A leaked slide from AMD's Radeon R9 290 series presentation has finally confirmed that the Radeon R9 290X, based on Hawaii GPU, actually features 64 Raster Operation Units (ROPs). The same set of slides also revealed that AMD also revealed that the R9 290X series will scale well in Crossfire.

Slide notes that the R9 290 series and its Hawaii GPU will bring 1.4x the number of stream processors as well as 2.0x more "render backends" ROPs when compared to its predecessor, the Tahiti GPU. Since Tahiti featured 2048 stream processors and 32 ROPs, it is clear that R9 290X and its Hawaii GPU will end up with 2816 stream processors and 64 ROPs.

The rest of the rumored specs include up to 1GHz GPU clock and 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.0GHz and paired up with a 512-bit memory interface.

In the same set of slides, AMD also revealed that the Radeon R9 290X will actually scale quite well, at least in 3DMark Firestrike benchmark, with up to 1.87x with two R9 290X and up to 2.6x with three R9 290X graphics cards.

AMD definitely wants to market the R9 290X as the perfect card in case you want to game on 4K/UHD 3840x2160 resolution and that it is simply made for such setups.

In any case, we will know for sure sometime next week.





Source: Wccftech.com.