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But from another perspective, its specs are basically a slightly more than doubled Pitcairn, but power consumption actually goes higher than what it supposes to have, so that's rather disappointing. It seems AMD GCN GPUs are great efficiency performer at low and mainstream level, but getting worse as it scaled upward. The opposite happens with NVidia's Kepler GPU family, GK 106 & 108 are meh, but GK 104 is great, and the upcoming GK 180 is just as good.
Well theres that, cooler is also a fail, and probably part of the reason its so hot, thing is i think they pushed it just this little more too far to just eek out the titan, undervolting just a bit with better cooler and i think its gonna be awesome for this amount of die area.I undervolt while overclocking pretty much everything from AMD, but then cooling must be appropriate.
Anyhow, at that price.Its just all round great.They are probably gonna set R290 clocks lower, im very interested how much they will be able to lower V and power consumption with that.