GIGABYTE releases Radeon R9 290 Graphics Card

Gigabyte as well relesaes their Radeon R9 290 Graphics Card. The new second to best flagship product has been long awaited and anticipated. The Radeon R9-290 will compete with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 780 at performance and price levels. These cards are little beasts.  Some keywords as a small appetizer, 6 Billion transistors on a 438 mm² Die, 512-bit Memory bus with 4 GB - 5.0 Gbps GDDR5 memory, Ultra HD ready, 5.6 TFLOPS of compute performance. 

The Hawaii processor has a whopping 6.2 Billion transistors all fitted on a 438 mm² Die size. At 28nm AMD applied the GCN architecture again, albeit you will learn that there have been a few tweaks at cache levels as the L2 cache is now 1MB for example. More on that later though. The Radeon R9 290 features 2,560 stream processors, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface with 4 GB of memory. 

R9 290 (Hawaii Pro)

• Stream Processors 2560
• Clock Frequency up-to 947 MHz
• 4.9 TFLOPS compute performance
• 4 GB memory at 5.0 Gbps / 512-bit
• 250W TDP
• PCI-E 3.0
• API - DirectX 11.2 / OpenGL 4.3 / Mantle

Like most other reference design R9 290 graphics card, the HIS R9 290 Fan will be priced at $399.99.