AMD won't have the new and improved driver ready before then

Oct 30, 2013 07:51 GMT  ·  By

AMD was supposed to release the Radeon R9 290 graphics card on October 31, 2013, which is tomorrow, but this won't happen according to a new report.

Basically, Advanced Micro Devices has chosen to delay the video board by one week.

Apparently, AMD has managed to put together a driver that significantly boosts performance of the card, making it a true competitor to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 780.

Said driver was provided to reviewers at the last minute, which made them have to start their benchmarks from scratch.

It's also why the NDA was extended until November 5, although it's obvious someone broke or skirted the edges of said NDA if we have actually found out about this.

Radeon R9 290 is, like the Ro 290X, based on the AMD Hawaii GPU. It has 2,560 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM, and a 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The price should be of $449.99 /€449.99.