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

Gregster said:
No way I am selling my Titan. I was gutted selling the second one and have regretted it since. I will look at the Dell ones but they look a little over my budget in truth.

I started a thread here to allow this thread to stay on topic.
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I got mine for £394.99 just after xmas Greg from one of the competitors. Same monitor was £529 on OCUK
 
Just found another slide showing temps for the 290X

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Just needs some proper sauces to verify it.....
 
Yeah i want steam for dinner now ^^^^

Gregster said:
The poor GTX 480 had to deal with it, now the 290X needs to man up :D
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lol...:D

Seriously though, The difference is the 290X will not get anywhere near those temps in games, AMD just arent as aggressive in throttling Furmark, hence the temperature difference.
 
humbug said:
lol...:D

Seriously though, The difference is the 290X will not get anywhere near those temps in games, AMD just arent as aggressive in throttling Furmark, hence the temperature difference.
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I am certain we won't see those temps in games and why on earth they ran Furmark is beyond me but that isn't going to stop the banter till something official is released and man I hope that is soon. AMD are seriously dragging this out.

I know why they didn't use wood screws now....Wood burns quicker than metal :D
 
Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen folks!

TL : DR- 290X wins in games, Titan wins in synthetic benchmarks. I know which i prefer, games. What about you?


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AMD Radeon R9-290X
Hawaii based on the graphics chip in 28nm production at TSMC
~ 439mm ² chip area (+20.2% compared to 7970 GHz)
GCN Architecture 2.0 (7970 GHz: 1.0 GCN)
DirectX 11.2 (such as 7970 GHz)
4 raster engines (+100% compared to 7970 GHz)
2816 shader units aka 44 shader clusters (+37.5% compared to 7970 GHz)
176 texture units (TMUs) (+37.5% compared to 7970 GHz)
44 raster operation units (ROPs) (+37.5% compared to 7970 GHz)
512-bit DDR memory interface (up 33.3% compared to 7970 GHz)
Chip clock: 920 MHz probably base clock and 1020 MHz Turbo clock (-8% and -2.9% compared to 7970 GHz)
Memory clock: 2500 MHz probably (-16.7% compared to 7970 GHz)
maximum computing performance: 5.74 teraflops (+33.6% compared to 7970 GHz)
Memory bandwidth of 320 GB / sec (+11.1% compared to 7970 GHz)
Temperature-controlled Turbo clock - the card can not play their full performance due to limits on temperature and power consumption regularly
DualBIOS with two differing PowerTune settings - setting the second set higher limits, thus enabling better utilization of the turbo clock
Presentation: 25 September 2013
For sale: probably mid / late October 2013
Price range: expect to 599-649 Dollar List Price
The most interesting source of information for today is of course the complete test the Radeon R9-290X at DG's nerdy story , which sent the card with a reasonable number of benchmarks and thus already make a pretty good performance assessment. Somewhat in limbo is currently only whether there may be a factory overclocked card in hand had not - which given the low memory clock of 2500 MHz is rather unlikely. However, efforts have been the second of the dual BIOS settings the Radeon R9-290X at DG's nerdy story and could thus enjoy on apparently continuous chip clock 1020 MHz in Turbo mode. There remains some residual uncertainty, how this setting is covered by the warranty - but if this is the case, then this should have course be based test in virtually every hardware test the Radeon R9-29X.
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As shown in the table and the summary already, it looks according to these values ​​really good for AMD, the Radeon R9-290X is compared to the GeForce GTX titanium to not use sufficiently fast on their second BIOS setting, the term "equivalent" to, but the AMD card to award the sole victory. Due to the new hardware data is also not a big doubt that this performance is possible - with the chances of a fake are now arg small and one can probably get used to the idea that AMD seems to create in fact, nVidia to beat a much smaller chip.

However, there are still some vacant points: The clock rates are not final yet confirmed - here also arise some uncertainty how the clock rate of the testing of DG's Story Nerdy comply with the official reference clock speeds. The operation of the dual-BIOS would need more detailed explanation as yet as a confirmation of the "uneven" number of 44 ROPs would not be wrong. And ultimately, of course, more serious power consumption measurements are still needed, because of DG's nerdy story on this custom built power measurement of the total system does not seem to fit properly. Nevertheless see the signs rarely favorable for AMD from the Hawaiian chip seems pretty clear at the top of all previous (28nm-based) speculation come out.
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Also seems to indicate the 290X has a second bios with faster clocks and better overclocking?

Source
http://www.3dcenter.org/news/genaue...enchmarks-zur-hawaii-basierten-radeon-r9-290x
 
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