AMD has started a price war by presenting cards Radeon R9 290 and R9 290X at a surprisingly low prices level . Recall that both cards are based on the GPU Hawaii, 6.2 billion transistors. In the case of younger cards Unified processors is 2560, while the high end card has already 2,816 processors. According to our test , the lag between the cards is in the range of 10-15%.
Associate claims that he was able to turn Radeon R9 290 into Radeon R9 290X by flashing the BIOS. In this case, the card was from PowerColor production, and the BIOS has been taken from the production of top-end video card Asus. The author presented a screenshots and video, which show its results in games, and the application window GPU-Z.
The second news , is the rumor that AMD is preparing a dual-graphics card based on a pair of GPU Hawaii, code-named Vesuvius . A mythical creature called theoretical Radeon R9 290X X2 is purported to be based on a pair of high-grade graphics processor with a 5632 Hawaii general purpose processors (in total).
Maybe if AMD still be decided on the creation of such an accelerator, it will be released in quite limited edition and with water-block set.