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

Im wondering how much of an upgrade one of these would be over 2x5870 cards...I still manage to near enough max out most games at 1080p with these so im curious if now would be the time to upgrade back to a single card.
 
Hot off the press folks.

Radeon R9 280X is Rebranded HD 7970 GHz Edition

AMD's approach to the next-generation product stack isn't structured too differently from that of NVIDIA's current.

The company is launching just one big (high-end) chip, codenamed "Hawaii," based on which it's launching the Radeon R9 290X. It's been detailed to death in our older posts.

The Radeon R9 280X, on the other hand, is we're hearing a re-badged Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. At the most, expect a slight clock speed bump, and a different reference-design board, but for the most part, it's shaping up to be identical. The approach draws parallels with the NVIDIA's lineup.

The Radeon R9 290X is expected to compete with the GeForce GTX TITAN, R9 290 with GTX 780, and R9 280X with the GTX 770.

While launch of the R9 290 series will be tightly controlled by AMD (i.e., don't expect non-reference designs for a while), the R9 280X will launch entirely by non-reference designs. The three cards will launch a little later this week.
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Source
http://www.techpowerup.com/191440/radeon-r9-280x-is-rebranded-hd-7970-ghz-edition.html
 
Hm, given the volcanoes, eruptions, lava and earthquake references in a Hawaii setting, after all this big geological imagery, it had better be something wow and not meh.

Unless of course the AMD team are going for a massive bender in Hawaii, in which case kudos - I'm lucky to get bought a pint after work these days.

cj
 
The interesting thing is, according to that article there will be a chip to compete with Titan and a different chip to compete with the 780. Now that's thrown a spanner in the works.
 
Interesting, 290X competing with Titan and 290 competing with 780GTX sounds like this shake up will be very good for the consumer :)

Also, considering this will be the second re-brand of the 7970 (7970GE being the first) I wonder if the people that slated the GTX770 for its use of the 7xx name will be as quick to bash the R9-280X?
 
LtMatt said:
Hot off the press folks.

Radeon R9 280X is Rebranded HD 7970 GHz Edition



Source
http://www.techpowerup.com/191440/radeon-r9-280x-is-rebranded-hd-7970-ghz-edition.html
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The three cards will launch a little later this week.
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Not long to wait for the cards then?

A 7970 re-stacked into a mid-range 280X is pretty good tbh, that sort of performance being classed as mid-range shows just how fast the 290X must be. I wander if their will be any power reductions or memory speed enhancements like on the 770.. 280X could be best bang for buck cards around..

R9 290X VS GTX Titan
R9 290 VS GTX 780
R9 280X VS GTX 770
 
Boomstick777 said:
Not long to wait for the cards then?

A 7970 re-stacked into a mid-range 280X is pretty good tbh, that sort of performance being classed as mid-range shows just how fast the 290X must be. I wander if their will be any power reductions or memory speed enhancements like on the 770.. 280X could be best bang for buck cards around..
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Agreed, but won't someone spare a thought for the poor old 7950? What will happen to him? :(

:D
 
Just over 4 hours to sell my GTX 780 pmsl :p

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This will be such an anti climax if the pricing is similar to Nvidias for each tier. :p

Hopefully AMD will give Nvidia a massive middle finger and price them really really well.
 
7950 will be rebadged as 280.

Also glad to hear 290 non-X (9950) will compete with 780, as I had hoped to xfire two of them but was resigned to plumping for the full 290X if need be. Now it looks like my plan of drowned 9950s will come true after all. :D

edit: in the time it took me to write that 5 people snuck replies in, I see a lot of hype and prepared bodies
 
MoRT489 said:
Forgive the question as I'm late to the party, but why is it being called the R9 290X? Is that it's official name or are we likely to see a 9970 and 9950?
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They've changed the names to match the APU names, and so as not to run into ridiculous numbers when they get to the "10" series cards next time around.
 
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Orangey said:
7950 will be rebadged as 280.

Also glad to hear 290 non-X (9950) will compete with 780, as I had hoped to xfire two of them but was resigned to plumping for the full 290X if need be. Now it looks like my plan of drowned 9950s will come true after all. :D
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Interesting choice of words. Have you been googling the term plumpers by any chance? :p
 
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