Monday, October 7th 2013
Final Radeon R9 290 Series Specifications Leaked
Disappointed at the $729.99 Newegg.com pricing of the Radeon R9 290X? No worries. AMD's second SKU based on the "Hawaii" silicon could be lighter on the wallet. Japanese retailers leaked the specifications sheets of both the upcoming R9 290X, and its lighter sibling, the R9 290 (non-X). Specifications of the R9 290X match rumors. The chip features 2,816 stream processors, up to 1000 MHz of GPU clock, single-precision floating point performance of 5.16 TFLOP/s, and 4 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 512-bit wide memory interface, clocked at 5.00 GHz, yielding 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The R9 290, on the other hand, features 2,560 stream processors, up to 948 MHz GPU clocks, 4.9 TFLOP/s single-precision floating point performance, and the same memory subsystem as the R9 290X. Both cards feature an identical combination of power connectors, 8-pin PCIe and 6-pin PCIe. Both feature hardware support for DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3, and Mantle.
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Hermitage Akihabara
52 Comments on Final Radeon R9 290 Series Specifications Leaked
A 7990 is already a pretty power hungry beast, judging from the relatively low clock speeds of 290/290x (about 800mhz sans any turbo function I believe), I don't know if some kind of twin 290/290x is out of the question entirely.
I suppose '90' was never a clear indicator that a card was dual gpu or not, after all there is a 7790 (obviously not dual 7750's or whatever), so I think there are a number of ways open to them to mark something as a dual gpu flagship card...I guess its not something they will sweat right now. It will be a while since we see one I suppose, although hopefully not as long as it took for a reference 7990 to materialise.
This is why relying on bundles for two years is a horrible move. This is why them starting the current generation (7970) out with a $50 increase for a marginal 10-20% gain in performance was such a horrible thing for us all. That allowed nVidia to rely on a mid-range part at high end pricing that was only very barely less expensive.
Now AMD shows up two years later after six months of nVidia owning the high end with their true high end part. And they're raising the price... again on the high end.
At least they're also releasing a lower part at a reasonable price, which will force nVidia to do the same. But man it sure took them forever to do it.
Might be time to retire my to 6950 card.
Sapphire specs have all chips supporting DirectX 11.2, PowerTune & ZeroCore from R7 240 on up. So were looking at new/improved chips across the line.
If not Raj mentioned phase 2 driver to be released in Autumn.
Compared to a stock clocked 780's
Too many "high-end" games don't do well with the Crossfire setups, and, iirc, the (double) RAM is not used in a XFire setup. Plus, the 280x is just arebranded 7970 with a little boost, which doesn't put me in a comforted mood... I think I'll just hope for a good price point in a year or so on the 290.I'll be making that statement this time next year :toast: Little early to adopt it, plus I'm not budgeted for it yet, but next year, I'll be scrounging some pennies!
Hardware is only one part of the equation...as is usual
Here. You may educate yourself.
www.tomshardware.com/forum/245454-33-crossfire-faqs
"The data is mirrored by both cards so two 1GB cards will still result in 1GB of VRAM being available."
So, in games like Skyrim, where VRAM is at a premium, loading large resolution packs can result in reaching your VRAM limit very quickly. A dual 2Gb card setup doesn't provide you with 4Gb of VRAM for use, you're limited to the 2Gb, since the data is mirrored on both cards.
Nice tone by the way. :nutkick: