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R9 290X leaked gpu specs

I got a little too excited when I first saw "API Support" on the last slide. I've been waiting patiently to find out if this card will support either the new OpenCL 2.0 draft or an equivalent to Nvidia's dynamic parallelism as an extension to OpenCL 1.2.
 
4 billion primitives per second. Just stop and think about that for a minute. Growing up on consoles, I remember being floored by the Dreamcast's power when it came out. 4... Billion... Primitives.... in one second. 64 gigapixels per second too. Wow. Radeon X800XL had what 6.4 gigapixels? Shit.

I know that most of us here usually move on to the latest and greatest without a thought about what goes behind it. But man... How far we've come.
 
jbltecnicspro said:
4 billion primitives per second. Just stop and think about that for a minute. Growing up on consoles, I remember being floored by the Dreamcast's power when it came out. 4... Billion... Primitives.... in one second. 64 gigapixels per second too. Wow. Radeon X800XL had what 6.4 gigapixels? Shit.

I know that most of us here usually move on to the latest and greatest without a thought about what goes behind it. But man... How far we've come.
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I know that feel. Almost every single generation of GPU's I have to force myself to just sit back for a second and think, "What am I complaining about?" when either impressed or unimpressed by another generation. Most other hardware has kind of stalled in recent years, but somehow GPU's manage to keep going unmolested by limits. Even 10 years ago I didn't think we'd get this far so fast and 15 years ago I was blown away by the likes of Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena.

Just in that time span I can't imagine how it must feel for tech geeks from the 60's, 70's, or 80's seeing where we've come. Then again they are the visionaries bringing us to where we are now. :)
 
Sounds like the 290 and 290x will benefit pretty heavily from PCI-e 3.0, curious what the difference will be between 2.0 and 3.0 with these cards.
 
looks like if you are sitting on any form of 7970 -- the only upgrade that makes sense is to the 290x. Going to a regular 290 probably won't be able to justify the money for the small increase in performance.

if the 729 price point turns out to be true, then AMD will have lost a customer for a few months till it comes down. when it hits 599 for a 290x then I'll be interested.

Outside of all that - I'd love to see what a 290x can do when it comes to litecoin mining. 30% boost over 7970 level means it should has around 900khas/sec, given the faster memory interface maybe even closer to 1G/hash?
 
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by the way, new Hawaii's Asynchronous Compute Engines structure is identical to PLAYSTATION 4, and 'almost' identical to XBOX ONE... with everything else we've already heard, sounds that AMD was drawing a big picture from the very beginning.


collegeboy69us said:
... I'd love to see what a 290x can do when it comes to litecoin mining. 30% boost over 7970 level means it should has around 900khas/sec, given the faster memory interface maybe even closer to 1G/hash?
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IF it does mining very great, I can imagine a high volume of 290X cards sold out to mine diggers from Day one, and that definitely is not helping to drive down the price... you know.

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With all the 290/x cards being only reference design at release does it even matter what brand you get, will any of them have better component selection?
 
They may be reference design, but the AIB partners still build them.

So it comes down to build quality, warrantee, and RMA effectiveness.
 
Dangerdog said:
With all the 290/x cards being only reference design at release does it even matter what brand you get, will any of them have better component selection?
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There will be custom cards shortly after launch, some reviewers already have some, aka Linus.

The Mac said:
They may be reference design, but the AIB partners still build them.

So it comes down to build quality, warrantee, and RMA effectiveness.
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Unless something has changed in the last year or two, all reference boards for the first few months are from the same manufacturer.
 
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