Asus Unveils Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II Graphics Card

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Well Nvidia fans don't tend to keep claiming that AMD is finished or irrelevant or out of the picture but AMD fans do even though AMD have had to resort to taking out loans to keep themselves afloat, so I would say yes they are "normal" whereas AMD fans are something I cannot put into words as I would have to ban myself if I did.
 


They tell that it will have more than 3-4% gain ( they said it in Toms) and they are promoting it pretty well

it wont be bad. I hope. I really hope
 


I should not drop the temperature by a single degree, that is not how the 290x is made, the 290x has a variable clock speed that goes up until the card reaches 90c until a certain point that is, adding a better cooler like that just means a direct improvement in performance and you'd most likely still be limiting your clock speed. so there could still be a fan speed cap to make it less loud at the cost of performance but a better cooler would mostly be a direct improvement on performance.
 
Damn... Its about time..

Should bring the heat issues under control, the card itself actually runs cool with a decent heat sink setup, the reference cooler really is a terrible design.

if you read around the card is cooler than a 780ti when water cooled so this card should run very nicely.
 
There's one thing I don't understand, though:
If the R9-290X is such a hot card, why didn't ASUS decide to go with the beefier version of the DirectCUII?
http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Asus-DirectCU-II-GTX-580-Overclocked-to-1519MHz-by-Shamino-2.jpg
Why would you go with a slimmer version of your best cooler and put it on a card that's known to have performance issues because of insufficient cooling. I'm not saying the cooling wouldn't be enough, since I read they were gonna overclock it but...isn't the R9-290X the very high end from AMD?
Maybe the want a more open version of the cooler, but still.
I really think it deserves the best from ASUS.
 


I think there will be the ULTRAEPICAWESOME version (aka Matrix) as well later on, as we had it on 7970, but for a bigger premium
 


Well, they really need to take pricing into consideration. Apart from AMD fanbois I doubt there will be a lot of people willing to pay top dollar for a beefier cooler - the competition is not gonna stand on their laurels, is it?
Pricing could end up being better on nVidia cards and since they use blowers they might end up being a better alternative... (I really hope they won't)
 
Whenever I take a look at benchmarks, Asus always on the top with the lowest temperatures. I reckon that the DCUII version will be very decent, beefy enough, while Matrix ( or whatever name they give to it) will be made for extreme overclocking as they did before, so both of the people covered (enthusiast and OCers) while the enthusiast will not get charged for a feature that they will not use
 
Hawaiji is new CPU so it takes time until custom coolings are ready. You can not just slap cooler and vola have it up and running.
290x is very much temperature limited, so better cooling system helps a lot in there. It is hard to say how well it will manage against 780ti that is exelent card but allso guite temperature limited. Both of those monsters really need a good cooler and/or smaller production technology to shine... But that later may have to wait until the end of the next year.
Even maxwell is suposed to come with 28nm production node... or it have to wait for a while if it is coming to 22nm. Untill then the best cooling you can get will help a lot. I am allmost hoping to see smaller version of Hawaiji family GPU because of temperatures, but most propably we have to wait until 22nm production untill we will get updated versions of the middle range cards.
Asus has been really good with their cooling lately, so this will set some standards that we can compare other cards against. We allready have seen that 290 is really fast if cooled properly. So updated version, where they can reduce the electronic leaking, will be good match for upcoming maxwell chips! Nvidia has made these really big chip for some time, so they are more experienced with the problematic from that aspect.
 
290X seems to be made to be run under WC.
But I think it's the 290 that will really shine once proper coolers (DCU, Windforce) are installed on it, even more so if there is a WC - altough it would ramp up the cost quite a bit.
 
There goes our PC ovens... But for real I am glad to see this happening. I had been holding off on the 290X until we got some good after market. Asus's Direct CUII should do the task! Thanks Asus!
 


Its pretty much the exact on that's on the GTX 780, not sure why its has to be different?
 


The prices got a bump too damn Miners!
 



The thing is the 290x is not really a hot card but it is designed to handle high temps, the reference cooler is garbage. The 780 TI consumes just as much power if not more, however the Nvidia as we all know by now has excellent reference cooling!
 




I have also been on these forums for years, and Mouse though a decent Mod is incredibly bias. He will poke at Mantle but he adores G-Sync? Granted both techs need to be proven but why pick sides so soon?

I previously owned 680's now I am on 290's, for me its not about blind loyalty its about price/performance. Hawaii is faster than Kepler clock for clock and Mantle being close to metal will indeed bring performance gains no doubt the amount of dev support makes this obvious.


 
I admit that I am an AMD fanboy. But I am not so illogical that I will not admit that they are not perfect and NVidia has its merits.

But MM on the other hand seems to think NVidia=perfect which is simply not possible
 
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