AMD R9-290X has been released

here is the review:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_290X/

it outperforms titan by a little bit in most tests, and its darn near half the cost!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814161438
$549

vs TITAN
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130899
$1019

only problem really seen on the 290x is the heat and power consumption. its crazy high.

i really want to pick up two of these bad boys but i want to wait until December when mantel is added to battlefield 4 (should give a decent performance boost to anyone using a HD7XXX series card or newer) as well as the frame pacing driver amd is hopefully releasing soon.

[dflynn]

GTX for the Win!

[cobra_86]

GTX for the Win!

I got the R9 280X, and running Render.Perfoverlayvisible 1, finally shows my GPU and CPU running dead even finally. Before my GPU graph line was way above the CPU one, and I only run a couple things on high after reading about some video settings that really make no difference. So far so good, I love the card.