r9 290 to r9 290x

[Guest]

Both 290 and 290x have true audio. The rest of the r9 lineup (x or not) has no true audio since they're old gpus.

Thanks for correcting me

[TheRuke]

Both 290 and 290x have true audio. The rest of the r9 lineup (x or not) has no true audio since they're old gpus.

Doesn't the 260X or 270X also have it?

[Levent]

Doesn't the 260X or 270X also have it?

"AMD True Audio only is available at the R7 260X and the upcoming Radeon R9-290 and R9-290X." source

[delet my acc pls]

I thought the X models had true audio? Which was a hardware implementation?

290 290X and 260X have true audio.

[lhikari]

very interesting

[Humbug]

"AMD True Audio only is available at the R7 260X and the upcoming Radeon R9-290 and R9-290X." source

It's also available on an older card- the 7790. Just that AMD didn't tell us.

[Nicktrance]

Doesn't the 260X or 270X also have it?

 

That's why I said r9 lineup the 260X is an r7 and the 270X won't be getting true audio because it's a Piledriver GPU stright from an HD 7870GHz  :lol: . 

[RatedBlam]

Pretty neat since the 7950 wasn't bios flashable to a 7970

[James_AJ]

Already posted....

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/76263-r9-290-unlocked-to-290x/

[James_AJ]

PowerColor Radeon R9 290 unlocked into R9 290X?

 

 

 

 

http://videocardz.com/47971/powercolor-radeon-r9-290-unlocked-r9-290x

 

Haven't had the time to read it through because i wanted to share it with you guys as fast as possible.

[delet my acc pls]

if this is true the R9 290 is official INSANE value

I thoght the 290 was insane before this.

[Butterfish]

Already posted....

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/76263-r9-290-unlocked-to-290x/

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[Kuzma]

I thoght the 290 was insane before this.

same but now it's insaner (not a thing but they made it one)

[Scorpius]

This is more than likely something AMD does to keep products that fail a certain QC test they internally run. Same as they did for previous CPUs, if the cores don't perform as required they just turn them off and sell them as a slightly lower end product. Now you might still be able to turn those back on and more than likely not notice any loss compared to the 290X but it's probably there even if it is miniscule.

[xkronusx]

Considering i unlocked my Asus radeon 6950 direct cu II ---> 6970 i am really not surprised.

 

But i can imagine there will be issues with temperatures at least, not to mention stability. With my card

either i can have it clocked super high as a 6950 or unlock it to a 6970 and moderately clock it otherwise

it becomes super unstable. I'm assuming 290's are they way they are for the same reasons as past generations,

that being that they aren't up to snuff. So as much as unlocking it will get you extra power, don't

expect it to be super stable.

[Robinvv]

so here is a dutch article that shows how to bios-flash the 290 to a 290x

 

http://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/37813/amd-radeon-r9-290-naar-r9-290x-met-bios-flash

 

im fairly new to forums so sorry if i did something wrong

[LOLPhilips]

you should have probably posted this in the original thread, now you're just double posting..

But its nice for dutchies to have that little extra intel

[AidenNeill]

are you deciding which one to get ?

[Robinvv]

are you deciding which one to get ?

no im waiting for maxwell

[LOLPhilips]

no im waiting for maxwell

 

Good choice, cards this generation are nice. But I have not been given to much reason to make the switch, I hope (and suspect) next year's cards are gonna do so..

[Eroda]

20nm is going to be where its at hopefully they can nearly double the cores in the GPU without many complications, and have a large jump in performance

[Butterfish]

lol why is my topic inside of this?

[hiyayhi]

Arrrr. This is intuiging considering the r9 290 has less cores than the 290x and they generally make the cards with lazered off cores unlike in the HD6000 series.

 

Unless they have repeated that and made every gamer / hacker super happy?

[Skanic]

I heard someone was able to flash a 290 into a 290X and also unlock the shaders and stream processors.

[KakaoDj]

There is a really good thread on Overclock.net on this, almost all powercolor 290's were able to be flashed, but there are some weird readings  on GPU-Z. I.e only showing 28xx shaders when in-game and going back to 25xx when on desktop.