14 DAY TRIAL // AMD launched the Radeon R9 290X graphics card yesterday (October 24, 2013), and since then, its OEMs made their moves as well. Gigabyte and VisionTek were among them, it turns out.
Both of them have released the newcomer under their own brands, but abided by AMD's rule that the cards must not be customized.
That means that their cards have 28nm Hawaii GPUs (2,816 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, 176 TMUs, 64 ROPs, four independent tessellation units) working at 1 GHz.
It also means that the 4 GB of GDDR5 memory functions at 5 GHz over the 512-bit interface.
Gigabyte also has a board shipping in a bundle with Battlefield 4, but that one comes for an extra $25 / €25.
All the cards should be up for sale by the time next month rolls around (November 2013).
