Graphics AMD R290X GPU - Titan Killer

Im really pleased with my purchase of a 7970 1 year ago for £250. Great performance (and still trades blows with the competition) runs really cool and the drivers have been spot on.

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Tom I play Jojnt Operations mainly which is Direct 9 and its been brilliant. I have been lucky maybe and even when running dual screen it's been brill

 

rollo - im stunned your calling something that has been in retail for a total of 4 months - old.

 

lol he ain't far wrong as these days things get upgraded so damn quickly

 

Ah yeah, that's a really old game (2004?) so you won't really see the effects there.

 

lol and CoD4 but I think it works better with the 7970 on crossfire. Not tried the 7990 yet but was tempted. Will get two of these maybe

 

780 is just a updated 680 not new architecture or anything special in that reguard. Still a Kepler Gpu. AMDs new launch is actual new architecture not just updated from older stuff.

The speed tech is moving today is crazy, look at your smartphone 2 years back single core CPU and maybe under 512mb ram was the norm. Now we in duel core , quad core and even 8 core on some phones.

Graphics tech has come on a lot as well in 4-5 years.

 

780 is a new chip, it's not related to the 680.

The 770 is the 680 rebranded.

 

Reliable source told me a month ago that the price point will be $600 no specs given but will be a Titan Killer. That is if his information was correct

If so I know what I am buying!

 

Leaked information is on hexus: http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/60465-have-amd-hawaii-r9-290x-benchmarks-pics-leaked/

 

I think that people are moving the goalposts a bit. Being a Titan killer isn't that impressive. It's at best a 30% increase from GK104 (50% in VRAM situations and memory limited situations) on a normal basis.

Being a Titan killer isn't that impressive given that the 7970 Ghz edition can get close to it.

 

I think the phrase "Titan Killer" is being bandied about because the Titan was ridiculously priced and made to seem, in some ways, like the Holy Grail of Nvidia GPUs, and the 780 is just a cut-down Titan. While the 7970Ghz does get close; AMD releasing a New GPU that can, in most cases, flat out surpass a Titan for around half the price is certainly an achievement to be celebrated. The Titan itself commanded way too high a price premium for how it performed anyhow.

 

So just the PR machine working like intended.

The Titan though is more a prosumer card anyways. A Psuedo Quadro mini for those who didn't want to shell out the money for all the purported testing for a Quadro. That is to say: for a gamer, the Titan was never a smart or logical proposition, Especially given the GTX780's near equivalence to it. But for those who wanted all the extra FP64 and FP32 processing bits, it definitely might have been worth the cost.

It's akin to the 8800 Ultra vs. 8800GTX debate of yore. It wasn't THAT much better, but it was the top of the line.

I'll say that if AMD can pull at 50%+ hat, it'll make Nvidia blush with embarrassment. If.

 

The only thing I'm really excited for is something coming out that will put the high-end price skew back into the realm of sanity. Nvidia launching the 780 at $650 is downright ridiculous.

 

not ridiculous when their only competitor has no answer to GK110

they priced it where they priced it, and it is selling very well

 

Exactly. It's not surprising AMD can match the Titan, it's disappointing it has taken so long to do so! That time gap left NVIDIA in the position of being able to charge high prices with no competition.

 

Why is it disappointing? They've always said their new cards would launch in Q4, and the Titan is a $1000 part. I don't really want to see AMD focusing their efforts into creating $1000 GPUs mid cycle to compete with Nvidia. I would much rather they focus on cards people can actually afford.

 

The 290 bodes well though for more releases. Obviously, we'll get the proper details tomorrow, but I am exceptionally excited to see what they have to offer with the 285

 

maybe NVidia shouldn't have taken so long to beat the 7970 then? since it took NVidia over a year ! remember the 7970 was launched jan 2012....