AMD Hawaii R9 290X GPU Specifications ?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/19/2013 07:54 AM | source: | 149 comment(s)

A set of AMD Hawaii R9 290X GPU Specifications have been revealed by the German website 3DCenter.org. It is unclear how valid the specs really are. Key points: 4 raster engines, up to 2816 shader units, little bit more than 900 MHz base clock, temperature-controlled boost clock, 28nm process, around 430 mm² die-size, infos about process and die-size from an AMD interview with Forbes.

The 3DCenter website itself is in German, so this is a very rough Google translation, make of the information what you want:

From the corresponding speculative thread of our forum come first reasonably reliable data for Hawaii graphics chip from AMD's Volcanic Islands-generation , which AMD 25 September in the Radeon R200 series will introduce. However, the data stated are not speculations or assumptions, but come from a seemingly informed user - however, there is the residual risk that this is deliberate disinformation by AMD or the information in the transmission may have been partially corrupted. Thus, the following specifications are hardly ever can be laid on the gold scale - on the other hand correspond to these specifications Hawaii chip quite the preliminary expectations , that are realistic in every case:

AMD Hawaii

28nm production at TSMC
~ 430mm ² chip area (18% on R1000/Tahiti)
2.0 GCN Architecture (R1000/Tahiti: 1.0 GCN)
DirectX 11.2 (as R1000/Tahiti)
4 raster engines (+100% over R1000/Tahiti)
max 2816 shader units aka 44 shader clusters - in any case more than the 2304 shader units, the GeForce GTX 780 (+37.5% compared to R1000/Tahiti)
Chip clock (Hawaii XT): slightly more than 900 MHz (similar to the Radeon HD 7970, but lower than the Radeon HD 7970 "edition GHz")
Temperature-controlled boost clock - the card is not able to play to their full performance due to limits on temperature and power consumption regularly
probably only a 384-bit DDR memory interface (such R1000/Tahiti)
Presentation: 25 September 2013
For sale: probably mid / late October 2013
Sell ??name: Radeon probably R9-290 (Hawaii Pro) & Radeon R9-290X (Hawaii XT)

	Technik	Taktraten	Perf.Index
Radeon HD 7990	AMD 2x R1000/Tahiti, 4 Raster-Engines, 4096 Shader-Einheiten, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 2x 384 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	950/1000/3000 MHz	600%
nVidia GeForce 690	nVidia 2x GK104, 8 Raster-Engines, 3072 Shader-Einheiten, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 2x 256 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	915/1019/3000 MHz	580%
GeForce GTX Titan Ultra	nVidia GK110, 5 Raster-Engines, 2880 Shader-Einheiten, 240 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 384 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	~950/3400 MHz	530-550%
Radeon R9-290X (Annahme 1)	AMD Hawaii, 4 Raster-Engines, 2816 Shader-Einheiten, 176 TMUs, 32-48 ROPs, 384 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	~950/975/3500 MHz	485-510%
Radeon R9-290X (Annahme 2)	AMD Hawaii, 4 Raster-Engines, 2560 Shader-Einheiten, 160 TMUs, 32-48 ROPs, 384 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	~950/975/3500 MHz	465-490%
GeForce GTX Titan	nVidia GK110, 5 Raster-Engines, 2688 Shader-Einheiten, 224 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 384 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	837/876/3000 MHz	480%
nVidia GeForce 780	nVidia GK110, 4 oder 5 Raster-Engines, 2304 Shader-Einheiten, 192 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 384 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	863/902/3000 MHz	440%
Radeon HD 7970 "GHz Edition"	AMD R1000/Tahiti, 2 Raster-Engines, 2048 Shader-Einheiten, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 384 Bit DDR Speicherinterface	1000/1050/3000 MHz	390%

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Titan29
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#4658741 Posted on: 09/20/2013 06:43 PM

7970Ghz falls between 770GTX and 780GTX, enough said.

5 more days and all will be clear, but I still bet it will be at least 20-30% faster then a GK110 with 14SMX + DoublePrecision (aka Titan), if 2800core then even more 30-40%.

I think it will match or slightly exceed Titan at most. That in itself will be a win for AMD as it will kill Titan on perf/price.

The focus this generation seems to be efficiency (perf/watt). I do hope that they dont strip it of compute performance like Kepler.

PS: If Hawaii kills Titan, I will change my name

ELNIKA
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#4658752 Posted on: 09/20/2013 07:04 PM

7970Ghz falls between 770GTX and 780GTX, enough said.

5 more days and all will be clear, but I still bet it will be at least 20-30% faster then a GK110 with 14SMX + DoublePrecision (aka Titan), if 2800core then even more 30-40%.

+1

I don't get why nvidia fanboys get so annoying sometimes. And this is coming from a nvidia/AMD user for years, i just buy the best price/performance solution at the time, no matter the brand.

Cheers.

Blackops_2
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#4658770 Posted on: 09/20/2013 07:45 PM

Koniakki
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#4658801 Posted on: 09/20/2013 08:51 PM

.......PS: If Hawaii kills Titan, I will change my name

Hey Hawaii29, I hope they release a great product too. Competition will benefit us greatly..

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#4658887 Posted on: 09/21/2013 12:28 AM

I'm not a fanboy of either and i bet it doesn't match Titan. They've already stated they're not aiming at competing with Titan. I'm betting slightly behind the 780 or matching it. Not to mention OC room will probably be limited i don't expect these to OC like Tahiti. Matching Titan will be hard enough for their small die strategy on the same 28nm process. Much less exceeding it.

Then again the 7790 with GCN 2.0 cores was able to achieve a 30% increase over it's predecessor.

Because it carries 1000$ mark or because it supports double precision?

Idk, why so negative, Titan's SP and DP is around the same as 7970Ghz, its only faster because it has more ROPS, higher fillrate and more raster engines; which makes it 15-25% faster then 7970Ghz. Now add all that to R9-290X? with more cores and its min 20% faster for sure.

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