but NOT from Titan, not for a very very long time.

If a R290x matches or beats Titan, then a Maxwell 680gtx replacement isn't going to be coming close to doubling it's performance.

likewise AMD wouldn't go with a 430mm2 card to start with either(most likely, though 430mm2 would have significantly higher yields than something >500mm2). When you add Mantle, if you gain even 20% performance in Bf4, a next gen 680gtx sized replacement could struggle to be noticeably faster than a R290x.
 
VincentHanna said:
Yes, it's fine.

High settings don't enable any MSAA, it's all post-processing effects.

I have a Haswell i7 4770k @ 4.5Ghz and Windows 8 so am hugely GPU limited at the moment.
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I'm in the same boat,

Got my 4770k @4.6 on windows 8, but i too am gpu limited by my 6950, still plays bf4 fine on ultra with no aa. about 50fps average with drops to 30 in intense sections.

Really want a new card to let it breath though and the wait is killing me.
I think if we still don't know anything by friday i'll be buying 2 of the 280X toxics.
 
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