Nvidia only has GTX Titan Ultra to respond! Thank AMD for bumping the prices down to a reasonable level with the AMD 7990 at $699! The other new thing with the R9 290X you will find unlike with Nvidia's Titan is custom PCB's and overclocked variants.
R9 290X will cost in the $600-800 USD range, depending on the type of card, and will outperform the GTX Titan (2688 cores) stock per stock which currently costs $1000-1100 USD.
The GTX Titan Ultra (2880 cores), launched shortly after AMD's Hawaii GPUs, will cost $800-900 USD and the regular GTX Titan will have its price dropped to the $600-800 USD range.
Nvidia's REAL Flagship will be the GTX 790 (4608 cores) which will sport two underclocked GTX 780s and will still hold the $1000-1100 USD position. AMD will fall behind only in releasing their Dual-Hawaii R9 Flagship to counter.
Compare results for the FX 6300 and the FX 9590. Imagine if AMD instead released a 12 Core Variant that overclocks only to 4.1 Ghz, this would be equivalent to the FX 9590 on all cores but with much less IPC. Its no wonder AMD scrapped their 10 Core FX chips for higher clocked 8 Cores.
Steamroller FX will trounce the FX 9590 at lower clocks and TDP.
Check out the HUGE gains in power consumption for the FX 9590 at 5 GHZ ON AIR! JUST ABOVE A STOCK FX 8150 in power consumption! AMD FX 8150 at 4.8 uses 586 W, the FX 9590 at 5 Ghz uses 317W Just wait for steamroller!
AMD FX9590 Test System Processor: AMD FX9590 8 Core processor @ 5ghz Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 Cooler: Corsair H100i (performance mode) / BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 2 Graphics: Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic (Synthetic section – Catalyst 13.6 beta) and ASUS GTX780 Direct CUII OC (Games testing – Forceware 320.49) Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro Series @ 2,133mhz (10-11-11-28) Power Supply: Corsair HX850 Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive. Chassis: Lian Li X2000 Boot Drive: Patriot 240GB Pyro SE Storage Drive: Patriot 240GB Wildfire. Monitor: Apple 30 inch Cinema HD Gaming compare system: Processor: Core i7 3960 X Extreme Edition @ 4.4ghz Graphics Card: ASUS GTX780 Direct CU II OC (Forceware 320.49) Cooler: Antec 920 H20 Memory: 16GB G.Skill 2,400mhz @ 10-11-10-30 Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme Power Supply: Enermax Platimax 1250W Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive Chassis: Lian Li PC-A77FR Aluminium Red Full Tower Case Boot Drive: Patriot WildFire 120GB Secondary Drive: 1TB Samsung Monitors: Dell U3011
AMD has better power consumption than the 3960x OC and ties in REALWORLD gaming performance!
Remember the 9590 is basically an FX 8350 OC! With multi-threaded games coming out, AMD will be the best bang for you buck!
"The biggest architectural change Kaveri APU features is the use of the latest 28nm Steamroller architecture that is a true multi-threaded architecture focusing on enhancing the IPC (Instruction-Per-Cycle) by up to 25%." Wccftech
Steamroller 20-25% IPC increase further supported as the leaks come out for Kaveri. Believe what you want, all I can say is you will be pleasantly surprised!
"The graphics unit called Radeon HD 8610G offers all 384 shader units (VLIW4) and is slightly faster than the HD 7660G. The core is clocked at 533-626 MHz (turbo)"
The 7660g will be compared with the HD 5000 in this case.
RESULTS:
GRID 2 : Winner AMD by +8.8%
Haswell : 43.1 FPS
Richland : 46.9 FPS
Tomb Raider : Winner AMD by +6.3%
Haswell : 28.3 FPS
Richland : 30.1 FPS
Sleeping Dogs : Winner AMD by +43.9%
Haswell : 24.6 FPS
Richland : 35.4 FPS
Metro Last Light : Winner AMD by +49.3%
Haswell : 13.6 FPS
Richland : 20.3 FPS
BioShock Infinite : Winner AMD by +26.5%
Haswell : 20.4 FPS
Richland : 25.8
The HD 5000 found in the Macbook Air is only a fraction better than the HD 4400, and even has worse performance in some benchmarks and games. It looks like Iris was only effective at the 55W range, performance plumets as power decreases. AMD maintains a similar performance across all form factors from ultrathin to laptop to desktop, and this range will decrease further with Kaveri.
"The graphics unit called Radeon HD 8610G offers all 384 shader units (VLIW4) and is slightly faster than the HD 7660G. The core is clocked at 533-626 MHz (turbo)"
(+33% more shader cores, and if a clock boost by 10%)
Firestrike: 1183
ADDED: The RT2 graphics on this ultrathin will perform roughly the same as an overclocked 8670D desktop GPU found in the A10-6800k APU.
Until Iris 5100 comes out with the intel i7-4558U, AMD has a huge graphical lead in their ultrathins over haswell HD 4400.
ADDED: The Key for AMD here fast ram! Kaveri FM2+ will support up to 2933 Mhz DDR3 in desktops , and graphics card benefits from 1600-2133 Mhz are ~12-15%, so to 1600-2933 Mhz ~+30% benefit .
In ultrathins 1600 Mhz or 1866 Mhz will be the standard so this benefit is not seen.
HWBOT Prime Beta version 0.6.6, Overclocked battle
Piledriver Flagship
AMD FX 9590
Overclocked : @5.2 Ghz for 8 Threads
Steamroller Flagship
AMD FX 9650
Overclocked : @ 5.4 Ghz for 8 Threads
IvyBridge Flagship
i7 3930k
Overclocked : @ 5.0 Ghz for 12 Threads
AMD FX 9590
Overclocked : 6812
AMD FX 9650
Overclocked : 7597
Intel i7 3930k
Overclocked : 5963
AMD FX 9590 at 5.2 Ghz trounces intel's flagship 3930k at 5.0 Ghz by +15%. The AMD FX 9650 at 5.4 Ghz on the other hand is in a whole new playing field, surpassing intels 3930k at 5.0 ghz by a whopping 27%, and beating their own Piledriver flagship at 5.2 Ghz by +11.5%. Source
