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

oldestgregg said:
Anyone notice there is no crossfire connections on the card in the pics?
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From Techspot's page:

Perhaps most interesting, though, is the lack of a CrossFire port a long the top of the card. Speculation at the event is that AMD will be using PCI Express 3.0 for connectivity between two GPUs, ditching their proprietary connector that added extra bandwidth. PCIe 3.0 is found already in many modern motherboards, and it supports 120 GT/s (15.8 GB/s) transfers in each direction through a 16x slot, compared to 80 GT/s (8 GB/s) through PCIe 2.0. This extra bandwidth should allow it to ditch the connector at the top, instead pushing the necessary frame information through PCIe 3.0.
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03:33PM EDT - AMD is very interested in seeing how many people tune in for the live webcast. They've told us that they don't have any real idea on how many people to expect since they've never done this before. So far they're up to 13.5K

Just before it went down it was at 17k+
 
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