I won't lie, I'm disappointed. The main fanfare around the live announcement were the new technologies. From what I'm seeing here is the high-mid range will have none of them -wtf? Sure the value is good but NO Mantle.

I can live without true audio, but if Mantle is what it's all cracked up to be then this is mayor strike against investing in these cards. Since if the standard takes of and there is a good chance it will, then a year from now while the R9 290x might be the card to have, the R9 280x will be less then desirable.