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AMD Radeon R9 Graphics Cards Facing Supply, not Demand, Issues
AMD’s graphics cards have been in short supply for the past 3 months or so. The market has hoovered up the old stock from the HD 7000 series at knock-down prices and most of the stock from the high end R9 series including pretty much every R9 290X, R9 290…
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Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X 4GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction When the AMD R9 290X hit the market everyone was impressed with the fantastic value for money offered – performance that could challenge and often easily beat the GTX 780 for a fraction of the price at the time of release. Nvidia of course responded with price cuts but…
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Pics And Insights About GIGABYTE’s Radeon R9 290X And R9 290 WindForce 3X Released
Gigabyte apparently has two custom Radeon R9 290 series cards with WindForce 3X 450W cooling system in the works, according to VideoCardz. The new Radeon R9 290 and 290X graphic cards will be clocked at 1040 MHz, a 40 MHz gain for the 290X and a 93 MHz for the…
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Battlefield 4 Graphics Performance Overview With Current Generation GPUs
Introduction Battlefield 4 has been one of the biggest game releases so far this year for gamers on all gaming platforms. The FPS title from EA and DICE has got off to a relatively shaky start with numerous audio, graphical and gameplay problems across the various platforms it was released…
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Sapphire Announce Their Competitively Priced AMD Radeon R9 290
The current wave of AMD R9 290 graphics card releases, that started today with the R9 290’s official launch – check out our review here, are just reference designs with different partner stickers on. This will be the case until AMD lifts the rumoured non-reference embargo on its partners. Once…
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AMD R9 290 4GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction The launch of AMD’s R9 290X last week was interesting as it certainly stirred up the graphics card market and industry. Following the launch arguing between readers occurred in abundance across many review sites, not just our own. Where I stand in this debate is that AMD have really…
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AMD R9 290X & R9 280X Vs Nvidia GTX Titan & GTX 780
Introduction ***Please see our latest 4K Gaming article here which adds GTX 780 Ti, GTX 780 Ti SLI and R9 290X CFX to the mix*** With GPUs getting more and more powerful and 4K monitors becoming available for consumer purchase we thought we’d use AMD’s R9 290X launch as a spring-board to…
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Rumour: Nvidia’s GTX 780 Ti Will Cost $649 To Rival AMD’s R9 290X
According to Sweclockers the GTX 780 Ti will be priced at the same level as the GTX 780 currently is in order to compete more effectively with the AMD R9 290X. Apparently the GTX 780 Ti will cost $649 to compete with the AMD R9 290X which is expected to…
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Radeon R9 290 And R9 290X Launch Dates Revealed
VideoCardz.com claims to have scored the embargo lift dates of the AMD Radeon R9 290 and R9 290X graphics cards. According to a forum post, which they sourced from Cardpu, AMD employee “Chris Li” has stated the NDA lift dates are as pictured above. If these rumoured dates are accurate we…
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AMD Reveals TrueAudio Technology To Improve Gaming Audio
AMD revealed a new technology at its GPU 14 press event which it will be launching for three of its new GPUs. The AMD R9-290X, R9-290 and R7-260X GPUs will all support AMD’s new TrueAudio technology. AMD claims that its programmable audio engine will revolutionise gaming audio by giving game…
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AMD Details R9 290 Architecture And Performance Metrics
While AMD chose not to disclose any raw specifications when it officially unveiled the R9 290 series just a few moments ago they did disclose some metrics about the performance and architecture which hints at performance. Starting off AMD says that the R9 290 series has improved energy efficiency over…
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Watch The AMD GPU 14 Product Show Case Live Stream Right Here
AMD’s Live Stream for the GPU 14 event still hasn’t got under-way yet due to some technical difficulties but if you want to check the Live Stream out (when it does finally work) then we’ve got all the links you’ll need right below so you don’t need to do anything!…
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AMD R9-290X “Hawaii” GPU Specs Revealed
3Dcenter.org has managed to get its hand on some key information about the new AMD flagship graphics card the R9-290X. Based on the Hawaii chip this GPU succeeds the Tahiti series (HD 7900) and features a die area of 430mm² which is 18% bigger than Tahiti. The Hawaii GPU has…
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HIS Website Leaks Details Of Upcoming AMD GPUs
The guys over at WCCFTech have managed to grab some details of AMD’s upcoming Volcanic Islands GPU family via the HIS website. We tried to explain the new GPU naming system a while back but now we can bring you the exact naming of these new graphics cards from AMD. The…
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