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

[Silent_Scone]

Seeing some early bench results in the 3DMark threads, it does look like these cards will be the faster or possibly equal to Titans/780's however, on saying that, they do look like they need water to do that and a fair chunk of voltage but custom cards could be the telling point. I can see a binned chip on a Lightning under water beating out a Titan with little effort.

For the consumers, this is great news and AMD fans have a top top card at a fair price and the Nvidia fans have a top top card at a fair price, so win win for the consumer.

It's a piece of pee to get a reference 290X quicker than a Titan (on air obviously) on the reference cooler. If you're comparing apples to apples it's quicker more often than not! It's an awesome card

 

[shadow_boxer]

MjF how come your selling/returning yours?

 

[MooMoo444]

MjF how come your selling/returning yours?

He said in the thread, he only bought it out of curiosity for what it could do.

 

[Silent_Scone]

Nothing else other than I like impulse buying and playing with new trinkets . Curiosity got the better of me after all the run up to this card and I wanted to see what it offered.

It's not worth selling up 3 Titans for the sake of a few frames and benchmark scores! They've served me well enough for almost a year and they're amazing cards regardless of the limbs sold to purchase them.

Saying that I may sell up for the Ti lol.

 

[Suarez7]

If I had 3 TITANS I wouldn't of touched anything till 20nm. It's nice playing with new toys but it's also a faff on if you're not intending to keep them.

 

[MooMoo444]

If I had 3 TITANS I'd be forever looking at that 4th slot being empty

 

[whyscotty]

If I had 3 TITANS I wouldn't of touched anything till 20nm. It's nice playing with new toys but it's also a faff on if you're not intending to keep them.

Agreed

 

[Silent_Scone]

If I didn't like faffing I'd be twiddling my thumbs waiting for a PS4

 

[Rroff]

5) Gibbo did a 1225mhz OC on the 290x using reference cooler model.. thats bloody 50% OC over stock speeds and nowhere should that be counted as "bad".

You can't really go comparing against the base clock like that though... or it makes the 780s and Titans look like overclocking gods (which they aren't though they do clock well).

 

[mrozik]

I have 560ti, i loved Nvidia cause of drivers but i want to try something new so I'm going for 2 R290X it's totally up to you guys Gtx 780 and R290X are amazing cards that will run anything on MAX

Also i'm looking into Crossfire so 4GB instead of 3 is always 1GB more for games in 2014-15 ! and i was really interested in Mantle so that's another reason!

Nvidia <3
AMD <3