Graphs have been updated again, memory now 4.50ghz. :P

if it needs oc to beat titan then it's pathetic...bb amd

Not really, as isn't the Titan boosting to over a ghz, so its in effect overclocking itself, the 290x doesn't have boost (from what im aware), just has a 2x BIOS switch, position 1 stays at 800 core/whatever memory, and position 2 is the 1050/whatever memory it will stay at once flicked, so they are both overclocked at the end of the day (if you flick the 290x to position 2), which is fare isn't it ?, as the Titan is overclocking to 1ghz (or over) by itself, and the 290x is overclocking to 1050. 🙂

If it matches a Titan and is £200 cheaper that surely is a win no?

Not really, as isn't the Titan boosting to over a ghz, so its in effect overclocking itself, the 290x doesn't have boost (from what im aware), just has a 2x BIOS switch, position 1 stays at 800 core/whatever memory, and position 2 is the 1050/whatever memory it will stay at once flicked, so they are both overclocked at the end of the day (if you flick the 290x to position 2), which is fare isn't it ?, as the Titan is overclocking to 1ghz (or over) by itself, and the 290x is overclocking to 1050. 🙂

The card is quoted as being an ES card, meaning engineering sample. I'm highly doubtful such a switch will be included on the final production card. I imagine these cards will be running somewhere close to the 1050mhz clock speed used for this supposed benchmarking.

Not really, as isn't the Titan boosting to over a ghz, so its in effect overclocking itself, the 290x doesn't have boost (from what im aware), just has a 2x BIOS switch, position 1 stays at 800 core/whatever memory, and position 2 is the 1050/whatever memory it will stay at once flicked, so they are both overclocked at the end of the day (if you flick the 290x to position 2), which is fare isn't it ?, as the Titan is overclocking to 1ghz (or over) by itself, and the 290x is overclocking to 1050. 🙂

ES sample have rarely the retail clock.. so they send them with different bios, clock speed etc... But at same time AMD offtly resend bios or since they have dual bios put different bios for allow the tester to got different situation. And like final clock are not set when ES are send.. well impossible to get the right clock speed. In addition, AMD like to send different ES card with different clock speed to testers, its for track the leaker easely .. ( if the guy say the card have 825mhz and only 1 got it with this speed, you know from who the leak is coming ). The last thing is offtly the clock speed are not completely "100% " or they dont want the peformance are leaked to fast. Add to this, the "ES sample from AIB" ( Asus, MSI, etc ), and you understand quicly well you cant be sure of the clock speed.

Final specs. from video cardz .com

AMD Radeon R9 290X Specifications One of the stores even posted the final specifications (source): GPU Codename – Hawaii GPU Process – 28nmlarge ****** Processors – 2816 TMUs – 176 ROPs – 44 Base Clock – 800 MHz Turbo Clock – 1000 MHz VRAM – 4GB GDDR5 Memory Bus – 512-Bit Memory Clock – 1250 MHz (5GHz Effective) Memory Bandwidth – 320 GBps Power Configuration – 8+6 Pin PCB VRM – 5+1+1 Die Size – 424mm2 Transistors – 6 billion 3D Technology – DirectX 11.2, OpenGL 4.3 and Mantle Audio Technology – AMD TrueAudio

AMD Radeon R9 280X The R9 280X will be equipped with TAHITI XTL, which is a TAHITI XT rebrand. The reference clock is 850/1000 MHz. The memory will run at 1500 MHz, making it almost a pure HD 7970 GE refresh (depending if 850 MHz is just a clock on this engineering sample). Radeon R9 280X will have 3GB GDDR5 memory with 384-bit interface. Tahiti GPU features 2048 ****** Processors, 128 texturing units and 32 rastering units.

GPU Device Id: 0×1002 0×6798 113-C3865000-100 Tahiti B0 XTL C38650 GDDR5 3GB 500e/150m (C) 1988-2010, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ATOMBIOSBK-AMD VER015.038.000.003.003331 C3865000.100 PowerTune Limit: 170 to 245 CCC Overdrive Limits GPU Clock: 1500.00 MHz Memory Clock: 2000.00 MHz Clock State 0 Core Clk: 1000.00 MHz Memory Clk: 1500.00 MHz Flags: Boot Clock State 1 Core Clk: 1000.00 MHz Memory Clk: 1500.00 MHz Flags: Optimal Perf Clock State 2 Core Clk: 850.00 MHz Memory Clk: 1500.00 MHz Flags: UVD

AMD Radeon R9 270X It is now officially confirmed that R9 270X will use CURACAO XT processor which will be clocked at 1000 MHz. In boost state GPU will run at 1050 MHz, making it slightly faster than HD 7870 GE. In addition to faster GPU clocks also the memory is running at higher frequency — 1400 MHz (5.6 GHz effective). The card is equipped with 2GB GDDR5 memory across 256-bit bus (although this is not confirmed). Furthermore we also don’t know the exactly GPU configuration. For now we just know it’s CURACAO, which is a Pitcairn derivative. It could either have 1280 cores or 1536.

GPU Device Id: 0×1002 0×6810 113-C6310100-015 C63101 CURACAO XT GDDR5 64Mx32 2GB 150e/150m (C) 1988-2010, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ATOMBIOSBK-AMD VER015.033.000.001.002887 C6310100.015 PowerTune Limit: 113 to 169 CCC Overdrive Limits GPU Clock: 1400.00 MHz Memory Clock: 1625.00 MHz Clock State 0 Core Clk: 1050.00 MHz Memory Clk: 1400.00 MHz Flags: Boot Clock State 1 Core Clk: 1050.00 MHz Memory Clk: 1400.00 MHz Flags: Optimal Perf Clock State 2 Core Clk: 1000.00 MHz Memory Clk: 1400.00 MHz Flags: UVD Clock State 3 Core Clk: 300.00 MHz Memory Clk: 150.00 MHz

Launch date

AMD is planning a market release of three of its key sub-$300 graphics card SKUs, the Radeon R9 280X, Radeon R9 270X, and Radeon R7 260X, on the 8th of October, 2013. The three should be available for purchase on that date, and online reviews of the three should go live. AMD's add-in board (AIB) partners will launch non-reference design boards based on the three, although reference design boards should also be available. The Radeon R9 290X flagship part, on the other hand, should launch around October 15 in Europe (October 14 in the US by time conversion).

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b378/Mj12doc/r9_zps22ab00f2.jpg http://www.webhallen.com/se-sv/hardvara/184362-asus_radeon_r9-290x_4gb_battlefield_4_bundle_limited_edition__battlefield_4_premium

7300 Swedish kronor = 1 137.5 U.S. dollars Considering that price includes a 25%VAT and electronics being generally more expensive in Sweden. I'm guessing that the price would be 800USD in USA. Haven't seen the Norwegian prices yet though. Komplett will probably add it by the end of the day.

HAHA! Memory is clocked at 1250mhz, just like I said. I knew those other numbers were bullshlt. 😀

Startn to pop up. No bf4 preorders tho. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600100181&IsNodeId=1&name=AMD

44 ROPS? Now that is an "odd" (numerically even) number. I've only seen 8/16/32/48 (possibly 12 and 24 on some rebadged lasercut budget cards). Oh well, with 44 ROPs compared to 32 another bottleneck has been seriously widened. Also explains the price though since GPU + card layout and complexity increase the more ROPs you have.

It has got boost then, and may have 64 ROPS 😱

Startn to pop up. No bf4 preorders tho. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600100181&IsNodeId=1&name=AMD

"SAPPHIRE 100361SR Radeon R9 290X 4GB GDDR5 Video Card Battlefield 4 game included, limited offer "

1:4 4505 GFLOPs FP32 1126 GFLOPs FP64 250W TDP at default 800mhz & 260 at 1000MHz.

1:4 4505 GFLOPs FP32 1126 GFLOPs FP64 250W TDP at default 800mhz & 260 at 1000MHz.

1w more per 20 mhz raising that just ain't gonna happen @ 28nm.

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