Comments on: AMD’s R9 290X Priced at $729.99 on Newegg.com

By: Andrey I. Dorofeev

Andrey I. Dorofeev — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:20:00 +0000

Well from personal experience, and from hearing it from others as well. If you are comparing similar spec CPUs from AMD and Intel, intel renders a few seconds faster. Personally, to me, I wouldn’t pay an extra $200+ just for 3 seconds faster render time. And for advice, I wouldn’t mix AMD with NVidia. From my personal experience, AMD works best with AMD/ATI cards. While intel is better of with NVidia cards.

By: Lewap

Lewap — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 12:16:00 +0000

Borderlands 2 is much funnier with PhysX on

By: JT Drew

JT Drew — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 05:32:00 +0000

I would of chosen an AMD cpu if I wasn’t doing graphic designs on my pc. I rather have intel and I have no problems. I might by an AMD however, I’m leaning towards a 770 due to price but we’ll see how prices change.

By: Devin Wolfe

Devin Wolfe — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 02:36:00 +0000

Physx is just a gimmick.

By: DurkaDerper

DurkaDerper — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 02:27:00 +0000

Be aware of AMD Mantle, if you’re a Battlefield Fan go for the AMD card. Mantle is less about visual and more about performance (At the time of writing about a 15-20% boost over Direct X) which gives an edge to amd on supported games

By: Thuan Duong

Thuan Duong — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:24:00 +0000

I love AMD because of their price, if it just be the same I will buy 780 instead (because nvidia has physx)
Jus my opinion

By: Thuan Duong

Thuan Duong — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:20:00 +0000

the price is so high, AMD really need to improve physx, otherwise i’m not gonna pay $730 for that card, stay with my 7950
Just my opinion.

By: Serpent of Darkness

Serpent of Darkness — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 05:05:00 +0000

Knowing NVidia, they will come out with a partial Maxwell in 2014. Seen it with Fermi on the GTX 400 Series, and the full version was the 500 series. It’s done on GTX Titan (2688 CC) and 780 (2304 CC). Even Titan Ultra (2866 CC) won’t be a full Titan because a full Titan would be a Quantro K6000 Card (2880) in Cuda Core Count. Odds are Maxwell won’t be a full Maxwell in mid 2014. I’m waiting for AMD’s tenefire 2.0 with double the streaming cores on a 22 nm node with that 16 additional computing cores in series… Possibly with improvements made to any possible PCIe-Lane Crossfire…

By: Andrey I. Dorofeev

Andrey I. Dorofeev — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 02:40:00 +0000

I am sure I will still be getting comments saying EVGA only has NVidia after this comment but I know. I already looked into it and read some info. I was mistaken for another aftermarket vendor of the video cards. I cannot recall the name of it at the moment, but it must have looked similar to what EVGA makes since I got them mixed up. Anyways, I did hear EVGA was good, as well as XFX (Pretty much same as EVGA, just with AMD/ATI instead of NVidia?) and stuff. But I do prefer ASUS for most of the products. Yes, I believe that EVGA only focuses on PSU and GPUs. Even though, I would consider their primary market to be the GPUs and not both.

By: Serpent of Darkness

Serpent of Darkness — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 20:51:00 +0000

Elric, you should get a bench on this done, asap, for single and Crossfire setups. Also, address how they fixed Frame Time Latency/Variance (whatever method you decide to discuss runt-frames) in your video, and focus on the possibility of having a PCIe-based Crossfire with 50 Giga-transfers per sec. There’s no Crossfire Bridge-connector on the RX9-290. So, AMD must have figured out a way to make it work through the PCIe Lanes.
For those of you asking the question about the performance of GTX 780 versus GTX Titan Versus 7970 GHZ versus RX9-290. Look at it from this point of view. The GTX Titan and GTX 780 have a performance difference of 15.2%. 7970 GHZ versus RX9-290, the performance difference is roughly 37.5%. The RX9-280 has a smaller gap with the RX9-290 because it’s base clock with turbo is 1267 MHz, dropping it down to 19.38%. There is only a 10.0% to 15.0% performance gap between the old 7970 GHZ and the GTX 780. If the performance of the RX9-290 is more than twice the performance of the 7970 GHZ, the RX9-290, theoretically, it will surpass the GTX 780. Even the RX9-280, which is a 15% performance increase over the 7970 GHZ, will be the GTX 780′s equivalent, or better if you compute the possible 10 to 30% OC headroom that’s associated with AMD Graphic Cards. For example, the RX9-280 could possibly see OC frequencies of 1400 Mhz core with a water-cooling setup.
Sadly though, correlations between FPS and SP on AMD side, isn’t as refined as NVidia’s correlations… I suspect this is more to do with the fact that AMD Cards, still need a lot of work, or there just issues with the GCN. The AMD cards were originally are more tuned for DirectCompute and OpenGL. NVidia is more optimized and scales better with old school APIs…