Asus Unveils Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II Graphics Card

[rcarlton]

If I am gonna pay extra, let it be for an R9 290X DirectCU II Mini.

A card of that class and size is the missing key to the ITX box I'd like to build.

 

[cmartin011]

Very nice cannot wait for benchmarks. Toms better be first in line for Testing. I really like to see more hybrid water block-air solutions. I think with proper design can be more effective then air or water alone. just thinking double slot with typical water block with whole half inch of heatsink covering the whole board and couple fans godly cooling

 

[Hellbound]

With or without mantle, this will be a fast card.. It should outperform a 780 Ti without mantle.

 

[TheMentalist]

Looks sick, this must come fore the 780ti too, great cooler!

 

[Mousemonkey]

That looks like their standard DCU cooler like the ones on my 660Ti's, what's so special about the one on the 290X?

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.

Really? Since when? Please point out that post or comment then because I don't recall saying anything about G-Sync so please by all means point out where I have said I adored it.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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

I have never said that they are perfect just that I prefer them to AMD and your comment and some of the others are perfect examples of why I have a low opinion of AMD fans.

 

[kinggremlin]

So if I buy this one, it won't double over as a heating element for my PC easy bake oven?

No, it still will. A video card cooler can't defy the laws of nature. Fans and heatsinks can't make a video card produce less heat. All they do is reduce the heat within components on the card by moving it somewhere else (eg... your room).

 

[Lessthannil]

G-Sync has already been proven via demos at their conference. Mantle, on the other hand, is nothing but talk, which doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence in it.

AMD has a history of overhyping and underperforming. The Phenom Is arrived late, broken, and slow. The Phenom IIs arrived too late and got trounced by SB, and BD was a total fiasco. PD was good on these terms, but its what BD should of been in the first place.

 

[Novuake]

Interesting, heatpipes look to be longer, transferring heat to the edge of the heatsink...
That looks different... Lets see how this turns out.