Amd Volcanic Islands details

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AMD Radeon R9 290X Specifications:
11 CUs (compute units)
44 SMIDs (11 per CU)
2,816 stream processors
176 TMUs (Texture Mapping Units)
44 ROPs (Raster Operating Units)
4GB GDDR5 VRAM (6GB models will come later) ? according to Softpedia
5+1+1 phase design (5 Phase Core and 1 Phase memory)
2 x DVI ports
1 x HDMI
1 x DisplayPort
8-Pin plus 6-Pin power connectors (300W TDP)

http://videocardz.com/46006/amd-rade...rmed-costs-600

What's with AMD not showing any performance numbers but giving a pre-order date. I might get one of these cards but I am not going to preorder blindly.

Also I am surprised AMD didn't use the worlds fastest GPU moniker(which they have done repeatedly in the past) instead of our fastest GPU. The boost clocks appear to be a lot different this time around. A 200 mhz range in boost clocks seems more Nvidia like than before.

If I was AMD and had the world's fastest GPU, I would give performance figures. The lack of details for the 290x but the inclusion of details for their other cards is simply odd.

Its is kind of a spit in the face to Nvidia that this thing fully supports 11.2 directx while Nvidia only has up to 11.0 or pseudo 11.1 up to this point.

The 270watt heat and the general loudness of their past generation to cool a lesser GPU with a similar stock cooler, would atleast to me prevent me from pre-ordering a stock PCB one, even if I did know the performance figures. This thing is likely going to need an upgraded PCB and a better cooler to do some serious overclocking. With the huge boost clock variation that is likely temperature controlled, ones going to want a good cooler on this thing for it to maintain high boost clocks.