AMD To Show Off Radeon R9 290X Video Card in Montreal Oct. 17

[hyrule4927]

I'm pretty sure it's designed to run at 95C in quiet mode. That's fan a 40% I believe. I'm sure it will not be nearly that high with a normal fan speed.

That makes sense. Wouldn't power consumption be higher in quiet mode, due to the higher temperatures? Of course that might be offset by higher boost clocks, depending on how this rendition of boost will work.

 

[Abwx]

Looking at R9 280X pricing of $299, it seems odd if R9 290 was >$500. That would leave a very large pricing gap.

They can fill it with a sub 290 offering if ever
they use harvested chips with 2816 - 512 = 2304 SPs ,
they just need some time to collect enough of theses
partly functional chips.

 

[DSey]

I think they'll release at the same prices as the 7950 and 7970 did. Those seem to be prices people are willing to spend on single gpu AMD cards. Any more than that and they'll tend to look at Nvidia because it's a stronger brand name.