News - AMD Radeon R9 290 Series specs leaked by Japanese retailer

[HEXUS]

Check and see the difference between the Radeon R9 290 and R9 290X cards.

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

An X!

[jigger]

Hexus:
Rest assured that reviews for these upcoming cards will be released the minute that it is permissible to do so.

When is this!!!

[abychristy]

Where did the second one come from ?

[AndyM95]

Don't know whether to get the 290X or wait a while until Nvidia Maxwell cards come out next year... hard choice.

[keithwalton]

Novel was of getting around an NDA by posting a 'rumour' from another site.

If you've already done the review and are waiting on the go button from AMD you surely know if they're genuine or not!

[ehhhhhhh]

Upgrading from a HD6970 I look forward to the reviews

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems the R9 series has 64 ROPS:

http://videocardz.com/46571/amd-rade...eature-64-rops

[Domestic_Ginger]

Possible pricing

http://videocardz.com/46558/amd-rade...icing-unveiled

These cards are looking really good; should start getting competitive. I'll be looking to get one second hand in about 2015.

[kingpotnoodle]

Sigh.

Same number added X should not be hardware with different numbers of stream processors, an X should just denote extra clocks or super cooling etc, it's just confusing having parts with actual physical differences labelled with the same basic model number.

[Razorback1327]

The specs look tasty.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Tahiti and Hawaii compared:

http://videocardz.com/46610/amd-hawa...-diagram-leaks



Also,it seems Tahiti was smaller than we expected as many people saif it was 365MM2.

It seems Hawaii is much less geometry limited than Tahiti,and IIRC this was a limitation of the latter when compared to the current Nvidia GPUs.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The R9 290X seems to $600:

http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop/...er_id=!ORDERID

The shop has leaked prices before and they have been accurate.

So,with VAT that means around £450.

[VijaySathyan]

When is the NDA being lifted?

[MercutioUK]

Part of NDA restriction in some cases is date when info will be coming.

[Butuz]

The R9 290X seems to $600:

http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop/...er_id=!ORDERID

The shop has leaked prices before and they have been accurate.

So,with VAT that means around £450.

Surely we need to convert dollars straight to pounds to get an accurate price? So £600 or thereabouts I recon.

Butuz