It has a darker cooler shroud than usual, but that's the only difference

Nov 9, 2013 08:12 GMT  ·  By

One thing about the AMD's Hawaii GPU is that the company isn't letting its OEMs customize the cards based on it yet. Colorfire still managed to skirt that rule though.

Colorfire is the division of Colorful that makes AMD-based graphics cards instead of NVIDIA ones.

Yes, there are still GPU OEMs that deal with both rivals.

Even so, it's still odd to see this product appearing, because Colorful/Colorfire doesn't usually stick to reference designs.

Nevertheless, even if availability is restricted to the Greater China region, Colorfire has introduced a Radeon R9 290 Hawaii card with reference specs: 947 MHz clock, 512-bit interface (4 GB GDDR5 at 5GHz), 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 2,560 Graphics CoreNext stream processors. The price is of $399 / €399, or rather the Chinese equivalent (2430 Chinese Yuan).

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