Radeon R9 290X Launch Date Revealed?

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I suspect that as process advancement slows down the there will be a permanent move toward two GPU generations on the same silicon process; the initial one right after a shrink being with small dies and the one later in the process's life being with large dies. This allows manufacturers to avoid making large dies early in the life of a manufacturing process when defects are the most common.

Case in point: Think of what NVidia did. They had lots of trouble getting GF100 (a huge die) to work in the early life of 40nm, and they similarly had to cancel the huge GK100 on 28nm and wait for GK110 a year later. AMD has never released a huge die early in the life of a process, and I suspect it's exactly for that reason. The last huge die AMD/ATI released was R600, and that was made on a pretty old (at the time) 80nm process while the smaller chips in the 2000 series were based on the new (at the time) 65nm.

My prediction is that with their experiences on 40nm and 28nm both AMD and NVidia will initally favor small dies on 20nm to avoid defects. This will mean in 2014/2015 the AMD Rx 300 series & NVidia 800 series being only about 20% faster than the AMD Rx 200 and Nvidia 700 series, Then in 2015/2016 the AMD Rx 400 and Nvidia 900 series will be released with big dies on 20nm resulting in another 20% performance improvement. Everyone skipping upgrading this generation expecting a 50% performance improvement next generation is fooling themselves. Those days are over.

I think this decidedly marks a trend toward marketing based on features rather than performance, much like AMD and Intel have done in the CPU space, and toward an increasing focus on software optimization to improve performance when hardware cannot advance.

i allways skip a few gens and got my 50+ yet again

3870 - 3870x2 - 5870 - 5870/5850 - 7970 it did involve some common sense though and being skint a lot or there would be more in that list

anyway,my main point is that 50% is easy doable next arch change for either vendor, both will be hitting out with some interesting tech, maxwell and its 1tb/s memory cache and as for pirate islands, anyones guess there , my guess would include on die l4 cache 256-512mb and 4-8 x86 cores probably jaguer(probably high end gpu though) and both these hit that 50% plus potential you speak of, Tsv(through silicon vias) could shake up the game if used right and creatively.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Dude I have the same 5870/5850 cards right now. How much was the performance increase after a 7970?? But no exaggerations please.

 

[Horrux]

Any thoughts on the release date? Is it confirmed?

Coz, well, it's today...

 

[Blín D'ñero]

Well according to the diy.pconline.com review:

• unfinished, to be continued, so stay tuned officially released on October 24

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Perhaps, high resolution R9 290X will be stronger?

Before the deadline, I received news, AMD on October 24 officially released in China and R9 290 R9 290X graphics, R9 290 performance will happen? R9 290X performance in the ultra-high-definition resolution with GTX TITAN what will happen? GCN general computing performance advantage, R9 290X another kind of surprise? October 24, PConline we will continue to bring you the latest and most detailed evaluation, so stay tuned.