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

I can almost guarantee Matt has cans of Red Bull (aka heart failure) lined up doing an all nighter for this.

I'll poke him when I get up for work and see if he's wired / pumped for this.
 
drunkenmaster said:
jesus, it's a new chip, it's pretty much the only chip designed for a gpu since the ones two years ago. GK110 was being made 2 years ago as was the 7970 and everything else we've seen. Chips get designed for different targets. It may have been designed to run higher temp, different transistors, or simply be happy and safe running at 95c thus it runs with a slower fan setting and higher temps.

95C is "hot" for a 7970, that doesn't mean it's "hot" for a 290x. What temps other cards run at are literally completely irrelevant.

It might overclock fine and stay at 95C with slightly higher fan noise. It might run hot because it's big, fast and it will be very noisy, either is possible.
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Well unless they have developed a new BGA with something more flexible than the normal lead free solder that's way to hot to be reliable.
Heat is Electronics no1 enemy it degrades it, destabilise it and ultimately destroys it.... can't believe you post something like this :rolleyes:
 
Jakus said:
Well unless they have developed a new BGA with something more flexible than the normal lead free solder that's way to hot to be reliable.
Heat is Electronics no1 enemy it degrades it, destabilise it and ultimately destroys it.... can't believe you post something like this :rolleyes:
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I think someones hacked DM's account; he's made some pretty odd comments about gsync just being a couple of lines of code as well

:D
 
You can turn it around and say 95 degrees in furmark with only 20% fan speed is pretty darn impressive when on air.. Show me a reference stock cooled 780 that can do that without throttling while keeping fanspeed at 20%.
 
Phixsator said:
You can turn it around and say 95 degrees in furmark with only 20% fan speed is pretty darn impressive when on air.. Show me a reference stock cooled 780 that can do that without throttling while keeping fanspeed at 20%.
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I reckon if I drained the oil out of my car I could drive about 50 miles :confused:
 
There is a post in here or another thread somewhere of a GTX 780 owner running 95c in Furmark.

The simple fact it Furmark will heat up the GPU far more than any game or bench. 'any GPU'

In the same review? this nonsense people who ought to know better keep banging on about came from they had it running 70c In Metro 2033 and just over 50c in 3Dmark, those are decent to good real life temperatures.
 
Sorry to be a downer for people wanting £420 prices but I don't see this being much cheaper than a 780 if it trades blows with a titan at stock.

We've all seen the price gouging going on with recent releases too so I wouldn't be surprised if the price actually got higher to then be able to charge even more for the 290. Hope I'm wrong though.
 
RanxZy said:
Sorry to be a downer for people wanting £420 prices but I don't see this being much cheaper than a 780 if it trades blows with a titan at stock.

We've all seen the price gouging going on with recent releases too so I wouldn't be surprised if the price actually got higher to then be able to charge even more for the 290. Hope I'm wrong though.
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I would agree, AMD would like to charge as much as they can for it, the problem for 'them' is, they can't, AMD just don't have Nvidia's following, the brand recognition. so they have to charge less, even if its better.
 
Phixsator said:
You can turn it around and say 95 degrees in furmark with only 20% fan speed is pretty darn impressive when on air.. Show me a reference stock cooled 780 that can do that without throttling while keeping fanspeed at 20%.
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95 degrees was the max temp in that picture. 20% fan speed was just what it was doing at that time, not maximum. Look at it again. GPU load is 2% and look at the memory clock....
 
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