AMD To Show Off Radeon R9 290X Video Card in Montreal Oct. 17

[3DVagabond]

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If you’re in Montreal tomorrow you can get a sneak peak at the upcoming AMD Radeon HD R9 290X video card running on a 4K monitor! AMD will be hosting a public event at the Hilton Bonaventure hotel in the Jacques-Cartier meeting room in downtown Montreal, Canada. There is an open door policy in the afternoon for gamers between 3pm to 8pm that would like to get a true hands-on gaming experience with the new ‘Hawaii’ powered GPU. AMD informed us that they will have systems running both the AMD Radeon R9 290X and the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 780, so you can do some comparisons when you are there. AMD will be running “Bioshock Infinite” at 4K resolutions during the event.

Head to head with the 780 (not Titan). Hopefully some reliable press will be there to bring us a report.

 

[GaiaHunter]

I doubt numbers will be allowed.

 

[MeldarthX]

I doubt numbers will be allowed.

Who knows; but should be very interesting.....lol I just want to see reviews so I can decide if I'm picking up 290 or not just yet

 

[SiliconWars]

Head to head with the 780 because it beats the 780 in everything while it loses to Titan in some. Makes sense, also it's possible that more people know about the 780 than they do Titan, with the *80 historically being Nvidia's top dog.

I'm sure they'll show fraps of each running side by side. Edit, just Bioshock...wonder if they are planning on swamping the 780's memory at 4K, that would be a low blow lol.

 

[GaiaHunter]

Who knows; but should be very interesting.....lol I just want to see reviews so I can decide if I'm picking up 290 or not just yet

At 4K I bet all those ROPs will help quite a bit.

 

[RussianSensation]

Head to head with the 780 because it beats the 780 in everything while it loses to Titan in some.

I don't think AMD considers the Titan a gaming card. The vast majority of PC gamers are going to be looking at after-market 780s vs. after-market R9 290X. Titan is a completely waste of $ for gamers in light of MSI Lightning/ EVGA Classified, etc. Those who want the Titan for compute aren't going to care for R9 290X either since they use CUDA.

Disappointing that AMD will only use 1 game in the comparison.

 

[3DVagabond]

I don't think AMD considers the Titan a gaming card. The vast majority of PC gamers are going to be looking at after-market 780s vs. after-market R9 290X. Titan is a completely waste of $ for gamers in light of MSI Lightning/ EVGA Classified, etc. Those who want the Titan for compute aren't going to care for R9 290X either since they use CUDA.

Disappointing that AMD will only use 1 game in the comparison.

Still keeping their cards close to the vest. Just enough info to make people want more. Not enough to draw any real conclusions.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Seems like another silly and bad planned event. Most sites already removed preorder options due to how this entire disasterous event have unfolded. And they keep prolonging it for no positive reason. Something really went terrible wrong in the PR planning.

 

[chimaxi83]

Seems like another silly and bad planned event. Most sites already removed preorder options due to how this entire disasterous event have unfolded. And they keep prolonging it for no positive reason. Something really went terrible wrong in the PR planning.

And all will be forgotten when the 290s are the top dogs.

I never want to watch another AMD livestream though. Waste of a couple hours of my life.

 

[el etro]

Seems like another silly and bad planned event. Most sites already removed preorder options due to how this entire disasterous event have unfolded. And they keep prolonging it for no positive reason. Something really went terrible wrong in the PR planning.

Totally agree here. AMD need to liberate the aftermarket design for the 290X too... Nvidia have to launch the 785 to end all of this non-custom bullshit.

 

[sontin]

And it will be much more worse if nVidia announces something new today.

Instead of a release they now comparing their new top dog to a 5 months old card. Wow. :thumbsup:

 

[Rvenger]

And it will be much more worse if nVidia announces something new today.

Instead of a release they now comparing their new top dog to a 5 months old card. Wow. :thumbsup:

What's wrong with more choice?

 

[Skurge]

Seems like another silly and bad planned event. Most sites already removed preorder options due to how this entire disasterous event have unfolded. And they keep prolonging it for no positive reason. Something really went terrible wrong in the PR planning.

I don't know where you have been, but more and more sites have them on pre-order. Even Amazon. So please stop twisting facts.

I will agree, that I have no idea what the heck they are trying to do here cause it's not working for me.

But as keys would say, any publicity is good publicity and if you look around the web. This is all that is being talked about. Leaked benches, pricing, Mantle, TrueAudio, etc.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I don't know where you have been, but more and more sites have them on pre-order. Even Amazon. So please stop twisting facts.

So when places like Newegg removes preorders?

I dont know if the search is localized, but I couldnt find an amazon preorder.

 

[Stuka87]

So when places like Newegg removes preorders?

I dont know if the search is localized, but I couldnt find an amazon preorder.

In my experience, NewEgg never allows pre-orders. They just throw the cards up on their site, add $20 bucks on top of them, and lets people fight over them.

 

[Rvenger]

In my experience, NewEgg never allows pre-orders. They just throw the cards up on their site, add $20 bucks on top of them, and lets people fight over them.

Nobody is allowing preorders in the US. You are buying a product that is out of stock and in inventory as a placeholder with markup. If AMD were to decide to price the cards at $700, that $570 order you placed last week will be cancelled.

 

[thilanliyan]

And it will be much more worse if nVidia announces something new today.

Instead of a release they now comparing their new top dog to a 5 months old card. Wow. :thumbsup:

Going by your logic, the 780 and all cards below that level were absolute rubbish when you compare to Titan right since they came after Titan?

AMD and nVidia are stuck on the same process node. Until TSMC can get everything in order, we are going to be stuck with smaller gains.

 

[sontin]

The thing is Titan and GTX780 are 2012 products. Computerbase.de's review sample of the GTX780 had a chip which was produced in september 2012(!).

And now AMD is comparing their new card to another one which is literally over a year old...

 

[Erenhardt]

The thing is Titan and GTX780 are 2012 products. Computerbase.de's review sample of the GTX780 had a chip which was produced in september 2012(!).

And now AMD is comparing their new card to another one which is literally over a year old...

So? It is older, it is slower, but still more expensive and people find bunch of excuses for nvidia.

ohh..cry me a river!

 

[sontin]

What? How can something be "more expensive" when the comparision has not even a price?!

And the only reason it's "more expensive" is/was the impressive no show from AMD in the last 8 months.

 

[thilanliyan]

The thing is Titan and GTX780 are 2012 products. Computerbase.de's review sample of the GTX780 had a chip which was produced in september 2012(!).

And now AMD is comparing their new card to another one which is literally over a year old...

What difference does it make when the chip was manufactured? When were you able to BUY a 780? After Titan, and certainly not more than a year ago. You've changed your argument from "5 months old card" to "over a year old".

Again, is the 780 a rubbish card because it came after Titan and was slower? I don't think so but by your logic it should be.

 

[Creig]

What? How can something be "more expensive" when the comparision has not even a price?!

And the only reason it's "more expensive" is/was the impressive no show from AMD in the last 8 months.

Please, just stop, Sontin.

It will all come down to price/performance. If the price/performance of the new AMD series compares favorably against the price/performance of the currently available Nvidia cards, then they will sell. If not, then they won't. It's that simple.

The age of the cards being compared has no relevance unless there is a new release just around the corner.

 

[Techhog]

The thing is Titan and GTX780 are 2012 products. Computerbase.de's review sample of the GTX780 had a chip which was produced in september 2012(!).

And now AMD is comparing their new card to another one which is literally over a year old...

So what should they be comparing to?

Brand loyalty breeds such stupid remarks.

 

[Skurge]

The thing is Titan and GTX780 are 2012 products. Computerbase.de's review sample of the GTX780 had a chip which was produced in september 2012(!).

And now AMD is comparing their new card to another one which is literally over a year old...

It doesn't matter to people who are buying now. Who is everyone who doesn't already have A GTX780/Titan. So your remark is rather pointless.

I'd like to see someone who buys a card because of when it came out.

 

[tential]

So what should they be comparing to?

Brand loyalty breeds such stupid remarks.

Tech forums are supposed to be "science" based.

Yet it sounds like a fashion forum on here way too often where "Polo is better than brooks brotehrs hahahaa!!!!!"

Leave brand loyalty at the door, pretend the product is ALL MADE by the same person. Then what do you buy? Right now, the R and 7000 series offer exceptional value for the price. I consider the 700 series and Titan to be luxury goods if i REALLY need the performance. But then again, I find multi card configurations of the 7000/R series to probably cover any performance I'd ever need for cheaper. The only thing The 700/Titan series really has that appeals to me is Physx and better MultiCard support and Audio Drivers for Home Theater use.