Considering the 290X cant even keep baseclocks without throttle. Its simply a broken card that needs RMA.
I am not surprised that you would dump all over anything that is made by AMD.Do you even point out the good points of anything AMD?We still have to see if an aftermarket can keep it cool without water. The 7990 is also notorious known for its overheating.
But so far, the 290X is nothing but a benchmark card that cant keep up performance in prolonged gaming.
You have changed:awe:!!!!!Most impressive from AMD. Excellent performance and a pull the rug out from under pricing scheme. Anxious to see what the 290 could do and for how much.
Kudos AMD!! Well done!
$550 is absolutely awesome, but just as people said about the 680, looks like AMD pushed Hawaii to it's max to get that performance crown and good press. Thermals, powe draw, and noise is absolutely ridiculous.
Anyways, 10% faster than gtx780. Most of nvidia's products need a huge price cut.
What was that german site doing an average of all reviews for a given card?
Heh AMDs Fermi. I like the price on it however. This will put pressue on Nvidia to lower prices.
We still have to see if an aftermarket can keep it cool without water. The 7990 is also notorious known for its overheating.
But so far, the 290X is nothing but a benchmark card that cant keep up performance in prolonged gaming.
I think this fermi will be much more widely accepted than nvidia's fermi. Reason being is this kicked in the front door for those that wanted high end performance but generally consider $500 to be the stopping point. Sure it's $50 more than that but I'll give a little leeway considering inflation and die prices going up. All in all I think this is giving way more value than the previous flagships that wanted $500.
That may be but the performance of Fermi was about 10-20% more than the competition at the cost of heat, power, and noise levels. Much like this beast. Funny how people tune changed since then
What I don't yet appreciate is why it manages to be this fast and hot. It's got a lot less transistors than the 780/titan and is quite a bit smaller die size wise and yet the end result is it produces a lot more power consumption and gets similar performance.
That may be but the performance of Fermi was about 10-20% more than the competition at the cost of heat, power, and noise levels. Much like this beast. Funny how people tune changed since then
Haswell comes to mind.
I'll wait for aftermarket cooler reviews before coming to a conclusion on the card, but right now it runs HOT and uses some serious juice. A lot of people say, "Who cares about that extra 30W of power consumption?" Well, the thermal design engineers do, and it looks like they dropped the ball on this reference cooler. I have to wonder if they even used any FEA at all?
Performance is definitely there, especially at 4K (although I think it is a little premature to add 4K resolutions to reviews, considering the monitor cost).
I'm curious as to how the 290 will perform, and what the temperature and power consumption numbers will look for that.
It would be wise to wait for Nvidia response before jumping on this card "just because its faster". If you don't need a card right this minute, i would wait till at least end next month.
Rumblings are already starting about nvidia doing price cuts before the 780Ti is released.
I like the idea of thermal bottleneck being limiting factor when overclocking. Tweaking airflow, custom cooling, watercooling, all are great fun - much better than the chip lottery we had before.
Too late. They should have thought of the consumer long before amd brought out the titan slayer aka 290x. If anyone wants to support a company that is giving the pc gaming community fair pricing again then you should support amd. Period.