Radeon R9 290 Performance Figures Leaked, Beats GTX 780

[Mattriz]

If already posted, just delete it.

 

If these performance numbers posted by credible reviewers at OCUK hold up, then AMD could have a second, more affordable graphics card for you, which outperforms NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 780, at least in synthetic benchmarks. In a brief performance run that spans synthetic tests, which included Unigine Heaven 3.0 at 1080p and 1440p resolutions, with normal level of tessellation; 3DMark 11 (performance preset) and 3DMark Fire Strike (both Normal and Extreme); the card we believe to be R9 290 (name blurred out in the graphs) is consistently faster than the GeForce GTX 780 reference, in the same bench. 

Based on the same 28 nm "Hawaii" silicon as the Radeon R9 290X, the R9 290 is its more affordable sibling, featuring 2,560 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 4 GB of memory. It features clock speeds of 947 MHz (core), and 5.00 GHz (memory, GDDR5-effective). There's no word on pricing, but it could be available from the 31st of October, 2013.

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/193205/radeon-r9-290-performance-figures-leaked-beats-gtx-780.html

[Mo5]

Hopefully it will OC like a beast and still manage to beat 780 in LMG methodology

[TheRuke]

"Leaked"? Dude it's been tested by Linus himself -.-

 

I'm stoopid

[Mo5]

"Leaked"? Dude it's been tested by Linus himself -.-

That was the 290X not the 290

[ShadyHost]

290x and 290 both do not have very much headroom for overclocking

The 780 does. 

 

290x/290 both come in at a nice price point but I changed my stance on the possibility of Nvidia dropping prices. They don't need to. 

I am still interested in getting a 290x to replace my 780 because of Mantle and Battlefield 4 performance. BF4 is probably one of my last games before I stop playing games all together. 

[TheRuke]

That was the 290X not the 290

Balls someone caught me before I made the changes

[miyabwah]

Huh. I guess a letter "X" really doesn't make a difference.

[Coombzy]

well I think I found my new card either that or a 7990 if crossfire gets completely fixed they are really cheap now.

[Blake]

290x and 290 both do not have very much headroom for overclocking

The 780 does. 

 

290x/290 both come in at a nice price point but I changed my stance on the possibility of Nvidia dropping prices. They don't need to. 

I am still interested in getting a 290x to replace my 780 because of Mantle and Battlefield 4 performance. BF4 is probably one of my last games before I stop playing games all together. 

Actually the 290X has plenty of headroom for overclocking, the stock cooler does not however.

[fishymamba]

Yeah, I want to know how the 290X will do with a Twin Frozr cooler and a custom PCB with a high phase count power delivery system.

[MrSuperb]

 

Radeon R9 290 Performance Figures Leaked, Beats GTX 780

 

Not even the R9 290x does

[MrSuperb]

Actually the 290X has plenty of headroom for overclocking, the stock cooler does not however.

 

really? It is not just the cooler, the R290x just draws more power (resulting) on standard clocks, then a 780 oced ...

[LOLPhilips]

Actually the 290X has plenty of headroom for overclocking, the stock cooler does not however.

 

As bad as the stock cooler is. You still don't know how much better its gonna clock with third party coolers