AMD's Radeon R9 290X Review · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 27, 2013 @10:44AM from the how-does-it-stack-up? dept.

Billly Gates writes "AMD may have trouble in their CPU department with Intel having superior fabrication plants. However, in the graphics market with GPU chips AMD is doing well. AMD earned a very rare Elite reward from Tomshardware as the fastest GPU available with its fastest r9 for as little as $550 each. NVidia has its top end GPU cards going for $1,000 as it had little competition to worry about. Maximum PC also included some benchmarks and crowned ATI as the fastest and best value card available. AMD/ATI also has introduced MANTLE Api for lower level access than DirectX which is cross platform. This may turn into a very important API as AMD/ATI have their GPUs in the next generation Sony and Xbox consoles as well with a large marketshare for game developers to target"

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ATI drivers by CockMonster · 2013-10-27 10:53 · Score: 5, Informative

I installed fresh ATI graphics drivers today. 90MB for a driver. .Net 4.5 needed to be installed. GTFO.
1. Re:ATI drivers by stox · 2013-10-27 10:58 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  148MB for the latest Nvidia driver.
  
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