Are new full fat Hawaii XT cards on the way ?

[Orangey]

I'm pretty sure Nvidia aren't the only ones "milking" in this industry, I hate that term anyway. It's just business, if a company can produce several products for a relatively low cost from the "same line" that lots of people will buy then of course they will profit from it and continue to do so. And who can blame them really? They aren't charities...

All their PR shouts about pushing tech forward, innovation blah blah blah.

 

[pgi947]

So this will be amd's take on the 780ti/titan black? More of 'this is what you could have had'. I wonder how much of that 5-10% comes from being full fat and how much comes from a core clock increase

Oh well, it may cause some price drops right down the line

 

[Marine-RX179]

Typical Nvidia AMD, releasing the high-mid range part as the high end part and then releasing the proper high end part later... pfft bloody Nvidia AMD!

Yea yes...because the 290 series has only 256-bit memory bus and stingy 2GB of vram are being sold at flagship price and the GPUs are small and cheap to make

 

[ICDP]

It will be interesting to see what AMD have in store. I wonder if they will CF with current R9 290/X cards.

 

[JediFragger]

Then Nvidia releases the Titan Z Black for $3999.99

BOOM!! Game over

 

[bru]

Yea yes...because the 7900 series has only 384-bit memory bus and stingy 3GB of vram are being sold at flagship price and the GPUs are small and cheap to make

There you go fixed that for you


And before anyone starts to argue that this isn't the case, this was a humorous comment nothing to be taken too seriously.

 

[pgi947]

It will be interesting to see what AMD have in store. I wonder if they will CF with current R9 290/X cards.

I would expect so, amd cards tend to crossfire based on architecture rather then model number, so should pair up no problem with current 290, 290x & 295x

 

[LtMatt]

Well it won't take much for a 290XT to be faster than a 780TI,Titan black, so will be interesting to see where this goes. Spare a thought for Broomstick though, he just bought a titan black which will no doubt be on the MM soon.

 

[snips86x]

Well it won't take much for a 290XT to be faster than a 780TI,Titan black, so will be interesting to see where this goes. Spare a thought for Broomstick though, he just bought a titan black which will no doubt be on the MM soon.

Oh dear!!!

 

[Rusty0611]

I never understand why he chops and changes so much. How does one improve upon 1440p 60 FPS max settings?

 

[LtMatt]

I never understand why he chops and changes so much. How does one improve upon 1440p 60 FPS max settings?

Word.

 

[triss]

DX 60fps doesnt equal Mantle 60 fps smoothness right thou?? Cos thats diff gravy

 

[LtMatt]

DX 60fps doesnt equal Mantle 60 fps smoothness right thou?? Cos thats diff gravy

You have to look outside the box triss, it does not all come down to average fps. Think of the minimum fps, think of the frame times.

 

[whyscotty]

Spare a thought for Broomstick though, he just bought a titan black which will no doubt be on the MM soon.

 

[LambChop]

Full fat..nice. The way its meant to be refreshed.

 

[triss]

You have to look outside the box triss, it does not all come down to average fps. Think of the minimum fps, think of the frame times.

I was agreeing with you

 

[Kaapstad]

Bugger I'm stuck with an old version of Hawaii.

 

[triss]

Thats not a bad model kaap will do you a few years before you need to trade up

 

[scotsdragon]

So many model changes, so when are these happening, kapp this year next year and btw id love to get stuck with that Hawaii lol

 

[Kaapstad]

So many model changes, so when are these happening, kapp this year next year and btw id love to get stuck with that Hawaii lol

I don't know anymore than anyone else but my guess is if AMD release a higher speced Hawaii chip it will have to be in the next 2 or 3 months or there will be little point.