October 30th, 2014 at 5:29 pm - Author Anton Shilov
Nvidia Corp. and its partners plan to release graphics cards based on the company’s latest GM204 graphics processing unit with 8GB of onboard memory either in November or December. The new solutions are expected to boost demand for GeForce GTX 900-series graphics adapters.
Hermitage Akihabara reports that Nvidia and and its partners among suppliers of graphics cards are gearing up to launch GeForce GTX 970 and GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards with 8GB frame-buffers this calendar year. At present there is no exact launch dates for the novelties, but it is said that there is a plan to release such graphics boards in November or December, 2014. Right now there is no information about pricing of such graphics boards.
On Wednesday in transpired that that AMD and its partners plan to re-launch Radeon R9 290X graphics cards with 8GB of onboard GDDR5 memory in early November. If the report from the Japanese web-site is correct, then AMD’s graphics adapters with enlarged frame-buffers will have rather strong rivals.
8GB of GDDR5 memory onboard may be useful for future games, ultra-high-definition resolutions or gaming with extreme full-scene antialiasing settings. In all other cases such frame-buffer seems to be an overkill for today. Nonetheless, many people would prefer to own a graphics board with a lot of memory, which is why AMD and Nvidia are preparing appropriate solutions.
Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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KitGuru Says: It will be interesting to see how factory-overclocked 8GB versions of the GeForce GTX 980 will compare to the GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB. While the latter has higher default graphics processing horsepower, the former has great overclockability and therefore can actually beat the former single-chip flagship graphics solution from Nvidia in ultra-high-definition resolutions where the size of frame-buffer matters.
Hermitage Akihabara reporta que a Nvdia e seus parceiros estão se preparando para o lançamento das GTX 970 e GTX980 com 8GB de VRAM ainda este ano. No momento não existe datas de lançamento para estas novidades mas é dito que o plano de lançamento é em Novembro ou Dezembro de 2014. No momento não existe informação sobre o preço das placas.
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AMD to re-launch Radeon R9 290X graphics cards with 8GB of memory
October 29th, 2014 at 2:40 pm - Author Anton Shilov
Advanced Micro Devices plans to re-launch AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics cards with 8GB of memory. Earlier this year such graphics boards were available exclusively from Sapphire Technologies, but for the holiday season AMD intends to allow three partners to offer R9 290X graphics boards with 8GB of GDDR5 on-board.
In a bid to better compete against Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce GTX 980 as well as GeForce GTX Titan graphics cards, AMD plans to allow Club3D, PowerColor and Sapphire to release exclusive 8GB versions of graphics cards based on the Radeon R9 290X graphics processing units, reports SweClockers.
The AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics cards with 8GB of GDDR5 memory are projected to feature custom cooling solutions and higher clock-rates compared to regular graphics boards powered by the fully-fledged version of the Hawaii graphics chip with 2816 stream processors, 176 texture units, 64 raster operations pipelines and 512-bit memory bus.
The exclusive Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB graphics card that was made available in limited quantities earlier this year came with slightly increased clock-rates: the GPU was clocked at 1060MHz (up from 1000MHz), whereas 8GB of memory operated at 5600MHz effective frequency (up from 5000MHz on default graphics cards). It is logical to expect similar slight overclock from the upcoming Radeon R9 290X 8GB graphics cards as well.
While 8GB of GDDR5 memory sounds impressive, not everyone needs a frame-buffer that large at present. For the vast majority of use cases, 4GB GDDR5 should be enough for fine frame-rates. 8GB will provide a significant advantage to those, who play in 4K resolution (3840*2160) and/or with very high-quality antialiasing settings, but in order to get high performance in ultra-high-definition, one will need two graphics cards…
The new breed of Radeon R9 290X graphics adapters with 8GB of GDDR5 memory on-board will be released on the 6th of November, 2014. AMD wants to ensure that the new graphics boards are affordable enough to compete against GeForce GTX 980, therefore, do not expect the R9 290X 8GB versions to cost significantly more than regular models.
The fact that AMD allowed two of its key partners – Tul Corp. (which controls PowerColor and supplier graphics cards to Club3D) and Sapphire Technology – to make exclusive Radeon R9 290X 8GB graphics cards means that the company has no plans to release any new flagship offerings this calendar year.
O novo modelo da R9 290X com 8 Gb DDR5 será lançada em 6 de Novembro de 2014, AMD quer assegurar que o novo modelo terá um preço competitivo comparado à GTX 980, desta forma, não espere que a versão de 8GB tenha um custo signficantemente maior que os modelos regulares.
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Hoje foi lançado oficialmente a R9290X 8GB DDR5
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