Back when AMD announced the Radeon R9 290X it really looked good on paper but any specifications other than over 300GB/s of memory bandwidth were not disclosed. Today we have first alleged specifications from a guy that claims he has access to a Radeon R9 290X sample and has even provided couple of benchmark results comparing it to Nvidia's GTX Titan.

According to the leak, the R9 290X works at 800MHz and does not feature dynamic-overclocking feature but can lower its clocks depending on the temperature and the load. The memory is clocked at 1125MHz (4.5GHz effective) which, strangely, combined with the 512-bit memory interface ends at around 288GB/s, a bit lower than AMD's over 300GB/s.

The leaked benchmark list include Aliens vs. Predators, Battlefield 3, Crysis 3, GRID 2, Tomb Raider (2013), RAGE, and TESV: Skyrim, all done without anti-aliasing, FXAA or MSAA and at 5760x1080 resolution. The R9 290X exchange blows with the GTX Titan, especially in those game titles where AMD managed to fix the latency issue.

Of course, due to a specific resolution and multi-screen configuration, these are rather incomparable due to the different approach to multi-display solution on Nvidia and AMD graphics cards so we will wait for some official reviews to shed more light before we give our final judgment.

Of course, if it can cope up with GTX Titan at rumored US $599 price tag, Radeon R9 290X certainly sounds like a great graphics card.

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