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

Boomstick777 · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:39

Suarez7 · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:41

Uber mode

How many modes does it have?

benjii · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:41

Boomstick777 said:
From OC.NET. 'Alatar'.

Titan wins in: Metro, bioshock, far cry 3 and crysis 3

290X wins: hitman, tomb raider, max payne 3, dirt, BF3 and skyrim.

Oh how I hope the price is good.

Suarez7 said:
Uber mode

How many modes does it have?

Two, quiet and uber. I believe I saw somewhere they're toggled by a switch on the board.

Boomstick777 · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:44

You can almost guarantee that the GTX 780ti won't just be a higher clocked 780 now. Extra cores are going to be needed to put some distance between it and the 290X. This is why competition is good.

Silent_Scone · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:45

Oops, don't think they were supposed to get posted

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benjii · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:47

Boomstick777 said:
You can almost guarantee that the GTX 780ti won't just be a higher clocked 780 now. Extra cores are going to be needed to put some distance between it and the 290X. This is why competition is good.

Indeed. I think the 780ti could be the Titan ultra people were assuming was coming.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:49

Some more tests from a Polish review website:

http://www.purepc.pl/karty_graficzne/aloha_testy_nieznanej_karty_graficznej_od_nieznanej_firmy

VincentHanna · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:50

Boomstick777 said:

Does it mention what the actual system was?

That means it might even run in my proposed Mini ITX build using the Ncase M1 and Silverstone 450w SFX PSU.

Frenzy · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:52

Boomstick777 said:
You can almost guarantee that the GTX 780ti won't just be a higher clocked 780 now. Extra cores are going to be needed to put some distance between it and the 290X. This is why competition is good.

When do you think we'll get some proper info on the 780ti? (prices/benches) After the 290x release?

Monster · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:53

Results are looking good but no results there for noise or temperature!

Still thinking the standard 290 could be the big winner in terms of price performance, especially if the crossfire scaling works well.

Silent_Scone · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:53

Most sites seem to think there will be info and reviews at some point this week for the 780Ti.

Marine-RX179 · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:55

MrMarvelous said:
You never know. if it's as good as AMD are making it out to be then it could eventually phase out DirectX.

May be, but I seriously doubt it is something that would happen in the near future.

From my understanding, the whole situation with directx and Mantle is that more like directx is the "motorway", whereas Mantle is like the "motorway tolls"

Frenzy · 21 Oct 2013 at 14:56

I hope that's the case, I don't want to end up with buyers remorse.

Boomstick777 · 21 Oct 2013 at 15:02

Frenzy said:
When do you think we'll get some proper info on the 780ti? (prices/benches) After the 290x release?

Nobody knows at this point, I think Nvidia said cards would be available mid November? So wouldn't be surprised to see more info being leaked when the 290X goes on sale, just to mess with AMD.

ICDP · 21 Oct 2013 at 15:04

Boomstick777 said:
You can almost guarantee that the GTX 780ti won't just be a higher clocked 780 now. Extra cores are going to be needed to put some distance between it and the 290X. This is why competition is good.

Not if the only intention behind anouncing GTX 780Ti was to introduce an element of doubt into potential buyers minds. Nvidia said GTX780Ti was the fastest graphics card they produced (paraphrasing). If Nvidia simply bump reference GTX780 to 1Ghz core/1100 boost and calll it 780Ti it will make that statement true.

Suarez7 · 21 Oct 2013 at 15:09

I said it the other day, every card nvidia has released with ti added to the name it's had more cores I believe. Not that it will make that big of a difference, 780's, TITAN's, 290x are all going to be very close to the point you couldn't tell the difference if you had them running on 3 seperate screens I bet.

Cost is the issue for most, then features and what not.

LtMatt · 21 Oct 2013 at 15:12

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Here is the review:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1435824/hardware-info-r9-290x-review

Oh crap a 290x overclocked is going to be faster than my 7950 crossfire setup.

Marine-RX179 · 21 Oct 2013 at 15:15

ICDP said:
Not if the only intention behind anouncing GTX 780Ti was to introduce an element of doubt into potential buyers minds. Nvidia said GTX780Ti was the fastest graphics card they produced (paraphrasing). If Nvidia simply bump reference GTX780 to 1Ghz core/1100 boost and calll it 780Ti it will make that statement true.

If that is the case, it would be like 8800GTX vs 8800Ultra all over again

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 21 Oct 2013 at 15:21

LtMatt said:
Oh crap a 290x overclocked is going to be faster than my 7950 crossfire setup.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Some more tests from a Polish review website:

http://www.purepc.pl/karty_graficzne/aloha_testy_nieznanej_karty_graficznej_od_nieznanej_firmy

Don't forget the other set of leaked results too!!

Edit!!

Those have vanished too.

Here they are:

http://videocardz.com/47106/amd-radeon-r9-290x-review-charts-leak

Silent_Scone · 21 Oct 2013 at 15:24

I can't see the 780Ti being any better than the 290X in all honesty but it depends if Nvidia decide it's worth taking a hit on these cards for the sake of appearances (e.g more CUDA cores with some decent clocks)
From those leaks the 290X looks like a fair powerhouse.