AMD Hawaii showcase

[SeekaX]

We won't see that "light up" feature that often since it's a reference card, but it could look pretty cool.

that reference design has a huge flaw. it's red. imagine that card in a rig themed in any color but red, it would just destroy the looks. nvidia does a better job at keeping it universal, i just wish the nvidia logo wouldn't light up green.

 

[PeacefulJoe]

that reference design has a huge flaw. it's red. imagine that card in a rig themed in any color but red, it would just destroy the looks. nvidia does a better job at keeping it universal, i just wish the nvidia logo wouldn't light up green.

I wish I could play everything just from the performance of the integrated graphics.

 

[MrKambo]

AMD Radeon R9 290X to be officially released on October 15th

http://videocardz.com/46186/amd-radeon-r9-290x-officially-released-october-15th

i was hoping to get one like yesterday, dont think i can wait GTX 780hmmmm

 

[Tripp]

its supposed to be $600 so that would be £371, do you think it will be that much or do you think they will just change the $ sign to a £ sign?

 

[MrKambo]

it'll easily be around the £450-£500, ill be horrifically shocked if its any lower

 

[Tripp]

it'll easily be around the £450-£500, ill be horrifically shocked if its any lower

ah there go's to hoping haha, thought i had the money waiting in the bank already.

 

[barnsley]

Here's a picture of the R9 280x with a new xfx cooler on it. Not going to lie it looks quite nice, shame it is from XFX.
http://videocardz.com/46097/xfx-radeon-r9-280x-double-dissipation-pictured

 

[SuB]

looking at that image, the PCB extends in a weird way?

 

[Excalabur50]

It looks like I stand corrected on the cross fire info with regards to these new cards too, as it turns out that they talk to each other thru the PCI-E lanes, should be an interesting concept and will be interesting to see if they perform better in cross fire using this method

 

[ShaunB-91]

looking at that image, the PCB extends in a weird way?

Linus said in his video of it something about the PCB extending. Don't ask me what for though.

 

[SuB]

It looks like I stand corrected on the cross fire info with regards to these new cards too, as it turns out that they talk to each other thru the PCI-E lanes, should be an interesting concept and will be interesting to see if they perform better in cross fire using this method

That sounds like a pci-ex 3.0 only feature to me...

 

[barnsley]

That sounds like a pci-ex 3.0 only feature to me...

AMD leaving out AMD cpu users (due to AMD 'boards having 2.0)? Not surprised tbh... I hope there will be a way round it or that the next cpus they announce have pci 3.0 support.

 

[abakerboi]

That was a guesstimate, I'd be surprised if that was in fact the case...
Ant.:huh:

 

[SuB]

Oh aye, Only guessing as I'd imagine they need SOME reason to move things forward on that front but I was just thinking out loud

 

[Excalabur50]

Actually SuB you may be right as I have heard some others saying why is it only for gen 3 PCI-E maybe they will address that with a bios update for boards with 2.0

 

[SuB]

Guess we'll see

 

[barnsley]

I'm presuming that IF they got it to work on pci 2.0 there'd be some kind of downgrade in performance?

 

[Tripp]

As far as I am aware the difference between pcie 2 and 3 aint noticable until you go trifire/trisli, anandtech did a write up about it a while ago the difference in frames was negligible

 

[Raphael]

I think it will work on pci 2. Because it wouldn't be good for AMD to exclude all their existing cpus from the possibility of 290X crossfire. If it will have a performance hit on pci 2 is something we will have to wait and see.

 

[Silver Sparrow]

its supposed to be $600 so that would be £371, do you think it will be that much or do you think they will just change the $ sign to a £ sign?

Sadly for the UK we need to add 20% VAT to that figure that makes it around ~£450. They'll most likely round up to £500 since they can considering current reference nVidia 780 prices. However you're usually right they simply swap out the currency and laugh their way to the bank.

Here's a picture of the R9 280x with a new xfx cooler on it. Not going to lie it looks quite nice, shame it is from XFX.
http://videocardz.com/46097/xfx-radeon-r9-280x-double-dissipation-pictured

I hate myself for liking the look of that card.