AMD R9 290X Review

So does anybody have any idea about Nvidia price cuts on the 780 and stuff, or the time frame for third party coolers on the 290x? I really don't want to just rush off and get a 780 this very minute when the possibilities for 290x or a cheaper 780 are so high.
 
dalewakelin said:
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lmao awesome xD
 
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CapitanoMal said:
So does anybody have any idea about Nvidia price cuts on the 780 and stuff, or the time frame for third party coolers on the 290x? I really don't want to just rush off and get a 780 this very minute when the possibilities for 290x or a cheaper 780 are so high.
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I think Nvidia price cuts are rumoured for the same time as the 780ti release in a couple of weeks, just rumours though, nothing official. According to Tom and other places aftermarket coolers for the 290x aren't due until early next year.
So yeah, price cuts for the 780 are most likely going to happen before the aftermarket coolers for the 290x.
 
Mantle is just a low level graphics API similar to those present on consoles. What is so hard to understand? :lol:
 
I'm glad he made the video as brutally honest as he did. After watching TTL's video and Linus Tech Tips I canceled my order on the 290X. They both did a really good job at comparing real life usage scenarios. Most of the glowing reviews compared stock to stock which while fair did not account for all the factory overclocked GTX 780's out there. Which in the next few weeks I imagine will be the same price as the 290X.

My fear with the 290x is it ends up being similar to the AMD 9590 where they have more or less binned out good 290's and they are at the top of their clocks. With that heat and wattage is just all feels very familiar. In the end I'm waiting on two things: water cooled overclocked 290x scores and GTX 780TI benchmarks.
 
Everything addbot. That's the point. While it's in 3D mode, it will ramp fan RPM down and voltages up until it hits 95°C then when that point is hit, it will start adjusting fan speed to keep the card at ~95°C until it switches into 2D mode where Voltages go down again, along with the Fan-speed

Also, Googaly:
Single threaded performance isn't only important because there is one master thread and a couple of worker threads, but also because all those threads need to be kept in Sync by sophisticated mechanisms. It's not always as easy as to just set a Mutex and then chillax.. ;)
 
Wow I missed all this lastnight.. I might go back through and read up on it all but the fact we're at page 16 on default thread view count is making me chuckle..
 
I wouldn't bother SuB, it turned into CPU's and a couple of moans between fanboys. I was going to say I didn't think the PC market was like the console one with the fanboys. :)

Edit: If nobody watched TTL's NEW video on his thoughts of the 290x to clear things up then watch it. Everyone is saying how he only talks about how nice the 770/780/Titan look well he already made the point of the 290x DOES hang in there with the 780 BUT becuase the cooling isn't up to scratch, why not just pay £30 more, and have an MSI Gaming GTX 780, that a. looks nicer (in his opinion), b. it's cooler. c. it's quieter. d. it's the same performance. e. if you overclock then you get 15fps more than the 290x on average!

I can't see how people can't get their heads round it, he's telling it from a if you were to ask me then I'd suggest point of view...which is why we are all here right?
 
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ShaunB-91 said:
I wouldn't bother SuB, it turned into CPU's and a couple of moans between fanboys. I was going to say I didn't think the PC market was like the console one with the fanboys. :)

Edit: If nobody watched TTL's NEW video on his thoughts of the 290x to clear things up then watch it. Everyone is saying how he only talks about how nice the 770/780/Titan look well he already made the point of the 290x DOES hang in there with the 780 BUT becuase the cooling isn't up to scratch, why not just pay £30 more, and have an MSI Gaming GTX 780, that a. looks nicer (in his opinion), b. it's cooler. c. it's quieter. d. it's the same performance. e. if you overclock then you get 15fps more than the 290x on average!

I can't see how people can't get their heads round it, he's telling it from a if you were to ask me then I'd suggest point of view...which is why we are all here right?
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you forgot F - you said yourself that you read all 16pages that means you also read page 14 with my post saying something about lack of vram on the 780 - and that is that battlefield 4 uses more than 3gb vram when you game at 3x 1920x1080 , so no way in hell the 780 is an alternative in this - i think - commen scenario. The upcoming 780 ti better gets a 6gb version cause if it is only 3gb it isn't ok - for me ofcourse (everybody has there own setup) - the only other options are 770 4gb in sli or the titan , and then ofcourse amd with this 290x and probably also the 290 will have 4gb ... but also my 7970 6gb sapphire
 
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I have read somewhere that EKWB have made a waterblock for the R9 290X. Oh please Tom whack one of these on and OC the nuts off it!
 
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