Thursday, October 24th 2013
AMD Announces Radeon R9 290X
AMD announced market availability of the Radeon R9 290X, its new flagship graphics card, with which it plans to take on the likes of the GeForce GTX TITAN. Based on the swanky new 28 nm "Hawaii" silicon, the R9 290X features 2,816 stream processors, 176 texture memory units, 64 ROPs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 4 GB of memory. The chip offers hardware support for DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3, and is ready for AMD's ambitious Mantle API. Various AIB partners should begin offering their R9 290X cards today, which all stick to AMD's reference design. The biggest feature of the card, in the end, is its stunning price of $549.99. If it manages to beat the GTX TITAN, NVIDIA is in a world of pain with its high-end lineup.
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31 Comments on AMD Announces Radeon R9 290X
He said his wife was bugging him to buy another video card to make it warmer. It's a win/win for everyone!
It would then absolutely stomp any game on a 4k screen and for reasonable money = win to some. note I'm not saying it fits every use case but id have one and despite your hate of power use and heat , Tpu is the main cause of too much heat in my pc and many others ,and I wasn't checking my electric bill after hitting 5.6ghz on a Q6600 or 5ghz on this Fx 8250 , some just want a bit more or even worse just to see what number they get.
No mantle benches tut :p
....execellent.....
now release the 780ti and let the price wars truely begin
oops to get back on track i'm surprized Amd opened with that price... now all they have to do is move enough volume and its like Mario with a mushroom!!!! Truely exciting times !