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

[LtMatt]

Might be, likely for the event.
BF4 with the 290 series make sense but we find soon out what its about

AMD teases Crossfire, Eyefinity and Linux driver improvements
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/09/25/amd-teases-crossfire-eyefinity-and-linux-dr/1

I'd love it they added another 5-25% to 7950 crossfire performance. Wishful thinking though i expect.

 

[LtMatt]

That's probably what Nvidia's announcement is tbh.

 

[LtMatt]

I assume its some hardware improvement for crossfire.
more to do with fcat than fps.

I know but we can still hope.

 

[LtMatt]

I can't think of many decent OpenGL games. I'm sure there are some but i can't recall any apart from the Left 4 Dead series. Someone name a few that im missing.

 

[LtMatt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_programs

Yikes. All the good games are on Direct3D then.

Rage ? I think was OpenGL.

Else I remember a LOT of good old OpenGL games...Quake 3, Quake 4, RTCW, MOHAA, Serious Sam, COD, Devastation, Prey etc.

MOHAA was a great game, 15 years ago.

Rage was an abomination.

 

[LtMatt]

Only being "good" and being from a developer known for "great" doesn't really make something an abomination so I don't get why people **** it off so much, okay it wasn't the legend that Doom/Quake became but it was still a good/fun game and well worth the asking price, great graphics, an okay story and the vehicle and card game bits were fun. It could have been longer but for what it was it was good, it's just Boarderlands was better lol.

Doom 3 was great. Rage was dog poo.

 

[LtMatt]

Yup and I replayed MOHAA, Breakthrough, Spearhead again about 2months ago still great games... a true statement of that gameplay still makes games memorable and not the graphics

Aye spent many an hour playing the online side of MOHAA. I loved the way you could taunt and use voices. That was so much fun. I was the guy that spammed them all game. "Come back when you've had some target practice".

"I've seen french school girls shoot better".

Shame the various allies voices don't exist any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZRQHkdciA

Thanks

Matt is already pestering me to post benchmarks on here. It's like I was never away.

No you can just send them to my email.

 

[LtMatt]

Changed your mind yet Broomstick? I thought you would have folded by now and had your card up on the MM.

 

[LtMatt]

Wow talk about a teaser screenshot. ^^

 

[LtMatt]

I just noticed he called you Broomstick, maha....

Nice observation bumhug.

I've been calling him Broomstick for ages.

Lol bumhug. That's up there with Mankini.

 

[LtMatt]

I had one lined up for you, rhymes with Matt but I don't want another suspension

 

[LtMatt]

^^ Yeah we need to see prices, performance, I think between TTL, Linus and Elric you get a pretty good overview. Those reviews could be ages away though? Or will reviews go live before the actual product launch?

That's the good thing about Linus reviews, always overclocks. Generally shows AMD cards in a good light on his reviews because of this. Will it be the same this time?

 

[LtMatt]

^^ No idea, 780 overclocks like a boss. The 290X could come heavy clocked with less headroom, no need to swap if that's the case, still for new buyers, the extra vram and being labelled as a Titan killer would prob be enough to sway people to the red team. Hopefully at the very least it will make Nvidia lower prices.

Anybody know if reviews will go live tonight? Or just AMD slides?

Linus only does what he deems reasonable overclocks that everyone should be able to achieve. For example he only overclocked his 7970 to 1100/1575. That's only a 50mhz bump on the core and 75mhz on the memory, same with his 7950. That was enough for the 7970 to beat the 770 is all of his benches apart from 1 i think and it allowed the 7950 to beat the 760 in every test rather convincingly.

Point is, i wouldn't expect massive overclocks. But still its better than nothing i suppose.

 

[LtMatt]

Ltmatt can you put the link to the webcast in the opening post so we don't have to go looking for it?

Yes Bru will do.

Here it is, will add it to the OP now.

http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-eventDetails&EventId=5024687

CF7970 GHZ to 290X worth it? Shall wait and see.....

Doubt it.

Probably more of a case that very few people actually have cards yet.

This.

 

[LtMatt]

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.

Source
http://www.techpowerup.com/191440/radeon-r9-280x-is-rebranded-hd-7970-ghz-edition.html

 

[LtMatt]

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.

 

[LtMatt]

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..

Agreed, but won't someone spare a thought for the poor old 7950? What will happen to him?

 

[LtMatt]

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.

Interesting choice of words. Have you been googling the term plumpers by any chance?

 

[LtMatt]

Gibbo is in this section making a thread/post.

 

[LtMatt]

Noticed some of the chat on that webcast thing, people are saying that Nvidia will still be better because of 'Titan' and 'Titan Ultra', don't they realize that cost is also a factor? When priced twice the cost of a normal GPU it becomes irrelevant?

Jeezus I do worry about people's thinking capacity sometimes .

If 290X can come close to Titan but costs half the money than AMD did alright, if it beats the Titan and costs less or similar to GTX 780 than what more can we ask of AMD?

I think people expect to much at launch lol.

You called it right.

Thing is you will never please some people. People will defend their gpu/purchase decision regardless.