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

Suarez7 said:
I think Drunkenmaster should start his own youtube channel, he's obviously so knowledgeable and writes review long posts every time he'd surely make more than that guy bringing in thousands every week right?
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Well i far more enjoy his posts more than the others babbling on this thread to be honest.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Yeah I really don't know, the point being made is the guy in the video is taking the position that AMD have marketed (with all their NDA's) the 290x as a Titan killer than labelled it disappointing as a result.

If the card is or isn't a Titan killer isn't the question at all, it's that AMD have never come close to suggesting it or calling it such. It's making up a hyperbolic view of it, just so you can call it disappointing.

It's like if someone wanted to be down on I dunno, Messi scoring 90 odd goals last year, someone could say "but he said he'd score 120, so 90's a bit crap", which IF Messi said that, would be fine, if not, is just a lie to try and make the 90 itself seem worse by comparison. That is what happened in the review, he literally lied about what AMD have said about the card to infer it's worse than everyone expects.
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Its a good job i didn't watch it, i may have thrown up :D
 
Titan killer or not, I do think Nvidia squeezing in a car between the 780GTX & the Titan is just plain crazy. If its > than the Titan price then fine Ill understand that.

But I cant help but think, if from what i have read that an MSI Lighting 780GTX *can* beat a Titan what is the point of the 780TI and where does it fit in?

And I have never heard or seen any word from AMD that the R290X is a Titan Killer.
 
Let me put this titan killer rubbish to bed once and for all.

You’re holding a press event in the near future to discuss your next-generation Radeon series, but what can you tell me right now?
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“They’re coming in Q4. I can’t reveal a price point but we’re looking at more traditional enthusiast GPU price points. We’re not targeting a $999 single GPU solution like our competition because we believe not a lot of people have that $999. We normally address what we call the ultra-enthusiast segment with a dual-GPU offering like the 7990. So this next-generation line is targeting more of the enthusiast market versus the ultra-enthusiast one.

“It’s also extremely efficient. [Nvidia's Kepler] GK110 is nearly 30% bigger from a die size point of view. We believe we have the best performance for the die size for the enthusiast GPU.

“Another thing I can tell you is about the process node: this GPU is in 28nm. Some have speculated that it was 20nm and it’s not for a specific reason: At 28nm for an enthusiast GPU, we can achieve higher clock speeds and higher absolute performance.”
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Sauce
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...eon-cards-next-gen-consoles-7990-criticism/2/
 
To be clear: if you're talking about a card "killing" another then it's nothing to do with price. Otherwise the 7950 kills any card :D.

Titan killer means it has to be above 10-15% faster, stock vs stock. If it isn't it isn't a Titan killed. It's on par. Nobody other than forum argumentative people care about 5% here or there in the grand scheme of things. Sure we can talk about the card being faster if it's 5% faster but it's not a "killer".

In fact that whole term is rank.

And on a separate note, what on earth happened with the deleted posts?
 
Rusty0611 said:
To be clear: if you're talking about a card "killing" another then it's nothing to do with price. Otherwise the 7950 kills any card :D.

Titan killer means it has to be above 10-15% faster, stock vs stock. If it isn't it isn't a Titan killed. It's on par.
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Well it's all subjective now the leaked benchmarks are out, it's all about price now, heck if the cooler looked better some would label it a killer. It's all good though, provides the usual lulz.
 
LtMatt said:
Let me put this titan killer rubbish to bed once and for all.





Sauce
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...eon-cards-next-gen-consoles-7990-criticism/2/
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Thanks. I was going to look for that quote. It's been the name of the game all along to tackle the 780 GTX. The crew at AMDs Montreal event also clarified the same thing to press.

The only person who has compared it to the Titan is AMD Roy, who for all intensive purposes comes across as one big wind up merchant :D.

Although you wouldn't be doing your job right if you were playing things down :D
 
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