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

humbug said:
It doesn't run at 95c, it runs at 70c, i think it was 50c~ in 3DMark.
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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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Looks more like 40% fan speed running Firestrike @ 93°
 
coupe69 said:
Did you miss this? link
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What of it?

AMD Radeon R9 290X Launches Tomorrow, R9 290 On 31st October

So before telling you the specifications which you might already know if you have been following us of lately, both the Radeon R9 290X and Radeon R9 290 graphic cards would be based on the Hawaii GPU. This is in-fact the only new graphics chip in the Radeon R9 and Radeon R7 series lineup which is not a rebrand or a refreshed part of the Southern Islands lineup.
AMD Radeon R9 290X “Hawaii XT”

Let’s get on with the specifications, the Radeon R9 290X is the flagship part featuring the full blown Hawaii chip with 2816 Stream Processors divided into 44 CUs (Compute Units). It has a clock speed of upto 1 GHz. Essentially, the graphic card features two clock speeds at which it operates. These are configured through the card’s Dual BIOS switch that is located right next to the place where the CrossFire bridge is located on Radeon cards. Most reference cards don’t ship with Dual BIOS support and this is probably the first flagship GPU to ship with such an option. The high stream processor and core count allows the Radeon R9 290X to deliver a compute performance of 5.6 TFlops. It features 64 Raster Operators which are twice the amount featured on the Radeon HD 7970.

In addition to the core specs, the Radeon R9 290X comes with a generous 4 GB GDDR5 memory which runs along a 512-bit interface. The clock speed for the memory is effectively maintained at 5.0 GHz that provides a bandwith of over 320 GB/s. The Radeon R9 290 Series is mainly targeted towards the Ultra High-Resolution audience who want to play the upcoming titles at 4K resolutions and beyond that since AMD were showing demo’s of Eyefinity 4K monitors running over a single Radeon R9 290X GPU. The Battlefield 4 Angry Sea gameplay was also demo’d on a single Radeon R9 290X in Eyefinity. The Radeon R9 290X features Dual-DVI, HDMI, Display ports for display capability and has a single 6 Pin and 8 Pin power connector to juice it up. The Radeon R9 290X would be available tomorrow for a price of around $649.99 US (549.99 Excluding Tax via Fudzilla)and is currently available with the Battlefield 4 bundle package that retails at Newegg for a price of $729.99.
AMD Radeon R9 290 “Hawaii Pro”

Next up we have the more cost-effective Hawaii Pro graphic card known as the AMD Radeon R9 290 (Non-X). As you might have seen, the Radeon R9 290 comes with 2560 Stream processors which means only 40 CU’s enabled on this Hawaii part. As for clock speeds, we are looking at 947 MHz max frequency which is yet again adjustable from the Dual BIOS switch. For memory, we have 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM running across a 512-bit interface that will pump out 320 GB/s bandwidth at a clock speed of 5.0 GHz.

The Radeon R9 290 will be powered with an 8+6 Pin power configuration though the picture we were provided shows dual 6-Pin connectors so either there’s something wrong with the picture or there seems to be a typo in the chart itself. The display outputs include Dual-DVI, HDMI and Display port with Eyefinity compatibility and just like its bigger brother, it is supposed to run games at 4K resolution with ease. The Radeon R9 290 would hit the market on 31st October for a price of around $499. You can have a look at the launch schedule below which is courtesy of Videocardz:
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"The Radeon R9 290 will be powered with an 8+6 Pin power configuration though the picture we were provided shows dual 6-Pin connectors so either there’s something wrong with the picture or there seems to be a typo in the chart itself"

Was wondering about this - the original AMD high-res images definitely showed 6+6 pin for the 290. (Also originally heard elsewhere - wasn't just random people on the internet - it was a dual GPU card which doesn't tie up with 6+6 pin either or the current spec of a cut down version of the high end hawaii chip (which it seems to be) so some confusion about that part somewhere heh).
 
humbug said:
What of it?
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:confused:

You've copy and pasted a load of text from the article I linked, I'm confused?

Did you even look at the screenshots? 40% fan speed running Firestrike @ 93°.

Obviously those figures should be taken with a pinch of salt until we see official results, but it wouldn't surprise me if the temps were about right.
 
coupe69 said:
:confused:

You've copy and pasted a load of text from the article I linked, I'm confused?

Did you even look at the screenshots? 40% fan speed running Firestrike @ 93°.

Obviously those figures should be taken with a pinch of salt until we see official results, but it wouldn't surprise me if the temps were about right.
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Don't know what happened there, others have it running at about 50c~ in Firestrike, its also running 69c in 3DMark11 with a 135Mhz overclock
 
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£430 the lowest, ALL HAIL AMD! TITAN KILLER FOR HALF THE PRICE! :D

Amazing job AMD, a return to sensible prices at last! :cool:

Now, 290 pro for 350 is looking possible...
 
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