Wednesday, October 9th 2013
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Radeon R9 290X Features 64 ROPs
A leaked company slide by AMD confirmed that its high-end "Hawaii" silicon indeed features 64 raster operations units (ROPs). In reference to its predecessor, "Tahiti," the slide speaks of 2 times the ROPs (32 on "Tahiti") and 1.4 times the stream processors (2048 on "Tahiti," so 2816 on "Hawaii"). Other known specifications include up to 1 GHz GPU clock, up to 5.00 GHz memory clock, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 4 GB of memory. Reviews of Radeon R9 290X could surface around mid-October.
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130 Comments on Radeon R9 290X Features 64 ROPs
The ball is in nvidia's court, but they're the proprietary douche bags.
Don't forget that AMD has the proprietary TressFX.
Anybody using terms like "This is gonna kick Titan's butt" or "Titan fall" or "this will make GK110 cry" have lost the plot. It's a piece of technology, not your brother in a school yard fight.
Folk need to just grow up.
Here's how it is. If the R9 290X truly trounces the performance of a GTX Titan, then that is a very good thing for everyone. As a person who puts money aside for tech products, I'll go and buy the AMD card (once water blocks are out). To me it's a win win situation.
In BF4 at 2560x1440 with Ultra settings I get roughly 60fps, with drops to 50 and peaks at 70. That's how fast Titan is but if 290X gets 15% more (minimum 60fps) I'll get that card as well.
And in 'x' months Nvidia will release another card that will beat the performance of the 290X and the idiots will come clammering back saying '290 Xpired' and other such nonsense.
People - it's a graphics card. If you're getting in any way attached to it, please, go outside and feel the breeze, cuddle your partner or phone your dear old mum. There's more to life than triumphalism/defeatism about tech for goodness sake.
I for one certainly hope AMD's latest and greatest GPU can mix it with year old nV tech.
Can't wait till they actually frickin release it.
(Not related to any living or dead person).
Oh please dude.. :slap:
For almost a decade NVidia (since the 8800 series) has been trying to force everyone into the belief that CUDA and PhysX as the greatest things on Earth. Since then it has only been a disappointment in the gaming world with very few games supporting these features and their benefits being minimal at best. Now we have AMD touting Mantle and TrueAudio with no games to demonstrate them, limited performance data, and only the promise that support will come in the future. This is NVidia circa the 8800 series, and I see no reason why this situation will turn out any differently.
Anyone who buys an graphics card (or any product) based upon what the manufacturer promises in the future is crazy. Buy a card based on what it supports now, not what the manufacturer claims it will support in the future.
I'm the first one to say NVIDIA ROCKS AMD SUCKS but you know what? That doesn't mean that you can make unfounded bullshit accusations about a product that isn't sold yet? I for one am interested to see if AMD's R9 290(x) can get them back in the game.
7970 = 2048 / 32 = 64 shaders per ROP
7870 = 1280 / 32 = 40 shaders per ROP
so in terms of the 7870 which when overclocked could take on a 7950 relatively easily
the 290x has a much better shader to ROP ratio and with the increased bus width should prove to be power hungry but well balanced in terms of Shaders / ROPs / TMUs / Bandwidth. the 290X looks to be shaping up nicely but final performance numbers will bring us the truth of the matter. Diminishing returns will still be a problem.
I can't wait to see how it benchmarks. I could care less about the fan as long as it keeps it within operating temps with maybe a small OC.
Do you know why people come to techpowerup and signup for the forum - 10% people are here with their problems, 10 % want to learn something new, but 80% people are enthusiast (I am talking about regulars).
What makes an Enthusiast ? - He/she loves new technology, wants to own the very best of tech stuff and will invest in it. But there is major side effect human beings have in them. Sense of ownership of a particular thing can also make them loyal to that particular product maker and hence they will always prefer that vendor but isn't that Enthusiasm all about ?
Nvidia and AMD wouldn't be fighting like cats and dogs for high end market, if they didn't wanted Enthusiast to vouch for their high end products, remember money is at mainstream market, but word of mouth by an Enthusiast is still the greatest marketing tactic till date.
Anyway back to Titan and AMD's R9 290X - while my practical side will never care which side wins as it will force the other side to bring the pricing down and make a better product for next round, my enthusiast heart will always and i mean always be loyal to a particular product maker and please note that doesn't guarantee i will buy their product but i will take their side for sure.
So in the end it's just a matter of developers taking time to use Mantle API in their engine. And frankly i'd prefer Mantle over anything. Extra performance is always nice where i have yet to see anything useful from PhysX other than lame eye candy that still badly degrades performance even on fully supported HW...