Report: Radeon R9-290X Won't Need CFX Bridge, to be $600

[kartu]

290x will beat Titan in Battlefield 4, while costing a bit more than half of Titan.

PS
Oh, more "possible" shit about AMD again... Good job Tom.

 

[toms BugBear]

TO: GSXRME:

Let me make this perfectly clear, they are two totally different Architectures, you simply can not compare the two because of the shader/core count, you know why so many down thumbs, thats why, you cant compare the two, totally different Architectures.

Its like saying Amd Athlon 64 and intel pentium 4 with their netburst technology, 2 totally different Architectures, and yes back in the days, amd athlon was the gamers choice and smoked the p4 clock for clock.

 

[blubbey]

Would you guys recommend a cf 7950, just adding one to my existing. Or getting a new R9 this holiday? I'm leaning at cf but I hate that my PC generates so much heat in my room.

Another 7950 would be much cheaper. Not sure how good the drivers for CF configs are though, some say meh, some say bad, some say terrible. In terms of price/performance it's probably the best bet if you have a CF capable mobo. They're what, <$225 now? You'll more than likely save $300-400. With Maxwell coming out (first half of 2014?) and if it's good you could buy a similarly powerful single GPU then, or profit from price drops. Or wait for 2015 for some 20nm assuming Maxwell isn't already.

 

[claptrap22]

@Smawell: I have 2 7950's crossfired. Despite the recent spate of new cards, the 7950 remains a very powerful card. I am able to run Crysis 3 maxed on every setting at 1080p at 45-60 FPS. I don't plan on upgrading to a 290X until at least late next year.

 

[Hayabusa1]

Tdp ? Are u putting this in laptop? Are you living off generator? This is high end gaming not low end power.

 

[kvragec]

Can't wait for the prices here in Croatia. It will be plenty of money but i'm saving quite some time and will buy either one of Radeons 290 or nvidia...

 

[iam2thecrowe]

no bridge? this is going to microstutter like crazy unless you have dual 16x pcie 3 slots, especially on eyefinity and 4k displays.