Like most, if not all, AMD AIB partners today, ASUS has announced its own Radeon R9 290X graphics card based on AMD's own reference design. As you probably already know, all R9 290X graphics cards will be based on the same design with minor adjustments in final clocks while custom designs should come sometimes by the end of next-month and we are certainly looking forward to some ROG and DirectCU II designs.

ASUS has differentiated its own R9 290X by bundling it with its own ASUS GPU Tweak, an easy-to-use tuning and overclocking tool that should, according to ASUS, help users to squeeze every last drop of performance from the Radeon R9 290X GPU and allow fine tuning of the GPU and video memory clock speeds and voltages, cooling-fan speeds and power consumption thresholds.

As expected, ASUS will actually have two versions of the R9 290X, standard one and one bundled with Battlefield 4 game. Both should have the same 1000MHz GPU clock, while 4GB of GDDR5 memory should be clocked at 5.0GHz.

In case you missed it earlier, AMD's Radeon R9 290X is based on the 28nm Hawaii XT GPU with 2816 stream processors, 176 texture memory units, 64 ROPs and a 512-bit memory interface paired up with 4GB of GDDR5 memory. It supports DirectX 11.2 as well as AMD's new Crossfire via PCI-Express, Eyefinity, and Mantle API and comes with two DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.





Source: ASUS.com.