What better way to spend your weekend than to comb over photos and graphs to try and figure out everything you can about the upcoming AMD Hawaii GPU just days before they announce it during a live stream? A collection of leaks including pictures and benchmarks made their way onto the web (they have a way of doing that) from our friends in China. I spotted a post from our buddy Hassan at WCCFTech that detailed much of the information available so far.
The first picture was actually posted by Johan Andersson, lead developer at DICE over Twitter with a not-too-vague comment about Hawaii and Volcanic Islands.
AMD was kind enough to give me an Hawaiian beauty from the Volcanic Islands http://t.co/CSU3Ssv8oi @AMDRadeon
— Johan Andersson (@repi) September 21, 2013
A website with the convenient name of udteam.tistory.com posted images with quite a bit more detail including some with the cooler removed.
The GPU here is apparently going to be called the AMD Radeon R9-290X as AMD shifts to a completely new naming scheme with this generation. We already discussed an interview with AMD's Matt Skynner in which he said the die of Hawaii was 30% smaller than NVIDIA's GTX TITAN and would be more efficient per die area than the GeForce option.
Other specifications that have been compiled (that are still rumors really at this point) include a 512-bit memory interface (quad 128-bit controllers more than likely based on the memory layout), 4GB of GDDR5, 5+1 phase power and 8+6 pin power connections (very reasonable for a flagship). The die size is being estimated at 424 mm2 (larger than Radeon HD 7970 but smaller than TITAN) and price estimates are sitting at $599.
We even found a couple of benchmarks claiming to have performance results of this new beast of a GPU. Though the name of the card on the result is blocked out we are supposed to believe these are results from the AMD R9-290X and they are impressive if true. In both of the graphs here the new Hawaii GPU is faster than the $999 GeForce GTX TITAN at a significantly lower price!
All signs are pointing to AMD's next 28nm GPU to be a high end gamer's dream graphics card. That is, IF all these rumors and leaks turns out to be accurate. We still don't know the key data points like stream processor count, but we'll know it all in due time. (Maybe next week?) We still have concerns about the status of AMD's multi-GPU fixes but if the company can get that worked out in time for this relesae, I expect AMD to make a big splash this fall with a revamped Radeon brand.
With 0 markings on the card,
With 0 markings on the card, got no way to know what this really is this all suspect. If this guy got the card from AMD, i doubt AMD would gave it to him without an NDA.
Console gamer? get the f***
Console gamer? get the f*** of here! this site is intended for PC gamers.. not console gamer (PROVOKER) like you moron!
Im wondering how the hell he
Im wondering how the hell he came out with console is better than PC from this article.
Its sad there are still people out there with that mentality
We’ll have to wait and see
We’ll have to wait and see how far the new R9-290X can hold a reliable 24/7 overclock and compare that to a 1100+ MHz Titan (many can do this) or at least a 1GHz Titan (almost all can do this). Currently only the numbers compared to stock Nvidia cards have to been leaked.
…as for consoles…GTFO. Even the newest gen aren’t any faster than a 5 year old top of the line PC.
As far as AMD’s progress is
As far as AMD’s progress is concerned on releasing new products being it
their Radeon R9 “Hawaii” series gpu nVidia can’t do nothing about it as
of now and probably couldn’t do nothing about it till next year.
Regarding AMD’s sales strategy, prices of the enthusiast to hi-end
segment of the Radeon 7000 series are already slashed down at most
major online Pc and Tech stores including those hi-to-mid level models
and with that, its really hurting nVidia’s profit big time and to make
things worse for nVidia, AMD’s awesome game bundle strategy on their
“Never settle” scheme is also affecting them, in order for nVidia to keep
up when it comes to sales they must slash down their major product’s
prices to a large margin just to be competitive since the
“Price-to-performance” ratio of the enthusiast to hi-end segment of
AMD’s Rad models are hard to beat.
I dont know about nVidia’s strategy and its plans right now as far as
these matters is concerned BUT, talking about NEWS, they have something in
store and they are going to release sometime in the coming weeks and
some Tech sites are already assuming that it’s a new GPU, frankly saying a
lot of peeps dont have any idea whether it’s a dual Titan or dual 780gtx
video card or something a bit new but one thing’s for sure, whatever it is
it’s gonna be faster than Titan and it’s gonna be expensive, tho i could
only guess… 🙂
Actually, I was thinking more
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of other early AMD information …
Like Barcelona and Bulldozer :p
Do we get a free trip to
Do we get a free trip to Hawaii ?
Hoping crossfire problems r
Hoping crossfire problems r fixed and eyefinity with any three ports is an option. Looks like a great card tho, i just hope this new wave of cards doesnt come with a whole new torrent of issues.