Radeon R9 290X Pictured, Tested, Beats Titan

erocker · Sep 27, 2013

KranK_ said:
Where are the benchmarks of the Titan beating the R9 290X? The Titan beats it in quite a few benchmarks.If this is all ATI has...they are in trouble.

How so? We're working on leaked and rumored benchmarks that seem to be saying just the opposite.

TRWOV · Sep 27, 2013

KranK_ said:
Where are the benchmarks of the Titan beating the R9 290X? The Titan beats it in quite a few benchmarks.If this is all ATI has...they are in trouble.

At the price point that the R9 290X is rumored to be, losing a few (or even a lot) benchmarks to Titan wouldn't matter.

KranK_ · Sep 27, 2013

amdftw said:
Titanfall, booom!

Its about as fast as an overclocked GTX 780....why are people impressed by that?

TRWOV said:
At the price point that the R9 290X is rumored to be, losing a few (or even a lot) benchmarks to Titan wouldn't matter.

I'm underwhelmed by the R9 290X....thought it would be much faster.

erocker said:
How so? We're working on leaked and rumored benchmarks that seem to be saying just the opposite.

http://www.game-debate.com/blog/index.php?b_id=9080&author=Syed1234&title=R9 290 X few benchmarks.

PopcornMachine · Sep 27, 2013

How can anyone be underwhelmed or overwhelmed?

Or whelmed in any manner?

We haven't see any real verified independent testing!?!?

HammerON · Sep 27, 2013

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EarthDog · Sep 28, 2013

KranK_ said:
http://www.game-debate.com/blog/index.php?b_id=9080&author=Syed1234&title=R9 290 X few benchmarks.

why are all those games tested with no AA? Not sure how much that will change things but i dont know anyone that buys a $600-$1000 gpu that doesn't use AA. Silly testing there.

sweet · Oct 2, 2013

EarthDog said:
why are all those games tested with no AA? Not sure how much that will change things but i dont know anyone that buys a $600-$1000 gpu that doesn't use AA. Silly testing there.

Completely agree :toast:

One of the improvement of R9 290X comparing to 7970 is the addition of 2 more raster engines, which help a lot in high AA situations. Benching the card with no AA is simply pointless.

anubis44 · Oct 13, 2013

m6tzg6r said:
Who cares if it beats a titan, many of my games had issues with amd, with nvidia my problems were solved.

Funny. I had to go from a GTX670 to a Radeon 7950 to solve issues with my 3 monitor setup, so go figure.

john_ · Oct 13, 2013

The funny thing here is that if Mantle succeeds and if AMD with the help of the consoles becomes the primary platform for developing games, in 2-3 years we will be blaming Nvidia for their unstable and buggy drivers. Not to mention if AMD starts... influencing developers the way Nvidia was meant to influence them in the past.

de.das.dude · Oct 13, 2013

man so much BS from people who have not even used AMD in the last couple of years.
they have really changed and are doing their best with drivers. i havent had a major issue in a long time. true people have diff driver versions that they stick to, but they are continually trying. and TAKING FEEDBACK.

tbh, i had more driver probs with my gts450 than i ever did with my HD 4650 or my current 7790.
my GTS450 might have even actually even died from the 14. something drivers.

NeoXF · Oct 13, 2013

de.das.dude said:
man so much BS from people who have not even used AMD in the last couple of years.
they have really changed and are doing their best with drivers. i havent had a major issue in a long time. true people have diff driver versions that they stick to, but they are continually trying. and TAKING FEEDBACK.

tbh, i had more driver probs with my gts450 than i ever did with my HD 4650 or my current 7790.
my GTS450 might have even actually even died from the 14. something drivers.

Exactly what I've kept saying.

My friend with his HD 4770 had absolutely no issues with it in the 4 years he's had it, except for the it being built cheap, since it as a model Gigabyte cheaped out on and used less VRAs and low quality VRAM... and that has nothing to do with AMD.

Another friend of mine is building a i7 4820K rig right now, and he'll be going for a R9 280X CFX, can't wait to bench that beast.

As for me, I don't know what I'll be getting, I want to see the price/performance both Hawaiis bring, and if it's better than a GTX 770 (what I originally wanted, now irrelevant because of R9 280X), I'll save up for one of them.

THE_EGG · Oct 13, 2013

de.das.dude said:
man so much BS from people who have not even used AMD in the last couple of years.
they have really changed and are doing their best with drivers. i havent had a major issue in a long time. true people have diff driver versions that they stick to, but they are continually trying. and TAKING FEEDBACK.

tbh, i had more driver probs with my gts450 than i ever did with my HD 4650 or my current 7790.
my GTS450 might have even actually even died from the 14. something drivers.

Do agree, I'm looking to change to AMD next from Nvidia even though I used to be a Nvidia fanboy. Too many issues in the past year that have been (at least I think) driver related with my card. Before that it was great though.

micropage7 · Oct 13, 2013

de.das.dude said:
man so much BS from people who have not even used AMD in the last couple of years.
they have really changed and are doing their best with drivers. i havent had a major issue in a long time. true people have diff driver versions that they stick to, but they are continually trying. and TAKING FEEDBACK.

tbh, i had more driver probs with my gts450 than i ever did with my HD 4650 or my current 7790.
my GTS450 might have even actually even died from the 14. something drivers.

really? i just feel more comfortable with nvidia driver and so far i feel like its little bit more stable than AMD
but if AMD could make stable and simple driver i consider to try this card

the54thvoid · Oct 13, 2013

NeoXF said:
I want to see the price/performance both Hawaiis bring, and if it's better than a GTX 770 (what I originally wanted, now irrelevant because of R9 280X), I'll save up for one of them.

It should blow the 770 out of the water in performance but expect pricing at 25-35% higher.

radrok · Oct 13, 2013

the54thvoid said:
It should blow the 770 out of the water in performance but expect pricing at 25-35% higher.

Well I would atleast expect that! :toast:

anubis44 · Oct 13, 2013

dom99 said:
I'm selling my 6950 to get one of these, but only if the price is what I deem to be reasonable.

I have always had good experiences with ATI/AMD cards from starting with the HD 4850.

Yes, the 4850 was the most kick-ass card to come out of ATI/AMD since the 9800. That card restored my confidence in AMD. For $190 in September of 2008, AMD gave you a card that could thoroughly crush a 9800GT, so I recommended it to my friends, and they all bought 4850s. My best friend only just recently finally retired his single-slot Diamond 4850 (this past September) with a 7870 (a Gigabyte Windforce 7870 on sale for <$200)! That means his 4850 served his gaming needs for 5 solid years. It still works perfectly, and I'm planning on putting it in my father-in-law's computer, as he really doesn't even need what it can do, but it'll be a nice step up from the ancient nVidia 6600GT currently in his machine.

anubis44 · Nov 13, 2013

micropage7 said:
really? i just feel more comfortable with nvidia driver and so far i feel like its little bit more stable than AMD
but if AMD could make stable and simple driver i consider to try this card

My 7950 has been rock solid stable in all my games since I bought it. AMD's drivers are excellent these days, and it looks like they're going to stay that way, as the new management seems to have gotten their act together.

Xzibit · Nov 13, 2013

anubis44 said:
My 7950 has been rock solid stable in all my games since I bought it. AMD's drivers are excellent these days, and it looks like they're going to stay that way, as the new management seems to have gotten their act together.

I agree.

Being a long time EVGA Nvidia buyer I can appreciate that when I had a issue all I had to do was fill out a report and next driver release the issue was fixed and hasn't show up since.
Something I got use to being fix or broken with every Nvidia driver update.

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