Wednesday, December 11th 2013
Gigabyte Lists Its WindForce-Equipped Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 Cards
While no announcement was made Gigabyte went on and published on its website details on two custom-cooled and factory-overlocked graphics cards powered by AMD's Hawaii GPU, the GV-R929XOC-4GD (Radeon R9 290X) and GV-R929OC-4GD (Radeon R9 290).
Pictured below, both cards come equipped with the dual-slot WindForce 3X 450W cooling solution (three fans, 6 mm and 8 mm heatpipes), and feature a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface, a GPU clock of 1040 MHz (the stock R9 290X/290 go up to 1000/947 MHz), a 512-bit memory interface, 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 5000 MHz, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The cards' prices are still unknown.
Pictured below, both cards come equipped with the dual-slot WindForce 3X 450W cooling solution (three fans, 6 mm and 8 mm heatpipes), and feature a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface, a GPU clock of 1040 MHz (the stock R9 290X/290 go up to 1000/947 MHz), a 512-bit memory interface, 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 5000 MHz, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The cards' prices are still unknown.
32 Comments on Gigabyte Lists Its WindForce-Equipped Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 Cards
I'm thinking of jumping ship to the dark side, yeah Nvidia. lol it cost more admittedly but it kills the 290x in every benchmark I have seen alongside the fact they are really quiet. gonna go for the windforce OC version of course.
Saying that though I keep changing my bloody mind.
Either way it sucks that AMD cards are out of stock in most places and gimped in price at the moment, otherwise I'd be really scratching my head at anyone who thinks 4% more performance in 3 out of 5 games means having 1GB of framebuffer less and having to pay 20% more a great deal...
Aaaanyway, where my MATRIXes, Lightnings, TOXIC/ATOMICs, SOCs and TurboXs at?