Stefan Mileschin

Reviews of AMD's first Radeon R7 and R9 graphics cards hit the web overnight, but we're still waiting for the big daddy. The R9 290X revealed during AMD's recent GPU press event was the only new Radeon shown based on the next-gen Hawaii graphics chip. Early listings suggest BF4 editions of the 290X will be priced in the $700-800 range, and a fresh leak indicates that a less expensive variant may be in the, ahem, cards. A presentation slide posted on Hermitage Akihabara details specifications for not only the Radeon R9 290X, but also a cut-down R9 290 model with fewer shader ALUs and a lower peak clock speed.

According to the leaked specs, the R9 290X will have 2816 shader ALUs clocked at "up to 1GHz." The R9 290X will supposedly trim the ALU count to 2560 and ...

http://techreport.com/news/25472/lea...r9-290-variant