AMD Radeon R9 290 reviews

[Heinz68]

I think it's about time to go back to the OP topic, before this thread gets completely hijacked into "Maxwell Rumors thread" or who is going to buy it.

Read videocardz article about "PowerColor Radeon R9 290 unlocked into R9 290X?"
Note the question mark, the article is based on one user experience, but claiming "So far only PowerColor 290 OC is said to be unlockable".

First from what i did read on few sites, shaders/texture units are laser cut on the 290 therefore they can't be unlocked. Second why are there not many more reports about this shaders unlocking with R9 290X BIOS.

There is always some possibility some chips god mixed up but I doubt this is going to be standard. I don't think AMD would like to see the R9 290 to be even more competitive with the R9 290X. Plus the R9 290 has such good performance/price ratio compared to few other cards there is not need for it.