Friday, October 25th 2013
Radeon R9 290 Performance Figures Leaked, Beats GTX 780
If these performance numbers posted by credible reviewers at OCUK hold up, then AMD could have a second, more affordable graphics card for you, which outperforms NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 780, at least in synthetic benchmarks. In a brief performance run that spans synthetic tests, which included Unigine Heaven 3.0 at 1080p and 1440p resolutions, with normal level of tessellation; 3DMark 11 (performance preset) and 3DMark Fire Strike (both Normal and Extreme); the card we believe to be R9 290 (name blurred out in the graphs) is consistently faster than the GeForce GTX 780 reference, in the same bench.
Based on the same 28 nm "Hawaii" silicon as the Radeon R9 290X, the R9 290 is its more affordable sibling, featuring 2,560 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 4 GB of memory. It features clock speeds of 947 MHz (core), and 5.00 GHz (memory, GDDR5-effective). There's no word on pricing, but it could be available from the 31st of October, 2013.
Source:
Overclockers UK (OCUK)
Based on the same 28 nm "Hawaii" silicon as the Radeon R9 290X, the R9 290 is its more affordable sibling, featuring 2,560 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 4 GB of memory. It features clock speeds of 947 MHz (core), and 5.00 GHz (memory, GDDR5-effective). There's no word on pricing, but it could be available from the 31st of October, 2013.
73 Comments on Radeon R9 290 Performance Figures Leaked, Beats GTX 780
Then WTF are you talking about? Now go sue Porsche for selling their 911.
I'd like to thank AMD for making Intel move their corporate a** and release decent CPUs.
like no one saw this coming, it happens every generation, Its just this time Nvidia went too far with their pricing and now its quite clear what a gk104 should have been worth , never mind the gk110 but people bought them.
dont sweat it nvidia will have a reply in time for christmass, a card that kicks the Gtx 780 and titans ass for less money then a 780:roll:, well that might not cheer some up either, roll on the bargains.:D:toast::D
I take that as an insult to the Germans :laugh:
You know that both nVidia and AMD mainly sells ASIC which are both manufactured at TSMC in Taiwan likely under the same roof ;)
now people are probably gonna flak me for saying NVidia makes the better product, well let me make this clear, NVidia probably puts more focus(R&D) on noise, temp, and energy efficient technology more than AMD and as a responsible consumer that's where i'll put my wallet on.
you are going to find that when people mature and grow older, they enjoy things with more finesse in life, with more expectations in other qualities than just brute performance. I used to only care about performance scores as a teenager, but as I become older, I start to put more awareness into other factors such as dust, noise, temperature and power consumption because me as a consumer would like to show more considerations and responsibilities in my purchase, such as voting with my wallet on the greener tech, or whether the noise would affect my wife's sleep at night, its things like this that some of us are willing to pay a premium for. and really, we're not kids anymore and we make enough money to handle the extra cost for a peace of mind.
Either way, these premium cards are priced in the right spot IMO, maybe a few dollars too high, but who cares, these are designed to compete with the 780 and the TITAN. And if I say so myself, it looks like AMD have a couple of winners here with regards to price/performance. Power consumption and heat, that's another debate altogether. We'll start seeing more power conscious cards when the 20nm generation comes around, but until then, this is what we got, take it or leave it.
Well, guess what? My dual Titans didn't spontaneously catch fire when Nvidia released the 780, and I just checked right now, and they didn't spontaneously ignite neither when my new 290X arrived at my door earlier today, I continue enjoying awesome gaming by playing Batman Arkham Origins from my couch on my Shield next to my son while he watches cartoons on a Saturday morning, and enjoying Metro LL on my 3D surround setup at max details after he goes to bed.
In the meantime Windows 8 just finished installing on my 290X rig and I plan to start installing my full Steam library to it so I can game from my couch on my 60" TV and enjoy TruAudio on my 7.2 setup and max out BF4 once the Mantle patch is released in December.
Don't you get it? People who buy Ferraris don't cry or feel butthurt just because Nissan released the GT-R at one fifth of the price and it gets from 0 to 60 a hundredth of a second faster, they don't give a flying fuck, and if they please, they can get a pink colored GT-R just for the sake of it and park it next to their shiny Ferrari.
The logic behind the arguments used by some people is so fundamentally flawed, that it really saddens me, I fully understand that not everyone can afford every new single video card that is released, but that doesn't give these same people the right to insult and bully while protected by the anonimity that Internet Forums offer...
Oh well, I better get ready for another barrage of hateful comments picking up every single detail of what I just posted.... whatever, I have much better things to do than wasting my precious time trying to fight the Zealots, it just makes me sad to see the state of our forum, it used to be that people would come here to ask for help and at the same time help other users, but now these forums have been taken over by mouth foaming Haters with way too much time in their hands, what a sad state of affairs...
My theory is that some enthusiasts like to have the latest and greatest, not the next best thing. So, when they see how outrageously priced the hardware is (in their eyes), they themselves feel 'butthurt' and will attack anyone who can afford such extreme hardware. That, or they are fanboys for the other team.
Chill out mate,that's only common in every forum :toast:
Personally i never judge Titan is a fail,considering Titan IS not just a gaming card beast.I had..err...technically had one...for the workstation purposes.For those who want performance upgrade over 7970 GE CFX and cant afford more expensive K5000,Titan will serves you well.As for me...nah...i'm with the otherside,forever :laugh:
Oh you had 290X?Mind to build a club here? :)
Now, If your done thanking each others post.
Which thread are me meeting up at next ?
nothing is accidentally constructed the way it is and the 7970 is the perfect example of this process.
limited cooler reff style first to get the first round of sales
AIB own choice coolers next to one up the competition and reap a few more sales
then a tweeked Ghz or what have you (superclocked,golden etc for nv)
then a complete rebrand and market segment drop version of the same thing
And I can tell you this much , buy a refference board and go crazey with a full cover waterblock and enough rad, and you pretty much get the same as the last version released when overclocked from day 1, my 5870 did a fair few years for its worth.
except they improve drivers too even years in ie framepacing with amd made 1080p a dream on xfired 5 series and nvidia also does with it's drivers(fxaa for eg)